Charlie Adam cranked up the relegation heat on Roy Keane and his Ipswich flops.
Blackpool's midfield maestro Adam usually relies on his sweet left foot to set up goals, but a long throw helped divert the Tractor Boys down the road to another dismal defeat.
Keane groaned: "Our finishing was unacceptable and some of the chances we missed were criminal. We lost a bad goal too. But it's like Groundhog Day - how often do I have to say that the opposition keeper has made great saves?" Adam hurled a hopeful ball into the box and skipper Jason Euell popped up when Ipswich's defence switched off - probably not expecting the missile - to grab the winner and keep the Seasiders' play-off bandwagon rolling.
Shocked boss Ian Holloway said: "I have just had a go at Charlie and asked him if there was any chance he could tell me that he could throw it like that.
"It's one of the longest I have seen. But we didn't even know we had that in our locker - then it gets through to Jason and we score."
Trouble
Keane can moan his team missed chances. Ipswich should have been quickly ahead but Daryl Murphy missed the ball from Carlos Edwards' perfect assist with just keeper Matthew Gilks to beat.
Blackpool's pitch is awful but it never seems to trouble Adam and he played in Stephen Dobbie with a great pass that took a desperate block by Liam Rosenior to stop him scoring.
Dobbie wasted another opening created by Adam and DJ Campbell before the midfielder tried his luck with a 30-yard shot that Brian Murphy turned aside.
Gilks had to make a terrific stop from Daryl Murphy on the break and Gareth McAuley's header was hacked off the line.
Euell's goal nine minutes after the break geed up Ipswich. Keane brought on David Healy and the Northern Ireland hitman was celebrating an equaliser with a glancing header before Gilks pulled off a wonderful stretching save.
Healy also wasted a close-range chance, before Connor Wickham headed against the bar and Gilks somehow stopped Healy's follow-up with his back.
Holloway said: "I would like to thank him for that miraculous save. I don't know how on earth he kept that out."
Blackpool: Gilks 8 - Eardley 6, Baptiste 6, Edwards 6, Martin 6 (Burgess, 88mins) - Southern 6, Vaughan 7, *ADAM 9 - Euell 6, Campbell 6, Dobbie 6 (Clarke, 78mins).
Ipswich: B Murphy 6 - *ROSENIOR 7, McAuley 6, Delaney 6, Colback 6 - Edwards 6 (Healy, 66mins, 6), Norris 6 (Counago, 76mins), Leadbitter 6, Peters 7 - Walters 6 - D Murphy 5 (Wickham, 66mins, 6).
Referee: R Shoebridge 6.