I am starting a new Ipswich Town blog soon so I will put up a link soon.

Alex Bruce signs

Alex Bruce, son of Steve Bruce has signed with Town for free from his dad's club Birmingham. Chris Sutton and Dan Harding have been rumoured to come to the town and Westlake going out with a swap deal with Leeds for Harding.

Squad Numbers announced ( Drum roll please ! )

With the season near and close by the numbers have been announced.
Shane Supple as been handed the no.1 shirt while Owen Garvan will get the boss's famous numbr 7 shirt.

1 Shane Supple
2 Fabian Wilnis
3 Matt Richards
4 Jason De Vos
5
6 Richard Naylor
7 Owen Garvan
8 Nicky Forster
9 Sam Parkin
10 Darren Currie
11 Gavin Williams
12 Jaime Peters
13
14 Alan Lee
15 Luis Castro Rodriguez (name on shirt: Sito Castro)
16 Chris Casement
17 Dean Bowditch
18 Danny Haynes
19 Aidan Collins
20
21
22 Darryl Knights
23
24 Billy Clarke
25 Andy Rhodes (non-contract)
26 Scott Barron
27 Vemund Brekke Skard (name on shirt: Vemund)
28 Gerard Nash
29 Jim Magilton (non-contract)
30 Sammy Moore31 Michael Synnott (non-professional)
32
33 Ian Westlake
34 Lewis Price
35 James Krause
36 Liam Trotter (non-professional)

Player Profiles 2 !

Info like apperances and goals for Ipswich only, it counts for all competitive matches. It's updated after every match.

Goalkeepers- Age -Apperances -Goals
Shane Supple ---18 ----22 ( 1 ) ------------0
Lewis Price ------21- ----28 ( 0 )--------- 0
Defenders
Fabian Wilnis ---36------ 268 ( 28 ) ------6
Richard Naylor- 29 ------208 ( 83 ) ------41
Jason De Vos---- 32------ 92 ( 0 ) ---------6
Sito ---------------25 ------31 ( 7 )--------- 0
Scott Barron----- 20------- 16 ( 1 ) ---------0
Chris Casement---18-------2 ( 3 )----------0
James Krause-----17--------0 ( 0 )-----------0
Alex Bruce---------22-------1 ( 0 )------------0
Dan Harding------22--------1 ( 0 )-----------0
Midfielders
Darren Currie ----32 --------62( 13 ) -----8
Matthew Richards---- 22 -------107 ( 27 ) -----------6
Owen Garvan -----18 ---------229 ( 4 )----- 3
Gavin Williams----- 25 -------14 ( 0 ) -----1
Jaime Peters--------19-------6 ( 9 ) -------0
V-B Skard----------24-------1 ( 1 ) -------0
Liam Trotter-------17--------0 ( 1 )-------0
Strikers
Sam Parkin---------- 25----- 17 ( 3 ) -------5
Nicky Forster------- 33----- 18 ( 3 ) ------8
Alan Lee --------------27 ------14 ( 1 ) ------4
Danny Haynes ------18------7 ( 14 ) --------4
Dean Bowditch ------19------32 ( 40 ) -----8
Darryl Knights------18-------0 ( 1 )---------0

Ipswich 1 Boston 1 - Pre Season Friendly

Nicky Forster got Town's goal from the penalty spot, while Anthony Elding levelled for the Pilgrims. Ipswich boss Jim Magilton hailed the return of Wales midfielder Gavin Williams, after they were held at Boston in his first game as manager. Gavin had not played since Feburary after damaging his cartilage in the away win over the canaries ( Norwich ).

Goals = Forster 44 ( P ), Elding 56.

.........................................................................

Sorry for the lack of updates i will post more from now on.

Magilton happy with first session

Jim Magilton said that his first training session has Ipswich Town's manager was nervous meanwhile it was also exciting, he also added that he thought the session went well/

Royle Leaves

Joe Royle has left Town on mutal consent he did plan to leave after the play off disaster last season but decided to stay for another season.
A shortlist will be consturucted over the next few days while
Billy Davies ( Preston ), Tony Mowbray ( Former Town player and now Hibernian manager ), Terry Buthcher ( Former Town player and Motherwell manager ), Willie Donachie
( Towns assistant manager ), Mick MaCarthy and Sir Bobby Robson favourites .

Plymouth 2 Ipswich 1

Home Park Attendance = 15, 921

Goals = Forster 12, Capaldi 28, Evans 57

Nicky Forster scored for the fourth game in sucession but goals from Capladi and Evans made it a dissapointing finish to a dissapointing season.

Town Team = Supple, Casement, Naylor, De Vos, McEveley, Peters, Westlake ( Trotter 81 ), Skard ( Parkin 54 ), Garvan ( Magilton 61 ), Currie, Forster, UnUsed = Krause, Price