Town have signed Wigan keeper Mike Pollitt on a month s loan as cover for the injured Lewis Price and Shane Supple. Price has a broken rib, while Supple suffered a groin strain against Sheffield Wednesday at the weekend and is a doubt for Sunday s East Anglian derby.
Town s reserves demolished a young Nottingham Forest second string 5-1 at Portman Road on Wednesday night. Alun Armstrong netted a hat-trick while Dean Bowditch scored twice for an unusually strong Town side.
Boss Jim Magilton is sweating on the fitness of striker Billy Clarke as they Blues go into their third game in six days at Burnley on Saturday. Clarke has a knee problem and looks likely to be replaced by either Danny Haynes or Gary Roberts.
David McGoldrick netted a brilliant low drive deep in injury time to grab Town a last-gasp 2-2 draw against bottom club Rotherham United at Portman Road. Freddie Sears had put the Blues in front in the third minute but man of the match Danny Ward equalised four minutes later, then put the visitors in front three minutes after the break. Town rarely looked like getting back on terms in a lacklustre second half until McGoldrick’s late strike.
Freddie Sears put Town in front in the third minute but Danny Ward equalised for Rotherham only four minutes later with the scoreline remaining 1-1 at the break.