Town s U21s threw away a half-time lead, given to them by Tawanda Chirewa, and ended up on the wrong end of a 2-1 scoreline at Colchester United s Florence Park training ground on Friday afternoon.
Town have offered professional contracts to Massimo Luongo, Sone Aluko and Tawanda Chirewa, but have announced the release of Joel Coleman, Richard Keogh, Matt Penney and Kane Vincent-Young as well as 10 U21s players.
Trialist Max Hudson is again in the U23s side facing Coventry City in this afternoon’s Professional Development League play-off semi-final at the Sky Blues’ Coventry Building Society Arena (KO 2pm).