Former Blue Tommy Miller says he’s looking forward to returning to Portman Road with Sheffield Wednesday a week on Saturday. Miller was a youth player with the Blues, then returned for two spells as a professional before leaving on a free Bosman transfer last summer.

Miller said: "I had six years down there in two different spells. It's a great place, a good football club and I made a lot of friends so I'm looking forward to going back.

"Roy Keane's brought in a lot of players and a lot have gone out. They haven't started the season as well as they would have liked, but it does take time. I'm sure it will be tough game.

"They haven't lost for five games and got that first win under the belt against Derby. They will want the points from us but likewise we want the points from them."

The Owls’ visit to Portman Road is a 5.20pm kick-off with Sky showing the game live.

Meanwhile, midfielder Carlos Edwards says he was impressed with the travelling Town fans at the Madejski Stadium: "The support we had at Reading was amazing, as it has been in all the games I have been involved with here.

"It opened my eyes to see how much they are behind us, and as players we have to take on board their commitment and sacrifices they make in travelling up and down the country to see us play.

"We have an obligation to entertain them and give them something to smile about and hopefully we can do that over the rest of the season."

Elsewhere, former Blue Mauricio Taricco says he didn’t have to be asked twice before taking up the role of assistant manager at Brighton, working under his former Spurs team-mate Gus Poyet: "I was living abroad [in Sardinia] when Gus called me. I said yes straight away. "I'm looking forward to learning from him and helping him to pass his ideas on to the players.

"He is a man who wants to do it his way. He's got a different personality to mine. He's more uplifting and more positive, whereas I'm a little more quiet.

"We are two people who are honest with each other and we understand each other very well. I'm delighted to be working with a person like him."

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Mark added 19:12 - Nov 12 Well done to Miller for being a regular in a team 7 places in the league above the side that got rid of him! I always thought he was a rather average midfielder and didn't justify the starts he got here, but then he probably did a better job than Trotter is doing. In that department, letting Shumulikowski go without replacing him wasn't clever in my opinion. Nice of Edwards to appreciate the fans. Hopefully his performances can pick up, as with his experience he should be helping our midfield to hold the ball, dominate and create changes.

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Back_The_Boss added 19:13 - Nov 12 I just hope he doesn't score!
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Luke8644 added 19:28 - Nov 12 he probably will, at least he wont celebrate
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Keaneish added 19:59 - Nov 12 If he starts, which isn't a given, i hope Leadbitter gives him a footballing master class. Have to agree with you Mark, i'm feeling the absence of a shumi in our midfield at the moment.
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ChambersM added 20:03 - Nov 12 He will score, they always do. Bit of a legend though!
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BruceIsGod added 20:32 - Nov 12 dont give a penalty away, and hes a nothing player, simple.
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BoxerBlue added 22:04 - Nov 12 Good servant got some great goals in a blue shirt hope he has a good game not to good tho mind COYB
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TomCrowvers added 22:55 - Nov 12 I hadn't realised mr invisible was no longer playing for us
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FormerlyCGS added 23:15 - Nov 12 Tommy Miller was a good midfielder
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Ipswich24 added 23:33 - Nov 12 Miller was only good at penaltys did little else. We desperatly need some players with some flair some pace there is no excitement anymore the football is dull Ipswich have always been a atractive team to watch with great ball players what has happened?
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multipulemicky added 06:23 - Nov 13 No doubt the town fans will make him feel really welcome and then he will do a AMBROSE and score a couple.It always gets me that,why on there return do they always score!!
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nobrain added 08:35 - Nov 13 Well, I'll give TM a good reception - in thanks for those penalties he scored he scored for us.
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pottyblue added 08:43 - Nov 13 mark check your facts he is no regular
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candyshop added 10:02 - Nov 13 Shumi was NOT a good player......he didn't even look like a footballer, strange running action, dwelt on the ball too much and could only pass sideways......Leadbitter is a proper cnt mid. This team needs players coming in with his sort of quality or if that can't happen stick with whats here. Getting rid of average/poor players like Quinn/Garven/Shumi is fine. I would rather see someone like Upson come in and play, than keeping and going on about the likes of Shumi!!!

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Uttlesford_ITFC added 10:34 - Nov 13 I am not sure if any of you have actually seen Ipswich play this decade, or if you have you're probably suffering from memory loss or bad eyesight because Tommy Miller was excellent for us. He worked hard, played good football, was dangerous going forward and was one of the reasons we did so well in 2003/04 and 2004/05 and it was no surprise that when he and the core of that team left we dropped out of contention the season after. We have not had a scoring midfielder like him since then. At his first season with Sunderland, which was in the top flight he was their best player. He worked hard and kept them in games, when the rest of the side around him was awful. He wasn't amazing when he returned, but he had also aged and was playing in a worse side with a weaker midfield. Having said that he's was better last season than he was the year previously, I recall up at Preston when he was our only player on the pitch. He's certainly better than Trotter, who we kept and is now considered first team material. He didn't just score from penalties either, but I guess when all you do is watch the highlights on TV that's all you saw. Bless. The same goes for the likes of Ian Westlake, Matt Richards and Alan Lee. Great players for us, but constantly slagged off since they left with no justification. Yet people cry over the loss of the totally bland and ineffective Shumi.

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devontractorboy added 10:36 - Nov 13 I liked Tommy Miller & he didn't JUST score from penalties either! I for one will welcome him back if he plays as we should all players....unless they joined the Scum!!! As for Shumi, not given a decent run IMO so hard to tell what kind of player he was?
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mantreeblue added 10:37 - Nov 13 miller was as much use as a one legged man in a bum kicking competition.
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Surco72 added 10:45 - Nov 13 Uttlesford agree with you Miller was a great servant to the club , he played more of the holding role last season which is why he scored fewer goals , and defensive midfielders who are not noticed means they are probably doing their job. Its when you are noticed like Trotter and Quinn for being poor that you have a problem . Was the right time for him to leave but maybe should have signed someone to replace him and Shumi first .

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tort63 added 10:47 - Nov 13 Totally agree with Uttlesford. Tommy Miller was superb for us during his earlier spell and it was no surprise that Sunderland came in and poached him to play Premiership football because he was easily up to the grade. Unfortunately he didn't show the same sort of class when he returned but it doesn't mean we shouldn't respect his overall contributions as a loyal servant to our football club. I like Edwards' comments about the Reading game. We certainly made a hell of a lot of noise on Saturday! :o)

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MACKEMYANK added 12:06 - Nov 13 Are we talking about the same Tommy Miller here? ? Uttlesford ITFC said that he was Sunderland's best player?? No way !!!! God, he was absolute crap. In fact it was probably a tie between Miller and Jon Stead who is the worst player I have seen at Sunderland in the last 10 years. Miller would just sneak it over Stead and Tom Crowvers got it spot on when he called him the invisible man - that's what we called him too. To be fair though, the whole Sunderland team were crap that year but MIller and Stead were definitely the worst.

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ITFC1985 added 12:33 - Nov 13 Missing the absence of Shumi? quite possibly one of the worst midfielders the club has had since Marco Holster, gave the ball away far to much, gave away to many fouls, couldnt shoot to save his life, i was quite happy to see him go and i feel our midfield is much better without him.
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Surco72 added 12:59 - Nov 13 Macedonian international who shut down Lampard and Gerrard twice against England or Trotter and Quinn who obviously can shoot (did you see the plymouth miss ) , and their passing is top quality
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Mark added 17:32 - Nov 13 Both Miller and Shumulikoski started for their teams last weekend and both have been fairly regular. Sheff Wed are 9 places above us and Preston are 12 places higher than we are. I think Shumulikoski did OK for Ipswich and he is experienced (61 caps for Macedonia), although he was not as good as we first hoped. He is a defensive midfielder though and my point is that we have sold him without replacing him, hence why we are now playing Trotter.

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WREXHAM_BLUE added 22:21 - Nov 13 Hear, hear Uttlesford!! I don't always agree with you but very well put! Tommy Miller was fantastic for us and his penalties were outstanding - something often overlooked - remember the time in the late 90's when we just couldn't score them?!
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stinkiusminkius added 14:23 - Nov 14 Not sure we ever saw the best of Shumi, but maybe that could have happened this season had we kept him. Foreign players often need a year to adapt to the English game, plus under Jim he was rotated and played in various roles which couldnt have helped. Surely an experienced international, once settled, could do no worse than some of the mediocrity we have in our midfield ranks.

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