Josh Emmanuel makes his home debut for the Blues as they face Brighton in a first-v-second Championship clash at Portman Road.

The 18-year-old comes into the defence at right-back with Christophe Berra missing with a hamstring injury. Skipper Luke Chambers moves to the centre of the defence.

Dean Gerken continues in goal with Bartosz Bialkowski on the bench having returned from Poland following his father’s death last weekend.

New signing Piotr Malarczyk’s international clearance came through in time for the Polish defender to take a place on the bench. Brighton include former Town loanees David Stockdale and Liam Rosenior.

Town: Gerken, Emmanuel, Chambers, Smith, Knudsen, Skuse, Douglas, Fraser, Maitland-Niles, Pitman, Sears. Subs: Bialkowski, Malarczyk, Kenlock, Tabb, Coke, Touré, McGoldrick.

Brighton: Stockdale, Bruno, Greer, Huenemeier, Bong, Rosenior, Stephens, Kayal, LuaLua, Hemed, Baldock. Subs: Maenpaa, Dunk, Ince, Murphy, March, Forster-Caskey, Zamora.

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Flewitt85 added 14:28 - Aug 29 Come on town!!!
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cartman1972 added 15:43 - Aug 29 Bloody awful start
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tomitfc added 15:58 - Aug 29 Christ don't we know it, he's been horrendous.
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Superblue95 added 16:00 - Aug 29 Time to try out the polish lad?
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buddsterblue added 16:00 - Aug 29 Niles and josh out of their depth, caught by a Sunday league long ball 1st goal and missed presence of Berra on second, need something different urgently
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blueboy1981 added 16:37 - Aug 29 ........ for all you running away with yourselves .......... REALITY CHECK.
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blueherts added 17:00 - Aug 29 yep undone by some poor defending ala the last 10 mins vs Brentford - 4 up front bu both teams made for entertainment but we miss Berra and Bart is better keeper
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Europablue added 17:02 - Aug 29 It's not McCarthy's fault he hasn't got certain players available. If we are happy with the good performances we can't be too harsh on the poor ones. Disappointing, but let's see where we are after 10 games. Top is better than being lower, but it most important where we end up.
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blueherts added 17:07 - Aug 29 Yep lets see where we are in a couple of mnths Got some great attacking players and just need to get Berra Bru Bish and Murph back fit Still a good start - Hughton got one over on his mate today - took the game to us and it worked
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StuartBrett8 added 17:08 - Aug 29 Emmanuel will probably go out on loan with Malarczyk signing, he seemed decent today.
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ChestnutSe added 18:25 - Aug 29 At last what many have wished for, Chambers at centre half and a proper right back to give us a nicely balanced defence!
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