Town have confirmed that U21s skipper Joe Robinson has signed the new contract he was offered at the end of last season. The 19-year-old defender, who ended 2015/16 on loan at Woking has put pen to paper on a one-year deal starting on July 1st.

Speaking in April, manager Mick McCarthy said Haverhill-born Robinson, pictured above on the right with Michael Crowe, had impressed him with his attitude.

“He’ll be the captain of the U21s team,” he said. “He’s a great example, he’s one of the youngest in his year and, I’ll be brutally honest, six months ago I’d be thinking I probably wouldn’t have kept him.

“But he made such a rapid improvement and he’s such a great kid and such a great character and an example to others, I think based on that he’s worth that chance.

“He’s a young one in his year and as we all know young scholars, young academics, young professional footballers, if they’re almost 10 or 11 months behind some of the others, their peers, they do take a bit of catching up.

“He’s worth it on that basis and he’ll be in the U21s, if not we’ll loan him out somewhere because he did well at Woking. That’s his future at the club and hopefully he improves enough to get in the team.”

Yesterday, boss McCarthy revealed that keeper Crowe, 20, has also agreed new terms with the Blues starting on July 1st, which he has now signed.

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Axeldalai_lama added 15:18 - Jun 29 How's Robinson supposed to be a pro footballer? Doesn't look like he's got a single tattoo. Everyone knows you need at least a sleeves worth to be any good. Looks like Crowe's got the right idea, now there's a player.
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MattinLondon added 15:32 - Jun 29 I blame Clegg - he was here long enough to install a culture of beards, tats and hipster hairdos. Clegg out - again
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therein61 added 16:42 - Jun 29 Oh they're tattoos are they and there's me thinking it was splashes of paint from when the players did the turnstiles!!
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Daleyitfc added 20:14 - Jun 29 It will be great when all our outfield players are centre-halves, and we must be getting close to that now : finally we can give up the pretence of trying to instigate attacks and score goals, and instead just ensure that every game finishes 0-0.
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essextractorboy93 added 10:58 - Jun 30 Good to see these 2 sign new deals, we have an academy to be proud of! Emmanuel and Kenlock on the fringes of the first team and Bishop, Hyam and Smith are there already.
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