Town skipper Luke Chambers starts for the Blues in tonight’s game against Derby County as boss Mick McCarthy makes three changes from the team which drew 1-1 at Preston on Saturday.

Paul Digby, Jordan Spence and Kevin Bru come into the side for Josh Emmanuel and Grant Ward, who both drop to the bench, and Toumani Diagouraga, who misses out.

The Blues look set to line up in a 3-5-2 system with Chambers, whose proposed move to his old club Nottingham Forest is off, as first reported by TWTD earlier this evening, in the centre of the defence between Christophe Berra and Paul Digby. Jordan Spence and Jonas Knudsen will be the wing-backs.

In central midfield Cole Skuse will partnered by Kevin Bru with Tom Lawrence ahead of them and Freddie Sears and Brett Pitman up front.

Derby are without Blues nemesis David Nugent (knee), midfielder Will Hughes (hamstring) and winger Jonny Russell (knee). Ex-Blues striker Darren Bent starts.

Town: Bialkowski, Spence, Digby, Chambers (c), Berra, Knudsen, Skuse, Bru, Lawrence, Sears, Pitman. Subs: Gerken, McGoldrick, Ward, Douglas, Dozzell, Moore, Emmanuel.

Derby: Carson, Baird, Keogh (c), Pearce, Olsson; Johnson, Bryson, Butterfield; Ince, Camara, Bent. Subs: Mitchell, Christie, Shackell, Anya, de Sart, Blackman, Vydra. Referee: Andrew Madley (West Yorkshire).

Photo: TWTD

marco007 added 20:02 - Jan 31 Was hoping Chambers would leave...fed up with all this dead wood/untouchables
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RoyalAscotBlue added 20:06 - Jan 31 My bad, Derby are gonna get far more than just a solitary goal. Thank god we didn't let Chambers go...
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madmouse1959 added 20:17 - Jan 31 McCarthy constantly changing the bloody team .......When will we have a settled team ? We will lose tonight I,m afraid .
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lightingblue added 20:23 - Jan 31 Guys it's pretty obvious we are prepering for league 1. Personally I've been most grounds in premier league and championship. Least I can tick a few more of in league 1 I haven't been to. Real footy I guess
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DJ27 added 20:23 - Jan 31 Stevelincsexile - Never been to a game in my life, just comment on here for the pure fun of it. Mick also says how well Skuse,Douglas, Gerken, Berra play every week. Spence has played just once and Emmanuel hasn't let anybody down. Spence is still the better player currently.
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DJ27 added 20:24 - Jan 31 When Gerken was playing ahead of Bart.
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Surco72 added 20:36 - Jan 31 Don't score again Derby , I have a bet on for 3-0
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