Town are reportedly close to signing Accrington Stanley central defender Cameron Burgess.

According to BBC Lancashire Sport, Aberdeen-born Burgess, who has been left out of the Stanley team for this afternoon’s match against Cambridge United, is set to join the Blues.

The 25-year-old, who can also play at left-back, was a youth player with Celtic, ECU Joondalup in Perth, Australia and Fulham before breaking into the Cottagers side in 2014/15.

While a Fulham player, 6ft 4in tall Burgess spent time on loan at Ross County, Cheltenham. Oldham and Bury before joining Scunthorpe in 2017.

A spell on loan at Salford followed before he moved on to Accrington in August 2020.

Having won caps at U18 and U19 levels with Scotland, he switched his allegiance to Australia and has played for their U20s and U23s, his family having emigrated to Perth, Western Australia when he was 11 during his father Stuart's playing career.

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19781981twtd added 14:40 - Aug 14 Sounds good sooner the better
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johnwarksshorts added 14:49 - Aug 14 It's what we badly need to complete the jigsaw. At the moment all the pieces are spread over the table but soon they'll all be slotted into place. COYB.
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1RWR added 14:51 - Aug 14 Don't care what people say about Ashton, can't fault his recruitment this season……see the player……swoop…….. get the player & move on! Love it love it love it!
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Suffolkboy added 14:52 - Aug 14 At least he's tall ,and obviously has quite a few professional experiences – let's hope they've fully equppied him to become a central defender of the stature we really need ! Hope above all he has a cool head on him ! COYB
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MerseyBlue added 15:16 - Aug 14 Nice, big fella at the back inbound. Are we still being linked with Butcher from them as well?
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BaddowBlue1 added 16:19 - Aug 14 Pleased with this if the lad signs, and for once Portsmouth not linked. Well done Mr Ashton, you will be getting your own bonus for all of these completed signings!
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Ebantiass added 16:21 - Aug 14 Its an area we need to strengthen so all good. These are the types of players we are attracting. Lower league hungry to improve and go places.
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inghamspur added 16:56 - Aug 14 We could do with a win though!!
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markchips added 17:36 - Aug 14 Pity Cook could not get the defenders in sooner but Ashton has done a great job. Clearly Penney is not that great and Coulson is intended to be first choice left back. The guy Butcher at Accrington also looks good as I have my doubts wr will get Shinnie from Derby without guaranteeing him a game. Let's hope these dropped points don't count against us. Need to get rid of Kenlock and Mcgavin and get the final midfielder in.Bench looked light in experience today .

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Linkboy13 added 07:53 - Aug 15 All the negativity about signing players from teams like Accrington seems to have gone out of the window. My big worry is players come to a big club like Ipswich and find it difficult to perform under the extra pressure of expectation. At the moment a lot of fans on here are getting over excited and soon as we are linked with any Tom, Dick or Harry they are crying out to sign him without knowing nothing about the player. Having said all this im fully behind Cook in his pursuit to get us to the championship. But if we are not challenging the top two places in a couple of months time these rich owners do not hang around and i fear they will appoint a manager probably from abroad which is normally the case.

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