Rhodes Up for Award - Ipswich Town News
Town striker Jordan Rhodes has been nominated for the League Two PFA Fans' Player of the Month for March. Rhodes was enjoying a hugely successful loan spell with League Two leaders Brentford until breaking a metatarsal last week.
Also in the running are Andy Bishop from Bury, linked with the Blues two years ago, Simeon Jackson of Gillingham, mentioned in connection with Town in January, Rochdale's Adam Le Fondre and Ben Strevens of Dagenham and Redbridge.
You can vote for Rhodes, who is out for around six weeks with his injury, here.
Meanwhile, Billy Clarke is set to make his loan debut for Brentford tonight when the Bees are at Dagenham and Redbridge on Sky Sports One (7.45pm). There's more Town interest later in the evening when John Wark, Eric Gates and Paul Cooper are featured in Sky Sports One's Time of Our Lives (10pm).
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