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Town Announce Squad Numbers - Ipswich Town News

Striker Connor Wickham has been handed the number nine shirt for the 2010/11 season. The 17-year-old takes Pablo Couñago’s number with the Spaniard one of several players who have been moved out of the ‘first 11’.

Aside from Couñago, Alex Bruce goes from being Town’s number five to 21 and Owen Garvan switches from seven to 17. All three were amongst the eight players recently made available by the Blues, with only Lee Martin from that list getting a number between one and 11, picking up the final shirt.

There are various other moves with skipper Jon Walters going to number 10, David Norris switching to eight, Damien Delaney to five, Shane O’Connor to three, Jaime Peters to two and Brian Murphy to one. Kevin Lisbie gets 33.

Squad Numbers
1 Brian Murphy
2 Jaime Peters
3 Shane O'Connor
4 Gareth McAuley
5 Damien Delaney
6 Grant Leadbitter
7 Carlos Edwards
8 David Norris
9 Connor Wickham
10 Jon Walters
11 Lee Martin
12 Arran Lee-Barrett
13 Ian McLoughlin
14 Jon Stead
15 Alan Quinn
16 Tamás Priskin
17 Owen Garvan
18 Pablo Couñago
19 Luke Hyam
20 Tommy Smith
21 Alex Bruce
22 Troy Brown
23 Tom Eastman
24 Colin Healy
25 Billy Clark
26 Luciano Civelli
27 Reggie Lambe
28 Ronan Murray
29 Jack Ainsley
30 Seb Dunbar
31 David Cawley
32 Jamie Griffiths
33 Kevin Lisbie

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