Town have confirmed that Portman Road is still in the running to be one of the host venues at the 2015 Rugby World Cup.
News that the Blues had put their home forward for use in the oval game’s showpiece tournament first surfaced in 2009, although later that year chief executive Simon Clegg said there had been no subsequent developments.
A national newspaper report earlier in the week named Portman Road amongst a long list of football and rugby grounds — as well as the Olympic Stadium - vying to stage games with rugby chiefs keen to feature venues throughout the country.
A Town spokesman told TWTD that talks are currently in their early stages: "An initial conversation has taken place, no more than that.”
The tournament begins on September 18th 2015 with the final on October 31st and the feasibility of staging games around the regular fixture list is likely to be amongst the issues to be discussed.
If Portman Road is involved in 2015, it won't be the first time the Blues' stadium has hosted rugby. On Monday 1st March 1954 the South Eastern Counties took on the All Blacks while the New Zealanders were on tour in the UK.
On Saturday 18th December 1937 there was an England rugby international trial between the Probables and the Possibles with Prince Obolensky, of whom there is a statue on St Nicholas Street, playing.
Portman Road has staged other sports with a hockey international between Great Britain and West Germany having been played in the summer of 1968.