TWTD understands that former Blue Mark Venus is amongst those to have expressed an interest in taking the helm at Portman Road. The 45-year-old is currently the assistant to his former Blues team-mate Tony Mowbray at Middlesbrough.
Venus is understood to have been on the lookout for a club of his own for a while and has been linked with his hometown club Hartlepool United in the last couple of days.
Signed from Wolves when Steve Sedgley moved in the opposite direction, the centre-half or left-back made 187 starts and four sub appearances for Town between August 1997 and July 2003.
Venus would appear to be very much an outsider for the Portman Road job with chief executive Simon Clegg hinting at last night’s Supporters Club AGM that a more experienced candidate is being sought.
Someone who may be seen as a potential candidate that fits that bill is former Stoke, Burnley, Nottingham Forest and Portsmouth boss Steve Cotterill, who was understood to have been recommended by Harry Redknapp and owner Marcus Evans’s other friends in the game after Roy Keane’s exit 21 months ago.
We also understand Redknapp’s regular assistant Kevin Bond, a former Canary, was on the list of potential successors to Jewell but is expected to follow the former Tottenham boss to his next club.