Town Target Non-League Youngster - Ipswich Town News

Town are believed to be closing in on the signing of 19-year-old Chippenham Town defender Tyrone Mings. We understand Mings recently spent time on trial at Playford Road and impressed manager Mick McCarthy.

Bath-born Mings joined the Evostik Southern League club from from Yate Town in September, having previously been with Southampton’s academy and the Bristol Rovers youth set-up. His father Adie was director of football at Chippenham until earlier in the season.

Amongst Mings’s team-mates at Chippenham is current Blues U18s coach Russell Osman’s son Toby, who himself had a trial with the Blues in 2007.

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