Jack Marriott and Tyrone Mings were both delighted to make their Town debuts, despite the Blues falling to a 2-0 defeat at Burnley. Meanwhile, at the other end of an Ipswich career, Lee Martin’s Blues exit appears to have been confirmed by his team-mates.
Marriott told the club site: "It’s brilliant and my head is still spinning to be honest with you! My stomach was doing somersaults before the game and I was very nervous when I came on.
"I settled down once I got into the game though and I thought I did okay. It was a great experience for me and I want to continue to work hard over the summer so I can hit the ground running.
"The gaffer and TC have been brilliant with me and I want to prove to them that I can be around the first-team again next season.”
Mings added: "I enjoyed every minute of it and the intensity was higher than any other game I’d played in," he told the club site.
"Obviously both teams were safe before the game, so maybe it wasn’t as intense as it may have been if we were both scrapping for our lives, but it was still great to be out there.
"I’d heard rumours earlier in the week that I might be included and surprisingly the nerves didn’t seem to kick in!
"I thought I did okay for my first game and did what was asked of me. I enjoyed playing in front of a large crowd and although the result didn’t go our way, I’m delighted on a personal level to have made my debut at the professional level.
"It’s been a strange season for me, but a great one at that. I started it playing non-League football and being a mortgage advisor and now I’ve finished it as a professional footballer with Ipswich playing in the Championship at Turf Moor. It’s just amazing really and now I want to push on.”
Meanwhile, as TWTD reported this morning, winger Lee Martin appears set to turn down Town’s offer of greatly reduced terms with team-mate Luke Chambers putting a captioned photograph on Instagram.
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