Town Announce New Squad Numbers - Ipswich Town News

Town have announced the squad numbers for the 2013/14 campaign with several members of the side making switches for the season ahead. Daryl Murphy is the Blues’ new number nine, David McGoldrick the new 10, while Tommy Smith takes the number five shirt.

Summer new additions Cole Skuse, Paul Anderson and Dean Gerken will wear eight, 11 and 22 respectively.

Michael Chopra’s place in the pecking order is made clear with last year’s number 10 moving to 28 in the squad.

First-year pros Tom Winter (30), David October (36), Mark Timlin (37) and Jonny Leddy (39) have been handed squad numbers for the first time, along with academy scholars Michael Crowe (38), Kyle Hammond (32) and Amir Berkane (33).

1 Scott Loach

2 Elliott Hewitt

3 Aaron Cresswell

4 Luke Chambers

5 Tommy Smith

7 Carlos Edwards

8 Cole Skuse

9 Daryl Murphy

10 David McGoldrick

11 Paul Anderson

14 Anthony Wordsworth

15 Tyrone Mings

18 Jay Tabb

19 Luke Hyam

22 Dean Gerken

23 Josh Carson

26 Paul Taylor

28 Michael Chopra

30 Tom Winter

31 Byron Lawrence

32 Kyle Hammond

33 Amir Berkane

34 Jack Marriott

35 Frank Nouble

36 David October

37 Mark Timlin

38 Michael Crowe

39 Jonny Leddy

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