Town skipper Carlos Edwards is ready to wind up former team-mate Lee Martin on his return to Portman Road with Millwall on Saturday.
Martin, 26, who snubbed a new deal in favour of joining the Lions in the summer, was regularly in hot water with referees during his four years with Ipswich.
Signed by then manager Roy Keane from Manchester United for a fee now understood to have been £2.5 million in 2009, he was dismissed three times and received 27 bookings in his 106 appearances for the club.
An unimpressed Keane shipped him out on loan to Charlton and although successor Paul Jewell recalled him, he later refused to speak to the player as his disciplinary problems mounted.
Edwards, 34, said: "I already have my studs sharpened for Lee. You don’t have to try very hard to wind him up. It is very easy.
"I could just say something out of the ordinary to him and he might snap or I could yell at him and the next thing you know he does something silly and gets sent off.
"But, saying that, I’m not that type of player. Maybe I will just whisper in someone else’s ear and let him do it!”
Martin did not feature in Millwall’s 1-0 home defeat by Yeovil on the Championship's opening day having suffered a knee injury during pre-season, but came off the bench towards the end of Tuesday’s 2-1 home win over AFC Wimbledon in the Capital One Cup.
Edwards added: "My missus says I get on her nerves but she never gets wound up as easily as Lee. He would even get wound up in the changing room sometimes.
"One of the players would say something and he would bite like a great white shark taking a lump out of the ceiling. He is that gullible. The other teams all knew what he was like and that he would react.
"I would react if I got racist abuse or someone spat at me but the rest of the time I’m so laid-back I could sleep in water. That’s my main weakness, being too laid-back. I’m getting better, slowly but surely, but I need to improve drastically.”
Despite Martin’s notoriously short fuse Edwards is keen to emphasise that he won’t really be going out of his way to land him in trouble with the officials.
The club captain said: "I’m happy for Lee. I had a nice time here with him but I hope he doesn’t have a nice time here again on Saturday. I wish him all the best for the rest of the season, except when he plays against us.
"Saturday will be about making sure we do what we have to do and not about worrying about Lee Martin and Millwall. It is going to be a battle — a war — and we need to come out on top.
"I never managed to speak to Lee before he left. Only he will know why he made that decision. Maybe he thought the money they offered him was rubbish or he just wanted to move closer to home.”