Boss Mick McCarthy says striker Frank Nouble is benefiting from having a run in the Town side. The 22-year-old has impressed since coming into the XI four games ago and looks set to start again at Doncaster today.
McCarthy said: "It doesn’t matter who it is, Tunners is getting better by playing games week in, week out and I think Frank’s in his best run of form because he’s being picked and I guess having somebody believe in him and saying ‘Go on, carry on’.
"I think the way we’re playing is suiting him, the 4-3-3 is certainly suiting him. And I think he’s been excellent, I really do.
"He’s got to get his goals now, having played well. Having played well, all strikers want to score goals, but his contribution to the team has been very, very good in recent weeks.”
Also benefiting from playing games is 19-year-old Jack Marriott, who netted his eighth goal in eight games for loan club Woking at the weekend.
McCarthy says that despite having been impressed with his form, Marriott is a little way down the pecking order at Portman Road at present and is likely to go out on loan to a Football League club when his spell with the Cards is up on January 2nd.
"Without being disrespectful, the Skrill Premier is not the Championship, we’re three leagues further up,” he said.
"What he’s doing is going out and learning his trade. He’s playing in a tough league and if he can keep progressing we want to get him in our team. But he’s not in front of the lads we’ve got at the moment.”