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Hewitt and Marriott's Gills Lose - Ipswich Town News

Jack Marriott made his debut as a late sub and Elliott Hewitt played the full 90 minutes as Gillingham lost 2-1 at Brentford.

Marriott, who is on loan with the Gills for the rest of the season, came on as a 79th minute sub and almost netted an equaliser seven minutes later but Bees’ keeper Stuart Nelson saved.

The striker later tweeted: "Delighted to [have] made my debut for [Gillingham]. A disappointing result and probably should [have] scored the equaliser but on to the next one now!"

Town boss Mick McCarthy says he’s not yet decided whether he’ll extend Hewitt’s loan or that of fellow right-back Freddie Veseli, who is currently with Bury.

"Not at the moment,” said McCarthy, who is understood to be set to add another right-back, Middlesbrough’s Frazer Richardson, to his squad on loan. "I think Elliott’s got about another two weeks left because they kept the 93 days going despite his injury.

"It’s important for him to get games so I’ll be speaking to Peter Taylor. I think they’d love to keep him and it depends what happens.

"I’ve got him on 24-hour recall at the moment. If I had somebody I could replace him with I’d be tempted to leave him where he is.

"Because if he plays the next 20 games for them, I’ll know that he’ll be better off for next season and maybe he can come and be our regular right-back.

"But if I bring him back and he’s sat on the bench, we’ll learn nowt about him and we’ll be back to square one.

"Freddie, if he’s playing, he can stay there and play. He’s done all right. We’ve had him watched.”

Veseli and League Two Bury are at Accrington Stanley on Saturday. The former Swiss U21 international has made three Shakers appearances so far.

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