Town boss Mick McCarthy says he’ll continue to monitor free agents Jack Collison and Darren Ambrose in training at Portman Road but has no immediate plans to add them to his squad. Collison, 25, was released by West Ham at the end of last season, while 30-year-old Ambrose, who started his career at Town, left Birmingham City.
"I’ve said to both of them, you’re not coming in on trial,” McCarthy said. "They both live fairly locally, within half an hour, so I said they could come in and train and we’ll see what happens.
"Both of them have improved training and have enhanced training. Sometimes you take players in and after one session you’re going ‘he’s not for me, he’s got to go’.
"But these two lads have been great, we’ll just see what happens. They’re both out of contract, they can both sign for any club at any time, not within a window, so I’ll just have a look and see.”
Collison, who was previously on trial at QPR, made his first appearance in a Town shirt in the U21s friendly at Lowestoft on Tuesday.
There appears to be a vacancy for a midfielder in the Town squad with Anthony Wordsworth having joined Rotherham on loan.
McCarthy says the former Colchester man needs to play football, having appeared only fleetingly for the Blues.
"He’s gone until January 10th,” McCarthy added. "Woody’s been here for nearly two years now and he’s not yet made 10 [league starts] for some reason, whether that’s injuries or not being picked.
"He has to go and play. He wants his career to get back on the rails and if I’m not picking him over two years, then it’s time I tried to do something else.
"I’ve got Teddy Bishop, one of the young lads coming through from the academy, from the U21s. He’s doing well and we signed Kevin Bru and he’s doing well, so it’s time to change it around, I think.”
Could Wordsworth join Rotherham permanently? "That’s not even been mentioned. Steve Evans lost Paul Green with quite a nasty injury and he just needed a replacement, so I hadn’t been playing Woody and he’s taken him until January.”