Defender Joe Robinson has joined Vanarama National League side Bromley on trial and played the first half of their 2-1 defeat to League One Millwall in a pre-season friendly at their Hayes Lane ground this afternoon.
Town U21s skipper Robinson, who finished last season on loan at Woking, recently signed a new one-year contract with the Blues.
On Wednesday, after the friendly at Barnet, manager Mick McCarthy said there are a number of youngsters he’d like to send out on loan to gain experience. Keeper Michael Crowe, 20, is in the second week of a trial at League Two Portsmouth.
Speaking in April, McCarthy said Haverhill-born Robinson, 19, had impressed him with his attitude.
"I’ll be brutally honest, six months ago I’d be thinking I probably wouldn’t have kept him.
"But he made such a rapid improvement and he’s such a great kid and such a great character and an example to others, I think based on that he’s worth that chance.
"He’s a young one in his year and as we all know young scholars, young academics, young professional footballers, if they’re almost 10 or 11 months behind some of the others, their peers, they do take a bit of catching up.
"He’s worth it on that basis and he’ll be in the U21s, if not we’ll loan him out somewhere because he did well at Woking. That’s his future at the club and hopefully he improves enough to get in the team.”
Robinson made his first and so far only competitive appearance for the Town senior side was as an 89th minute sub in the FA Cup replay at Portsmouth in January.