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Digby, Robinson and Marsden Released - Ipswich Town News

Town boss Mick McCarthy has revealed that centre-halves Paul Digby and Joe Robinson, and goalkeeper Jacob Marsden will move on at the end of the season.

"We’ve an option on Diggers but I won’t be taking that up, Diggers will be leaving,” McCarthy said of the 22-year-old, who joined the Blues on a permanent basis on a free transfer from Barnsley last summer following a loan at the end of the previous season.

"He has had a lot of competition and he needs to go and play. There’s no point in him traipsing around sitting on the bench, sitting in the stand watching us, he needs to go and play some football.

"I think Diggers will have a career then somewhere but he’s not going to play in my first team if Chambo’s still here, which I’m certain he will be, because we’ll take up his option. And Tommy Smith and Webbo, he’s not going to play in front of them.”

In total, Digby made seven starts and five sub appearances for the Blues without scoring.

McCarthy, who has already told Jonathan Douglas, Leon Best and Giles Coke they’ll move on at the end of the season, says academy products Joe Robinson and Jacob Marsden will also be departing.

Robinson, 20, whose only first-team appearance for Town was as a sub in the FA Cup replay at Portsmouth last season, has recently been on loan at St Albans City.

Marsden, also 20, hasn’t been involved with the Blues at first-team level and spent much of this season on loan at Leiston.

"Joe’s moving on, Jacob Marsden will be moving on,” McCarthy added. "There are other decisions to be made as yet.”

The Town boss has previously said 21-year-old keeper Michael Crowe is likely to stay - "That’s the thought” - but that the Wales U21 international’s future is still to be firmed up, as is the case with the likes of New Zealand international Monty Patterson and Irish U18 international striker Shane McLoughlin.

"All those are to be dealt with, Michael similarly to be dealt with and to make them an offer as much as anything," he added. "That doesn’t have to be done yet, their offers - in the case of most of them - don’t have to be in until the end of May.”

The situation is similar with the second-year academy scholars: "There are some decisions that have been made on some of them but I couldn’t tell you off the top of my head.”

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