Terry Butcher has revealed new manager Paul Lambert is planning to meet up with the former England skipper and other Blues stars of the past to hear their thoughts on Town.
Butcher and Lambert spoke on the phone last week with the former Town number six impressed with the way the new boss has started his job at Portman Road.
"We had a quick chat, I sent him a text as well,” Butcher, 59, said on Saturday’s Life’s a Pitch on BBC Radio Suffolk (29mins 21secs).
""He’s very good, he wants to get a few of the older boys together and talk about our opinions and things like that.
"It’s just nice to be phoned up and receive the call, it was really good. I’ve known him for quite a while now, I’ve done some work with him before and was against him when I was up in Scotland with my clubs and obviously respect him.
"He’s doing all the right things, he’s meeting people, he’s talking to people, he’s getting information, he’s doing everything right.
"The only thing that he has to get right now is on the pitch, and that will take a little bit of time for players to get used to the system.
"But already the players are saying [things have changed]. Luke Chambers said in interviews how much the atmosphere has changed and I think it has changed, and it had to change, and it has changed for the better.”
He added: "[There are expectations of the new era] and we’re expectant of the team more than anything else. There’s got to be a good shape to the team now, the players have got to know what they’re doing and that takes a little bit of time on the training field.
"He’s started the right way, he’s not so much working them hard, he’s looking more for technique, more for shape than fitness.
"They’ve got the fitness now, they don’t need that input, so they can just go out there so everybody knows where they are.
"It’s a bit boring for players to do that sort of thing but you have to do it, you have to go through the motions in terms of where you’re going to be when the ball’s here, what’s going to happen when we attack, offensively and defensively. That comes just from work.
"It’s all repetition on the training pitch so that when you come out to play in the stadium it’s all peripheral, the noise, the atmosphere, the stands because you’re doing what you do on the training field; waves of attack, attack versus defence, all the shape. You have to do it, it’s the basic principles of football.
"It never happened [under the previous management], I think Paul Hurst was more concerned with fitness and they ran them and when they got the ball they tried to take a breather, which you can’t do.
"I think it’s exciting for the players and challenging the players as well, which is what we want.”