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Lambert: Without Skuse I Think We'd All Still Be In There - Ipswich Town News

Boss Paul Lambert says the squad’s bonding session at Escape Ipswich on Wednesday was something different to break things up with Cole Skuse emerging as the star man from his team but one or two others less impressive.

"I tried to get guys not to come back out,” Lambert joked. "There’s one or two not in this morning, so hopefully they’re still in there.

"That’s all it was, just a bit of fun and you find out the brainy guys, you find out the guys that are not quite so, which is a few of them.

"Which ones? I’ll let you work that out. Well, you probably know who they are. No, the guys have been good and it’s something different for them and it breaks things up. The people at the place were good as well.”

Asked about his team, he added: "I was quite fortunate. I had Cole. Cole was good, and I had Adam [Gooderham] the chef who is incredibly not all there.

"Kayden Jackson was a brilliant impersonator of the person who gives you the clues, he was brilliant at that.

"Flynn Downes was George McFly from Back to the Future, Flynn was terrible. Myles Kenlock, dear oh dear, there wasn’t too much [from the rest of them], myself and Cole were brilliant, that’s all I’m going to say.

"Without Skuse, I think we’d all still be in there. I was keeping my wit to myself, let them guys do it. But it was really good, and it was good fun.”

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