Brian Murphy’s inclusion in the side for this afternoon’s reserve game at Southend (Roots Hall, 2pm, admission free) may be a hint that the former Bohemians keeper is set to make his first team debut at Sheffield Wednesday on Saturday.

Earlier this week manager Roy Keane said he intended to play youngster Ian McLoughlin against the Shrimpers and could have made the change in order to get Murphy nearer to match sharpness.

The 26-year-old has been on the bench in recent weeks having injured ankle ligaments during the warm-up ahead of the Leicester match, after formalising his move from League of Ireland champions Bohemians at the start of the year.

Murphy played for the reserves at Norwich last week and Keane may feel he needs another match before he can come into contention to replace Arran Lee-Barrett between the Town sticks at Hillsborough.

Reserves: B Murphy, Ainsley, Brown, Eastman, O'Connor, Yao, Hyam, Upson, Lambe, Martin, Wickham. Subs: Thatcher, McLoughlin, Cawley, Murray, Griffiths.

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Billy_Whizz added 13:31 - Feb 17 Time for a few to step up to the plate and battle for those first team places that are up for grabs following last nights secong half non-showing!
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Blueknight85 added 13:42 - Feb 17 Boom Boom Boom let me hear ya say YAO Shane O'conner is a left back isn't he someone tell him to pull his finger out and get noticed or give his left foot to Wright
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itfc1981 added 14:07 - Feb 17 YYYYYYYYAAAAAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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byebyesheepshanks added 14:51 - Feb 17 CURBISHLY WILL BE INCHARGE OF IPSWICH BEFORE THE END OF THE SEASON
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MaySixth added 15:21 - Feb 17 I want to hear of a Wickham brace and Mr Murphy making some good saves.
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muhrensleftfoot added 15:34 - Feb 17 Change the lot of them after that gutless spineless 2nd half
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blu_dru added 15:37 - Feb 17 CURBISHLY WILL BE INCHARGE OF IPSWICH BEFORE THE END OF THE SEASON What an odd comment to leave on this story
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OakingtonBlue added 15:50 - Feb 17 Lee-Barratt, best player, after Garvan ,on the pitch last night I thouight
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ITFC1985 added 16:21 - Feb 17 i heard he made a couple of decent stops but has been very shakey the last few games, and wont be happy that he was beaten from 30 yards with a free kick that went along the ground
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pottyblue added 13:39 - Feb 18 for gods sake thatcher is a left back give him a go
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