Striker Connor Wickham has been handed the number nine shirt for the 2010/11 season. The 17-year-old takes Pablo Couñago’s number with the Spaniard one of several players who have been moved out of the ‘first 11’.

Aside from Couñago, Alex Bruce goes from being Town’s number five to 21 and Owen Garvan switches from seven to 17. All three were amongst the eight players recently made available by the Blues, with only Lee Martin from that list getting a number between one and 11, picking up the final shirt.

There are various other moves with skipper Jon Walters going to number 10, David Norris switching to eight, Damien Delaney to five, Shane O’Connor to three, Jaime Peters to two and Brian Murphy to one. Kevin Lisbie gets 33.

Squad Numbers
1 Brian Murphy
2 Jaime Peters
3 Shane O'Connor
4 Gareth McAuley
5 Damien Delaney
6 Grant Leadbitter
7 Carlos Edwards
8 David Norris
9 Connor Wickham
10 Jon Walters
11 Lee Martin
12 Arran Lee-Barrett
13 Ian McLoughlin
14 Jon Stead
15 Alan Quinn
16 Tamás Priskin
17 Owen Garvan
18 Pablo Couñago
19 Luke Hyam
20 Tommy Smith
21 Alex Bruce
22 Troy Brown
23 Tom Eastman
24 Colin Healy
25 Billy Clark
26 Luciano Civelli
27 Reggie Lambe
28 Ronan Murray
29 Jack Ainsley
30 Seb Dunbar
31 David Cawley
32 Jamie Griffiths
33 Kevin Lisbie

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Marshalls_Mullet added 22:32 - Jul 8 Could people stop making excuses for Pablo. Over the years he has probably taken in excess of £5 million in wages from ITFC and given us one good season. He's had plenty of chances. Garvan is slow and has a VERY WEAK personality, had plenty of chances. Sick and tired of players not giving 100% and feeling hard done to!! Players are far too spoilt, Shane Supple had a point!! I used to know John Warks son, and used to go round to his house in Bucklesham in c.1990. At that point Warky had been one of our all time legends and had an amazing record for Liverpool. ....he lived in a 3 bed bungalow and drove an Audi 80. You couldnt wish to meet a nicer bloke!! ....if only most footballers were still as genuine and humble!!

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generalpublic added 00:50 - Jul 9 if we are not going to buy any new players this season then i guess changing the numbers on the players should make a huge difference to our teams performance. no doubt this master stroke by keane will have us on top of the table and winning the championship by 10-12 pts what a genius our manager is
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WadzillaBhoy added 01:34 - Jul 9 Haha nice Tractaboy!
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dobbie73 added 08:37 - Jul 9 Anyone seen this?? http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/3046890/Manchester-City-eye- They seem to have more money than sense - maybe we can chuck Lisbie their way too .... COYB!!!!!
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generalpublic added 09:46 - Jul 9 and roy k with a bit of luck
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Stu_Magoo added 10:10 - Jul 9 Roy Keane pulls the football equivilent of not giving the people you dont like a birthday party invitation when at primary school. I love it!! UP THE TEWUN BOY!
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SiBo added 12:40 - Jul 9 Surco72: Adding to what Yallop said, I think finishing 18th on 31 points with Palace relegated on 27 in his first season and then 19th on 34 points, with West Ham relegated on the same points and us only surviving on goal difference, pretty much covers the relegation dogfight part for Bobby Robson. Also I think RK got us to 15th last term, some 9 points above relegation... Now I'm not aying that's good for RK, but it isn't the end of the world as we know it.... That's a song isn't it? Talking of which their is another song that goes: It's not where you start, it's where you finish It's not how you go, it's how you land A hundred to one shot, you call him a clutz Can out run the favorite, all he needs is the guts Your final return will not diminish And you can be the cream of the crop It's not where you start, it's where you finish And you're gonna finish on top Let's hope RK goes this way...

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