Town defender Damien Delaney has been withdrawn from the Republic of Ireland squad for their friendly against Croatia in Dublin on Wednesday due to the ankle injury he suffered in Saturday's 3-0 win at Bristol City.

The 30-year-old appeared to turn his ankle just before half-time but carried on until the 63rd minute when he was replaced by Tommy Smith, who looks set to start Tuesday's Carling Cup against Northampton at Portman Road.

Aston Villa centre-half Ciaran Clark has replaced Delaney, who has previously won five full caps. Town target Keith Andrews has also pulled out of the squad.

In addition to Delaney, Town will be without David Stockdale, who has been called up by England, Tamás Priskin, who will be with Hungary, and Josh Carson, who will be in action for the Northern Irish U21s for the Cobblers game.

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ITFC4daprem added 15:58 - Aug 7 shame Carson can't play we NEED a CB ASAP hopefully not to bad COYB
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NasAZ added 16:06 - Aug 7 What about these guys? Joseph Yobo (ambitious) Krystian Pearce Danny Collins Nathan Baker
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arc added 16:35 - Aug 7 Is Cropper available on Tuesday? Give him his debut–if only for the headlines if we lose.
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Raedwald_625 added 16:49 - Aug 7 Shouldn't the title be: Delaney Out of Ipswich Squad???? Isn't that of more importnace??????????
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jas0999 added 17:14 - Aug 7 Really need a CB. A Keeper required as well as sadly ALB not up to it.
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blues1 added 17:25 - Aug 7 raedwald, no it shouldnt, he wouldnt have been in the ipswich squad in the 1st place as he was in the irish squad for their match.
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Raedwald_625 added 17:36 - Aug 7 What i'm trying to say Blues is, what are the consequences of Delaney's injury for us? As I'm sure no one really cares to much about Ireland. I just find the wording of the title and article geared to the fortunes of Ireland and not to Ipswich: it's kind of odd I reckon.
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Frase1987 added 18:18 - Aug 7 "Delaney out of Ipswich squad" wouldn't be news mate.
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Lovetown added 19:13 - Aug 7 Well that's a little blow i guess. But a BIG CONGRATULATIONS to the team yesterday well done Chopra! And Lee Martin lovely skill and pace finallly he'll be able to play properly this season under PJ! Chopra what lovely precise finishes he has! Doesn't crack under pressure which was needed in the team! Well done blues done your fans proud this week! Keep it up!
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Lovetown added 19:19 - Aug 7 Btw what great team selection! Glad to see 6/7 newbie's in the squad!
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churchmans added 19:32 - Aug 7 delaney aint good enough for irish first team sqaud sorry! he was well releived when the linesman put his flag up for bristol citys offside goal! last season grant holt done him up good and propa in both derby games! for me he is back up for new centre back that PJ is surely lining up to bring in! WO WO WO for you nuggets that are thinking its only them two games delaney got shown up! i say they are the games you need to show your metal and if we are striving to go up you need big performances in big games! i think delaney is a good CB but i still have a question mark against him against top championship players let alone INTERNATIONAL PLAYERS.

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BlueJewells added 21:25 - Aug 7 I think Ireland team squad is a bit ambitious, however can't fault the man atm playing as solid as a rock!
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churchmans added 22:17 - Aug 7 your making that assesment over 1 leauge game and a few friendlys
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churchmans added 22:20 - Aug 7 hopefully he will continue like yesterday and help clean sheets. i dont think the irish team (defence in particular) is that good and the guy who used to play for man city now villa is an absolute donkey and i would say delaney would deserve a run in the team over him (memory loss badly) someone remind me
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Back_The_Boss added 08:53 - Aug 8 Lets hope its nothing to serious, we are certainly short of centre backs!
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50yearsablue added 08:57 - Aug 8 Well I would say, churchmans, that Delaney is better at playing football than you are on commenting on it based on your appalling sentence construction, grammar and spelling.
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