Blues boss Mick McCarthy has recalled Michael Chopra and Tommy Smith to his starting line-up for today's home game against fellow strugglers Peterborough. Luke Chambers and Daryl Murphy drop to the bench.

Chopra is making his first start under Mick McCarthy, while Smith returns having been left out of the game at Leicester having spent the previous week away with New Zealand in China after impressing in the victory over Burnley.

Elsewhere, Town are unchanged, although Scott Loach is back on the bench, in place of Arran Lee-Barrett, having recovered from his thigh problem.

New loan signing Tyrone Barnett is unavailable against his parent club. Full match preview here.

Town: Henderson, Orr, Smith, Higginbotham, Cresswell, Edwards (c), N'Daw, Reo-Coker, Martin, Chopra, Campbell. Subs: Loach, Hewitt, Chambers, Mohsni, Hyam, Emmanuel-Thomas, Murphy.

Peterborough: Olejnik, Little, Brisley, Knight-Percival, Bostwick (c), Newell, Thorne, McCann, Boyd, Berahino, Tomlin. Subs: Day, Ferdinand, Zakuani, Gayle, Alcock, Swanson, Clarke-Harris.

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idrinkbeer added 14:42 - Nov 24 cmon tommy grab yourself a goal today son
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oscarwhiting added 14:46 - Nov 24 Lol and would have preferred chambo right back today but still very confident for today and would love to see chopra get one.
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Lightningboy added 14:53 - Nov 24 Time to start putting your money where your mouth is Chops.
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chippyblue added 15:00 - Nov 24 Come on town make my day a happy one !!! COYB .
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oscarwhiting added 15:12 - Nov 24 Great start
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irishtim added 15:12 - Nov 24 oh no. Please not again.
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riley26 added 15:14 - Nov 24 Massive test of character, lose today and we can stop saying "we are too good to go down".
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algarvefan added 15:23 - Nov 24 The table doesn't lie....we're not too good to go down, transfer window can't come soon enough!!!!
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Bob7881 added 15:45 - Nov 24 Another poor display by a bunch of impersonators who call themselves ITFC footballers. RUBBISH RUBBISH RUBBISH wet and p@ssed off
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Ipswichbusiness added 15:47 - Nov 24 I would have had Hyam in place of Reo-Coker.
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riley26 added 15:48 - Nov 24 Agreed, Reo-Coker is just another one of these 'experienced' journeymen who are seen to plug the gap. Need some passion.
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kuyski added 15:52 - Nov 24 no shooting in first half？？？？？？？what's the hell going on
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irishtim added 16:20 - Nov 24 cmon.
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TrickyBlue added 16:59 - Nov 24 Going down absolutely no doubt about it. Peterborough are a very poor side but we are equally as bad. Can Mick McCarthy turn things around? Not in my mind anyway he has always come across to me as absolutely clueless. The only thing that can help this club is relegation every single player bar possibly one or two (at a push) need to be cleared out. I dont think ive ever been as depressed in all my years supporting town. Fair play to whoever went today to watch absolute rubbish. There is sunday football on in parks tomorrow that you can watch for free and it would be of a far higher standard. I know people are going to stick with Mick but I can guarantee you he is NOT the man to turn things around.

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Bob7881 added 17:13 - Nov 24 To late im afraid worst set of players to put on an Ipswich shirt, I dont blame Mick, Jewell done us big time to all the ones who supported him your now reaping the benefits. For far to long too many people involved in the club fans as well have walked around with their head up their @rse. Also Mick if you think the current squad is good enough to stay in this league im seriously worried weve got the wrong man again.

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bluey123 added 17:38 - Nov 24 After seeing this rubbish I m not sure MM can turn this round again poor team selection and if he thought Chopra did well then we certainly need some help. Bring in Hyam ,loach,Carson and Ainsley he has done nothing wrong get rid of these bloody loans
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Keaneish added 17:41 - Nov 24 Nonsense post from trickyblue! The problem is clear as day to me or problems as there are two. 1 - Henderson has to go. The back 4 are shaky enough as it is let alone a shaky keeper behind them. Loach back in. 2 - The combination of coker and N'daw isn't right. There's no endeavour or passing with any purpose. Time for a Hyam and Drury combination which worked well last season?

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