Town may boast one of the Championship’s best defensive records in recent weeks but Daryl Murphy agrees there is room for improvement when it comes to scoring goals.

Mick McCarthy’s team have conceded just four goals in their last seven games but they have also failed to score on the same number of occasions.

They did net four times in last month’s home win over Middlesbrough but that was an isolated occasion and Town remain the Championship’s lowest-scoring team with just 35 goals scored in their 38 games to date.

Murphy said: “We’ve not scored as many goals as we’d want. The back five have been fantastic and what was our weak point at one stage is now our strength, but it’s up to the strikers and the midfielders to chip in with a few goals.

“It helps the whole team to know that we are solid at the back. It wasn’t just that we were conceding goals before, but the manner in which we were conceding them, so hats off to the gaffer and Terry.

“They have looked at the situation, studied how we were conceding silly goals and put in a lot of hard work with the back four in training. Everything has been good in that area in recent weeks.”

Meanwhile, recently released Blues striker Nathan Ellington has joined League One Crewe until the end of the season after a trial.

Elsewhere, Histon youngster Nick Freeman, who was linked with the Blues last month, spent two days on trial with West Ham this week.

The midfielder, who was also recently on trial with Norwich, did enough to be asked back to Upton Park for a further six weeks.

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