Gillingham manager Peter Taylor described Town loanee Elliott Hewitt’s performance as “superb” after the Gills beat Swindon 2-0 at home in League One this afternoon. The Wales U21 international was playing his first game since returning to the Priestfield Stadium, his initial spell having been curtailed by an ankle injury at the end of November.

"Elliott Hewitt was superb today in his first game since Stevenage. We worked hard as a team and we deserved it," Taylor said.

Town’s other player on loan at Gillingham, striker Jack Marriott, was an unused sub and is yet to make his debut for the Kent side. Hewitt has now made four appearances across his two spells.

Elsewhere, on-loan right-back Freddie Veseli played the full 90 minutes and picked up a booking in the final moments as Bury drew 0-0 with Burton Albion at Gigg Lane. The former Swiss U21 international has now made three appearances for the Shakers.

Academy second-year scholar Rory Thompson was in the Haverhill Rovers side which lost 1-0 at Gorleston in the Thurlow Nunn Premier DIvision. The defender started at right-back but moved further forward on the hour, before being subbed in the 80th minute.

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Cloddyseedbed added 09:38 - Jan 19 Thank you Billblue, well said. I too go back to the BR days, you could see what Robson was trying to do from day 1. It wasn't always easy for him but the team was always moving forward. A lot of people said it would be a disaster for ITFC to go down into Div 1. That is effectively where we are at present as far as I'm concerned with the squad and performances we are being dished up, but at inflated prices. Evans has to take the blame as he is "The boss". It is time for him to let his intensions be known and act upon them or move out. If things do not change this will be the last season me and my family have season tickets and i have been going since the 60's.

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brittaniaman added 10:43 - Jan 19 Whatever we say about formation of play MM will never take any notice of us, he is to stubborn for that !!! He defends his players to strongly even when they are having a crap game,, and if we dare criticise them, he throws a wobbly, and put whoever they are in for the next game... It is his way or no way ???? what we need is 55pts for safety and push on from there for another season in the championship COYBs !!!!

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blueboy1981 added 11:17 - Jan 19 BillBlue - excellent post - my sentiments entirely.
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AlexanderFields added 11:23 - Jan 19 Absolutely spot on, BillBlue.
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JWM added 11:32 - Jan 19 NIce post Billblue but what you fail to mention is the fact that a combination of Magilton, Keane and Jewell got us into the monumental mess that Mick inherited and it will take longer than just one full season to sort this lot out! I think you and the rest of the Mick outers on this board really need to wake up and smell the coffee and stop harking back to some halcyon bygone era! Football has moved on massively even in the last 10 years and if you want to be successful you also have to buy a few decent players! Evans won't spend the cash and Mick is doing his best with what is available. We are a small average championship football club with no divine right to be in the premiership and until the owner starts showing some real ambition we will remain in this league (if we are lucky) for many years to come! Mick has taken this team as far as he can now its up to Evans to show some ambition.

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bluefeast added 11:43 - Jan 19 Magilton had us playing great football ,what he needed was the guidance of a more experienced man to help him. The football we played under him was brilliant by comparison ,and he had us in 7th place ,his signings were good too for us. Since then we have had a torrid time. Its a shame to be bored of a style of play when it should be entertainment .Still silk purse from cows arse is a difficult one.

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BillBlue added 12:12 - Jan 19 Thank you for your support folks. JWM. I am not harking back to the halcycon days but trying, very hard, to look to the future - not stagnate. You are blaming Keane/Jewell, I am not I am blaming Evans. Have just introduced this as a Blog and added that bit, please make your comments there. Bluefeast. Magilton did get that experienced man to help him and things had considerably improved but then Evans sacked him which, IMO, was his first major blunder. Brittaniaman, I agree and have almost mentioned this in the Blog!

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Wickets added 13:07 - Jan 19 In the cold light of day it does seem that we did not think the Marriet deal through.Mick said he needs matches or game time but with Gills having 4 or 5 strikers in front of him, cant see him getting any. Odd.
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DanLyles added 13:08 - Jan 19 I agree with those sugesting we experiment with 3-5-2/5-3-2, with Hewitt and Cresswell as wingbacks. We have three excellent centre backs, then McGoldrick could orchestrate play from midfield with Hyam and Skuse behind him. Then 2 of SEB, Murphy and Taylor up front depending on the opposition. This formation worked very well for Hull last season so why not us?
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StochesStotasBlewe added 13:24 - Jan 19 BillBlue. Excellent post fella. I can remember Sir Bobby playing Burley at 17 against the great George Best, Beattie as a young debutant & carefully nurture their progress in the first team alongside the more experienced players like big Al. Surely these lads could be used in this way for ITFC,s benefit, not warming their backsides on lower league teams benches. Without any forthcoming investment from Evans apparent, surely this must be a more favourable way forward for the club rather than scouring the loan market.

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BillBlue added 13:56 - Jan 19 pinewoodblueboy. Thanks. Just read your post and yes I do agree that is why I am becoming so agitated at the present state of affairs, it is an incredible waste of potential talent while we sink gradually into the mire and become the laughing stock of the football world.
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Garv added 14:02 - Jan 19 Bring Marriot and Hewitt back, send Nouble on loan.
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essexboy added 14:04 - Jan 19 SOUNDS LIKE MARCUS EVANS out then.!!!!!
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halsteadblue added 15:13 - Jan 19 BillBlue.....just wanted to say that your post was one the best I have read and in my opinion for what its worth absolutely spot on........coyb.
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blueboy1981 added 15:27 - Jan 19 BillBlue, Pinewoodblueboy, JWM, etc; - always a pleasure to interact with you guys on this forum - we may not always totally agree with every detail, but a real blessing to know that logic prevails with your thinking, and the Club still has this kind of following.
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Bluetone added 15:28 - Jan 19 @wickets It's almost as if MM wants Jack out of the way so he has an excuse not to give him game time here. Stubborn or what?
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RoyKeanesDog added 17:19 - Jan 19 He's clearly a talented player but did look a bit suspect at times at the beginning of the season. I'm glad he's getting experience else where for now
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Hegansheroes added 17:40 - Jan 19 Thank God there are some sensible posts on here, Billblue just about somes it up. MM is a very average manager who is never going to be more than a championship manager. His tactics (if he has any) are from about 1960, his arrogance unbelievable, his team selection banal, his interviews are cringe making and he surrounds himself with sycophant players who lick his arxe. I really think it is time we as ITFC supporters were given something to applaud, not the utter rubbish MM serves up week in, week out, blame the players but MM is paid a lot of money to manage & coach which on what I have seen he is not doing. Why is Marriot on the bench at Gilllingham? He could be on the bench at Leiston or Bury or Sproughton, makes no difference, he isn't playing. My New Years wish was MM would resign & I'm still hoping he will disappear back to Yorkshire or anywhere apart from Suffolk and take ME with him, not that ME is in Suffolk very often. Wonder how many games he has actually ever seen, 4 or 5? THIS IS NOT THE CLUB I HAVE SUPPORTED FOR YEARS

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dannyrr added 19:36 - Jan 19 The few times I have seen Leyton Hewitt get a chance he has done well and was able to push forward and create chances. I have watched Creswell break many times this season and when he got to the other end of the pitch stop and wait for everyone including the opposition to get back and waste any chance we could have had. MM very rarely makes tactical changes that influence a game. He either makes the changes after we concede a goal or takes off the player that is performing best on the pitch. Why can't we make a substitution that can come on and score a hat trick in 20 minutes like Preston did. But then again I don't believe we have a player that can score a hat trick apart from DM.

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WorcesterBlue added 23:03 - Jan 19 Great debate on here guys and some excellent posts (BillBlue). The jury is out on who to blame and I think a lot goes back to ME's worst decision which was Simon Clegg. Who sacked Magilton as one of his first acts and employed Keane then PJ? Yes Magic had his moments (sorry!) but we played football the Ipswich way with still relatively limited funds and it seemed we were heading somewhere. Hogans Heroes sums up the current Manager's limitations (though failed to mention Hewitt is doomed as Mick plays big lumps at full back -Zubar and Elokobi ffs!) and until we get people in control who have a genuine vision for the future of the club and a footballing structure in place I just can't see anything but more dissapointment. We've got half of a decent squad (not that they all get played) so maybe, just maybe some extra talent may come in and we may push on....

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Sindre94 added 23:21 - Jan 19 Get him back
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battyblue added 05:09 - Jan 20 If an 18 year old is capable of playing for man united and possibly there most consistent player at the moment why is a nineteen year old capable of playing for Ipswich get them back now...
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BillBlue added 07:26 - Jan 20 Hi all. When I made that post yesterday I started writing because I was incensed and gradually as I continued I thought what we need is a good debate and get everything into the open. I was a bit disappointed because after an hour there had only been one response (Cloddyseedbed) and I thought I had posted too late for my post to be read. Being honest I had expected about 20-30 minuses (the usual) but having realised I had missed the boat, and steel feeling angry, I decided to repost but as a Blog. In fact as the day war on more and more people joined the discussion and I was pleased this morning to see Worcester Blue's comment plus Sindre and Batty's but the Blog will be released today and I do hope you will all join in and get a real discussion on our beloved club started. In the Blog I have extended it to include a bit about whose fault the debacle which has become Ipswich Town is but, again being honest, if I was writing it now I would have worded it differently, but the object would have remained the same - to get something started! Please all join in the debate as it starts which I think will be at lunchtime or shortly afterward. Thank you for your support.

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mrmorisato added 07:42 - Jan 20 Our midfield needs sorting out big time, other than Skuse and Tunnicliffe and perhaps Edwards we need a re think (I still think N'daw could have made another impact in midfield) Bring back Hewitt and replace him with Berra in a back four that would reunite the Smith Chambers partnership (Town kept a lot more clean sheets with this partnership last season, I don't know why Mick has broken this partnership up) for me the back four should be Cresswell, Smith, Chambers, Hewitt. I think Town should keep a 4 4 2 formation as Smith and Chambers together would provide more stability and get us playing from the back and help build more trust with our central midfielders :)

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BillBlue added 08:58 - Jan 20 Sorry - for 'war' please read 'wore'!!
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