Town boss Mick McCarthy has named an unchanged side for this afternoon’s live Sky game away against the MK Dons, while Ryan Fraser returns to the bench having returned to the Blues yesterday after undergoing his rehab back with parent club AFC Bournemouth. (Sky Sports One, KO 12.30pm)

The MK Dons, who Town face in the league for the first time, include ex-Blue Dean Bowditch from the start, while former keeper Cody Cropper is on the bench.

There's a late change of referee with Gavin Ward, who took charge of last month's 2-2 draw with Wolves, taking over from Andy Madley, who switches to fourth official.

MK Dons: Martin, Spence, McFadzean, Kay, Lewington (c), Potter, Carruthers, Baker, Bowditch, Murphy, Maynard. Subs: Cropper, Hodson, Poyet, Reeves, Powell, Hall, Gallagher.

Town: Gerken, Chambers (c), Smith, Berra, Knudsen, Skuse, Douglas, Maitland-Niles, Sears, Pitman, Murphy. Subs: Bialkowski, Malarczyk, Parr, Coke, Tabb, Fraser, McGoldrick. Referee: Gavin Ward (Surrey).

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Stato added 12:26 - Dec 12 Quote from Ian Holloway 'I don't think the chairman has got his hear in it' which was his response when asked if thought Ipswich needed to strengthen in Jan
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jas0999 added 12:40 - Dec 12 Bossman - and I think that's quite a fair comment. We clearly need a bit more quality to compete with the big boys. Bench does look better today though.
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blueboy1981 added 13:18 - Dec 12 ..... other than score the goal - Have we turned up yet ? Will need to improve second half to take 3 points from this - drab first half performance from us.
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prebsa added 13:30 - Dec 12 Was thinking the same blueboy. But expect yourself to get filled in by essex57 and gang
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