Town are expecting a crowd of around 20,000 for Saturday’s first home game of the season against League One favourites Sunderland.

“It will be a cracking atmosphere on Saturday and the support we had at Burton and the noise the fans made was fantastic. They were worth the entrance money alone,” boss Paul Lambert told the club site.

While the Blues were defeating the Brewers 1-0 at the Pirelli Stadium, the Black Cats were drawing 1-1 with Oxford United in their opening fixture at the Stadium of Light."" The Wearsiders are expected to bring a big following to Portman Road.

As reported last week, Town will no longer have cash turnstiles for home fans, but tickets can be purchased in advance via ITFC Direct, while further details of ticketing this season, including on matchdays, can be found here.

Meanwhile, first-year academy scholar Cameron Stewart won his first Northern Ireland U17s cap as his side were beaten 4-0 by Sweden at their opening game at the Nordic Cup in Denmark yesterday.

The Northern Irish youngsters next face Denmark's U17s on Wednesday and then Finland on Friday. Defender Stewart joined the Blues from Linfield this summer.

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runningout added 23:31 - Aug 6 meant to mark up.. No one deserves cheap insults. MMs time was up. If you get wound up by Chris Sutton you are weak willed and should grow up
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bobble added 23:54 - Aug 6 division 3 favourites sunderland....
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brendenward35 added 09:26 - Aug 7 Saxonblue74 I know Ward scored those goals by MM then decided to play him out of position or not at all and have his favourites instead. I can see Harrison playing a lot of games up front and scoring a lot of goals as his got the players around him. Looked a totally different player last night he had an excellent game and was a pain for the Birmingham defence all game. Like I said £450,000 is peanuts for a striker and we certainly won't get anything for that money. His worth well over 1 million so why we let him got for that is beyond a joke. PL said the days of letting players go for silly money has gone and the ME sells Harrision for peanuts no wonder PL is fed up with how the club is run.

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ChrisFelix added 09:32 - Aug 7 Wouldn't be so bad with Harrison's sale if we needed to off load the wages. But why the cut price deal when all other clubs are getting inflated prices for their players
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trncbluearmy added 09:33 - Aug 7 Good money for an average player Be interesting to see what he does against a first team defence not bfc reserves
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dirtydingusmagee added 09:43 - Aug 7 time to let Evans know what you think.
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midastouch added 09:54 - Aug 7 @ bredenward35, I agree £450k seems a snip for Harrison as he's still young. He looked very good against West Ham last season but for whatever reason it just didn't happen for him here once the season got going. I know he got injured too so that wasn't ideal either. If you look on the Forum and read through the post last night about Harrison apparently Lambert didn't want to keep Harrison though for whatever reason. So this seems one that was Lambert's call rather than Evans. However, regardless of whether Lambert wanted him or not (and it seems he didn't) I still can't understand why they sold him to a rival so cheap! I said at the time we should of got at least 750k for him and even that would of been too cheap for a player of that age.

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brendenward35 added 10:08 - Aug 7 Midastouch accept your comments I suppose in any job if the face doesn't fit you won;t last long
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Saxonblue74 added 21:35 - Aug 7 Brenden, Harrison worth a million? I'd be very disappointed if we spent a million on a player with his record last season!
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