Town interim manager John McGreal has made eight changes to the Blues side facing Barrow away in this evening’s FA Cup second-round replay with only Christian Walton, Kane Vincent-Young and Cameron Burgess remaining from Saturday’s 1-1 draw at Wigan.

Walton continues in goal behind a back four of, from the right, Vincent-Young, Toto Nsiala, Burgess and Matt Penney.

In midfield, Idris El Mizouni and Tom Carroll are in the centre with Scott Fraser on the left and Sone Aluko, who skippers, on the right. Up front, James Norwood starts alongside Kayden Jackson.

Among those on the bench are captain Sam Morsy, Conor Chaplin and Janoi Donacien, while Ben Morris is included in the first-team squad for the first time since the Coventry game in March 2020, the final match before that season was suspended due to the pandemic.

Young midfielder Cameron Humphreys was due to be in the squad but was left out as his room-mate has Covid.

Barrow make two changes with Josh Gordon and Matt Platt coming into the team for Ozzy Zanzala and Mark Ellis.

Barrow: Farman, Brown, Brough, Platt, Gordon, White, J Jones, Gotts, Grayson, Banks (c), Stevens. Subs: Lillis, Taylor, Ellis, M Jones, Zanzala, Kay, Beadling, Hutton, James.

Town: Walton, Vincent-Young, Nsiala, Burgess, Penney, Aluko (c), El Mizouni, Carroll, Fraser, Jackson, Norwood. Subs: Hladky, Donacien, Woolfenden, Kenlock, Morsy, Chaplin, Morris, Pigott. Referee: James Bell (Sheffield).

Photo: Matchday Images

BlueWax added 20:30 - Dec 15 Perhaps the shortlist for manager has now got even shorter. Every manager ruling themselves out.
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Billysherlockblue added 20:30 - Dec 15 About 5 yds off their men. What is the matter with these so called men. Have a look in the mirror lads. Ye are an even bigger disgrace than what came before ye and thats saying something.
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sixtyblue added 20:30 - Dec 15 Mcgreal sack him no better than Cook.
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KMANSers added 20:32 - Dec 15 F##kin embarrassing- these players looked disinterested and i'm saying that because they cannot naturally be this bad as professionals can they????
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jas0999 added 20:32 - Dec 15 Any thought of McGreal must surely be over. Harris … wow. What a mess.
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Kilterums added 20:34 - Dec 15 Well, something is clearly very wrong with that squad. Bring on the subs "Passion", "Commitment", "Determination", "Cohesion" and "Belief".
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Blueactually75 added 20:34 - Dec 15 Only we could lose to a team that can't score! This has to be the worst time in the clubs history. Who do we blame tho?
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Billysherlockblue added 20:34 - Dec 15 El m a full international . He wouldnt get a game with Barrow. Im so disappointed with the effort. I dont mind losing now and then but not giving their all. Shameful. And on telly w. T flip is going on
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BlueWax added 20:35 - Dec 15 This could be controversial but I'm going to call that half of football as the worst in our history. Shambolic, gutless etc. I am not expecting Butcher to hold back!
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HopefulBlue69 added 20:36 - Dec 15 It's pretty clear that most of this lot want to follow Cook of Suffolk... no skin off their nose and they keep picking up their wages... like to see them all donate their weeks salary to the staff at Ipswich hospital...
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DifferentGravy added 20:37 - Dec 15 Doesnt matter what formation we played. Tactically inept decisions from the start combined with poor performances. Two up front yet we dont turn the oppostion or feed them to feet. Play incredibly narrow and have no wide outlet. Need to win the battle first but start with Aluko (luxury wide player not playing wide or receiving ball) and Carroll (lightweight). Carroll only passing sideways and backwards often putting our back line under pressure. Toto giving the ball away every single time. Equals humiliation on tv

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johnwarksshorts added 20:37 - Dec 15 Total Embarrassment 😳
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19781981twtd added 20:38 - Dec 15 Switching off cancelling saturday had enough of this powder puff team of wage thieves utter crap
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Chris_Knights added 20:38 - Dec 15 Never been embarrassed to be an Ipswich fan….. until now
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Blue_Meanie added 20:38 - Dec 15 Whatever manager comes in has one hell of a job on his hands. These ‘players' are not even up to league 2 standard.
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SickParrot added 20:40 - Dec 15 So embarrassing being a Town fan. How much longer must we suffer like this? I hope John McGreal is giving them hell in the dressing room.
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ihatecanaries added 20:41 - Dec 15 We are a joke and the players are a disgrace, what a shambles we have become thanks to cookie.
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BeattiesBackPocket added 20:41 - Dec 15 Absolute shambles we've been poor to say the least we look like the team struggling in league two. People moaned about cook and got him out when we hit the post 3 times at home and should've been out of sight against this lot same people who wanted cook out were talking about giving it to mcgreal. Mcgreal has made three different formations in three games. Yeah the last month hasn't been brilliant but we were top scorers in league one he had three months with a new team which wasn't enough we're more of a shambles since he's left trust me and the problem is it's making me as a fan now want someone like warnock in due to desperation!

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runningout added 20:41 - Dec 15 I'm embarrassed. This lot have NO excuse for this. They are completely clueless. Have lost all work ethic. Nsiala has hit usual mid season wobbles. Penney is outplayed. Whole of midfield cannot pass. All slower than my gran. Being led by no one. Couldn't believe they could get worse, how wrong was I… F in joke all f in round. Players honestly don't care
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bernie added 20:42 - Dec 15 What a disgrace, hang your heads in shame , absolute shocking and you lot get paid for this !! So angry. Flown up what a pampered lot you are should be made to walk home.
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GoingUp added 20:48 - Dec 15 Did anyone see those class moves by Ipswich Ladies in yesterdays highlights, let's all rock up and watch them instead!
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sixtyblue added 20:57 - Dec 15 Players should all be transfer listed in the morning,you won't get much for them ,
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PhilR added 23:21 - Dec 15 You could sort of understand Cook's departure, given how things were going. The trouble is, half the squad, and most of the more 'senior' players came here, as they openly said, to play for Cook. I was encouraged on Saturday, and the obvious thing to do tonight was to play the same team, get them fired up and stuff the team from League 2. The Christmas schedule is no doubt on McGreal's mind, but it looks this was a huge misjudgement tonight. This squad needs some seriously good man management. Who is going to do that??

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