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Town are looking into sightings of five players out late on Wednesday night, hours after Paul Jewell’s Blues exit and prior to caretaker-boss Chris Hutchings’s first training session at Playford Road on Thursday morning.

Town boss Roy Keane is hoping his international players come back from their fortnight away unscathed. Keane lost Irish pair Darren O’Dea and Shane O’Connor to problems picked up with their national squads during the last break in domestic fixtures.

Reggie Lambe scored a hat-trick and Ed Upson (pen), Colin Healy and Luke Hyam all scored once as Town’s reserves thrashed Stevenage Borough 6-2 at Portman Road this afternoon.

New signing Paul Taylor could require surgery after suffering a cracked bone in his foot during Wednesday’s 2-0 defeat to Wolves. Fellow frontman Michael Chopra is a doubt ahead of Saturday’s home game against Charlton.

Sunderland are watching academy midfielder Josh Carson, according to one of this morning’s tabloids. Northern Irish U17 international Carson, a second-year scholar, netted twice yesterday as Town’s U18s beat Reading 4-3 at Playford Road.

Terry Leinbach’s abstract show “Wonder” lives up to its name at the Edge Gallery in Bigfork. “The (Almost) Complete and (Mostly) Accurate History of Alcohol” offers laughs and food for thought at Bryant Lake Bowl in Minneapolis. Poets & Pints marks its 100th poetry reading on Sept. 20 at Sisyphus Brewing in Minneapolis.

Striker Jack Marriott scored twice as a Town U21 side lost 3-2 in a behind-closed-doors friendly at Spurs this afternoon.

Luciano Civelli and Damien Delaney returned to action after injury but couldn’t prevent the reserves from falling to a 2-0 defeat to Oxford United at Portman Road. The visitors were two goals up via Sam Deering and Richie Baker at the break and the Blues never seriously threatened to get back into the game.

Blues defender Tommy Smith says he and his New Zealand team-mates will be out to exorcise the demons when they take on New Caledonia in Noumea in a World Cup qualifier on Friday, the Pacific Islanders having beaten the All Whites 2-0 in an Oceania Nations Cup semi-final earlier in the summer. Also in international action on Friday will be Josh Carson with Northern Ireland and Gunnar Thorsteinsson with Iceland’s U19s.

Coleraine boss Oran Kearney rued "individual errors" as he watched his side lose at home to Linfield at a sun-drenched Showgrounds.