IPSWICH TOWN: David Lowe, the former Blues striker, is believed to be lined up to rejoin Paul Jewell’s coaching team.

Reports predict that Lowe, who was a member of Jewell’s backroom team at Wigan and Derby, is to look after Ipswich second string players next season.

Lowe is currently first team coach at League One Tranmere Rovers having played for Town between 1988 and 1992 where he did his first coaching sessions with Needham Market where he lived.

Now 45, Lowe made 159 appearances while at Portman Road, scoring 45 times before moving to Leicester for �250,000 in July 1992, having spent much of the previous Second Division title-winning season on loan at Port Vale.