Footballers who have played league football for both PNE and Ipswich
A-K
965) Wayne Brown
PNE 15 apps; 0 goals
Ipswich 40 apps; 0 goals
PNE debut 28/10/2008 v Watford (H) – Won 2-0
426) Mick Burns
PNE 12 apps; 0 goals
Ipswich 160 apps; 0 goals
PNE debut 17/10/1936 v Stoke (A) – Won 2-0
954) Richard Chaplow
PNE 68 apps; 8 goals
Ipswich 6 apps; 1 goal
PNE debut 12/01/2008 v Watford (H) – Won 1-0
1075) Sylvan Ebanks-Blake
PNE 9 apps; 1 goal
Ipswich 9 apps; 0 goals
PNE debut 03/01/2015 v Norwich (H) – Won 2-0
995) Nathan Ellington
PNE 18 apps; 2 goals
Ipswich 17 apps; 0 goals
PNE debut 15/01/2011 v Leicester (H) – Drawn 1-1
888) Ricardo Fuller
PNE 58 apps; 27 goals
Ipswich 3 apps; 2 goals
PNE debut 10/08/2002 v Crystal Palace (H) – Lost 1-2
877) David Healy
PNE 138 apps; 44 goals
Ipswich 12 apps; 1 goal
PNE debut 30/12/2000 v Sheffield United (A) – Lost 2-3
668) David Johnston
PNE 24 apps; 3 goals
Ipswich 136 apps; 35 goals
PNE debut 13/10/1984 v Reading (H) – Lost 0-2
Player Profile – Sylvan Ebanks-Blake
Sylvan Augustus Ebanks-Blake was born in Cambridge on 29 March 1986
At the age of 15, having been on schoolboy terms with Cambridge, he attended a two-week trial with Manchester United at their training centre. He was offered a contract at the end of the trial and turned down a scholarship with Cambridge to join Manchester United's Academy. He played his first match at senior level for the club on 26 October 2004 in a 3-0 win at Crewe in the League Cup. On 25 October 2005 in his next appearance, he scored his first senior level goal with United’s fourth goal in a 4-2 victory over Barnet in another League Cup tie.
Towards the end of the 200405 season, he fractured his leg and was ruled out for the remainder of the season. He recovered and scored a hat-trick on his return for the Manchester United reserves. However, he was never called on for a first team league game again, although he was an unused substitute in several Champions League games. In January 2006, he moved on loan to Royal Antwerp in Belgium to gain first team experience.
Ebanks-Blake returned to England in the summer and signed a three-year deal with Championship club Plymouth Argyle on 14 July 2006. The fee paid to Manchester United was an initial £200,000, potentially rising to over £300,000 due to clauses. Ebanks-Blake was new manager Ian Holloway's first signing and became a first team regular.
His debut was a 1-1 draw at home to Wolves on 5 August 2006. His first Plymouth goal came in his sixth league appearance in another 1-1 draw, this time against Q.P.R on 9 September.
The striker notched up 10 goals in his first season at Argyle, four coming in his last 5 matches of the season including one in a 2-0 win against Preston on 28 April.
He cemented his status as a fan favourite and top prospect with 11 league goals by New Year in the 2007–08 season, despite starting the season on the substitutes bench. Ebanks-Blake scored a brace on 2 occasions in a 2-2 draw against Cardiff and in a 2-1 home win against Q.P.R. on Boxing Day 2007. He netted 6 goals in his last 8 games for the Pilgrims including a goal in his last match with a 3-2 win over Hull in the FA Cup on 5 January 2008. Ebanks-Blake scored 21 goals in 66 league matches for Plymouth.
His form attracted the attention from fellow Championship side Wolves, who activated a buy-out clause in his contract for £1.5 million, and he signed for them on 11 January 2008, on a four-and-a-half-year contract. His Wolves debut came the following day in a 3-0 home defeat to Crystal Palace.
He scored his first league goal for Wolves a week later on his next appearance in a 2-1 win at, Scunthorpe. On his third appearance he scored a 90th minute winner withna 2-1 win over Sheffield Wednesday.
A run of seven goals in his first eight games won him the Championship Player of the Month Award for March 2008, netting two braces against Southampton and Charlton. The season ended with him winning the Championship Golden Boot for the 2007–08 season, scoring a total of 23 goals, 12 for Wolves and 11 for Plymouth Argyle.
Ebanks-Blake started the 2008/09 season in excellent form, scoring nine goals in the opening 13 league games, form which also earned him a cap for the England under-21 side, when he came on as a substitute against Czech Republic U21s on 18 November 2008. At the 2009 Football League Awards he was named Championship Player of the Year, and also received the Goal of the Year Award for his solo effort at Charlton in March 2008.
During the season he scored his first hat-trick of his professional career, against Norwich on 3 February 2009 at Molineux, to once again reach the 20-goal mark. Having recovered from a calf injury, his final goal of the campaign came against Q.P.R. on 18 April 2009, which gave the team the 1–0 win that secured promotion to the Premier League. The striker finished this Championship-winning season with a tally of 25 goals, enough to retain the Championship Golden Boot for a second consecutive season. Wolves rewarded him with a new four-year deal in July 2009, which saw him stay at Molineux until the summer of 2013.
Ebanks-Blake struggled to repeat his goalscoring form at Premier League level. Hindered with injuries in early stages of the season, he returned but only managed to score one goal, from the penalty spot in a 1-1 draw against Aston Villa on 24 October 2009. He was then dropped from the side as manager Mick McCarthy preferred to play the 4–5–1 formation, with Kevin Doyle playing the lone striker role. Later on in the season, Ebanks-Blake scored his second and final league goal in the campaign, heading in against Blackburn on 24 April 2009 to secure a 1–1 draw that effectively guaranteed Wolves their Premier League survival.
He had a brighter start to the 2010/11 Premier League season, scoring four league goals before Christmas: against Everton, Newcastle, former club Manchester United] and Sunderland. Although he was less favoured for a starting berth than Kevin Doyle or new signing Steven Fletcher. He ended the season with seven goals from 28 appearances including a brace in a 4-0 victory over Blackpool on 26 February 2011 as the club narrowly avoided relegation on the final day.
In August 2011, he suffered knee ligament damage that put him out of action for six weeks, but when he returned, he was unable to match his goalscoring tally of the previous season as the team struggled against relegation. He scored only one Premier League goal during the campaign in a 2-2 draw against Norwich on 20 December as the club returned to the Championship under the temporary management of Terry Connor.
The 2012/13 season saw Ebanks-Blake return to his goalscoring form, scoring 5 in his first 11 matches and net 14 league goals, before a broken fibula and sprained ankle suffered against Birmingham on 1 April 2013 where he scored a brace in a 3-2 win at St.Andrews and was ruled out for the remainder of the season. He was released by the club at the end of the 2012/13 season, which saw Wolves relegated to League One. He had scored 61 league goals in 177 matches.
Ebanks-Blake signed for Ipswich on 19 December 2013 a move which reunited him with his former manager Mick McCarthy. He was assigned the number 27 shirt having signed a contract until end of 2013–14 season. He made his debut for the club in a 1-1 FA Cup third round home draw to Preston on 4 January 2014, but was substituted off injured after 29 minutes.
He made 9 league appearances for Ipswich but was only started a game once, in a Championship game for the Tractor Boys with a 1-0 win at Yeovil on 11 March 2014, which lasted 66 minutes. His final match was a 2-1 home win over Doncaster on 12 April 2014, coming on at half time.
After a trial period with Brentford in October 2014, Ebanks-Blake went on trial with a number of other Football League clubs before ending up at Preston in December 2014. He was signed by Preston on a short-term contract on 1 January 2015, keeping him at the club until the end of the 2014/15 season.
His debut came in a 2-0 win over Norwich in the FA Cup on 3 January, replacing Reid with 4 minutes to go. His only goal for the Lilywhites came on his second league appearance for the club with a 1-1 draw at home to Yeovil on 20 January with a 76th minute goal. He had replaced Beckford 10 minutes earlier. His only starting appearance in the league came in a 2-1 defeat at Crawley on 31 January.
Ebanks-Blake final PNE appearance came in a 1-0 defeat at Colchester on 3 May, which led to Preston missing out on automatic promotion to MK Dons. He wasn’t involved in the play-off matches and was released in May 2015 following Preston's promotion to the Championship.
On 6 June 2015, Ebanks-Blake signed for Chesterfield after his release from Preston. He scored on debut in a 3-1 home win against Barnsley on 8 August and his second goal on his third appearance in a 2-1 win at Shrewsbury 10 days later.