Blackburn Rovers have confirmed the signing of Blues target Alan Judge on a three-year deal. The Lancastrians were reported to have won the race to sign the free agent Irishman earlier in the month.

Town, Derby and Charlton were amongst the other sides to have targeted the 24-year-old, who was offered better terms at Ewood Park, where he started his career as a youth player working under Gary Bowyer, who has now been confirmed as Rovers’ permanent manager.

Blackburn have also signed Portsmouth keeper Simon Eastwood and former Millwall winger Chris Taylor.

Meanwhile, St Mirren boss Danny Lennon has reiterated that he knows nothing about reported Town interest in midfielder Kenny McLean: “I spoke to the Ipswich manager, Mick McCarthy, on the phone recently and he never mentioned Kenny once.”

The 21-year-old, who has a year left on his Buddies contract, was first linked with the Blues in January and then again more recently when ultimately abandoned plans for a pre-season friendly between the clubs first surfaced.

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TractorCam added 16:33 - May 28 £££
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Popeye added 16:40 - May 28 Former Blackburn youth player worked under current manager Gary Bowyer, bit surprised he signed for them...not!
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WeirdFishes added 16:41 - May 28 All thanks to the parachute payments
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Lennyboy added 16:49 - May 28 We knew this was happening, lets move on.
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garyr1ley123 added 17:06 - May 28 All about the money, dissapointing really , move onto next target and laugh when we double over them next season and finish above COYB!
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MarathonITFC added 17:24 - May 28 So why was the St Mirren boss talking to Mick then? Presumably they're not trying to buy Chopra of JET? Are we trying to buy one of theirs or vice versa?
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Michael11 added 18:09 - May 28 Money stinks!! Can't stand Blackburn
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ChrisMakin2012 added 18:39 - May 28 Ipswich Town linked with Judge :- What a fantastic player! will be a great addition to our team. Blackburn sign Judge :- Rubbish anyway.
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BlueArmy01 added 19:18 - May 28 it was about money but a lot less than most think, lets hope evans backs McCarthy or a manager like him will have plenty of offers
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meekreech added 19:56 - May 28 No brainer , have to have no brain to choose Blackburn , in their state , over Town !!!!
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runningout added 20:15 - May 28 Judge would have been ideal for us! But hey ho, no grapes of the sour kind here...
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BlueMachines added 21:21 - May 28 He was released by Blackburn a while back. Maybe there is something in him that says, I want to go back and prove that they were wrong. He might feel he has unfinished business. Good luck to him. Shame we missed out, but all of you grow up, we don't know it was only about money. That's just your bitter views. We'll move on and hopefully Mick will find a gem elsewhere

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TheBoyBlue added 12:30 - May 29 Perhaps playing under Bowyer was an opportunity too good to pass up with their history together. Shame Bowyer will most likely be gone by October.
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BlueArmy01 added 19:13 - May 29 BlueMachines you are wrong it was about money
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BlueMachines added 20:04 - May 29 How do you know?
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BlueArmy01 added 22:41 - May 29 as i said before not a huge amount imho, way less than Mr Martin was on.
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BlueMachines added 09:41 - May 30 I am guessing you weren't involved in negotiations?
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