Jim Magilton, Marcus Stewart, Frank Yallop and Tom Garneys were inducted into the club’s Hall of Fame at Friday evening’s Former Players Association Hall of Fame Reunion Dinner.

Magilton was back at Portman Road for the first time since his sacking as manager in 2009 and received his award from current boss Kieran McKenna, who he worked alongside with the Northern Irish U21s.

Stewart, like Magilton a key member of the team which was promoted to the Premier League in 2000 and finished fifth in the Premier League the following year, was handed his gong by their manager George Burley at a dinner attended by former players from throughout the decades as well as sponsors and current members of the coaching and backroom staff, including chairman Mike O’Leary and CEO Mark Ashton. Terry Butcher and Matt Holland hosted.

US-based Yallop didn’t attend the dinner having been handed his award in December when he was last in the UK.

Former centre-forward Garneys was given a posthumous award with the man who replaced him, Ray Crawford, speaking about the frontman, who scored 143 goals in 272 matches during the 1950s.

Garneys, who later ran the Mulberry Tree pub and died in 2007, would have celebrated his 100th birthday in August this year.

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CookAshtonJohnson added 02:31 - Mar 18 Magilton and Stewart have iconic status at this club, giving us memories we cherish when we think of our times supporting Ipswich in the early 2000's in that epic 2000-01 Premier League season, plus memorable moments, including Magilton's hat-trick in THAT game against Bolton, Stewart's double in THAT game against Bolton. Glad to see the club have more than recognised those achievements and they rightly deserve a place in that treasured Hall of Fame. COYB 💙

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oldburian added 07:10 - Mar 18 Tom Garneys is our most underrated striker, injuries blighted his time when a cartilage operation could finish a career. Certainly on a par with the likes of the Johnsons.
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Secondhalf added 07:40 - Mar 18 I remember Tom Garneys and Ted Phillips making a Devastating Duo. The rough and the smoothe !
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TractorfactorSteve added 07:54 - Mar 18 Give it to Garneys... Blimey, how old am I?
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TractorfactorSteve added 07:54 - Mar 18 Give it to Garneys... Blimey, how old am I?
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Bazza8564 added 08:20 - Mar 18 Great to see the history of our club being recognised in this way. And reading comments about Garneys makes me feel younger again
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Crinkle59 added 10:14 - Mar 18 Tom Garneys was my first favourite carried the team in those days(with big John E)
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Karlosfandangal added 13:51 - Mar 18 Tractorfactorsteve You were lucky to see them play, my mum use to watch them (no offence) and told me loads about them……she said she use to shout give it to Garneys….she use to work for WH Smith's selling newspaper on the station and got to know the players as they caught the train to away fixture. How times have changed bet most of the fans wore a shirt and tie then

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fifeblue added 17:11 - Mar 18 About time they "gave it to Garneys"! Prolific goalscoring partner of Ted Phillips. Tom Garneys also ran "The Dainties" sweetshop in Queensway in the 1960s and used to listen to me commentating on myself playing in my back yard. Every time I mentioned "Crawford", Tom would shout "he's no good!" but it was in jest as Crawford took over from Garneys to partner Phillips. I told this story to Ray Crawford many years later.

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Secondhalf added 09:00 - Mar 19 Crinkle59 I ran into Ken Brown walking his dog a few years ago in Wroxham. I mentioned Big John to him and his eyes positively sparked up!
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