David Norris admits he was concerned that the knee injury he sustained on the first day of the season could have seen him disappear from Roy Keane's plans at Portman Road.
The midfielder damaged ligaments in the 2-1 defeat at Coventry and spent four months on the sidelines before returning to action against QPR at the end of last month.
"When a new manager comes in, getting injured is the last thing you want," says David, speaking in an interview in Saturday's matchday programme.
"The timing couldn't have been worse. Everyone starts again with a new manager. Some faces will fit, some won't and they move on.
"That was one of the worrying things about the injury for me. I'd not really had that long to work with the gaffer and the season was getting underway and I was going to miss the first four months or so.
"If the team had clicked from the start and we were in the top six, then I might not have got a look in at getting back in the side."
Chuck talks about how the road back to fitness did 'his head in' at times in an in-depth interview in the programme plus Tommy Smith reveals his World Cup ambitions and new 'keeper Brian Murphy explains why Town were the right club at the right time for him.
