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" We haven't had the results we would have wanted in the last two matches, there's no getting away from that. But we've rested well and trained well since getting back and we're determined to ensure those two scorelines were just a blip.
" As we've said so often, this is a very tight division, and so far no side has been able to run away with it, as it were. A team that manages to hit some consistency at this stage of the season will do themselves an awful lot of good.
" Brunton Park is a ground we've done well at in recent visits, and there's no reason why we can't continue that run. We're going to become pretty well acquainted with each other over the next six weeks, but we're looking no further than tomorrow's match.
" We get well looked after in terms of travel and accommodation, but a lot of our fans will have driven or gone on coaches to Southampton, and as well as the time factor, there's the expense. Christmas is already a costly time of year, so it would surely be better if the longest trips of the season came at other times.
" There are plenty of clubs closer to us than Southampton, so why not give us a game against one of them? Bigger away support would make for a better atmosphere and more revenue, and that has to be good all round. "
In team news for Huddersfield tomorrow, they will definitely be without Damien Johnson and Gary Naysmith. Influential midfielder, and Plymouth season-long loanee Johnson, out after suffering cruciate ligament damage in his knee in early December which will see him sidelined for the rest of the campaign, while left-back Gary Naysmith is still absent with a long-term toe problem.
Meanwhile, centre-half Antony Kay, along with fellow defenders Jamie McCombe, Lee Peltier and Liam Ridehalgh, and midfielders Lee Croft and Aidan Chippendale has been affected by flu-like symptoms which could cause big selection problems in the Town camp. Kay though is ineligible to play anyway in tomorrow's game as he sees out a one-match ban for picking up five yellow cards so far this season.
Finally, comes news on two more Terriers as left-back Graham Carey seems to have recovered from the knock that forced him out of Tuesday's 4-1 defeat at Southampton with only half an hour on the clock. While midfielder Tom Clarke played his first match of the season in that Saints defeat following a knee injury, fortunately for Town though the tightness in a tight muscle that saw him substituted late on has turned out only to be cramp.
The referee for tomorrow's match is Geoff Eltringham from Sunderland and he will be assisted down the lines by another Sunderland man in Danny Markham and Tony Peart from Northallerton in North Yorkshire. Meanwhile the fourth official is Gary Beswick from Newton Aycliffe in County Durham.