Team News From The Huddersfield Camp

Last updated : 30 March 2012 By Thetashkentterror

Tom ClarkeTown defender Tom Clarke spoke to his club's official website ahead of his side's League One clash against Carlisle at Brunton Park tomorrow afternoon, Clarke happy to have been back in the Terriers starting eleven for their last two matches :

 

"It's been brilliant - I'm happy to get into the team wherever I can. It is a little different coming in at left back, but I'm a defender - that is what I like to do - and it makes it much easier when you have such a good team around you. We have definitely been more resilient recently, as the two clean sheets show. We have the attacking players to go and score goals, which we have shown all season, so we just need to keep the back door shut.

"It's never easy at Carlisle; every time we've been there it has been tough. They have put a good squad together there and they got a good result away at MK Dons in midweek, so Saturday will be no different. However, we want to go up there and kick-on from the good result we got against Charlton.

"I have always seen my future being at Huddersfield. Even when I've gone out on loan it has always been to benefit me by getting games before coming back. When I went to Leyton Orient this season, I knew we had a good squad here and I just didn't want to train all week and then not play at the weekend. I had the chance to go there and play games so I did, but when I came back I got into the side under Lee Clark.

"Now the situation has changed here, but I've managed to get back in and now I just want to keep the shirt. I've tried not to concentrate on being out of contract in the summer really. I will let other people deal with that side so that I can concentrate on playing football - that's what I want to do."

 

 

 

In team news for the visitors tomorrow they will have four players missing through injury, the quartet being Oscar Gobern, Damien Johnson, Tommy Miller and Gary Naysmith. Midfielders Gobern and Johnson having now been out for three and two weeks respectively with hamstring injuries.

Elsewhere in the midfield ranks Miller has only just returned to training following a double hernia operation in mid-February, while left-back Naysmith is absent after recently picking up a knee problem. Finally, and away from injuries at the Galpharm Stadium, Town's 18-year old goalkeeper Lloyd Allinson this week joined Evo-Stik League Division One South side Ilkeston Town on loan until the end of the season.

 

 

 

The referee for tomorrow's match is Nigel Miller from Consett in County Durham and he will be assisted down the lines by Robert Jones from Wallasey on the Wirral and Chris Kavanagh from Ashton-under-Lyne in Greater Manchester. Meanwhile the fourth official is Paul Davison from Stockton-on-Tees.