Tomorrow could see the final end to what has been a desperate season, as a defeat against Huddersfield will be enough to send us down if Yeovil get anything at home to Gillingham, given their (and Rotherham’s) vastly superior goal difference. Given that we have the second worse defensive record in the League and the fifth worse attack, the home win looks unlikely. So much for the promise of attacking football this season.

Out for the game are, of course, Nicholls and Wrack with their long term injuries, but Kevin James may be fit at long last, Westwood looks like being available despite pickling up an ankle injury on Monday and Gerrard has recovered has recovered from his knee problems.

Oakes will, therefore, be in goal and the defence will be from Pead, Roper, Gerrard, Westwood, Mills and Fox.

The midfield will come from James, Timm, Standing, Wright, Osborn, Keates, Leary, Smith, Demontagnac and Daryl Taylor.

Up front, the choices seem to be Claridge, Barrowman, Constable, and James (again).

Huddersfield’s problems consist of the suspension of skipper Worthington and full back Andy Holdsworth, who also seems certain to miss the trip. He is struggling to overcome the groin injury which forced him off against Chesterfield and is rated very doubtful.

Manager Peter Jackson cannot finalise his squad or, indeed, team planning because he also has doubts over illness victims Tom Clarke and John McAliskey.

Experienced defender Martin McIntosh is added to the squad after confirming his fitness in a goalscoring return to the Reserves against the Saddlers in the week, while striker Andy Booth and keeper Phil Senior have both returned to training today after injury.

It’s difficult to assess where their main threat will come from, as they have no fewer than three players in double figures this season (Pawel Abbott, Booth and Taylor-Fletcher), plus another, the on loan David Graham, who has scored seven in 13 games since arriving from Sheffield Wednesday.

Predictions? Huddersfield are in fourth spot in the table, just three points behind second place Colchester United. However, that doesn’t quite tell the whole story. They are only 10th in the away standings and that is what has been letting them down in their promotion charge. They also seem to be getting a terrible case of run in nerves too, as they have picked up a mere 5 points from their last five games, losing at home to Chesterfield last time out.

This would, normally, with Huddersfield’s current record, be a game I would be looking to win, but, with a team that couldn’t score if they were millionaires in a brothel with no other customers, I can’t see us winning and giving us a chance of survival.

For those that remember such things, of course, think back to last season’s fixture at Bescot when, with the crowd restless and Merson on the brink, following the 5 – 0 thrashing away at Colchester in the previous game, we were 0 – 2 down to the same opponents. Enter Matty Fryatt,“that” goal and a hat-trick, to save the Manager’s skin. Pity, wasn’t it?