It was good while it lasted, wasn’t it? The flirtation with the higher reaches of football? Well, it’s well and truly over now.

Walsall became the first team to be relegated from Division 1 this season, when all of the teams we were competing with seemed to pick something up - but we never really looked like it, against a team possibly heading for automatic promotion.

It’s worth reporting that the efford was there, but not the skill.

It’s worth reporting that Oakes looked edgy all afternoon and his uncertainty helped no one. I’d question why he didn’t get closer to the first goal as well.

It’s worth saying that Pead did OK and Fox not so well in a 3 4 1 2 formation, but neither will ever make a wing back, as they supplied few crosses.

It’s worth saying Mills, Gerrard (especially) and Westwood looked OK in a back three until Westwood’s disgraceful sending off for kicking out in retaliation after being fouled.

It’s worth saying that Osborn played reasonably well until he tired, Keates ran around a lot, but created nothing and Timm looked a world beater for 15 minutes until Jackson dropped a man back to mark him, at which point his productivity vanished, shortly to be followed by the player with what looked like a hamstring problem. Oh , and Leary scored with a defelected shot.

It’s worth pointing out that Claridge and Constable tried, but the contrast between them and the movement of the Huddersfield forwards was the main difference between the two sides. When they needed to, they could just hit the ball into the channels, knowing that the run was being made. That’s not Claridge’s game and Constable just didn’t have a clue, anticipating nothing, not making the runs and never trying to get across the defender.

Oh, and James replaced Timm and did some nice things, but disappeared a lot.

Oh, and there was a demonstration aginast Bonser after the game, of around 200 people (I counted). That wasn’t terribly exciting either.

The effort was there, but we were rubbish in comparison to the opposition and, quite frankly, that’s been the case all year. Roll on the cricket season.