A star pupil and lots of positives as Huddersfield Town's loan stars assessed

With the League One season now complete and the League Two schedule ending on Saturday shortly after the Championship, we thought it was a good time to look at some of Huddersfield Town’s key loans to clubs in those tiers. The Terriers’ B Team has enjoyed a good season and several of their young prospects have been given loans to both experience life in general as a footballer elsewhere, and to gain some first team experience.

Several players have left the club for varying lengths of time but we thought we’d look at four of the higher profile ones and let you know how their season has fared. Beyond the ones below though Town have had other success – notably with Brahima Diarra and Josh Austerfield at Harrogate Town who have both earned a lot of praise, and Ben Jackson who has been one of the better performers in a relegated team at Doncaster Rovers.

Let’s begin then, and there’s only one place to start really…

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After missing a proper pre-season where he was overtaken by first some early new signings and then a late one in Tom Lees, the 23-year-old defender was sent out on loan to get some experience and play regularly after 24 appearances in a Town shirt the previous season. That was a very wise move in our opinion to help a young man shake off the PTSD from a year where his team had conceded the most goals in the league. That fact was in no way his fault, but as a unit Town had suffered a truly horrible season.

Rotherham United wanted him and the move allowed him to stay close to home and go somewhere that would play him regularly in a very competitive League One. 28 appearances later and their season finished, the Millers