This weekend it could be cold up north as we head to Huddersfield -  another side with promotion ambitions that haven't quite hit the heights fans were expecting at this stage of the season. However to beat them on their own turf, we might need to raise our game by a couple of degrees.

With a cold snap having hit the country this week, the weather has taken a turn for the worse. Maybe that's why now's a good time for our season to take a turn for the better. But we face a tricky tie up in Huddersfield this coming Saturday. They're in a similar boat to us, having expected to be amongst the pacesetters but finding themselves hovering below the play-off zone.

Having come down from the Championship last season in the company of Birmingham and Rotherham, the Terriers appointed ex-Swansea and Barnsley boss Michael Duff as their new head coach. So far, the former Northern Irish international has had a mixed start to his tenure, with fine home form counterbalanced by poor away form including an FA Cup first round defeat away to non-league Tamworth. Duff, like Nathan Jones but without a famous song to his name, is very much motivated by a desire to bring his own particular culture to a club. So far that hasn't happened to any spectacular extent at Huddersfield, but the word from West Yorkshire is that they're relishing the prospect of facing the Addicks, feeling rested by the international break and knowing of our recent injury woes.

But - as history shows, we've a good record of playing Huddersfield in the cold. Everyone in Charlton, even those who weren't born, knows the legend so well it's as if we were all there in Christmas 1957 on a famous Saturday at The Valley. On a day of terrible weather, the pitch was a mudbath. A certain Bill Shankly was in charge of Huddersfield, and we’d a guy up front called Johnny Summers. After finding ourselves 5-1 down with less than half an hour to go, SE7 witnessed a Christmas miracle. Summers scored four more goals, having scored our first, and assisted with two more to leave the field immortalised as the hero of a 7-6 classic victory. Even to this day, Huddersfield Town remain the only football club to have scored six goals and still lost the match in England's professional leagues.

This time out, we're unlikely to see thirteen goals. Huddersfield have fourteen scored and seven against after fourteen games and we have fifteen for and fifteen against after the same number of matches. Neither of us is quite at the level of the 2011/12 season when we enjoyed a great promotion battle alongside the two Sheffield sides. We went up as champions and Huddersfield through the play-offs, after they beat Sheffield United 8-7 on penalties. Then they had the prolific Jordan Rhodes in their side, hammering in a grand total of 36 goals over the season. Perhaps it was in the spirit of that as to why they were linked with Alfie May earlier in the summer before he moved to Birmingham. They do though have one player in their ranks we will be familiar with. Freddie Ladapo was on loan with us from Ipswich in the second half of last season, scoring just that single goal against Lincoln.

A low scoring affair on a chilly Saturday seems the likely outcome. Yet if we're to stay in the promotion hunt as we head towards the congested Christmas fixture list, we ideally need to come away with all three points on our travels. That would get us over the 20 point mark and keep us on the heels of the chasing pack behind Wycombe and Birmingham. For any fans travelling there, it's a long journey up through Rugby League country and places that we maybe don't hear of except when we're passing through on a train. However it's a good town, one of the biggest in England that's not a city, with a decent looking stadium in The John Smith's (formerly The McAlpine). Amongst places that might also catch the eye if anyone's staying over, it's got a White Swan which is a bit of a trip down memory lane to what we used to have in Charlton before problems with uninterested owners - a Swan flying at full wingspan. Enjoy your trip and the pints if you go and bring back 3 points if you can.

Nathan Jones is fully aware of the challenge we face:

“They will pose a very potent test. They are an ex-Championship club with Championship-level players. They are one of the teams that will be fancied for promotion and one of the ones that would expect to get promoted with everything they have, so it's one of the sternest tests in the division.”

Our last two games up there were lost 0-5 and 0-4 so surely, things can only get better....