With a game in hand, sixth placed Huddersfield Town come to The Valley on Saturday looking to chip away at the five point gap which currently separates them from their hosts.

When The Terriers come to The Valley, they always present stiff opposition and this weekend is likely to be no different. They were relegated from The Championship last season and were strongly tipped to go straight back up again under the management of Michael Duff, who had previously been successful at Cheltenham and Barnsley. They are the second biggest spenders in this division (behind Birmingham) and they started the season with three straight wins.

After a sixteen game unbeaten run from early October to mid January, they were comfortably established in the play-off spots. However, the wheels then came off with seven defeats in the next eleven games and a disastrous run of six home games without a goal. When they lost 0-1 at Bristol Rovers earlier this month they dropped to seventh place and Duff was shown the door.

Club legend Jon Worthington has been put in temporary charge and the team rewarded him immediately with a resounding 5-1 home win against Crawley first time out. After over nine hours without a home goal they were 4-0 after 34 minutes; that's what you call new manager bounce.

Their main goal threat comes from Northern Irish international Callum Marshall who is on a season's loan from West Ham and has nine goals so far. In January, in order to boost their attack, they signed Joe Taylor from Luton and Dion Charles from Bolton but neither has had much effect yet - Taylor has two goals in six appearances and Charles none in eleven. Charlton fans won't be too surprised to hear that Freddie Ladapo - who signed at the start of the season - is also yet to register a league goal.

The Terriers away record has been impressive. They have won more (9) than they have lost (6) and 30 of their 61 points have been gained away from home. It would be a surprise if they are not there or thereabouts in the battle for play-off places in the coming weeks. The Super Computer currently predicts them finishing sixth with us two places higher, even though they would appear to have an easier run-in than we do.

They have won their last two games at The Valley and, in fact, have won the last five times they have played us. Charlton fans will be hoping that the Peterborough defeat will have the same outcome as the Rotherham defeat - I.e a strengthened resolve which led to a run of one defeat in thirteen. Nathan Jones is under no illusions: "We have to make sure that we bounce back and the fans have a big part to play in that."

The law of averages suggested we'd have a blip at some point so it is probably best that we get it out of the way before the series of six pointers we have coming up, starting with this one.

A real bonus would come in the shape of Josh Edwards returning to the starting eleven but Jones didn't sound too optimistic on Thursday:

"Well Josh is a lot closer than he was a week ago. He’s had some training and then we’ll assess and see how he is."