Game has changed in big way - Kindon
the right things and get into the game.
“But some of the pitches we played on [at Brighouse] I was just shocked – but the boys there really helped me.
“Normally first five, first ten minutes I’d be trying to play out and they’d be like ‘wait until we get into the game, if you have to hit the channel you have to hit the channel,’ because we’re playing for three points and it means something to them, you’re not just playing for nothing.
“They helped me with that mentality, wanting to win.”
Another loan to National League Bromley followed at the beginning of this season, but Edmonds-Green was recalled early as Cowley removed several players from his selection for his first-team squad despite being hit by an injury crisis.
“When my head of academy phoned me [to say I was coming back from my loan] I thought he was joking. I had to pack my stuff quick and get back up to Huddersfield has quickly as possible for training the next day,” Edmonds-Green said.
After being an unused substitute against Leeds, the defender made his Championship debut at right-back against Charlton and did well enough that when Danny Simpson came off the bench in the second half, it was not for EdmondsGreen – instead, the veteran went in at left-back. Said Edmonds-Green: “Danny Simpson had just come back from injury and obviously he knows that right-back is not my strongest position but I can play there so he was just talking to me before the Charlton game saying ‘don’t worry about it, we all believe in you, just go out there and make sure you enjoy it.’
“I wasn’t nervous that much because we were late getting to the game so when we got in we were straight in the changing rooms and out...you don’t have that build-up sitting there thinking about the game.
“We warmed up, got back in, come out, it’s game time.”
STEVE Kindon went around the block enough times as a player to pick up lots of experience.
A swashbuckling forward, he excelled for Town - but the humble cult hero insists current stars are too much interested in being individuals rather than a team unit.
“There’s no advice I could give the current Town players because it’s a totally different game,” Kindon, who played 73 times for the club between 1979 and 1982, told Examiner Live. “When I played for Town we had marauding right-back Malcolm
Brown, Ian Robins and I took on centre halves.
“Micky Laverick and Brian Stanton would put some lovely long balls over the defence for me. David Cowling was in personal duel with the right-back, Dave Sutton and Keith Hanvey pitted their wits against two centre forwards.
“Football was a series of individual challenges. That doesn’t happen now.
“Now they hunt in packs. And they play possession football.
“There has been a cultural shift as well. You’d share rooms on away trips and you’d have the same room-mate week after week, year after year. Now they’re single rooms.
“And there’s sports people getting off coaches all wearing headphones, which shows they’re in a private world. I don’t get there’s a sense of loyalty that comes with camaraderie. It becomes a more personal battle for individual careers.
“So there’s no advice I could give them and even if I did they wouldn’t listen.”