Huddersfield Town boss Michael Duff insists his side will be “fully prepared” for every eventuality against Bolton Wanderers as they face an unknown quantity tomorrow afternoon.

The Terriers host a Trotters side that parted company with manager Ian Evatt following a 2-1 defeat to Charlton Athletic in midweek, with academy coach Julian Darby set to lead tomorrow's opponents at the John Smith’s Stadium.

Town head into the lunchtime kick-off sitting fourth in League One on 48 points from 25 matches played, while Bolton are ninth in the table, on 38 points after 26 games.

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Acknowledging the uncertainty that awaits their next test, Duff said: “We don’t know what we’re going to face now. Bolton were pretty structured in the way that they approached the game, the way they wanted to play. I went to the game on Tuesday night, and quite a lot of it you already know, but you just want to get your eyes on certain things.

“Now with Julian taking the team, because it’s not any of the assistants, they’ve all gone, so it’s the academy staff that are taking them, and it could be a back three, back four or back five. It’s difficult, so we’ve got to focus on us now.

“No matter what they play, we know now when we get teamsheet, we might get the team wrong, but after 30 seconds of the game, you know what formation they’re playing, so it’s just an adjustment of a couple of things.

“We’ll be fully prepared. They’re not bottom of the league, they feel that they’ve been underachieving, and they’ve got some really, really good players, to a point where they’ve totally dominated a game on Tuesday night against a good Charlton team, somehow lost it, but you break the game down, they should’ve won the game.”

Evatt guided the Trotters to promotion from League Two, victory in the EFL Trophy and two League One play-off finishes during his time in charge. Duff said: “He’s done a brilliant job. I’ve competed a lot against him in the last four-and-a-half years that he’s been there.

“From where he’s taken them, from the beginning to the end, it’s night and day, so you just hope he gets remembered for the good work that he did, and not for the difficult bit at the end.”

Town head into tomorrow afternoon’s fixture off the back of a 2-2 draw at Blackpool, with the Terriers finding themselves two goals down at the break before netting twice in the opening five minutes of the second half to salvage a point.

Duff was left disappointed with his side’s first-half display at Bloomfield Road, and with the head coach having been eager to rectify the performance in training this week, he said: “I think [we were] getting sucked into a type of football that we don’t want to be playing.

“We want to play out from the back, but you play out from the back to get you into a certain part of the pitch, as in the middle of the pitch and into wider areas, and it’s getting people on the half turn facing forward, and then we need runners in behind.

“I’ve just signed two centre-forwards who are five foot nine, so we’re not just going to smash it from back to front, because it doesn’t work, but I don’t want to have 427 passes before we get out of our half, I want to be able to play both ways. It’s probably a lazy way of saying it, but I want to play mixed football.

“If they come on a full-court press, I want to be able to play in areas and go in behind them, but if they do drop off, it’s not getting sucked into that backwards, sideways [passing], you never have to run and break a back line. All three training sessions this week have been based on that, with presentations to evidence it.”