Defender is spurred on for Hull test
JADEN Brown is all set for a fifth Championship start of the season against Hull City – when he will face arguably his toughest test so far.
The 20-year-old former Spurs prospect has gone in at left-back for the injured Terence Kongolo and is showing all the signs of becoming a permanent fixture.
An England age-group cap, he has caught the eye of new Town manager Danny Cowley and the January transfer window arrival will now be backed to help combat the threat of Hull City’s five-goal right winger Jarrod Bowen – a player who has been linked with Town in the past and is currently in excellent form.
“Jaden has done fantastically well when you consider he has never played any first-team football prior to this season,” said Cowley, who seems set to name an unchanged defence.
“He is playing his first games of senior football in the Championship, which is pretty much unheard of, but he has had a really good education at Tottenham, where they have
John McDermott doing an unbelievable job with the Academy and coaches like Ryan Mason, who I know well from the summer.
“We are working on his physicality and his ability to defend the back post and we are also working on him tactically to keep developing his game.” DANNY Cowley is making one final fitness check on a Town player who is already a crucial starter.
Free-agent signing Danny Simpson is in line to play a third Championship match in eight days having had no proper pre-season and not