Edmonds-Green is set to end season with a medal
nothing more I can do, I’ve done my best’ - which in fairness you’d have to say he did - ‘it’s just time for someone else to come in now and take on the challenge.’”
Smith left Town’s training camp in Austria last July to join fellow Championship club Stoke City for a fee believed to be around £4m, but he insists he did not push for a move.
He said: “It never crossed my mind to ever want to leave Huddersfield but that second season in the Premier League they signed Florent Hadergjonaj, who was a player David Wagner liked.
“He was good young lad and we were in and out - he’d play one, I’d play one - and then Wagner stuck with him for a few games and I was on the bench.
“It was tough but at the same time I was thinking ‘I’m still the club captain, we’re in the Premier League, it’ll turn, I’ll get back in the team.’
“The manager left in January and Jan Siewert came in and it was then that I was thinking to myself ‘am I
IT’S been some season for Rarmani Edmonds-Green.
The Huddersfield Town defender started the Carabao Cup debacle against Lincoln City in August before being sent out on loan to National League side Bromley.
He then returned to the Terriers in December and made his league debut in the win at Charlton. In January he was shipped out again, this time to League Two Swindon, but after just nine outings the season was halted due to coronavirus.
Now, it looks as though those handful of appearances are set to earn the 21-year-old a winners’ medal.
On Friday League Two clubs voted to end the season now. Promotion will be decided on a points-per-game system, which would bump Swindon up from second into top spot, ahead of Crewe.
Even better news for Edmonds-Green is that despite playing only a clutch of games, it looks as though he will be eligible for a medal.
The EFL’s rules and regulations state that: “To be eligible to receive a Championship, League One or Two winners medal, a player must have been named on the team sheet in at least 25 per cent of the club’s league fixtures in that season. Any medals agreed over and above those detailed above will be at cost to the Club concerned.”
Edmonds-Green has started nine games for Swindon and the Robins have played 36 matches - that constitutes 25 per cent of their matches.