Last night's opening pre-season friendly ended with the predicted victory for Town over AFC Emley, but it was especially pleasing to see new signing Danny Cadamarteri on the score sheet.

The former Everton man confidently slotted home a penalty in the 52nd minute after Chris Brandon was upended in the area and he told htafc.com that he was pleased to open his Town account in his first game in the Blue & White stripes.

"It was good to get the goal last night", said the 28-year old striker. "Any striker wants to score goals whenever he plays and it was good to get off the mark.

"The match was a good opening test for us and I think we got everything out of the game that we could have hoped for; the run-out will have done us good fitness-wise and we won the game too, which is always nice."

While his strike partner Luke Beckett took most of the penalties last season, Cadamarteri took command of the spot-kick straight away yesterday - so can we expect any on-pitch debating over who takes them this term?

"To be honest, I wasn't aware that Luke took them here last season. As I said before, all strikers like to score and it was just my natural reaction when the referee pointed to the spot. Luke didn't say anything, but I'll happily challenge him to an arm-wrestle to see who gets the right!"

Cadamarteri also played a major part in Town's second goal of the evening, capping off a tremendous run with a clever reverse pass to the aforementioned Beckett. The pass belied the short time he has spent at the Club, as he seemed to have an almost perfect idea of where his team-mate would be.

"We've played a number of games in training and I've got a good idea of where the other players make their runs now", Danny continued. "Boothy and Luke make similar runs to each other and so when I had the ball, I had a fair idea where Luke would be and it came off."

Town boss Andy Ritchie was as pleased as the man himself to see Danny open his Town account.

"It was good to have both strikers score, but I was especially pleased to see Danny hit the back of the net. Luke has always scored goals for Huddersfield but I want Danny to get into the habit before the season starts.

"He should have scored two in truth but he didn't pull the trigger when he could have and instead tried to go around the 'keeper, who did well to save."

Ritchie was generally pleased with the performance but he still sees much room for improvement.

"The grass at the Welfare Ground was a little but long and sticky, but we need to move the ball quicker than we did in the first-half. We succeeded in doing that in the second period and we got our reward.

"I still feel that we can use the ball in behind the opposition full-back more, as Malvin showed that he has pace to burn last night. At times, the central midfielders came to get the ball off the centre-backs when I actually felt that the defenders could have played the ball quicker."

Town had two unfamiliar faces playing parts last night in midfielder Lee Snodin and full-back Jack Kamara, with Ritchie explaining that the two had been training with the squad previously and it 'helped them to get a run-out'.

The only worrying sight at Emley yesterday was the withdrawal of Andy Booth after a nasty-looking clash of heads with a home defender. Town's physio Lee Martin explained the situation to us.

"Andy had a gash of around one and a half inches just below the hairline on the back of his head after a clash of heads. It was immediately obvious that he needed stitches, but unfortunately Emley didn't have a doctor at the game.

"As a result, we immediately took Andy to our own doctor in Leeds and he had the wound stapled. We were actually back at Emley for the end of the game and he is fine, although it looks unlikely that he will play at Bridlington on Saturday just as a precaution."

Long-term injury victim Tom Clarke made a welcome return to action after fully nine months out and both Martin and manager Ritchie hailed his return.

"It was a big day for him psychologically", Lee continued. "He is now physically fit to play, but it's just a case of easing him back in and building up his confidence."

"He's a brave lad", Ritchie added. "It was good to see him back on the pitch and he did well."