Some great names, many great memories, and so heart warming stories from great great connections to our famous Huddersfield Town.

Mark Lillis, now there is a name from the not too distant past but very much a player who fits our Legend feature perfectly.

I have to concede as regards the young Mancunion I can recall very little of his early days with Huddersfield Town. Indeed my most vivid early memory centres around a 4^th Division game at Fratton Park. The youngster was substituted by Mick Buxton midway through the second half much to the chagrin of myself (and indeed many of the Pompey fans around us) for the Town youngster was just about the pick of all the 22 on the field.

Such was my surprise at the Manager's actions that I felt this must mean Mark Lillis was not in the Gaffers plans for the future. How wrong was I?

It did take a couple more years for Mark to become an established first teamer but once there be it at centre forward, in midfield or indeed at number 5 he became both captain and irreplaceable. So much so that when Mr Buxton had to sell him to Manchester City for £150,000 (records show my memory has increased the valuation by £20k!).

He left with the Manager's endorsement that he had just let go Huddersfield Town's very best player.

So over to you Mark.

1 What is your impression of Huddersfield Town now?
Progressing, not the best of starts. But we have a lot of young players who are still learning the game.

2 What did you think on joining Town?
Well chuffed. Tom Johnston gave me my first ever contract on the 7-7-77

3 Any regrets later in joining/leaving Town
No regrets I had 8 fantastic years. I needed to sign for and play for Man City my home Town club

4 Memories of Town? Earliest-vivid-now
Got so many I would need an hour or so to tell you them all. Vivid when I captained the team against Newport we won 1-0 and got promoted. David Cowling scored.

5 Most memorable moment? Goal-save-tackle
When Mick Buxton gave me the captaincy. 1st league goal at Fulham? Diving header at Leeds. Scoring four goals v Cardiff.

6 Longest lasting Town memory?
When Tom Johnston told me and my dad that I had got a pro-contract

7 What do you think of the current state of soccer?
Exciting. (Don't like all the rolling and faking injuries though)

8 Do you still follow the Town results or any other Club or Sports?
Along with Man City, Derby, Villa, Scunthorpe and Stockport I always ask or ring and ask how Towns got on.

9 Your best match in a Town shirt and Why? and the Result?
Again Newport. To wear the shirt and be captain (centre half that day) of a team with so much tradition we won the league 3 times in a row we won the FA Cup, and now we are going up, no one can take that away from me.

10 What do you think of the Town fans - then? & now?
"Fantastic" in my day they will never leave my memory (I hope they still remember me) and now Fantastic.

11 What do you think the future holds for Town?
Hopefully if we can keep the young lads together and still keep working on their game and keep adding good experienced pros we will be ok

12 What are you doing now?
Just recovering after hip re-surface. BBC work, and assistant to Sammy Mac at Morecambe FC

13 If you had one wish, what would it be?
Just to keep healthy, enjoy my football, curry, an odd pint and keep Johnny's open ("that's another story")

No, just to say I spent from 17 to 25 years of age some of the most enjoyable times of my life in and playing for Huddersfield Town.

Thank you Mark. Indeed you are still fondly remembered by Town fans who well appreciated that the Town shirt meant as much to you as it does to them. Answers within the Legends feature clearly show that the Lillis love of Huddersfield will never die.

Whilst leaving Leeds Road was tough on Town it enabled our captain to realise a boyhood ambition to play for his beloved home town club Manchester City. That he had been released as a schoolboy in 1974 by the Blues never diminished that love and just made him all the more determined to show them!

On his return to Maine Road it is rumoured he walked back into the ground and asked "remember me". Becoming a cult hero in just a one season stay at the blue half of Manchester shows the type of player Lillis was, totally committed 100% and nothing less guy. 51games played, 15 goals scored including 2 at Wembley in the Full Members Cup Final and then on his way in a £200,000 package to Derby County. He was to further play for Aston Villa, Scunthorpe and Stockport. A playing career of nearly 20 years ended at Witton Albion in 1992-93.

Disbury born Mark played between 07/1978 to 06/1985 for the Terriers taking in 234 games with 63 goals.

Despite suffering from injuries throughout his playing days nothing was going to keep him out of the game he loves and so the next step was naturally coaching. A move that has seen him involved at all English levels from Division 2 up to the Premiership and also hold the position of Head Coach with Northern Ireland in the 2004 European qualifiers which was 'a great experience working at that level'.

A little bit of the luck of the Irish with their finishing and they could well have qualified for those 2004 finals. What a proud moment that would have been for our club, a former Town player involved with the management of an International side at the European Championships!

Currently Mark is again linked up with his 'International' partner Sammy - avid Red - McIlroy at Morecambe FC duplicating a similar role they previously held at Stockport County. Other clubs to have benefited from his coaching have included Macclesfield, Derby and Scunthorpe United.

With the latter Mark was assistant to his former Boss Mick Buxton after whose sacking he continued in the same role to another with Leeds Road connections former full back Brian Laws.

Now looking to get back to full fitness following his hip troubles Town fans everywhere will join me in wishing Mark & his family good health and happiness. Who knows where his managerial travels may next lead him?