Town's U21 side crashed to their first defeat of the season as Huddersfield Town left Playford Road with a 4-1 victory on Monday afternoon, Cory Galvin (pictured) having opened the scoring for Mark Kennedy's side.
Former West Ham man Jack Collison, who was in talks regarding a short-term deal last week, started in central midfield with trialist Luke Coulson at right-back.
St Helens-born Coulson, 20, was previously with Manchester City and Cardiff City and also spent time playing for the University of Michigan. He was on trial at Hibs earlier in the summer.
Town started well and after Jack Marriott - back from his month on loan at Carlisle - had seen a few early efforts blocked, Irish U17 international sideman Galvin cut in from the left and curled a superb right-footed effort into the top corner after nine minutes.
The visitors equalised five minutes later, however, when a ball through found Martin Paterson and the Northern Ireland international - on his way back after a knee injury - fired across Michael Crowe and into the far corner.
Paterson came close to giving his side the lead shortly before the break when he poked the ball past Crowe following a weak header from Omar Sowunmi, but Myles Kenlock got back and cleared the ball off the line.
Huddersfield did take the lead 10 minutes after the restart when the impressive Philip Billing hit a speculative long-range shot which deflected past Crowe and into the bottom corner.
Matthew Crooks increased the Terriers' advantage three minutes later when he turned and lashed a fierce left-footed effort beyond Crowe.
Paterson grabbed his second and Huddersfield's fourth on 66 from close range following a good move down the visitors right.
Crowe made some good blocks to deny Crooks and sub Sondre Tronstad as the Yorkshire side continued to dominate proceedings during the second half.
Trialist Coulson was probably the pick of Town's side, regularly getting forward in the first half and generally defending well throughout.
Collison did OK but didn't stand out with Huddersfield's Billing running the show in central midfield.
Stephen Hunt got another 90 minutes of game time, while Marriott wasn't provided with a clear cut chance to find the net.
U21s: Crowe, Coulson, Kenlock, Collison (Fowler 82), Sowunmi, Clarke, Galvin (McLoughlin 57), Benyu, Marriott, Patterson (Ramadan 74), Hunt. Unused: Marsden, Robinson.