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Aug212019 by Terrier Spirit1 Comment

How changing one player and switching formation can fix some of Huddersfield Town’s problems

Matches

Mark Hudson takes charge of Huddersfield Town tonight as caretaker manager in their match against Cardiff City. He's the bookies favourite to land the job on a permanent basis and used his prematch press conference to confirm his desire to take charge. The next few games are an opportunity for Hudson to show he has what it takes to turn around Town's fortunes. The first job for Hudson will be to pick a team and set the tactics for the Cardiff game. In my opinion, he can fix some of Town's biggest problems by making just one change to the starting lineup and tweaking the formation. Here's how... Go back to playing 4-2-3-1 Mark Hudson was a key member of Town's promotion winning team in the Championship which played 4-2-3-1 for the majority of the season. Jan Siewert wanted to set Town ...

Aug192019 by Terrier Spirit2 Comments

How Jan Siewert’s last game sums up his time at Town

Matches

Jan Siewert was sacked shortly after Town fell to a 2-1 defeat to Fulham on Friday night. It was a game that had several of the hallmarks of Siewert’s time at Huddersfield Town. Individual errors, tactical confusion, a lack of attacking intent and substitutions that were either wrongly timed or simply just wrong. Here are a few of my thoughts on how this game acted as a 90-minute summary of the Jan Siewert-era: Individual errors: Bacuna set to self-destruct mode Before I put the boot into Juninho Bacuna, I’d like to say that I’m generally a fan of his and can see that he has a lot of potential. Now I've said that, he was dreadful against Fulham. It’s was the kind of performance where he seemed to have a reverse midas touch: every time he got involved he ballsed it up. Perhaps with ...

Aug162019 by Terrier Spirit8 Comments

Should Jan Siewert be sacked as Huddersfield Town manager?

Opinion

It’s amazing how quickly things change in football. Less than two weeks into the new season and the cautious optimism surrounding Huddersfield Town’s Championship campaign has dissolved into widespread animosity towards the manager and chairman. It’s been a poor start to the season and tonight’s game against Fulham at home could be Jan Siewert’s final chance to prove that he’s got what it takes to lead Huddersfield Town. Three sub-par performances so far this season have led to many questioning the German manager’s ability to stablise Huddersfield Town after last season’s relegation. Here a few of my thoughts of the situation... Siewert needs a result AND a performance to turn the tide Like many fans, I’m pretty sick of hearing the talk about “that winning feeling” returning to Tow...

Aug92019 by Terrier SpiritNo Comments

“Where are they now? – Huddersfield Town FC” by Lee Morris – Author interview

News

This post is an interview with Lee Morris about the book he wrote about Huddersfield Town players lives after football, called Where Are They Now?. He's put a tremendous amount of effort into his book and it sounds like a cracking read. Tell us about your book? I have written a book called Where Are They Now? about what happened to every professional player to play a game and also every manager from 1910 to 2018. The book hopes to provide an insight into the player/manager’s Town career and then what they got up to after they left the club. How long did it take to write? It took a year or so to write but contains over 10 years of research. How did you go about finding out what happened to ex-Town players? It’s something that I’ve been doing for a very long time. For about 10 years n...

Aug82019 by Terrier Spirit4 Comments

6 grumbles about Huddersfield Town’s 2-1 defeat to Derby

Matches

Huddersfield Town were beaten 2-1 by Derby in their opening Championship fixture on Monday night. The defeat came about, in part, because of silly individual errors and poor defensive organisation. The confidence that had been painstakingly built over the course of preseason quickly evaporated. A change of approach at half-time spurred Town onto the front foot and made us more competitive, but it didn’t lead to the goals we were pushing for. Midfield confusion in the first half My impression of the first half was that our midfield was completely overrun by Derby and poor Jonathan Hogg was often left with the impossible job of tracking up to three players, while Mooy and Bacuna both seemed to be positioned far too high up the pitch. Town’s midfield looked almost non-existent at times a...

Aug52019 by Terrier Spirit1 Comment

Predicted Huddersfield Town XI to face Derby

Matches, Opinion

Here’s is the selection that I think Jan Siewert will go with to take on Debry tonight. I’m usually pretty hopeless at accurately predicting lineups, so I wouldn’t hold too much stock in what you read below. With that disclaimer in mind, here’s my prediction: Goalkeeper: Grabara The massive keeper comes on loan from Liverpool with quite a lot of hype but not a lot of experience. He looked very good in the short amount of time I saw him during preseason and could be a key player for Town this season. Watch out for his kicking, as it’s rumoured he can pick players out accurately deep in the opposition half. If this is true then I suspect we’ll try and use this long, flat kicks to launch counter attacks. Defence: Kongolo, Schindler, Elphick, Hadergjonaj I think I’d prefer to see Kongol...

Aug52019 by Terrier SpiritNo Comments

We’re doomed! A miserable preview of Huddersfield Town’s chances this season

Matches

As the season opener approaches for Town I found it hard to write a preview for the year ahead because I can’t make my mind up about the kind of season we should expect as Town fans. Obviously last season was a terrible time for the club but lots has changed since our relegation from the Premier League. In the end, I decided to make two separate and contradictory season previews. One for the optimists and one for the pessimists. This article is going to take a doom and gloom look at the season ahead, for all the negative Nancys out there. If you’d prefer the rose-tinted specs version then click this link. Here are my reasons to feel worried about Town's prospects this year: Jan Siewert is inexperienced and clearly struggled in his first half a season Town were poor towards the end ...

Aug42019 by Terrier SpiritNo Comments

A ridiculously optimistic assessment of Huddersfield Town’s chances this season

Matches

As the season opener approaches for Town, I found it hard to preview this season because I can’t make my mind up about the kind of year we should expect as Town fans. Obviously last season was a terrible time for the club but lots has changed since our relegation from the Premier League. In the end, I decided to make two separate and contradictory season previews. One for the optimists and one for the pessimists. I like to look on the bright side, so I’m starting with the positive views first. The negative one will be up on the blog shortly. Here are my reasons I think Town can expect a good year: Jan Siewert has a clear vision about how he wants to play and it suits our squad Siewert has been quite clear about the way he wants Town to play. We’ll mostly lineup 4-3-3 and will play wit...

Jul312019 by Terrier SpiritNo Comments

A theory about tomorrow’s Huddersfield Town announcement

Opinion

Sean Jarvis, Huddersfield Town’s Commercial Director, has been hyping up tomorrow (1 August 2019) for the last week without giving any specific details. In this article I’m going to try to predict exactly what this announcement is going to involve. https://twitter.com/SeanMJarvis/status/1156460427439747073 Regular readers of this blog may remember that my article about the Paddy Power shirt sponsorship deal accurately predicted that Town wouldn’t have the bookmaker’s logo on their shirt. Drunk on the success of my previous prediction, I’m going to try and guess what will happen for tomorrow’s announcement. 1st August = 3rd kit reveal It’s widely expected that the announcement tomorrow is going to be the reveal of the third kit that Huddersfield Town will play in next season. Given ...

Jul282019 by Terrier Spirit1 Comment

6 things we’ve learned about Huddersfield Town this preseason

Opinion, Transfers

Town completed their preseason friendlies with a 1-1 draw with Montpellier FSV in a game that wasn’t all that exciting but contained some interesting moments. Clear cut chances were in short supply, but Grant made the most of the single opportunity he was given but Diakhaby and Hadergjonaj both spurned Town’s two best other chances. It’s important not to draw too much from preseason friendlies, but here are a few things I’ve picked up from the things I’ve seen so far... Lewis O’Brien is ready for the first team After a season on loan at Bradford City, the Town youngster has returned looking like a seasoned pro and has turned in some eye-catching performances this preseason. He has mostly played as one of the two more advanced midfielders but could be equally effective in the deeper, J...