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Mar42022 by Terrier Spirit2 Comments

Predicted Huddersfield Town XI to take on Peterborough tonight

Matches

Huddersfield Town kick off a busy weekend by playing Peterborough tonight in the league before switching their attention to Forest in the cup on Monday night. Peterborough sit bottom of the league and have recently parted company with Darren Ferguson and replaced him with Grant McCann. They haven't had any signs of a new(ish) manager bounce yet, losing to Man City and Hull in their new boss’ opening two games. In talking about the selection for the next couple of games it would be easy to talk about resting players and fielding weaker teams but our squad is deep enough to be able to rotate heavily most games without seeing a drop in quality in the team. So I think there will be changes tonight but not out of lack of respect for our opponent or to prioritise the cup but simply to ...

Feb252022 by Terrier Spirit2 Comments

The 8 best tweets from Huddersfield Town’s thrilling late win against Cardiff

Matches, Social media

Town continued their incredible unbeaten run with a very late win at Cardiff on Tuesday night. These moments don't come along often so it's no surprise that many fans took to social media to savour the moment. Here are a few of my favourite tweets about this memorable victory. Chris Green offers to do Carlos' laundry! https://twitter.com/htafcChris1994/status/1496953105979621377 Corberán is usually so intense on the touchline but it's unusual to see him celebrate like this, which is why this knee slide makes me smile so much. I get fed up of managers pretending they're not bothered when their team scores, much better to join in the celebrations. Thankfully he wasn't wearing his cream chinos as grass stains can be pretty hard to get out of light coloured fabric. Sorba Thomas ...

Feb242022 by Terrier Spirit10 Comments

“His first touch just isn’t good enough for this level” Player ratings for Huddersfield Town’s late, late win over Cardiff

Matches

Huddersfield Town left it late against Cardiff but eventually found a way to win a game that seemed destined to end in frustration for Town fans. Late, late goals from Koroma and Russell meant Town preserved their unbeaten run for another game and solidified their position in the playoffs, rising to fourth in the table. It was far from a perfect Town performance, with Cardiff setting up to defend and Town struggling to break them down and frequently giving the Welsh side opportunities to break against us. This is the kind of game we’ve regularly struggled to win, so even if the football was poor at times, it feels like a huge step forward to have won a game against a team that parked the bus. Here’s what I made of each player: Lee Nichols - 7 out of 10 Kept us in the gam...

Feb212022 by Terrier Spirit2 Comments

My 9 favourite tweets about Town’s incredible victory over Fulham

Matches, Social media

The victory against Fulham on Saturday felt like a defining moment of our season. Up until this game I'd been quite sceptical about Town's chances of sustaining a playoff push into the closing stages of the season but now I'm starting to believe. I'm not the only one either, as many fans and people connected to the clubs took to Twitter to celebrate the victory. Here are eight favourite tweets from the weekend. Carlos puts out a rare tweet https://twitter.com/CarlosCorberan/status/1495088372351741956 Carlos has tweeted just twice during his time as Town manager before the above tweet, so it shows that he thought things was a significant moment. I didn't know he was on Twitter at all and I was even more surprised to see that he actually follows the TerrierSpirit.com Twitter a...

Feb72022 by Terrier Spirit3 Comments

All the best tweets, videos, articles and podcasts about Town’s win against Barnsley

Matches, News

I started this blog because I didn't think there was that much coverage of Town that I liked. It was back in the days of The Examiner being pretty dire, the club didn't do much more than post press conferences to YouTube and there wasn't loads of stuff made by fans about games. Thankfully that's changed a lot over the years and there are now almost too many articles, videos and podcasts to digest after a game and that's before you consider all the interesting bits and pieces knocking around on social media. This article is a bit of an experiment to try and pull together some of the best coverage of Town after their FA Cup victory over Barnsley at the weekend. I'd be genuinely interested to know if you find this stuff interesting. Please put your thoughts in the comments below. If it's ...

Aug22021 by Terrier Spirit4 Comments

The 7 best tweets about Huddersfield Town’s victory over Sheffield Wednesday

Matches

Huddersfield Town started their 2021/22 season with a penalty shootout victory over Sheffield Wednesday in the first round of the Carabao Cup. While it's tempting to dwell on the fact Town failed to score despite dominating possession and creating presentable chances but instead I'm going to focus on the positives from the game. Here's a roundup of some of the best tweets I found following another penalty shootout win at Hillsborough. Toffolo sings the praises of our new keeper https://twitter.com/Harry_Toffolo/status/1421843946737700870 Harry Toffolo was the first of the Town players to go online to talk about the game and he was right to single out Nicholls for praise. Our new keeper did a lot of win over Town fans with a couple of superb penalty saves during the shootout....

Jan252021 by Terrier Spirit10 Comments

Odd deal structure and Derby fans’ anger adds interest to Duane Holmes arrival at Huddersfield Town

Transfers

After over a week of speculation he was on the verge of signing, Huddersfield Town have finally announced the acquisition of Duane Holmes from Derby County. As usual, both clubs have said the deal involves an "undisclosed fee" but Ryan Conway of The Athletic has tweeted about the structure of the deal. Conway suggest that there is no upfront fee involved in the arrangement between Derby and Town, instead there are triggers agreed that will lead to payments down the line if certain milestones are met. https://twitter.com/RJConway92/status/1353659456698122244 What are the triggers that will lead to fees being due? There are no details about what these specific triggers are but it's likely they will be based upon Holmes having a successful career at Huddersfield Town. So thin...

Dec122020 by Terrier Spirit29 Comments

“Wow that was bad!” Reaction to Huddersfield Town’s 5-0 defeat to Bournemouth

Matches

Huddersfield Town were soundly beaten on the south coast today against a Bournemouth team that won't have believed their luck after being gifted several goals following simple mistakes. Here are a few of my initial thoughts on the game. Feel free to add yours in the comments below. This article is a bit of an experiment. Rather than digest my thoughts on the game and write something up tomorrow I thought I'd just note down my scattergun opinions in bulletpoint form. Apologies if it comes across as a bit of a mess. That wasn't the kind of performance that felt like a walloping. We actually played some relatively nice football for spells in the game and forced a few decent saves from their keeper.The huge number of changes to the squad equated to Carlos conceding defeat before ki...

Nov12020 by Terrier Spirit2 Comments

How Huddersfield Town’s players reacted to the Millwall victory on social media

Matches, Social media

One of the best parts of Huddersfield Town's success under David Wagner was the "Wagner wave" when the players and coaches celebrated wins with the fans at the end of the game. Other teams' fans mocked us for doing it but it always felt like a special moment when everyone came together after a victory. Unfortunately the current circumstances mean that fans can't celebrate in person with the team, so it's nice to see them sharing their delight at the win on social media. Here are a few of yesterday's social media posts from the players. Harry Toffolo's big achievement https://twitter.com/Harry_Toffolo/status/1322585813151002626 It's incredible that Toffolo has managed to put together such a great run of games. With so much squad rotation and how easy it is to pick up injuries...

Oct262020 by Terrier Spirit4 Comments

Fascinating graphics reveal what happened in Huddersfield Town’s PNE defeat

Matches, Tactics

There's a Twitter user called @DymondFormation who makes amazing graphs for every Football League team after each fixture and publishes them for free on his Twitter feed. They're graphic representations of each player's passes over the course of 90 minutes, with each yellow arrow representing a successful pass and the red ones one that failed. The direction and the length of the arrows show where the pass started and finished. They provide a quick and easy way to analyse the passing game of any particular player. The graphics for Town's 2-1 defeat to Preston last Saturday illustrate some interesting points, which I'm going to dig into below... Kicking long doesn't relieve pressure on the defence Hamer having a 65% pass completion rate isn't a particularly enlightening st...