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Aug212026 by Terrier Spirit3 Comments

Predicted Huddersfield Town lineup to play MK Dons and pre-match talking points

Matches, Predicted lineups, Talking points

Huddersfield Town head to Milton Keynes on Saturday afternoon for their first away trip of the season. The fixture computer has thrown up a strange one-two combination for our opening games, with last weekend featuring AFC Wimbledon and this weekend seeing Town take on the town that bought the old Wimbledon club and moved them up to Milton Keynes. The sort of franchise move is relatively common in the US but it feels wrong in England, even if it did take place decades ago. After a marvelous opening day victory against Wimbledon last weekend, Town will be looking to build upon that with their first away points of the season. MK Dons are likely to be a tricky opponent though and should provide a stern test for Martin Drury's Town team. Rather than only doing a predicted lineup, I've wr...

Aug172026 by Terrier Spirit13 Comments

Wow! – Notes on Huddersfield Town’s 3-0 win over Wimbledon

Matches, Notes

Huddersfield Town won their opening League One game of the season 3-0 despite playing over an hour with ten men. Wimbledon were dreadful but Town deserve credit for exploiting their opponent's weaknesses so relentlessly and giving them a torrid afternoon. Prior to the game there were as many reasons to be skeptical as there were to be positive about Huddersfield Town but we were excellent throughout the whole game and set aside many of the doubts in fans’ minds. It's perhaps a bit early to be getting too carried away after just one game but this match has laid a marker down for the season and given the players a standard that they now have to keep striving for. Here are some of my thoughts on the game… Three great goals Every 3-0 win is going to feel good but th...

Aug142026 by Terrier Spirit4 Comments

Predicted Huddersfield Town XI to take on AFC Wimbledon

Predicted lineups

Huddersfield Town open up their League One campaign on Saturday afternoon, when they take on AFC Wimbledon at the Accu Stadium. After blowing a 1-0 lead in injury time against Preston North End last week, Town will be hoping to put their Carabao Cup exit behind them with a positive result against AFC Wimbledon. In all honesty, few people would have been that bothered about losing in the league cup apart from the fact it was another game where we conceded a late goal from a winning position. Wimbledon aren't a hugely fancied team in League One but they are a physical side that will fight hard, so Town will have to win their battles in order to earn the right to play football. Martin Drury's job will be to select a team that's able to deliver that combination of work ethic and razzle dazz...

Aug112026 by Terrier Spirit12 Comments

“Mentality issues” – Notes on Huddersfield Town’s Carabao Cup exit to Preston North End

Matches, Notes

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, so as a Huddersfield Town fan I had just about put aside the disappointments of last season over the summer and was ready for a fresh start. So it felt like a sucker punch to see Town start their season doing the thing they did so much towards the end of last season: throwing away winning positions in injury time. A penalty defeat to Preston North End in the Carabao Cup is not the end of the world but the manner of the defeat has brought all of last season's frustrations back to the boil. There were positives to draw from the game but mostly from the first half after Preston went down to ten men. The period of the first half when Preston had eleven men and the whole of the second half were poor from a Town perspective and the late equaliser fel...

Aug72026 by Terrier SpiritNo Comments

Predicted Huddersfield Town XI to take on Preston North End in the Carabao Cup

Predicted lineups

Huddersfield Town kick off their season on Saturday afternoon with a Carabao Cup game against Preston North End. Ground improvement works at Deepdale mean that the fixture is being played at Goodison Park instead. The Everton men' s team no longer play there since moving to their new stadium but it has continued to be used by the Everton women's team, albeit with a number of the areas of the historic ground no longer in use. Typically, Carabao Cup games mean playing a second-string team to preserve the best players for league games but with this season's opening round falling on a weekend and seven days from the League One opener, I expect Martin Drury will field his strongest possible lineup for this match. Martin Drury's strongest starting eleven is still unknown and probably wo...

Aug62026 by Terrier Spirit6 Comments

A bloated squad, a rookie manager, risky (transfer) business and preseason worries – A pessimist’s preview of Huddersfield Town’s 26/27 season

Opinion, Previews

Huddersfield Town kick off their season against Preston North End on Saturday in the Carabao Cup. While many will feel the season doesn't properly start until the following Saturday when we play Wimbledon at home in League One, it feels like a season preview really has to come before the first competitive game. I've already written my optimistic season preview, which you can read by clicking this link. This is the doom and gloom look ahead to the upcoming season. The truth is that nobody really knows how Huddersfield Town fans should be feeling ahead of this season. There are definitely some reasons to be hopeful but, equally, there are some pretty obvious concerns going into this season too. In this article I'll investigate some of those concerns. We have a bloated and mis-shape...

Aug62026 by Terrier Spirit11 Comments

Drury’s promise, The Dribble King, exciting youth and unfulfilled potential – A positive preview of Huddersfield Town’s 26/27 season

Opinion, Previews

Huddersfield Town kick off their 26/27 season against Preston North End at Goodison Park on Saturday afternoon, in the Carabao Cup. The whole thing is a bit odd, playing at a neutral venue because PNE's pitch isn't ready, a league cup game on a Saturday and it being the season opener. But at least it will be a return to competitive football for Huddersfield Town after a summer break that was just about long enough for me to put last season's disappointments behind me and start with a fresh sense of (cautious) optimism. As has been the tradition on this blog for many years, I'm breaking my season preview into two halves. This first one is the positive, sunny-side-up look ahead at this season. A more pessimistic (and historically speaking, more accurate) preview will follow soon (UP...

Jul192026 by Terrier Spirit1 Comment

“Lots of work to do” – Notes on Huddersfield Town’s 2-1 victory over AFC Fylde

Matches, Notes

Huddersfield Town beat Fylde 2-1 in their second preseason friendly on Saturday afternoon. Thankfully, it's an established fact that friendlies don't really mean much beyond being a good workout for the players while they get back up to full speed in time for a new season. This is a relief, as Town were pretty dreadful in the first half before looking a bit more like it in the second half. The game did give us a good look at the squad, with 22 players getting 45 minutes under their belts. There were some good bits and some bad bits but my overwhelming takeaway was that there's a lot of work to do with this squad before it's ready for competitive football in a few weeks time. Both the style of play and the squad composition need some fairly major tweaking to get it into the right place, ...

Jul112026 by Terrier SpiritNo Comments

Long throws, new players, old problems and injury worries – Thoughts on Huddersfield Town’s 3-1 friendly defeat to Birmingham

Matches, Notes

Huddersfield Town were beaten 3-1 against Birmingham in their first friendly of the preseason. The scoreline flatters Birmingham as all three of their goals were due to Huddersfield Town errors. While friendlies are not worth getting too excited about, conceding late goals and making silly mistakes were serious issues last season, so it's a shame to see more of the same in our first game back from the break. There were plenty of positives to draw from this game and the early signs are looking good about Martin Drury's approach. Though this game also highlighted some areas that need to be improved. Here are my thoughts on each of the two halves and what, if anything, we've learned from this game. The first half Town's team: Young, Balker, Wallace Roughan, Sorensen, L...

Jun102026 by Terrier Spirit1 Comment

How many former Huddersfield Town players are invovled in the World Cup?

Matches

Have you ever seen one of those local news stories that desperately tries to frame a national story with a local angle even though it doesn't really work? Like, “Honley Bakery makes Royal Wedding cupcakes to commemorate special day” or something similar. This article is the Huddersfield Town equivalent for the World Cup that starts on Thursday night, when Mexico play South Africa. Given Huddersfield Town's recent history has had them knocking around the bottom of the Championship and the middle of League One, it's not a huge surprise that there aren't a load of players at the World Cup with a Huddersfield Town connection but I've found three and suspect there may be more I've not unearthed yet. Players with a Huddersfield Town connection at the World Cup Owen Goodman - I...