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Jan32024 by Terrier Spirit3 Comments

Who is Alex Matos and will he be a good signing for Huddersfield Town?

Transfers

I was just about to publish my article about Town's defeat to Leicester on New Year's Day when I saw Town are on the verge of making their first January signing, so I've decided to write about that first and will put up the post about Monday's game later today. Apparently we're about to sign 19-year-old Chelsea winger, Alex Matos on loan for the rest of the season. I wouldn't usually write about unconfirmed transfer rumours but this one has been put out by Fabrizio Ramono on Twitter (or X if you prefer) who is usually fairly reliable. Or at least, I doubt someone who typically breaks stories of ginormous transfers would bother making up stories about a Chelsea youth player going to a struggling Championship side, so it seems likely to be true. It's also been picked up and reported by t...

Dec292023 by Terrier Spirit6 Comments

Huddersfield Town made Blackburn look bad, the positives of negative football, Rudoni’s influence, Chapman’s debut – Notes on a great win against Blackburn

Matches

Huddersfield Town gave their fans an expected Christmas present of not just three points but a resounding 3-0 victory and a convincing performance that few fans saw coming. It was a welcome relief from the gathering gloom that had settled around the club to see the team effectively dismantle an (admittedly poor) opponent and execute a gameplay with ruthless efficiency. One win might not be enough to undo all the memories of recent failings at Town but it was certainly a welcome break from the dreary and depressing fare that has recently been served up. This win also gives optimists and dreamers the chance to wonder what this win could lead to. Maybe not much but there's always a chance it could be the start of things finally picking up for Town. Blackburn were rubbish but only becau...

Dec232023 by Terrier Spirit6 Comments

Predicted Huddersfield Town XI, Norwich preview and pessimistic score prediction for today’s game

Matches

Huddersfield Town are in Norwich today where they'll be hoping to give fans the Christmas gift of three points but David Wagner and his band of former Town coaches will be trying to make sure that the Terriers leave Carrow Road with little more than a lump of coal in their stocking. To stretch this Christmas themed introduction to breaking point, Town fans are also still making their minds up about whether Darren Moore is on their Naughty or Nice List - with a growing number finding his style of football, uninspiring press performances and failure to register enough wins making him a prime candidate for Santa's naughty list and an imminent P45. A hectic pre-Christmas week meant I didn't get time to do a dedicated article to reflect on the Millwall game, so I'll share a few of my ...

Dec162023 by Terrier Spirit21 Comments

Kevin Nagle’s Tweet and 4 other pressures on Darren Moore ahead of Huddersfield Town’s Millwall trip

Matches, Opinion

Today Huddersfield Town will take on Millwall at The Den and while it's never a pleasant place to try and get a result, Darren Moore is likely to feel that the hostility from the Millwall fans is nothing compared to the hostility he is getting from all other directions at the moment. In this article, I'm going to take a look at all the different ways Huddersfield Town's manager is currently being put under pressure. Kevin Nagle and his itchy tweeting finger Kevin Nagle took to Twitter (I can't bring myself to call it X) to address the concerns of fans following our defeat to PNE in midweek. While the performance and result on Tuesday were obviously sub-par, the tone of Kevin's tweet was probably more damning than Moore deserved given it was the team's first defeat in five games and ...

Dec92023 by Terrier Spirit6 Comments

Predicted Huddersfield Town lineup, Bristol City preview and score prediction for today’s game

Matches

Huddersfield Town take on Bristol City this afternoon and will be hoping to extend their three-game unbeaten run. Today should be a good test for Town, as we’re up against a team that are decent enough (they’re above Town in the table after all) but are far from world beaters. It feels like we have had to think a lot about the opposition in our recent games and account for their strengths and counteract them but this may be a game where we have an opportunity to assert ourselves a bit more and potentially even dominate possession for spells, which would be a novelty after three games of possession stats in the low twenties. Games in the Championship never go how you expect though, and it’s often the games you earmark as easier that prove the hardest. I mentioned in my article yesterday...

Dec82023 by Terrier Spirit8 Comments

5 big talking points ahead of Huddersfield Town’s game against Bristol City

Matches

I’m back! Apologies for my unannounced break. After a hiatus in November to work on a novel, I’m now writing about Town again. I’m now back to regular and potentially even more frequent service. So it’s going to be the action on the football pitch creating the drama, Huddersfield Town as the protagonists, the plot twists coming from the goals and the referees most likely being the villains. Over the next few weeks I’m going to be experimenting with a few new article formats using a similar principle to throwing mud at the wall and seeing what sticks. So in advance of tomorrow’s game against Bristol City, I thought it might be interesting to look at what big talking points there are ahead of this game, from a Town perspective. Feel free to chip in with your comments below. Anot...

Nov42023 by Terrier Spirit5 Comments

Predicted Huddersfield Town XI, Watford’s changes, Moore’s downbeat presser & unusual score prediction – PREVIEW

Matches

I’m usually fairly balanced in my opinions about Town, I’m typically somewhere in between the happy clappers who can never find any fault with the club and the doom mongers that will look for misery in even the most joyful moments (though I’m pretty sure long-term readers will probably disagree with my self-assessment). However, right now, it’s hard to be anything but glum about Town’s current prospects heading into their game against Watford later today. While Watford are only 16th in the table, just five places above Town and we have home advantage, it’s hard to overlook the fact that we’ve been spanked 4-0 and 4-1 in our last two games. Add to that our ever-growing injury list, Jonathan Hogg’s suspension from this game, the rift that seems to be growing between the fans and th...

Oct302023 by Terrier Spirit16 Comments

“Absolutely eviscerated” – Notes on Huddersfield Town’s 4-1 defeat to Leeds

Matches

Huddersfield Town were completely blown off the park by their noisy neighbours at Elland Road on Saturday lunchtime. While it would be nice to reach for some sort of excuse to try to disguise the pain of being beaten by our near-by rivals, we were comprehensively outplayed by the better team. I'd even go as far as to say Leeds weren't even the better team on the day but quite obviously a higher quality team and would beat the team Town put out on almost any day. You could potentially reach for the consolation that Town won the second half, as Helik scored and Leeds failed to add to the four goals they put past Nicholls in the first half but you'd be kidding yourself if you thought that meant anything. While Town showed slightly better organisation and weren't quite so wide open i...

Oct232023 by Terrier Spirit3 Comments

Can you have a bad win?, Rudoni & Helik keep improving, QPR self-sabotage, nerdy keeper stats, square pegs-round holes – Notes on Huddersfield Town’s 2-1 victory over QPR

Matches

Darren Moore notched his first win of his Huddersfield Town tenure on Saturday by overcoming a spirited but misfiring QPR team. It was mostly thanks to a very good opening spell, some desperate defending and QPR's own problems that Town came away with a win when their performance was probably a long way short of other games this season where we've either lost or drawn. For example, the previous game against Ipswich was a far better performance despite Town only getting a point. But points are the thing that keep you in the division, not pretty football, so maybe this was the kind of game Town needed to get Darren Moore's time at Town properly started. Or perhaps this win was a false dawn and there are warning signs we should be taking heed of before things get any worse. We won't know ...

Oct212023 by Terrier Spirit5 Comments

Predicted Huddersfield Town XI, QPR preview and score prediction

Matches

Huddersfield Town come back from the international break with a home game against QPR today. It feels like forever since we’ve had a Town game to watch, so I’m looking forward to getting down to the stadium and watching Darren Moore’s team play. Which perhaps shows how bad my memory is, because Town were absolute garbage in their last outing against Sheffield Wednesday two weeks ago, where they played out a 0-0 draw with one of the Championship’s worst teams and didn’t register a single shot on target. Today could be different though, as Darren Moore has had the international break to work with his team and we’ll perhaps see a bit more of his vision on the pitch. Up to now, because of the limited amount of time he’s had between matches since his arrival, his tactics have been a Franke...

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