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May52021 by Terrier Spirit14 Comments

Lewis O’Brien to Newcastle – A Huddersfield Town fan’s view on the rumoured transfer

Transfers

There have been numerous reports recently linking Huddersfield Town's Lewis O'Brien with a move to Newcastle United in the upcoming transfer window. I thought it to might be interesting to offer a Huddersfield Town fan's perspective to this potential move. O'Brien was last season's player of the year for Huddersfield Town and has played more minutes this season than most other members of the squad despite missing the opening month and a bit of the season due to injury. What are Lewis O'Brien's strengths? I think one of the best things about O'Brien is that he's such a hard-working player. Running stats are closely guarded by the club but I'd wager he covers more ground than the majority of players in any given game. His relentless running helps when attacking as he provides ov...

May42021 by Terrier Spirit15 Comments

Baffling formations, repeating mistakes, dissecting their goal, limping over the line and thinking about summer – Notes on Town’s 1-1 draw with Coventry

Matches, Opinion

It's a couple of days since Town's 1-1 draw with Coventry and it's already a struggle to remember anything of great consequence from the game. Despite this season being exceptional for off the pitch reasons, we had to sit through another unexceptional Town performance where a point was a little bit fortunate. All the usual problems reared their head during the game and it was only results elsewhere that guaranteed Town's safety. In previous seasons beating the drop had been something to celebrate but this time it's slightly embarrassing as it doesn't feel like we deserve to survive after a woeful 2021. Playing three or four different formations at once Could you confidently say what the formation was for Town on Saturday? I was preoccupied by this question for long sp...

May12021 by Terrier Spirit12 Comments

Predicted lineup, score and key talking points for Huddersfield Town v Coventry

Matches

Today is the penultimate game of Huddersfield Town's season and hopefully the day we can cast aside our relegation fears and hope for a better season next time around. If Town beat Coventry today then we've cleared the admittedly low bar of avoiding the drop or, more likely, we may fail to win and still survive because Derby and/or Rotherham fail to win their games. Here's a preview of today's game. Predicted Huddersfield Town XI to take on Coventry Goalkeeper: Schofield Defence: Pipa, Edmonds-Green, Sarr, Toffolo Midfield: Hogg, O'Brien, Eiting Attack: Rowe, Ward, Koroma It's hard to predict how different today's lineup will be. Carlos was emphatic in his press conference that he won't treat this game as an opportunity to experiment with his lin...

Apr252021 by Terrier Spirit30 Comments

Repeating mistakes, rotten attitudes, unfit players and legitimate doubts about the head coach – Notes on Town’s humiliating defeat to Blackburn

Matches

Huddersfield Town fell to another humiliating defeat yesterday, this time to Blackburn. While 5-2 might not look as bad as the 7-0 battering we received from Norwich, in many ways this game was worse. The bulk of Norwich's goals came from excellent play but yesterday we were the architects of our downfall, as we made mistake after mistake and got the tactics completely wrong. Blackburn were good but we gave them a very easy afternoon's work. Weirdly, the other results mean Town are now almost certainly safe barring a very unlikely sequence of results. Few fans are in celebratory mood though as another dysfunctional performance means there are genuine questions to be asked about the competence of the Head Coach and the grand plan that we brought in last season as the justification...

Apr242021 by Terrier Spirit6 Comments

Predicted lineup, score and four questions for Huddersfield Town’s trip to Blackburn

Matches

Town have now played their last midweek game of the season and only have games today and the following two Saturdays before we can all do our best to pretend this season never happened. Today's trip to Blackburn is the final game of a sequence of seven games in three weeks for the Terriers so there's a ready-baked excuse for a subdued performance today. However, if Town can get a win out of this game we can "celebrate" that we've retained our Championship status one game earlier than last season. While that's the kind of progress you need a microscope to inspect, at least those nagging fears of relegation can be put to bed. A defeat will leave us nervously looking at the results of the teams below us. Anyway, here are my thoughts in this game: Predicted Huddersfield T...

Apr212021 by Terrier Spirit2 Comments

Predicted Huddersfield Town XI to take on Barnsley tonight

Matches

I'm running a bit late with this post, so imagine there's an introduction here. Then scroll down to read the meat of the article. Cheers. Goalkeeper: Ryan Schofield A stat came out yesterday that said Schofield has made more saves from shots in the 6 yard box than any keeper in the top four divisions of English football. And he wasn't even first choice until after Christmas. It's a slightly odd stat but it does show that he's very good at reflex saves. The less instinctive side of his game is slowly coming along too and I think he's going to go from strength to strength now he's broken into the starting eleven and had a decent run iof Championship games. https://twitter.com/playmaker_EN/status/1384516368435929092?s=19 Defence: Edmonds-Green, Keogh, Sarr, O'Brien The big...

Apr192021 by Terrier SpiritNo Comments

Rebooting the game with dreary possession, taking chances, sloppy errors and survival maths – Notes on Town’s 2-0 victory over Forest

Matches

Town's win over Nottingham Forest settled many Town fans' nerves at the weekend. It doesn't guarantee safety but it's a huge stride towards it. There were good things and bad things in the match but ultimately, Town took their chances and Forest didn't, and that was the main difference between two fairly poor sides. Here are a few of my thoughts on the match. We could have been out of the game in the first 20 minutes Town were really bad in the opening stages of this game. We played like we were half asleep for twenty minutes and could easily have conceded two or three goals purely from silly mistakes at the back. I'm not completely sure what the problem was. I think nerves came into it, as the players looked scared and that made many play with...

Apr192021 by Terrier Spirit10 Comments

“Thankfully we weren’t punished for his mistakes” – Player ratings for Huddersfield Town’s victory over Nottingham Forest

Matches

Huddersfield Town were deserved leaders at half time after Aaron Rowe put them in the lead. After a nervy start, Town became more dominant as the half wore on and it was their opponents that made an error while passing around at the back which lead to the goal. The win was sealed in the second half when Bacuna's thunderbolt put us two up and ended the game as a contest. While it was far from a perfect performance, it was a significant improvement on recent outings from Town and we were the better team on the day. While relegation isn't completely avoided with this win but it certainly puts us very close to safety. Here are my player ratings for the match… Ryan Schofield - 6 out of 10 A quiet afternoon for the stopper but he did everything asked of...

Apr172021 by Terrier Spirit4 Comments

The starting XI Carlos should pick if he’s learned from his mistakes against Bournemouth

Matches

Huddersfield Town take on Nottingham Forest this lunchtime in a game that represents a chance to make a significant step towards Championship survival. Nottingham Forest aren't pushovers but we've beaten them once already this season and we have much more to play for as they are all but safe. I'm basing today's predicted lineup on the players I think Carlos should pick, based mostly upon their performances in Tuesday's game against Bournemouth. Many of the starting lineup were outshone by the subs that came on to replace them, so I'd like to see quite a few changes to today's lineup but I have a suspicion that Carlos may choose to stick with the core players he's used most of the season, even those that have underperformed lately. We'll find out at half eleven. Goalkeepe...

Apr172021 by Terrier Spirit4 Comments

Phil Hodgkinson strikes the right tone in his update but needs to now follow through on his promises

News, Opinion

Because of how our brains work, this article would get more clicks if the title was highly critical of Phil Hodgkinson. But his latest update it was actually a well-judged and informative statement which avoided some of his past mistakes of over promising but still offered some hope to fans. This is an improvement over Mark Devlin's thoroughly depressing recent statements about it taking three to five years for Town to feel capable of competing at the top end of the Championship. Here's a quick summary of what the statement said and some of my thoughts on it… What was actually said in the statement? Of course your best bet is to read the full statement on the club's website but here's a bullet point summary of what was said: Effusive praise for people who bought season ticke...