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Oct112020 by Terrier Spirit17 Comments

Why are there so many articles about Karlan Grant’s move to West Brom but so little progress?

Transfers

The ongoing story of West Brom’s pursuit of Huddersfield Town’s Karlan Grant has long since passed into the realm of being a “saga”. Every single day for the last few weeks there are headlines about the potential deal being on the verge of happening. Despite the player wanting the move, Huddersfield Town being willing to let him go and West Brom desperately needing a striker the move seems to be stuck. While there hasn't been any discernable change in the status of this move for week, we still get a deluge of articles commenting on the proposed transfer. Here are a few of the reasons why there are so many articles written about this potential transfer and so few genuine changes in what’s happening. The deal is genuinely stuck It feels like most transfer deals have taken longer than us...

Oct92020 by Terrier Spirit12 Comments

How has Carlos Corberán done since arriving at Huddersfield Town from Leeds United?

Opinion

Obviously, we all know it’s very early days in Carlos Corberán's time at Huddersfield Town but the international break presents a lull in the season to take stock of how things are going so far. Corberán took charge of Town shortly after the end of last season and has already overseen a dramatic change in the way Huddersfield Town play and embedded several new players into the team. Here's an early assessment of how he's getting on. If you can't be bothered reading to the bottom, a very quick summary would be that he's doing pretty good. A tricky preseason The implications of the pandemic meant the players had the shortest post-season break ever and Carlos had the shortest ever pre-season to get across his ideas. On top of that Town had played an intense period of games after the restar...

Oct82020 by Terrier SpiritNo Comments

Huddersfield Town FIFA 21 player rankings – Best XI, who’s underrated, who’s overrated and what is says about our squad

Opinion, Social media

I’d like to start by saying that I’m fully aware that this article is not for everyone. If you’re not interested in the FIFA 21 player ratings for Huddersfield Town’s squad then that’s fine, just don’t read on. We all know the ratings made up by a video games company don’t have any effect on reality (although I’ll come back to this later) so this article is really just a bit of fun and might be interesting to those people that are curious about how the geeks at EA have rated our current squad. If nothing else, at least its not another article speculating about Karlan Grant's future. In case you’re not familiar with how FIFA works, each player is given an overall rating out of 100 with the likes of Messi and Ronaldo getting scores in the 90s and Bradford City players being in the 40s and ...

Oct72020 by Terrier SpiritNo Comments

4 ex-Huddersfield Town managers in the running to become Barnsley boss

News

Barnsley are on the lookout for a new manager following Gerhard Struber’s exit from the South Yorkshire club to take up the helm at New York Red Bulls. I always like to take a look at the bookies favourites to take over when a manager leaves and I was surprised to see so many people with Huddersfield Town connections among the bookmakers shortlist. Here’s a look at the former Huddersfield Town managers that the bookies are offering odds on to take over at Oakwell and a few of my thoughts about the prospect of these coaches managing Barnsley. David Wagner - 16/1 Things started brightly for Wagner at Schalke in the Bundesliga but he was sacked recently after a terrible run of form that saw him fail to win in 18 games. In his defence, Schalke are rumoured to be poorly run off the pitch an...

Oct62020 by Terrier Spirit11 Comments

A Hudersfield Town fan’s perspective on Chris Willock signing for QPR

Transfers

Last night QPR signed Chris Willock from Benfica for a fee believed to be in the region of 750,000. Huddersfield Town had been linked with the winger earlier in the transfer window but the deal was alleged to have broken down after failing to agree personal terms with the player. Chris Willock spent the second half of last season on loan at Huddersfield Town and scored one of the crucial goals in our season-salvaging victory over West Brom in our penultimate game. Here are a few of my thoughts on Town losing out on Willock to a Championship rival. How did Willock do during his loan spell at Huddersfield Town? Chris Willock arrived at Huddersfield Town lacking match fitness after his loan at West Brom was prematurely ended because he wasn’t getting any game time. He looked rusty and was ...

Oct52020 by Terrier Spirit6 Comments

8 of the best tweets following Town’s draw with Rotherham

Social media

Here's a quick round up of some of the best tweets about Saturday's last-minute draw against Rotherham. Joy and desolation captured in one image https://twitter.com/SkyBetChamp/status/1312427443597307906 I love this picture as it really sums up how football is often a zero-sum game - your moment of exhilaration and joy is coming at the expense of the other team's dismay and frustration. When you're used to being on the other side of that transaction it becomes even sweeter to snatch a point when it looked like all was lost. Retired blogger gives Rotherham some credit https://twitter.com/JohnInGlenavy/status/1312422771968937985 John, who used to run the TerrierBlog website, gave Rotherham the credit they deserved and attracted some stick from fellow Town fans. I thou...

Oct42020 by Terrier Spirit17 Comments

Giants, a weak bench, Naby’s magic wand, fluffed lines, moaners and happy clappers – Rotherham reactions

Matches, Opinion

Town earned a draw in the dying moments of yesterday’s game against a resolute Rotherham side. It was a game that Town could, and perhaps should, have won but there were still plenty of positives to take from the game. Problems in front of goal persist but Carlos Corberán’s tactics are producing some eye-catching football at times. Here are a few of my thoughts from this game, in no particular order or logical structure... Land of the giants! I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a tall and strong team before. At set pieces it looked like David and Golliath when Hoggy was battling in the air with a towering Rotherham player. My initial thought was to bemoan how our taller players hadn’t picked up the big guy, then I looked at the other players in the box and every Rotherham player seemed to...

Oct42020 by Terrier Spirit7 Comments

“Weak and ineffective” – Player ratings from Huddersfield Town’s draw with Rotherham

Matches

Huddersfield Town drew with Rotherham yesterday thanks to a last gasp equaliser that was deflected into the goal from a shot that was going harmlessly wide. It was a piece of good fortune that was earned by a second half of sustained pressure on Rotherham’s back line despite the final cutting edge still proving elusive for Huddersfield Town. This was a decent point and an even better performance from Town against a Rotherham side that were limited but effective. Here are my ratings for each Town player yesterday. Ben Hamer - 7 out of 10 It’s hard to rate him any better than a seven when he had so little work to do. Rotherham’s goal came from a good strike from distance which very few keepers would have been able to keep out. The only other threat was a regulation save at a comfortable h...

Oct32020 by Terrier SpiritNo Comments

Predicted Huddersfield Town XI to take on Rotherham

Matches

Carlos Corberán will be hoping to build on last weekend's first win of his tenure with another good performance at Rotherham later today. The Yorkshire derby will be Town's final game before the international break so we'll have a fortnight to wait after this game before we see Town on action again. There are a few selection headaches facing Corberán as more of his squad become available to him. Here's how I think Town will line up. Goalkeeper: Hamer After a brilliant performance last weekend there is no doubt that Hamer deserves to keep his place in goals. The two saves he made in the first half against Forest gave Town the platform to push on and win the game. Hamer was refreshingly honest after the game and admitted that his previous form at Town hadn't been good enough. Last week h...

Oct22020 by Terrier Spirit1 Comment

Ex-Town boss does Alan Partridge style corporate gig

News

Danny Cowley was Huddersfield Town manager until he was unceremoniously sacked a couple of days after guiding Town to Championship safety last July. Now he's doing corporate gigs for ScrewFix Direct. Cowley answered some heavily curated questions taken from fans on Twitter and then played a couple of slightly cringe-inducing games involving the ScrewFix catalogue, some ping pong balls and mugs. Did Danny Cowley reveal anything in the Q&A section about his time at Town? In short, no. Despite there being plenty of probing questions on Twitter from Town fans about Cowley's Huddersfield Town career, they didn't make the cut and the questions didn't get any harder than "who were the best fans at the clubs you've managed" (he gave a diplomatic non-answer where he complimented all the fans...