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Aug22025 by Terrier Spirit13 Comments

Predicted Huddersfield Town XI to take on Leyton Orient

Matches, Previews

Huddersfield Town take on Leyton Orient later today at the newly named, Accu stadium. Newness is a theme, we have a new manager, new players, a new system and a new sense of hope. While the raft of changes since last season ended all seem positive, today's game is the first chance to see what this new version of Huddersfield Town are really about. Predicting Lee Grant's starting eleven is tricky today as Grant was cagey about the availability of his players, apart from confirming Anthony Evans will be out for up to ten weeks with a gammy knee. It's also Town's first competitive outing under Grant, so he may pick a different team to the one we saw against Burnley last weekend, as some players were apparently rested as a precaution rather than genuinely injured. Here's how ...

Aug12025 by Terrier Spirit2 Comments

New rules, 2 strikers 1 slot, Koroma’s return & Northern Football – 4 talking points ahead of Huddersfield Town v Leyton Orient

Matches, Previews

After a long wait over the summer, football is finally back when Huddersfield Town open their League One campaign against Leyton Orient at the Accu Stadium tomorrow (Saturday). The summer break has felt longer than usual this year because Town’s season effectively ended in March when Michael Duff was sacked. While Jonathan Worthington took charge for the final ten games, we tailed off so badly it was clear our season was over long before the games actually stopped. Our opening day fixture is the same as last season’s final fixture, which feels appropriate, as that 4-1 defeat was as bad as any of the other humbling defeats Town suffered last season and repeating it gives us a chance to signal a fresh start. Town’s players were so mentally checked out of that game that it wouldn’t h...

Jul262025 by Terrier Spirit4 Comments

Predicted Huddersfield Town XI to take on Burnley

Matches

The team selections in preseason have been hard to predict because the main priority has been to get minutes into the legs of as many players as possible. Now we're facing the final game before the League One opener against Leyton Orient next weekend, I expect something closer to our best eleven against Burnley. With eleven signings so far this summer and more expected before the transfer deadline, it's going to feel like a brand new version of Huddersfield Town, which is much needed after previous failures. All this change will hopefully mean a new positive approach and a fresh sense of optimism around the club. After winning promotion to the Premier League last season, Burnley are likely to present us with a tough challenge, even accounting for their squad being split b...

Jul222025 by Terrier Spirit2 Comments

Nastiness, The Radulovic Redemption, an injury crisis & transfer news – Notes on Huddersfield Town’s 1-0 win over Greuther Furth

Matches

Huddersfield Town were 1-0 winners against Greurther Furth on Saturday, in their final friendly of their Austrian tour. It was a scrappy, bad-tempered and low quality game of football but Town just about deserved the win against a team that is technically playing at a level above them (the German second tier). Here are some of my thoughts about the game… Another rough and tumble encounter The most memorable thing about this friendly game was how unfriendly it was. Just like against Young Boys of Berne, Town got right up in the faces of their opposition and made life difficult for them. The physical treatment we handed out was perhaps a bit over the top at times and Kasumu could have seen red for some of his challenges he put in while on a booking. After seeing...

Jul182025 by Terrier Spirit5 Comments

Pressing, passing and aggression – Notes on Huddersfield Town’s 1-1 draw with BSC Young Boys

Matches

Huddersfield Town put in their best performance of preseason on Tuesday with a 1-1 draw against the Young Boys of Berne, a Swiss team once managed by David Wagner and a regular competitor in European competition. Town were not intimidated by the step up in competition and dominated the early parts of the game thanks to an energetic press that stopped their opponent getting a foothold in the game. Young Boys finished the stronger of the two sides as Town's multiple changes meant we lost our rhythm and energy. The game had some interesting and encouraging moments as well as some causes for mild concern. Yep, “encouraging moments” and “mild concerns” are about as hyperbolic as you can get about a friendly. Here are my thoughts in a bit more detail. A pressing matter This was the fir...

Jul82025 by Terrier Spirit3 Comments

Ladapo scores! Notes on Huddersfield Town’s 1-0 win over Barrow

Matches

Huddersfield Town were 1-0 winners in their Canalside-based friendly against Barrow. While the scoreline was modest and the opponent hardly a footballing superpower, the game was a good run out for the squad. Football wasn’t the winner in this match, this was all about getting “minutes in the tank”. With all the first team and a few B Team players getting 45 minutes, this game served its purpose even if it was a bit of a non-event for a spectator. I often wonder how I'm going to find anything to write about these sorts of games. The one word review would be: meh. But regardless of the game being a pretty dull affair, there were little bits and pieces of intrigue that I’ll cover below. The first half - Good in the first two thirds Lineup: Chapman, Eccleston, Feeney, Roughan, ...

Jul72025 by Terrier Spirit3 Comments

Injuries, Youth, Tactics, Streaming, Wingers – 5 things to watch for in Huddersfield Town v Barrow

Matches

Huddersfield Town take on Barrow in a behind closed doors game on Tuesday lunchtime. The one o'clock kick off is taking place at Canalside with fans only able to watch it via a £6 live stream through the club's website. You could quibble that it's not really “behind closed doors” when the game is being streamed around the world, as the title suggests a game that nobody can know about. Though the results of Town's recent behind closed doors games have not been kept secret anyway, so it's a good thing it's going to be available for anyone silly enough to spend money watching on a pointless friendly (I will be among those stupid people). Is there an injury crisis? I wrote on Saturday about the players that were absent from the club's behind the scenes training video last week. ...

Jun302025 by Terrier Spirit5 Comments

A new hope and familiar problems – Notes on Huddersfield Town’s 3-1 friendly defeat to Emley

Matches, Opinion

It’s an established fact of preseason friendlies that results don’t matter if you lose but are a very good sign if you win. So, working off that system, Town’s 3-1 defeat to Emley is meaningless other than it providing a good workout for the many, many players involved. Also, the scoreline is genuinely a bit misleading if you didn’t catch the game, as the three Emley goals all came in the final half an hour, when the first team had finished and the academy lads were given a run out. The fact the first team could only put one goal past Emley in the first hour of the game isn’t great but it’s nothing to be too worried about at this stage. With the players only being back in training a week, it’s unlikely this style of play is anywhere close to where Lee Grant wants to get this team....

May62025 by Terrier Spirit7 Comments

Huddersfield Town’s season ends with a whimper ahead of a summer of change

Matches

At least the weather was nice Huddersfield Town’s end-of-season collapse was brought to its conclusion on Saturday with a 4-1 defeat to Leyton Orient on Saturday. While Leyton Orient weren’t exactly world beaters, they were organised, fit and effective. They played like a team and actually cared about the outcome of the game. Town were the opposite. Despite having the better players on paper, there was only ever going to be one winner of this game. It’s a shame that Jonathan Hogg ended his Town career at this point, with this squad of players, after 12 years of loyal and dedicated service. The team on the pitch had very few of the attributes that Jonathan Hogg has displayed over his Town career, the passsion, work rate, aggression and discipline were absent from a team of players tha...

Apr112025 by Terrier Spirit4 Comments

Never tell me the odds! Huddersfield Town’s playoff hopes dwindle after 1-0 defeat to Wycombe Wanderers

Matches

Huddersfield Town lost by a single goal to Wycombe on Tuesdays night, as Udoh’s goal was enough to separate the two teams. While the result was terrible for Town's promotion prospects, there were signs of improvement. Too little, too late, but it was still pleasing to see the team looking more coherent even if some familiar problems prevented us from getting anything from the game. With Town now four points and two league positions away from sixth place, it looks very hard for us to close this gap on the two teams above us. Particularly as both Bolton and Reading have relatively kind run-ins. Mistakes and lack of cutting edge cost Town again Despite Wycombe being one of the best attacking teams in League One this season, the game was settled by a goal that came from a defens...