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May222022 by Terrier Spirit4 Comments

A Wembley myth – Town and Forest’s players have nothing to fear with the pitch

News, Opinion

I can’t count the number of times that I’ve heard people talk about the intimidating size of the Wembley pitch. The energy-sapping nature of covering all that extra ground compared to the piddly size of a regular pitch. How defensive teams struggle to cover the extra space in behind them on the mammoth pitch at Wembley. But it’s just not true. The dimensions of the pitch at Wembley are actually very similar to just about every other pitch at major English football grounds. I find it a bit strange that there’s any latitude at all in pitch dimensions, though it does allow clubs to have even more of a home advantage by customising the size of their pitch to their style of play. While pitch sizes do vary from one ground to the next, Wembley stadium is completely average when compared t...

May202022 by Terrier SpiritNo Comments

What is the best way for Town fans to get to Wembley?

News

A week on Sunday, a significant chunk of the population of Huddersfield and the surrounding area will be making their way to London to watch the playoff final at the national stadium. There are plenty of different options for how you can get yourself down there but which is best for you? I’ve gone over the various different possibilities available and given my opinions on which are worth considering and which are either too expensive or impractical to work. Feel free to make your own suggestions in the comments below. Coaches Official club coaches The easiest way to arrange transport is to book a coach ticket through the club, which can be ordered through the main ticketing website. It costs £49 per person and will set off from the stadium at 8.45am. I suspect there will be a ...

Apr282022 by Terrier Spirit2 Comments

Is a Huddersfield Town season card cheaper than paying as you go?

News

Huddersfield Town fans have just over a week before the deadline for the early bird prices expire on season cards. Many fans may have seen the numerous recent single ticket promotions to tempt in floating fans and wonder if it’s better value to pay as you go instead of committing for the full season. I know that it made me pause for a moment before renewing my own season ticket. Because I’m a complete sad act, I went back through the club’s ticket prices for all the home games in the league this season and added them up to see how it compares to the cost of a season card. I’ll go into the details below but the thing I took away from crunching all the numbers was that it’s significantly cheaper to have a season card than to pay as you go along. How much does it cost per game to watch...

Mar112022 by Terrier SpiritNo Comments

West Brom manager Steve Bruce’s awful Striker! novel – listen to it for free

News

Steve Bruce didn't do particualrly well in his time as Huddersfield Town manager but he did, strangely enough, write a series of football themed novels during his time at Town. While the novels lack literary merit they are quite funny to read. The original paperback copies of the novels have become collectors items and have been known to change hands for large sums of money. However, below is an audio version of Striker, Bruce's first novel. Given that Huddersfield Town will face Steve Bruce's West Brom tonight it seemed like a good time to share this intereting piece of footballing history. The reading of the novel was produced by TalkSport a while ago and released as a podcast. The narration is pretty good, with the soft Geordie tones of Bruce well replicated and there are ...

Feb92022 by Terrier Spirit5 Comments

Injury updates, praising Holmes, being “self demanding”, Carlos losing his voice – Pre-Preston presser bullet points

Matches, News

In another attempt to expand the kind of thing I write about on the blog, I'm going to put together a summary of the main points from Carlos Corberán's press conference ahead of tonight's game. It's obvious from the views these videos get on YouTube that not every fan watches these conferences but there's usually some useful information in them. Here are the main points: The first half against Barnsley was good but we should have scored more. We lost control of the game in the second half because we couldn't cope with Barnsley changing shape. Carlos praised the backup players that came in last weekend and that some of them are unlucky not to have had more chances. Pipa had a scan yesterday and it was positive news. He's injured for tonight but could feature after the ...

Feb72022 by Terrier Spirit3 Comments

All the best tweets, videos, articles and podcasts about Town’s win against Barnsley

Matches, News

I started this blog because I didn't think there was that much coverage of Town that I liked. It was back in the days of The Examiner being pretty dire, the club didn't do much more than post press conferences to YouTube and there wasn't loads of stuff made by fans about games. Thankfully that's changed a lot over the years and there are now almost too many articles, videos and podcasts to digest after a game and that's before you consider all the interesting bits and pieces knocking around on social media. This article is a bit of an experiment to try and pull together some of the best coverage of Town after their FA Cup victory over Barnsley at the weekend. I'd be genuinely interested to know if you find this stuff interesting. Please put your thoughts in the comments below. If it's ...

Jul192021 by Terrier Spirit10 Comments

Thoughts on the new boys, familiar concerns, players MIA and encouraging signs – Notes on the Southport friendly

Matches, News

After a few months of post-season rest I thought it might be useful to write an article about yesterday's friendly against Southport. At this stage in the season it's more about getting a few hundred words in the tank and getting back up to full blogging fitness. So don't expect anything too insightful or interesting from this article, I'm just trying to work my way back up to the, admittedly low, standards that I usually reach. And my lack of match fitness was abundantly clear when the first half literally sent me to sleep and I missed all of half time and the start of the second half. So apologies if the first ten minutes of that half completely contradicted the rest of the 90, I suspect it was more of the same but it could have featured Lewis O'Brien riding a pink elephant and Carl...

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...

Apr132021 by Terrier Spirit5 Comments

The big change to Huddersfield Town season cards that was tucked away in the FAQs

News, Opinion

Yesterday, Huddersfield Town released the details of their season cards for next season. There were few surprises and very little to criticise as existing season card holders had their price frozen as promised and people that didn't have a 20/21 season ticket only have to pay an extra £50 (working off adult prices). The age bands were adjusted in a sensible way to smooth the transition from child to adult with a new Under 23 bracket. I love to grumble about the way the club is run but it all seemed fair enough to me and we must surely continue to be among the cheapest Championship clubs to watch. The most interesting news released yesterday, to me at least, was a fairly major change to how the practicalities of season cards will work for most fans next season. Unless you arrange ...

Dec172020 by Terrier Spirit1 Comment

Danny Grant confirms he’s leaving Bohemians and rumours suggest he’s heading to Huddersfield Town

News, Transfers

Danny Grant, the talented 20-year-old winger, had confirmed on Twitter that he will be leaving Ireland to continue his career overseas. This tweet suggests a deal has been done and the youngster will be officially announced soon. There have been significant rumours that Huddersfield Town have wanted to sign him, including reports that a bid from Town was rejected earlier this week. While Hull have also allegedly been sniffing around the player, it's possible that the allure of Championship football with Huddersfield Town will prove to be too tempting. Not to mention the undoubted splendour of Huddersfield that must help draw players to our club like moths to a light bulb. A fond farewell to his old club There is a touch of class to the way that Danny Grant has s...

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