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Jun92025 by Terrier Spirit3 Comments

Huddersfield Town transfer rumour roundup

If you want the latest, freshest Huddersfield Town transfer stories from someone with the inside track at the club then… look away now. If you want a compilation of wild speculation and unverified claptrap, read on. With expectations set suitably low, here's a collection of all the stories flying around the internet. Most will probably not come to pass but just as a stopped clock is right twice a day, there may be some truth in one or two. Feeling Low(e)? Let's start with a two-for-one rumour as Joe Low and Nathan Lowe are both linked with moves to Town. The spelling of their surnames confirms there's no family connection but you can pretend they're brothers if you like. Joe Low is an out-of-contract central defender from Wycombe and is sought after by a host of Leagu...

Jun42025 by Terrier Spirit9 Comments

Transfer rumour roundup, Northern Football, two new signings and preseason details – The latest Huddersfield Town goings on

News, Opinion, Player profiles, Transfers

After weeks and weeks of very little happening with Huddersfield Town, there has been a flurry of activity in the last week or so. To avoid clogging up people’s feeds with umpteen separate articles, I’ve decided to do a roundup of all these goings on in one post. In this article you can read about Northern Football, Town’s two new boys, season card sales, various transfer rumours and details of the upcoming preseason. Enjoy! Du, du, du, du, Northern football! Have you ever heard someone tell a joke and it gets huge laughs and then when you try the same joke out on a different group it goes down like a poo in a swimming pool? Well, that’s more or less what happened to Kevin Nagle last week. Nagle was the subject of light ridicule last week when he talked with Oggy on Radio Lee...

May302025 by Terrier Spirit4 Comments

Fragile hope – Thoughts on Lee Grant as Huddersfield Town manager

Opinion, Tactics

Huddersfield Town have announced Lee Grant as their new manager. He's a former goalkeeper who has been the attacking coach at Ipswich during their rise from League One to the Premier League with back-to-back promotions (and then relegation from the Premier League but I don't think that was his fault). He has no management experience but is apparently highly rated and has been waiting for the right job before jumping from coaching to being in charge. His interview on the club's social media was impressive and he handled himself well in his first press conference. He seems intelligent and articulate, which are not attributes you find a lot of in football. Though how his team performs on the pitch matters a lot more than how he handles himself in front of a camera. Here are...

May92025 by Terrier Spirit6 Comments

Will David Wagner return to Huddersfield Town?

News, Opinion

The rumours of David Wagner’s return to Huddersfield Town have been intensifying lately. As well as “in the know” posters on the Down at the Mac forum confirming the club’s interest in a reunion, there has also been a story on Talk Sport's website. Though, in fairness, I’m almost certain some journalists consider wild speculation on fan forums to be reliable sources, so who knows? It seems fairly likely that Town have put feelers out to Wagner or his agent but there has been little in the way of confirmation that he’s interested in a return. With recent stories linking Wagner to vacancies at LA Galaxy and Southampton, it’s possible that someone is putting his name forward for any and all plausible job openings to try and get him some work. Arguably, life in Los Angeles or managin...

Apr162025 by Terrier Spirit34 Comments

What is going wrong at Huddersfield Town? 7 areas where the club is failing

Opinion

I was going to do a write up about the 3-0 capitulation to Burton Albion on Saturday but the performance was so bad that it defies analysis. Burton is famous for brewing huge quantities of beer and the only plausible explanation for Town's performance would be them spending the morning getting sloshed in the nearby brewery. Only that doesn't seem plausible, as someone at the club have had to organise a booze up at a brewery - which based on recent evidence we are incapable of doing even this. Town were disgusting to watch, literally. I felt sickened by the half-hearted slop that the team collectively served up. If you have any doubts about how bad Town are right now, watch the second goal on the highlights below. https://youtu.be/WP4wzBXFy3s?si=M2mtjsaP3h026xPZ Instead of...

Aug82024 by Terrier Spirit21 Comments

We’re doomed! A pessimistic Huddersfield Town season preview

Opinion

I like to split my season previews into two and write a pessimistic and optimsitic version. I've already published the optimistic version, so you can click over and read that one if you were born on the sunny side of the street. Otherwise, if you'd prefer to dwell on the more concerning omens about the season ahead, strap yourself in for my pitch black preview of the coming season. Before I get started, I'd like to say that this year's negative preview has been harder to write than in previous seasons, as my genuine feelings towards Town are pretty positive right now despite our relegation. So while there may be some truth in the ideas expressed below, I'm actually not nearly as negative as this article might suggest. My real feelings are probably a mixture of the positive and negative...

Aug82024 by Terrier Spirit12 Comments

The glass IS half full – A positive season preview for Huddersfield Town

Opinion

As has become a tradition on this blog, I'm dividing my Huddersfield Town season preview into two halves, one dwelling on the negatives and another talking up the positives. It's always impossible to know before a season starts which way things are going to go, so I find splitting myself in two and pouring all my hopes into one article and fears into another makes it easier to write these things. Typically, the pessimistic article is both easier to write and gets around double the clicks from Town fans too. This season might be a bit different though, as personally, I'm not feeling the usual creeping dread about the coming season, instead I've an unusual and unfamiliar feeling, which I think might be a vague sense of optimsim. It's the hope that kills you, as the saying goes! So, here'...

Jul212024 by Terrier Spirit21 Comments

Huddersfield Town’s Austria squad: who are the winners and losers?

Opinion

Photo by Brian de Karma on Pexels.com Huddersfield Town have arrived in Austria for their nine-day pre-season trip to Austria. The club have been keen to emphasise this trip to a spa resort will not be particularly relaxing for the playing staff that are out in the Austrian mountains, as they will be subjecting to a gruelling routine of double training sessions and psychological torment* (*they didn’t actually mention anything about psychological torment, I just inferred that from the context of the article). Michael Duff has made some ruthless decisions in selecting his 27-man squad to take to Austria. In doing so, it’s the first clear indication of which players have impressed him so far in preseason and which ones are unlikely to be in his plans for the coming season. In t...

Jun132024 by Terrier Spirit8 Comments

Jonathan Hogg, his new contract and a jumper that should have gone to the charity shop years ago

Opinion, Transfers

I have a jumper in my wardrobe that has been my favourite for around 12 years now. It fits me nicely, I feel comfortable in it and it works in a variety of situations. To begin with the jumper was unquestionably my best jumper and was my first choice for a number of years. Then after a while it got a bit older, and having been worn a lot and put through the wash plenty of times it started to get a bit bobbly and didn't look as good as it used to. So obviously I got other jumpers. But those jumpers never quite fit the same, or the material would feel cheap, or after a few washes they would shrink and not feel right. So I'd got back to my old jumper, because even though it is past its best, it's still better than all the available alternatives I had in my wardrobe. I really should have sent...

Jun52024 by Terrier Spirit2 Comments

Which League One teams are within a two-hour drive of Huddersfield Town? (And what are the likely ticket allocations?)

Matches, Opinion

It's only a few weeks until the fixtures come out and we can start plotting potential away trips for Huddersfield Town's first season in League One since 2012, following their relegation from the Championship. And while going down is never nice, one of the consolations of dropping down a division is the prospect of some new away trips. Because let's face it, there are so many times you can get excited about the prospect of Stoke or Preston North End away before the sparkle starts to fade off these fixtures. And while League One might not be exactly packed with glamour, in the way the Premier League is, there is a lot of character and fun away days to look forward to. And it'll be nice to play some different clubs too, after so long in the top two tiers of English football. In thi...