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Dec232023 by Terrier Spirit6 Comments

Predicted Huddersfield Town XI, Norwich preview and pessimistic score prediction for today’s game

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Huddersfield Town are in Norwich today where they'll be hoping to give fans the Christmas gift of three points but David Wagner and his band of former Town coaches will be trying to make sure that the Terriers leave Carrow Road with little more than a lump of coal in their stocking. To stretch this Christmas themed introduction to breaking point, Town fans are also still making their minds up about whether Darren Moore is on their Naughty or Nice List - with a growing number finding his style of football, uninspiring press performances and failure to register enough wins making him a prime candidate for Santa's naughty list and an imminent P45. A hectic pre-Christmas week meant I didn't get time to do a dedicated article to reflect on the Millwall game, so I'll share a few of my ...

Dec92023 by Terrier Spirit6 Comments

Predicted Huddersfield Town lineup, Bristol City preview and score prediction for today’s game

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Huddersfield Town take on Bristol City this afternoon and will be hoping to extend their three-game unbeaten run. Today should be a good test for Town, as we’re up against a team that are decent enough (they’re above Town in the table after all) but are far from world beaters. It feels like we have had to think a lot about the opposition in our recent games and account for their strengths and counteract them but this may be a game where we have an opportunity to assert ourselves a bit more and potentially even dominate possession for spells, which would be a novelty after three games of possession stats in the low twenties. Games in the Championship never go how you expect though, and it’s often the games you earmark as easier that prove the hardest. I mentioned in my article yesterday...

Nov42023 by Terrier Spirit5 Comments

Predicted Huddersfield Town XI, Watford’s changes, Moore’s downbeat presser & unusual score prediction – PREVIEW

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I’m usually fairly balanced in my opinions about Town, I’m typically somewhere in between the happy clappers who can never find any fault with the club and the doom mongers that will look for misery in even the most joyful moments (though I’m pretty sure long-term readers will probably disagree with my self-assessment). However, right now, it’s hard to be anything but glum about Town’s current prospects heading into their game against Watford later today. While Watford are only 16th in the table, just five places above Town and we have home advantage, it’s hard to overlook the fact that we’ve been spanked 4-0 and 4-1 in our last two games. Add to that our ever-growing injury list, Jonathan Hogg’s suspension from this game, the rift that seems to be growing between the fans and th...

Oct212023 by Terrier Spirit5 Comments

Predicted Huddersfield Town XI, QPR preview and score prediction

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Huddersfield Town come back from the international break with a home game against QPR today. It feels like forever since we’ve had a Town game to watch, so I’m looking forward to getting down to the stadium and watching Darren Moore’s team play. Which perhaps shows how bad my memory is, because Town were absolute garbage in their last outing against Sheffield Wednesday two weeks ago, where they played out a 0-0 draw with one of the Championship’s worst teams and didn’t register a single shot on target. Today could be different though, as Darren Moore has had the international break to work with his team and we’ll perhaps see a bit more of his vision on the pitch. Up to now, because of the limited amount of time he’s had between matches since his arrival, his tactics have been a Franke...

Aug262023 by Terrier Spirit2 Comments

Predicted Huddersfield Town XI, Warnock: defeatism or dark arts?, one to watch & score prediction against Norwich

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It’s never nice to see your ex with a new partner. And while the feelings aren’t exactly the same, I’ve more affection towards David Wagner than I have many ex partners, so it’ll be weird to see him in the dugout wearing another team’s tracksuit this afternoon. Of course, he’s done it already last season with Norwich and it was pretty strange then too, but we were so bogged down in our own relegation troubles it wasn’t so much of a focus. It’s not like Town can even claim we’ve moved on to better things since leaving David Wagner either. There were a string of bad relationships after him before we had a brief fling with someone that we thought was going to go somewhere (the Premier League), but that ended in tears when he left us for a better offer in Greece. Now we’ve sought comfort ...

Aug122023 by Terrier Spirit6 Comments

Predicted Huddersfield Town XI to take on Leicester

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Huddersfield Town head into their opening home game of the season as distant outsiders, with the bookies fancying recently-relegated Leicester to brush aside the Terriers. While Neil Warnock grumbles about how the bookmakers always write him and his teams off, that’s just the way he likes it really and he’ll no doubt be using the odds for this game as an opportunity to take the pressure off his players and to encourage them to go out and enjoy themselves against one of the Championship’s most fancied teams. Leicester won their opening game of the season against Coventry last weekend, overcoming an early scare when they went 1-0 down to a set piece goal, before a second-half Dewsbury-Hall brace secured the three points for them. They’re managed by Pep Guardiola disciple Enzo Maresca, an...

Aug82023 by Terrier Spirit3 Comments

Predicted Huddersfield Town XI to take on Middlesbrough in the Carabao Cup

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On Saturday, I achieved the rare feat of predicting the full starting eleven for Town correctly. While I'd love to say this was down to my powers of prediction improving, after years of wayward forecasts, it speaks more to the limited options available to Neil Warnock. Tonight's game against Middlesbrough in the Carabao Cup, however, gives him an opportunity to see if any of his backup options might be worth giving a go in the league. I'm not going to debate the rights and wrongs of fielding a weaker team in the cups, as we've already had confirmation that this is the plan, instead I'm going to try my best to pick the likely team Neil Warnock will go with tonight. Maxwell Keepers don't need resting, as they don't run for miles during games but I think it's useful to give the back...

Aug52023 by Terrier Spirit3 Comments

Predicted Huddersfield Town lineup, tactics, score and player to watch for their trip to Plymouth

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Huddersfield Town open their Championship campaign this afternoon against Plymouth Argyle on the south coast. It’s our host’s first game back in the Championship after getting promotion from League One as champions last season. It’s worth bearing in mind that Town could easily have taken Plymouth’s place in League One this campaign, had it not been for some unlikely results in our run in. Neil Warnock described last season relegstion escape this week as the greatest achievement of his managerial career. So while there may be concerns about the season ahead, it’s worth also relishing the prospect of getting to compete in the Championship for another season when relegation seemed certain in early spring of this year. Anyway, after the long summer break, it’s nice to have a game ...

Jan282023 by Terrier Spirit8 Comments

Predicted Huddersfield Town XI to take on Coventry City

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After last weekend's game against Blackpool was postponed due to a frozen pitch, it feels like forever since we had some football to talk about. So I'm actually pleased this game was moved forward to this weekend, even though it was harsh on those fans that had already made travel plans for the previous midweek date it was planned for. Had this game not been rearranged to today, we'd have faced another Town-less Saturday, and as much as they are a near-constant source of disappointment and frustration, I actually really miss it when they don't play. I'm not going to pull at the thread of why I seem to enjoy something that also brings me such pain, this is a football blog, not therapy. Instead, I'm going to try and predict the team Mark Fotheringham will select against Coventry today. ...

Jan72023 by Terrier SpiritNo Comments

Predicted Huddersfield Town XI to take on PNE in the FA Cup

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Huddersfield Town take on Preston North End yet again today, this time in the FA Cup third round. Having already played them in the league cup and twice in the league, it's safe to see we've seen enough of Preston. While it's not exactly likely, it is technically possible that we could break some sort of record if we finish in the playoffs and end up playing them twice more in the playoff semi finals. Chuck in an FA Cup third round replay that nobody wants and there's the possibility of playing Preston seven times in one season, realistically though, today should be the final time we face them unless the game ends in a draw, which neither team will want. Predicting today's team is a fool's errand as Mark Fotheringham is almost certain to make wholesale changes to rest his first teamer...