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Sep142024 by Terrier Spirit16 Comments

Predicted Huddersfield Town XI, Ladapo signing reaction, injury updates and Michael Duff’s pre-Bolton thoughts

Matches

Huddersfield Town are back in action today against Bolton Wanderers. And there may even be a fresh face up front for the Terriers. In this blog post, I'm going to talk about Town's new signing, the laundry list of injury updates that came in the pre-match presser, I'll summarise a few of Michael Duff's other comments ahead of the Bolton game and try to predict the lineup. Here you go… Freddie Ladapo arrives We've signed a striker! Maybe Ladapo isn't quite of the same calibre as Alfie May or Joe Taylor, who we've previously tried to sign, but he's also not the kind of panic buy we've been guilty of in the past after the window has closed. I'd be surprised if he's lumped in with Yaya Sonogo and Oumar Niasse as free agent signings that failed to make an impact. My genera...

Aug222024 by Terrier Spirit5 Comments

A summary of Lasse Sorensen & Michael Duff’s comments in their pre-Shrewsbury press conference

Matches

Lasse Sorensen and Michael Duff fielded questions from members of the press ahead of Huddersfield Town's home game against Shrewsbury on Saturday afternoon. The match presents Town with a chance to make it four consecutive wins to start their season, and three wins in a row in the league but despite Shrewsbury representing relatively modesty opposition, Duff and his men won't let complacency set in and will do everything they can to ensure a positive outcome. Here's a summary of the main things discussed during the press conference with a few of my thoughts thrown in along the way - they're in italics, to make it easy to tell when I'm giving my opinion. The video of the full presser is embedded at the bottom of the article if you want to see the whole thing. A summary of Lasse Soren...

Aug152024 by Terrier Spirit15 Comments

Hudderfield Town pre-Stevenage press conference summary – Michael Duff & Brodie Spencer’s comments

News

Brodie Spencer and Michael Duff faced the press pack in advance of Town's first home game of their League One campaign against Stevenage on Saturday afternoon. As the club only publish their pre-match press conferences in video format, I thought I'd experiment with summarising the main things discussed in bullet points. Obviously you'd really need to watch the full press conference if you want to hear everything said but I thought a quick and easily digestible summary might be helpful to some fans. Let me know in the comments if this is the kind of thing you'd like to see more of. Brodie Spencer's comments: Spencer thinks he could have done better in the first game but acknowledges he's adjusting to a new position. Duff wants positivity and fight from his players. T...

May182024 by Terrier Spirit16 Comments

7 things I liked from Michael Duff’s first press conference (and a few things I didn’t like)

Opinion

Michael Duff had his first press conference as Huddersfield Town manager on Thursday and I think he made a very good first impression. He comes across as a straight forward, humble and decent sort of guy that wants to do well and has some ideas about how to do it. I was far less impressed by the man sitting next to him, Sporting Director, Mark Cartwright, who answered all his questions by talking himself up, making excuses and spewing out management speak. So in this article I'm going to cover the things that I found encouraging in the press conference and a few of the things that left me a bit unimpressed. On balance, I felt more positive about Town's situation by the end of it than I did before and I’m feeling pretty good about the upcoming season in League One. https...

May32024 by Terrier Spirit22 Comments

8 revelations from Andre Breitenreiter’s press conference & 2 hints he might be leaving

News

Prematch press conferences can be quite dull affairs, where the manager will go out of his way to evade questions and give the least interesting answer possible. Darren Moore was a master of giving the longest possible response to every question without revealing anything meaningful and I can imagine journalists would end his forty or fifty-minute sessions wondering how they could scratch together an article or two out of his wittering. Andre Breitenreiter did the absolute opposition in his pre-Ipswich press conference and used it as an opportunity to vent all his pent-up feelings about the no-good players he’s had to make excuses for these past few months. It had a similar feeling to Father Ted accepting the Golden Cleric award, if anyone remembers that scene from the 90s sitcom. ...

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 ...

Sep182020 by Terrier Spirit7 Comments

8 talking point from Carlos Corberán’s pre-Brentford press conference

Matches, News, Opinion

Carlos Corberán spoke with the press yesterday to answer questions about tomorrow's game against Brentford. Below are the main things that he revealed with his answers and a few of my thoughts about what he said. Danny Ward's injury and the lack of strikers Danny Ward's hamstring is still knacked, he's having a scan on it next week. I've no idea why he hasn't had one this week, seeing as he had this issue before the Norwich game. It doesn't sound like a bad injury but the fact it's not cleared up in a week suggests it could be worse than initially expected. With Town's only other senior striker only just coming back from injury it leaves us very short up top. Will Town try to speed through transfer business to help with the striker issue? Carlos doesn't want to rush into signings and ...