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Huddersfield Town announced their squad numbers for the 24/25 season yesterday and if you’re the kind of person who likes to scrutinise lists of numbers and names to try and find hidden meanings then this sort of thing will be right up your street. Obviously, squad numbers are relatively meaningless these days but then again, it was probably fairly significant to the handful of players that didn't receive a squad number at all. There was also some information about a new leadership group for the coming season which provided some hints at some players that maybe aren't expected to be around for much longer. So I'll speculate about that stuff too. Shirt numbers and leadership group for Huddersfield Town 24/25 Here are this season's squad numbers: 1 - Lee Nicholls ...

Huddersfield Town have announced their squad numbers for the forthcoming season. In the absence of anything more substantial to write about, I’m going to take a look at the potential significance (or not) of the squad numbers handed out. Scannell drops down the pecking order (and towards the door?) Sean Scannell has vacated his number 7 shirt and dropped down to 28. This seems like a clear signal that he’s unlikely to form part of David Wagner’s plans for the forthcoming season. He was loaned out to Burton Albion last season before returning to Town after an injury. I suspect Scannell is one of those unfortunate players that would have had a future at Town if we were in the Championship, but aren’t quite up to Premier League standard. It’s a shame, because Scannell has been a good pla...

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Overthinking Huddersfield Town’s squad numbers – who might leave, the new leadership group and theories about what the numbers might mean

The potential significance of Huddersfield Town’s squad numbers