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Aug12024 by Terrier Spirit10 Comments

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

News

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 ...

Jul72022 by Terrier Spirit2 Comments

What do MK Dons and Millwall fans think of Kasumu and Mahoney signing for Huddersfield Town?

News, Social media, Transfers

Huddersfield Town made their first signing of the summer fairly early and we’ve had to wait a seeming eternity for them to announce their second and third signings of the summer. But we’ve finally made a couple of acquisitions and I have something to write about! So I’ve pushed aside my plans to write an investigative piece about Mick Wadsworth's disastrous time in Africa and instead I’ve looked into what our new signings fans really think about them. In case you didn’t pick up the news yesterday, Town signed David Kasumu and Connor Mahoney yesterday. Both were free agents but as Kasumu is only 22 years old we have had to pay compensation to MK Dons for his development (someone on Twitter guessed £60,000 - which seems low but not crazy). I’ve waded through the online com...

Dec282018 by Terrier SpiritNo Comments

Defeat at Man United, preview of Fulham, and a transfer rumour roundup

Matches, Opinion, Transfers

I’m a bit pushed for time, so this is going to be a lightning quick post about Town’s 3-1 defeat to Manchester United, a brief preview of the Fulham game, and some of the transfer rumours I've heard about that involve Town. Enjoy! Some random thoughts about Manchester United 3-1 Huddersfield Town Normally I’d flesh these ideas out into full, semi-coherent paragraphs, but here are the bullet points: The atmosphere at Old Trafford is abysmal. Town fans did an excellent job of out singing the rest of the stadium. I guess they call it “The Theatre of Dreams” because you can have a nap in peace for 85 minutes of every game. On a similar note, when the board went up to announce the injury time the stadium was half-empty. The people in the home end weren’t really Manchester United “fans...

Jul212018 by Terrier SpiritNo Comments

All the reaction to Adama Diakhaby signing for Town

News, Player profiles, Transfers

I’m a bit late to respond to Huddersfield Town’s aquisition of Adama Diakhaby from Monaco, so I’ve decided to throw together all the various things that have already been said about the signing, rather than repeat what's already out there. The highlights video It’s always worth being careful before getting too excited about highlight videos from YouTube, most players can cobble together a few minutes of clips that show them looking half-decent. The most exciting thing from the clips was how ridiculously quick he is. On the other hand, from this very small glimpse of him playing, he appears to be very reliant on his left foot. All players have a dominant foot to some extent, but it looked like he was scared to use his right at times. It’ll be interesting to see if this is an issue or n...

Jan62018 by Terrier SpiritNo Comments

NEW SIGNING: Terence Kongolo – who is he and how will he fit in at Town?

Player profiles, Transfers

Huddersfield Town have signed Terence Kongolo on loan for the rest of the season from AS Monaco. He moved to Monaco from Feyenoord for £13.5m in the summer but has only played six times so far this season, so is coming to Huddersfield to get regular football. He can play at either centre-back or left-back but has played more games as a central defender in his career. He’s 23 years old and has a handful of caps for Holland. Unfortunately, his loan deal doesn’t include an option to buy at the end. It seems it’s a genuine loan rather than the hire purchase types of deals we’ve done for Lössl and Hadergjonaj where we can buy them at the end. This post will look a bit further into who he is, where he's been and what we can expect from our new loan signing. What does Kongolo bring ...