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George14brfc
terriersmad
George14brfc
terriersmad
Sean St Ledger is also trying to prove his fitness at the club and earn a contract. He'd be a decent free transfer for a year or two if he's over his injuries.
But we still need a striker with Vaughan being so injury prone. Stead played well last night, and might be able to fill in if he shows his ability better than last year, but I'd prefer a new striker with a bit of experience and presence.
Poe
terriersmad
We've signed Conor Coady from Liverpool on a 3-year deal. The Examiner reports the fee as an initial £375,000. If Butterfield and St Ledger also sign, we'll suddenly be looking much more like it. If in need of a striker.
One Night In Grimsby
gfnx25
Joe Widdowson signs after being released from Northampton. He will be LB cover for Hussey and is probably in it because Flickers knows him from his time at Rochdayul.
Joe Thompson signs after being released from Tranmere. And yes, he is the guy who was diagnosed with cancer just a year ago. Astonishing how quick he came back.
terriersmad
Town will be pissed off because we need that deal to go through to make another couple of signings and Boro will be pissed off because they thought they had their man.
NiceLad
Edit
We've signed Stevie, incredible hair and a lovely beard, delighted!!
George14brfc
terriersmad
Thing is, we were shite. No bones about it. We deserved to get pumped and we were. But the goals themselves... First was so far offside he was in a different postcode. The second was as clear a push as you'll see in your life about a yard in front of the linesman from which he ran through and scored. The third was a further country mile offside (yes, linesman, if a shot comes in and is saved and falls to a man who was offside when the initial shot came in you should stick your flag up, it's not seen as a different phase you useless prick). And the fourth was a double deflection three yards out which wrongfooted Alex.
But we were crap. And we deserved that. No power up front - Wells toiled all afternoon and Ward had a day where he couldn't trap a bag of cement. The wing-backs got murdered by men in behind. Crooks had a debut to, if not forget, certainly not put in the scrapbook - certainly can't blame him for any of the goals, but he doesn't look like a centre-back and kept getting pulled too far wide and getting isolated when his wing-back went wandering. The midfield was powder-puff, with Norwood spending the game hiding yet again, Majewski getting in the wrong areas and Hogg not having the on-the-ball quality to create something.
Bournemouth created problems and took chances. An orthodox 4-4-2 did for us because they had two strikers who bullied a back three who lacked (this thing again) power and strength. They ran the channels and controlled the midfield. And it's embarrassing because they're not that good, despite the money they've spent. They've got so many average players who were made to look like world-beaters. Simon Francis - Simon fucking Francis - was made to look good.
If Robins can't see we need a big central defender and a big striker with some power and presence we're in serious trouble. The players we have need some more support because although we're technically good enough we're physically a very small team and we will get bullied. We're also too nice - three dodgy goals against and only one protest, we just resigned ourselves to it when we should have been prepared to show a bit of fight because if we don't we will get steamrollered by big, strong teams.
Final note to Town fans: get a braincell or two. Smithies might have done better with the fourth, but when he brought down their lad for the penalty there's no need to be chanting 'off, off, off'. Fucking morons. And there's a lad on Twitter who's giving me stick for saying Crooks did OK (which he did, in fairness) and that he wasn't part of the back three. Yeah, how dare I say a kid on his professional debut did OK in the position he played, considering the circumstances. Lynch, on the other hand, had a nightmare.
Grimnir
I'll take that as a result given where we were midweek. These first 5 games are our pre-season now. Making it difficult for ourselves!
Splash The Cash On Matt Le Tiss
Number 1
That is amazingly early in the season for such a move.
Dan
Its guna be a long season
hammer9
Fantastic Bournemouth destroys Huddesfield 4-0 at away.
George14brfc
Didn't look good on the football league show. How many of the players from last season are still with you?
Number 1
gfnx25
George14brfc
Yeah I did too. I was shocked when I saw there starting 11
Jason
I think you'll struggle to keep a hold of Baldock.
Loved your away kit too btw, gorgeous it is.
bluemoon.
I made a rare appearance at Gigg Lane for this. Bury were pretty shit going forward but could still easily have scored a couple - Pablo Mills had a header stopped on the line - and were generally the better team. Cheltenham weren't exactly very ambitious though.
Nardiello and Lowe didn't really work as a partnership.
BR.
It's very different yeah with the light blue, but it's alright you know. I wasn't keen at all on first glance but I like it now, even got myself one.
And plus the last time we had a kit with the blue so light was 1991/92 - and that ended in promotion
gfnx25
Many people raised their concerns about the Nardiello-Lowe partnership but we have no real plan B. Clive Platt won't be good enough, loan deals for Danny Rose and Hallam Hope seem to be dead in the water and James Poole has only been back for 3 days, so he's not gonna blend in straight away.
Our lack of bite was a concern towards the end of last season aswell but it was just the 1st game of the season and we're not as deep in the shit as other teams are *cough* Huddersfield *cough* Notlob
terriersmad
Resigned, that's why. The board didn't stop him, but he walked.
Shola
sack manager > Improve under new guy, stay up > sack manager
Number 1
At the very least, Amorabieta and Ruiz are still there so I thought they might appear and actually play well in this tier but nope.
I hadn't heard of a lot of their starting 11... maybe I need to research outside England more.
Fair enough. Still seems incredibly early for such a move.
I've seen the fact "Norwich sacked Bryan Gunn after 1 game in 2010 and look how that turned out" but are Huddersfield realistically anywhere near promotion?
Jason
No. We played them pre-season, they beat us 1-0 but they wasn't brilliant even then.
terriersmad
Nope. But he felt he'd lost the fans and the players. And after a run of 6 wins in 23, going back to last season, the board accepted his resignation. It's clear there's still a lot of respect between the club and Robins, though. And if he finds the right balance between technical, passing football and the physicality which we didn't have, he'll still be successful. He's a better manager than many who'll be touted for jobs in this division, even with his shortcomings.