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02 Feb 2014 21:03:11

Crapitulation.

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By Ad. | On 29 January 2014 - 20:16 PM

TM, we've signed Jack Hunt on loan. Thoughts? McLaughlin looked quality on his debut, but sadly he's injured so we've brought in Hunt to replace him. My only memory of Hunt is the game last season, at Oakwell where he played really well.

Attacking full-back. Exhilarating going forward. A lot to learn defensively (though he knows it - seeing him berate himself after an error is a regular occurrence). Give him time to get fit and he'll be a tremendous acquisition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sNyOMt8CJA

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29 Jan 2014 18:59:26

Disappointing result last night. Still, would help if we could get our first team out for a change - Lynch, Hammill, Hogg and Vaughan all missing along with Paterson. Basically, our best four players from this season were missing, and anyone in this league would struggle in those circumstances.

Having seen the highlights, there's no way Bournemouth's penalty is a penalty. He's tripped by his own man! Grabban and the other lad go for it, Grabban very clearly clips the lad's ankles as he goes through, and even stumbles. That said, it's a really tough one for the ref given the close proximity of the three players, and he's reached a very obvious conclusion.

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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Be15QwUIAAAlMRX.jpg

The pivotal moment. Hammill forced off. Stephens only booked. Disgusting challenge - potentially career ending. Even worse was that Stephens didn't acknowledge the damage he'd done by offering a hand in apology. Says a lot about the calibre of the man.

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23 Jan 2014 18:32:54

Resigned because he wasn't being given what he felt was a competitive budget after finishing 13th. Karl Robinson guided them to the play-offs 2 years running after that.

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19 Jan 2014 12:00:45

Desperately unlucky not to take something from QPR yesterday. If Ward or Hogg could have taken golden chances in the first half we could have been out of sight by the break, but they didn't and we faced a quality striker in Austin. We had a warning in an extraordinary bit of play when they hit the bar twice and Smithies made a save in about five seconds. But we took plenty of positives, playing much the better football and reducing QPR to threatening from set-pieces alone.

By George14brfc | On 18 January 2014 - 17:58 PM

On the way back from Nottingham forest wasn't good forest defo deserved to win but the ref was appalling the first pen for them was a joke Hanley hardly touched him and lansbury went down soo easily he then scored a pen which Eastwood so nearly saved they then got another pen when henley bought down patterson that looked more like a pen but still not sure and he whacked that in too celebrating and kissing the notts forest badge in front of the blackburn fans pissed me off and after that he got nearly every decision wrong but ultimately forest deserved it and looked alot better than us very quick too we did hit the post at 2-1 which was gutting. Marshall goal was us for quality! Big game home to derby next week

Pleased to see Simon Eastwood doing well. When he left us he looked destined for a career in non-league anonymity as he had a problem with letting lots of stoppable goals in, but he's doing well. I assume that he's not had cramp after an hour at any point, though? Made one appearance for Town and that's what happened

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11 Jan 2014 17:58:34

I feel like I've just lived through an inspirational American sports film. Record signing coming off the bench on debut to score a last-minute winner. Dream stuff.

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10 Jan 2014 23:19:57

Speaking of Leeds, they've entered some kind of agreement with the San Francisco 49ers. Anyone know more details? I'm genuinely intrigued.

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By gfnx25 | On 10 January 2014 - 18:59 PM

Huddersfield sign Nahki Wells.

Of all teams.

Huddersfield.

Just wow.

Roughly what everyone thought when we sold Jordan Rhodes to Blackburn. I may be biased, but it's a good move for him - he'll play every week and get a better chance with Town than he would at QPR or Reading or at a Premier League side, and he's at a good stepping stone if he has ambitious of Premier League football in the long term.

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10 Jan 2014 19:15:31

Nahki Wells has signed for Town for a club record fee. We appear to have pissed off Bradford, Leeds and Peterborough at the same time. Good day!

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05 Jan 2014 15:02:21

Fairly certain the FA are trying to set us up in a long-term relationship with Charlton. Got them in each of our last 3 cup runs. So I genuinely have nothing against Charlton when I say I hope Oxford get through - different team to play, and I've seen Charlton twice already this season.

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04 Jan 2014 19:23:16

If Walcott gets banned for that then something's seriously wrong with football. The lad gets stick, so he reminds the Spurs fans of the score. Seen it a few times at various places, and it's pretty funny in all honesty Not so much when you're on the receiving end, but it's hardly 'incitement'.

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04 Jan 2014 17:04:43

Grimsby didn't deserve to lose like that. We were shocking (second half, at least - I was catching up with Sherlock in the first), Grimsby very spirited, and could have made it 3-1 when Smithies had to make a good save from a point-blank header.

However, the Grimsby goalkeeper was dire. Beaten on his side from a 30-yard free-kick and culpable for our second equaliser.

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By One Night In Grimsby | On 03 January 2014 - 17:45 PM

You coming tomorrow terrier? We have lennel john Lewis suspended, Scott kerr out injured and a couple of defensive doubts. Hope Pato plays for you, he'll get a cracking reception. Hoping we nick it, dont really want a replay, but may the best team win!

Sadly not - I'm going to QPR in a couple of weeks so I can't really afford this weekend as well. It'll be interesting to see what side we play. Guaranteed to be without Vaughan, but from the sounds of it we'll be playing a strong side. And Paterson's hit a bit of form in recent weeks, so hopefully he'll get a good reception and a couple of goals! Hope you enjoy the game (but not too much - I want HTFC in the hat for round 4!).

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30 Dec 2013 16:46:24

Team: Huddersfield Town
League Position: 11th (Championship)

Star Man: Difficult to pick between James Vaughan, Adam Hammill and Adam Clayton. Vaughan's early-season form was outstanding, Hammill's been consistently excellent despite being in an unfamiliar wing-back position and leads the division's assist charts, and Clayton purely for his Pirlo-esque performances and beard.
Most Improved: Joel Lynch. Started last season superbly, but went off from September and found himself out of the matchday squad altogether. This season he's been a rock at the back and has even pitched in with some tremendous goals - his 35-yarder against Charlton was so good Charlton themselves showcased it on their YouTube channel.
Best Youngster: Duane Holmes has only just broken into the first team and he's being linked to a potential World Cup call-up for the USA. Aside from him, Tom Smith has emerged in recent weeks in the absence of Peter Clarke and has excelled in defence.
Most Disappointing: I love Jon Stead, but he's only scored once and his touch seems to have deserted him. Cracking winner against the Beeston Bastards, though.

Best Game: Town 2-1 Burnley. People will have seen the refereeing error which gifted Town a penalty in the second half, but that shouldn't detract from an all-round superb performance. 2-1 flattered a Burnley side who were top and unbeaten in 12 going into this game. Honourable mention for yesterday's 5-1 mauling of Yeovil, in which Town could have recorded double figures.
Best Goal: Tough to pick. Lynch's 35-yarder against Charlton, Norwood's volley against Burnley (aided by a dodgy keeper), Norwood's 30-yard screamer at Bolton, and Danny Ward's strike to level against Leeds were all great goals. But Danny Ward's first against Yeovil had it all - the move started in our left-back position and ended with Ward cutting inside from the right to unleash an unstoppable strike past the keeper to make it 4-1.
Worst Game: Losing 3-1 to Birmingham after a wretched performance is bad, but that it was against the worst side to visit the McAlpine this season makes it even worse. We even conceded two identical goals and showed nothing even when Birmingham went down to 10 men.

How's the manager doing? Excellent to now. Tactically flexible and has us playing entertaining football, as well as making us so much harder to beat. Last year we went under too often - this season we've been tighter and tougher.
What player do you want in January? A lethal striker. Recent performances have seen us create buckets of chances and we've lacked someone to put them away - cueing the inevitable comment of "Jordan Rhodes would have scored that." Someone in his ilk would be greatly appreciated.
Where will you finish? Without a lethal striker coming in in the window - 13th. With a lethal striker coming in in the window - 8th.

Overall Grade: B+ - I've been really happy with the progress we've made this season, and our performances have been getting better and better in recent weeks. We're not far short of the play-offs as things stand, but we're still looking over our shoulder at how those below us are doing.

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By One Night In Grimsby | On 29 December 2013 - 08:39 AM

Does Fola still post on here?

Cos we played Macc yesterday, lost 3-2, first defeat in 15 games. Macc played pretty well, surprised theyre not doing better. We were awful mind and another day would have got at least a point. Boxing day game against Lincoln took its toll on the players i think.
Macc players were first class dickheads by the way, especially the guy upfront, Boden and the lad in midfield, Kay. Get on with the game rather than antagonizing the crowd, wankers.

Back to winning ways on new years day, Lincoln at home.

Scott Kay? He was in our development squad last season. Got farmed out pretty sharpish, which is normally a sign he's not much cop - bearing in mind Tom Smith joined at the same time and has recently become a first-team regular.

We delivered a bit of a hammering to Yeovil today. For the third home game in a row we had more than 25 shots and this time we made them count, despite going behind. Without Vaughan we've started to carry more of a threat, and hopefully we'll be able to carry it on into the new year. Burnley up next, and we know we can beat them.

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Our goalscoring problems are getting a bit ridiculous. In the last two home games we've had 51 shots and scored just once. On the plus side, if we keep creating that many chances we're going to win games, even if lady luck hasn't been with us in the last week or two. Performances have been great, just haven't scored. A point apiece was about fair against Derby - they were much the better side in the first half and, after a penalty save from Alex Smithies, they took a deserved lead, before a rousing second-half comeback from Town saw us miss a bucketload of chances and have a stonewall penalty turned down before Paterson's equaliser.

We need another striker in the transfer window just to give us the cutting edge. We're playing well enough - in fact, I can only think of a very small number of team performances at the level I've seen from Town in the last 3 home games - we just can't kill games off. We should have taken at least 7 from the last 9 home points, and shouldn't be 4 without a win, but we just can't convert chances. We missed Vaughan, although Paterson's goal will do him the world of good.

And a word about Will Hughes. The boy is going to be a superstar. I can't think of the last time I saw such a young player play in such a measured, controlled fashion. Neither have I seen the awareness he has in a youngster - at one point he played a glorious reverse pass to an overlapping teammate without even looking. And England didn't take him to the U21 tournament this summer and opted for a bunch of Premier League youngsters! Unbelievable!

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15 Dec 2013 11:21:23

Football isn't fair. Reading were awful, but nicked a goal. Had we won 6-1 Adkins would have had no cause for complaint - we were absolutely excellent. But it just wouldn't go in. Keeper played a blinder, we hit the post, we were denied by the linesman's flag, we missed half a dozen sitters... Frustration compounded by Joel Lynch's late red card. No complaints about the first one for persistent fouling (other than that Pogbrebnyak didn't get one as well - those two battered each other all afternoon), but the second one was really, really soft and was his first foul after the booking. Ref lost all control of the game halfway through the first half and just didn't know what he was doing - undoubtedly the worst I've seen this season. He was weak-willed and let Reading referee the game.

He didn't influence the scoreline, and it's our own poor finishing that cost us, but he did set the tone when he let that Russian lump up front get away with a blatant dive in the very first play of the game (Reading kick-off, played back, lumped up to lump, lump falls over, free-kick to Reading). Likewise he didn't book Drenthe for a blatant penalty area dive. Somehow he let one of their stay on after a dreadful revenge tackle on Hammill just before half-time, and then let Drenthe drape an arm around his shoulders for the entire walk off at half time. In stoppage time he made mistake after mistake - we had a clear corner when theirs nodded it out at the back post under pressure, but he gave a goal kick; Holmes got flattened by three and he gave nothing; the Lynch second yellow - and stopped us getting any head of steam built up because of those mistakes.

And as for Adkins' comments - it's hard to score four or five when you only have one shot and otherwise get outclassed. It was a classic smash and grab away performance which rode its luck.

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10 Dec 2013 17:37:15

No idea whether we'll sell out - away followings have been good this campaign (though I expect them to drop off a bit - Wigan and Barnsley were always going to be big followings), but I reckon a few will be put off by Cleethorpes in January. Might go with some mates, though; I haven't got to an away game since Forest away on the opening day and it'll be a new ground for me. Seem to have sod all fun of late, so an away day in the Cup might be a belting tonic

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09 Dec 2013 11:44:14

Sam Sodje in bother as well - big bother, going on the Sun's footage and the sending off.

Sadly, with the boom in gambling, this was fairly inevitable. Although the big bookies won't be directly involved, they've unwittingly helped to foster an environment where the unscrupulous can take advantage of the hundreds of markets available. There needs to be an FA clampdown on bookies and their markets for the good of the game, in my view.

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By One Night In Grimsby | On 08 December 2013 - 21:37 PM

Trust me, I'm equally as non-excited by the prospect. Snore. We'll give you a good game though, and it'll be good to see Paterson back at BP.

I expect you will give us a good game. You'll be bang up for it, and you'll fancy your chances, especially if we rest a couple such as Vaughan.

And it could be worse for you - could be Mansfield Town away or some such.

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08 Dec 2013 21:23:20

Grimsby Fucking Town. Away. Jesus.

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By Number 1 | On 07 December 2013 - 15:12 PM

Sounds like my Newcastle team on FM10.

I swear they've come close to even more than that 8 as well.

Certainly have. Did you see the game they played against Wigan a few weeks back? McKenzie (one of the five from this week) stamped on McLean when the Wigan lad was on the ground and somehow McLean got sent off. They could also have managed the rare feat of having two sent off in the same passage of play against us. The ref played a great advantage after a horrible McKenzie foul and Scannell went on to be fouled in the box, earning their lad who conceded the penalty a second yellow. McKenzie escaped with a yellow.

Par for the course with Ince, though. Had a glance at the Football League records for his MK Dons team from 09/10 - 629 fouls, 128 (ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-EIGHT!) yellow cards, and 8 reds. Bearing in mind the average is about 70 yellows and 4 reds in a season, either MK got some very over-zealous refs or the finger has to be pointed at the manager.

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07 Dec 2013 15:03:16

Blackpool have had five dismissed this week, and eight this season. Add to that a manager who got himself a five-match stadium ban, and you have a one club discipline problem.

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03 Dec 2013 23:30:22

3 wins on the spin. Belting stuff.

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30 Nov 2013 18:39:48

Although Dyche has a very fair point about the penalty we did get (never in a million years), he forgets that we had a stonewaller turned down in the first half. He also forgets that had Burnley got anything out of that it would have been a travesty. At half-time we were wondering how it was 0-0; Town carved Burnley open with some top-quality football and should have been out of sight. They only came into it in the last quarter of the game. Superb performance and result.

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By NiceLad | On 24 November 2013 - 17:51 PM

No not yet, which is a shame. Whats with the badge on your away kit? Looked very strange

For whatever reason the club always puts the badge on away kits in black and white or whatever colour the kit is. Have to say it's pretty naff, but hardly a major issue.

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By NiceLad | On 24 November 2013 - 15:18 PM

We were appalling. Mandaric isn't gonna sack him yet either

Bugger. I was hoping we'd done the football world a favour.

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23 Nov 2013 18:48:45

Didn't see that coming at all. Kudos to Tranmere, but what happened to Coventry? Shock at playing a home game on a Saturday?

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23 Nov 2013 15:17:00

And hopefully that's the end of Dave Jones. Thoroughly deserved the win.

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