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Hogg has been diagnosed with a fractured neck. Its good to know he's been cleared to leave hospital, but that's a shocking injury and one that, as he's a key Huddersfield player, I can imagine will not help.

I do wonder if Huddersfield's rhythm was disrupted last night knowing one of their own players was in such an awful way after such extensive on-pitch treatment. Early reports I've seen look like its not as serious and that Hogg is in a stable condition, which is a good sign, but obviously its still early and full diagnosis is not yet disclosed, so hopefully its not as serious as it looked.

In more conventional sporting matters, I'm aware it opens a door for us to re-establish the gap we were beginning to throw away when we go to Birmingham later. Hopefully we're up for taking it.

Clearly Lady Luck still hasn't used up the full quota yet. Which for us is a rarity.

It does look like Ritchie trips himself up, although we've had 5/6 more concrete penalties turned down at various points this season. Second does look fair - Ward doesn't get 2 hands firmly on it.

Huge win last night at Brighton and nice to see Ayoze Perez get on the scoresheet but the team need full concentration for another massive game on Saturday at Huddersfield.

Interestingly, the referee for tonight's Brighton v Newcastle game is apparently a Huddersfield Town fan. And he's not liked that much anyway by NUFC fans after his officiating of the Tyne-Wear Derby at the Stadium of Light last season.

Wonder what chance a controversial call that means a key NUFC player just happens to be banned for the game in West Yorkshire on Saturday?

There was a point yesterday when you were two points off top spot, when you were winning and Newcastle losing. You've defo got a good chance of automatic promotion, still quite a few games to go and you've got Newcastle at home coming up, win that and it's on!

Huddersfield only 4 points off the automatic places now! Great effort.

I know I can't talk being a Rovers fan but how bad are Villa? Bruce got some good results at first but they've been dire lately.

Another one goal defeat tonight for us, Akpan's goal at the end should have stood then he got sent off for placing his hands on the referee - not pushing him. Still though you can't expect to have to score 3 goals to win every game and the league table doesn't lie, so it's another step closer to League 1....awful.

We were going down with Brass anyway. At least show some #ambitionz and #pashunz while at it.

unlucky with the deflection and goal at the end. Wagner has no class at all and as he said "its our biggest game of the season" sums huddersfield up to be honest

Honeslty surprised at how cheaply goals are being given away in the Championship nowadays. First one for Huddersfield looked offside to me anyway, but keeper beaten at the near post shouldn't be happening. Brighton's goal was an actual meltdown in Huddersfield defence. Wells' goal was quite unlucky given the assist came from a deflection but the third goal again, Stockdale (who was sheet all night tbh) with an absoulte stinker. Taking nothing away from Huddersfield of course, they play some cracking football and fully deserved their win tonight, but deary me some of the defending on show (especially on Brighton's side) was quite dramatic.

We're bound to get Millwall away. Though Sutton or Lincoln at home would be great.

Routine-ish by the sounds of things, even if Darlow nearly made things more eventful by setting up his own wondersave, and then getting taken out by his own team-mate.

Although Reading losing and Leeds (currently) losing helps make it a rosy day.

Until just now, the big inconvenience for NUFC fans looked like the Brentford away farce when it got pissed around with under one week's notice. But the EFL & Sky have a bigger joker. I could accept the fact the team's Brighton away trip was going to be on a Tuesday due to the original game being scheduled for FA Cup 4th Round weekend, but seemingly at Sky's insistence, its been put on the day that FA Cup 5th Round replays would be held, which would mean another rescheduling with 10 days notice if either team required a 5th Round replay. On top of that, if it stays on that day, its then followed up by trips to Huddersfield and Reading, which means way over 1,000 miles of travelling for someone going to all 3. I can see why the club wanted a different date, which makes it annoying both Brighton and the EFL said no.

We're probably not even the worst example in the last few years either. Monday night games really always come across as a pain in the arse.

Certainly, there's a huge onus on it at this level, and for a lot of clubs that don't have PL-era revenue streams or big brand identities from the past (Leeds, Forest, maybe Wolves), its a necessary evil. But I thought it was bad enough in the Premier League with their over-the-top fixture meddling - it feels like up there clubs have to put up with less bollocks like the 10 in 10 thing that now features before Christmas or re-arranging things at seemingly a moment's notice.

The slightly scary thing is that it makes you sympathetic to a point of view by Cellino at Leeds. That big protestation before a match last season when Sky were locked out until the final 3 hours before kick-off did touch on this point and may well have struck a chord with a lot of people on this issue.

Tricky one - 3 forced subs through more injuries, including Gayle after he got goal 20, and Anita after he was already been subbed on following an injury to Hayden, then Gouffran limping to the end, and against a team that like pressing and sounded like they played very well. But given this recent slump, that could be a very important result in the long run.

Yeah it does seem slightly mental how much authority they get to fuck around the lower league schedule. This weekend was bad enough - Reading v QPR on the Thursday, Leeds v Derby last night, and would've had our game on Monday had we not required a replay in the FA Cup, which duly lead to a re-rescheduling only a week ago after a lot of people had already booked travel and hotels.

It does feel as though they have more of a fixture-wrecking authority than normal this season. And they sounded bad enough before.