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Match Thread Huddersfield (H) Mon 25/09 (1 Viewer)

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skyblue025

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  • Sep 26, 2023
  • #1,436
Piss poor result. Huddersfield were shite. Wright misses from 2 yards and is then caught offside 3 times in 5 minutes. The 3rd time led to their goal along with the comedy defending of 4 or 5 players. Another 250 mile round trip down the shitter.
 
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napolimp

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  • Sep 26, 2023
  • #1,437
Good first half where we were in total control, should have easily put the game to bed. Came back out after half time with a completely different attitude, although Simms had 3 early second half chances and should have done better.

Simms looked good and is only going to get better. I'm not a Godden hater, and he deserves his place, but he was anonymous tonight. He should have gone off instead of Simms, the sub didn't make any sense when Godden had no impact on the match.

Wright needs to be careful he doesn't self destruct his own career.

Eccles and Kelly don't have that transition pass in their locker, but looked good defensively.

Wing backs looked good.

I really feel like we should pick a back 3 and stick to it, rather than chopping and changing every game. That's how Fadz Doyle Mcnally came good.

Ayari did some good stuff but maybe could play deeper with O'hare/Palmer/Allen at 10?

The midfield looked better with Allen in it.
 
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Saddlebrains

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  • Sep 26, 2023
  • #1,438
Brighton Sky Blue said:
Irrelevant, it wasn’t justified
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It was. We're shit, and people have paid good money this year
 

Matt smith

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  • Sep 26, 2023
  • #1,439
Onto QPR

sorry sbt, really frustrated as a Cov fan at the moment

I’ll be there Saturday to watch us get the 3 points

PUSB
 

shmmeee

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  • Sep 26, 2023
  • #1,440
fernandopartridge said:
Allen started 34 games last season and came on as sub 3 times. He was out injured otherwise. He basically made an appearance in every game he was available for.

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And Kelly?
 

shmmeee

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  • Sep 26, 2023
  • #1,441
Saddlebrains said:
It was. We're shit, and people have paid good money this year
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Doesn’t matter. You don’t boo the players. It makes us play worse. It’s the dumbest shit.
 
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Matt smith

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  • Sep 26, 2023
  • #1,442
shmmeee said:
Doesn’t matter. You don’t boo the players. It makes us play worse. It’s the dumbest shit.
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To be fair, if they’d have equalized when say they were on top and it didn’t end how it did, I doubt they’d have been boos
 

shmmeee

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  • Sep 26, 2023
  • #1,443
Matt smith said:
To be fair, if they’d have equalized when say they were on top and it didn’t end how it did, I doubt they’d have been boos
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I don’t care if they were saying Boo-urns, you just don’t boo in the ground at the end.
 

Balli001

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  • Sep 26, 2023
  • #1,444
skybluecam said:
I don’t think so.

Robins said Palmer was 4-8 weeks but Milan would be back quicker than that.
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I think he said could not would. Either way none of them will be playing before the international break at least.
 

pusbccfc

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  • Sep 26, 2023
  • #1,445
I'm surprised Robins didn't mention the boos or have a moan at the fans. He's done that plenty of times before.

Maybe he agrees with the anger?
 
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Macca

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  • Sep 26, 2023
  • #1,446
Decided against posting last night as was so frustrated with the performance even before the equaliser. At least 3 points would have made up for it. First half was reasonable but with no end product. Second half embarrassing hanging on against a very very average team. Simms is the better bet up front but still needs to show more movement, Wright I’m still hugely puzzled about. We look worse in all areas of the pitch from last year and though there may be improvement, it’s a bottom half team at best
 
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Sky Blue Pete

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  • Sep 26, 2023
  • #1,447
Macca said:
Decided against posting last night as was so frustrated with the performance even before the equaliser. At least 3 points would have made up for it. First half was reasonable but with no end product. Second half embarrassing hanging on against a very very average team. Simms is the better bet up front but still needs to show more movement, Wright I’m still hugely puzzled about. We look worse in all areas of the pitch from last year and though there may be improvement, it’s a bottom half team at best
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Agree about the points
I don’t think we look worse all over the pitch

da silva better than Bidwell

It was very poor play from wright to be offside but we shouldn’t have been outnumbered in the box and Thomas should have bloody cleared the ball
 

Sick Boy

Super Moderator
  • Sep 26, 2023
  • #1,448
SkyBlue_Bear83 said:

REPORT: Coventry City 1-1 Huddersfield Town

Yasin Ayari’s first goal for the Sky Blues helped to secure a point against Huddersfield Town at the Coventry Building Society Arena.
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Yasin Ayari’s first goal for the Sky Blues helped to secure a point against Huddersfield Town at the Coventry Building Society Arena.

Ellis Simms unleashed a ferocious effort which was tipped onto the bar by Lee Nicholls and came off Ayari and went into the back of the net.

Ben Wilson produced some fine saves in the second half to help secure the points and keep a third clean sheet of the season.


Quality reporting from the club
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City almost wrapped up all three points three minutes from time, but Lee Nicholls produced a stunning save to keep out Bobby Thomas.

However, Ayari’s first goal for the Club would prove to be enough, as City got back to winning ways against the Terriers.

But, late in the day, the Terriers levelled the game.
 
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Macca

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  • Sep 26, 2023
  • #1,449
Sky Blue Pete said:
Agree about the points
I don’t think we look worse all over the pitch

da silva better than Bidwell

It was very poor play from wright to be offside but we shouldn’t have been outnumbered in the box and Thomas should have bloody cleared the ball
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Not individual players necessarily but for me defensive looks less solid, midfield less penetrating and up front…. Well you know
 
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Boicey

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  • Sep 26, 2023
  • #1,450
I wonder how keen King is to give Robins another 5 or £10m in January?
 
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Macca

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  • Sep 26, 2023
  • #1,451
I do wonder if at the time the strikers were brought in we were very confident that Gus was staying. Otherwise strange choice of style of forwards.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Sep 26, 2023
  • #1,452
Macca said:
I do wonder if at the time the strikers were brought in we were very confident that Gus was staying. Otherwise strange choice of style of forwards.
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That seems to be the case.
 
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Ashdown

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  • Sep 26, 2023
  • #1,453
Very slim margins , 30 more seconds or so and a home win and 3 points and the forum posters trudge off to bed somewhat happier. My biggest concern is the fragility of a lot of players , Godden, Kelly, Sheaf, Ohare, Palmer, Fadz. ( only because of his age ) Allen, MVE……none of the above will do a full season. We need to find our best 11 as soon as possible and stick to it for a few games but it’s not going to happen until everyone is fit
 

BlueSkiesForever

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  • Sep 26, 2023
  • #1,454
I’m stil not convinced 5 at the back works for us, I mentioned it a couple of games ago, look at all the best teams in the world (not saying we’re anywhere near that of course) hardly any of them play 5 at the back. It’s all 4-3-3 and you have to ask why is that?

Why are Man City and Liverpool and Arsenal and Barcelona and Bayern etc etc all playing with 4 at the back with one central striker? Maybe the best managers have figured out that if you have more defenders than attackers it’s hard to score goals.

I think Robins is a good manager but when it’s not working he never changes it up, that team sheet has been the same old shit every week (bar injuries) and every week it becomes clearer and clearer that it’s not working. The two striker thing isn’t working, the wingbacks can’t ever seem to put a decent cross in, the midfield is slow as fuck, the defenders still can’t defend when there’s 3 of them there. It’s getting beyond a joke now, there’s only so many weeks you can go on saying “give it time to gel” before it sounds like you’ve ran out of ideas.

The team sheet needs starting again and we need to seriously look at what our play style is because atm it’s score one weird, dodgy goal, try to hang on to a lead and then inevitably concede. Really really pissed off with that whole performance, even if we would have won 1-0 it wouldn’t have been anything to cheer about, it’s frankly embarrassing.
 
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Ashdown

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  • Sep 26, 2023
  • #1,455
Wright will never be a £7 million forward as long as he’s got a hole up his arse !
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Sep 26, 2023
  • #1,456
Ashdown said:
Very slim margins , 30 more seconds or so and a home win and 3 points and the forum posters trudge off to bed somewhat happier. My biggest concern is the fragility of a lot of players , Godden, Kelly, Sheaf, Ohare, Palmer, Fadz. ( only because of his age ) Allen, MVE……none of the above will do a full season. We need to find our best 11 as soon as possible and stick to it for a few games but it’s not going to happen until everyone is fit
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Palmer needs moving on in January.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Sep 26, 2023
  • #1,457
BlueSkiesForever said:
I’m stil not convinced 5 at the back works for us, I mentioned it a couple of games ago, look at all the best teams in the world (not saying we’re anywhere near that of course) hardly any of them play 5 at the back. It’s all 4-3-3 and you have to ask why is that?

Why are Man City and Liverpool and Arsenal and Newcastle and Barcelona and Bayern etc etc all playing with 4 at the back with one central striker? Maybe the best managers have figured out that if you have more defenders than attackers it’s hard to score goals.

I think Robins is a good manager but when it’s not working he never changes it up, that team sheet has been the same old shit every week (bar injuries) and every week it becomes clearer and clearer that it’s not working. The two striker thing isn’t working, the wingbacks can’t ever seem to put a decent cross in, the midfield is slow as fuck, the defenders still can’t defend when there’s 3 of them there. It’s getting beyond a joke now, there’s only so many weeks you can go on saying “give it time to gel” before it sounds like you’ve ran out of ideas.

The team sheet needs starting again and we need to seriously look at what our play style is because atm it’s score one weird, dodgy goal, try to hang on to a lead and then inevitably concede. Really really pissed off with that whole performance, it’s frankly embarrassing.
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If you encourage the wing backs to get far forward then you have 5 attacking players on and 5 defensive plus the keeper, the issue has often been MR using his wing backs in ultra defensive mode so it becomes effectively a 7 defender system. Ryan Giles last season was exactly the kind of wing back I’m on about being used much more aggressively
 
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shmmeee

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  • Sep 26, 2023
  • #1,458
Brighton Sky Blue said:
If you encourage the wing backs to get far forward then you have 5 attacking players on and 5 defensive plus the keeper, the issue has often been MR using his wing backs in ultra defensive mode so it becomes effectively a 7 defender system. Ryan Giles last season was exactly the kind of wing back I’m on about being used much more aggressively
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As soon as Dasilva and Saka were level with Fadz while we were defending yesterday I knew it was all over. Just no bravery to get up the pitch.
 

Sick Boy

Super Moderator
  • Sep 26, 2023
  • #1,459
BlueSkiesForever said:
I’m stil not convinced 5 at the back works for us, I mentioned it a couple of games ago, look at all the best teams in the world (not saying we’re anywhere near that of course) hardly any of them play 5 at the back. It’s all 4-3-3 and you have to ask why is that?

Why are Man City and Liverpool and Arsenal and Barcelona and Bayern etc etc all playing with 4 at the back with one central striker? Maybe the best managers have figured out that if you have more defenders than attackers it’s hard to score goals.

I think Robins is a good manager but when it’s not working he never changes it up, that team sheet has been the same old shit every week (bar injuries) and every week it becomes clearer and clearer that it’s not working. The two striker thing isn’t working, the wingbacks can’t ever seem to put a decent cross in, the midfield is slow as fuck, the defenders still can’t defend when there’s 3 of them there. It’s getting beyond a joke now, there’s only so many weeks you can go on saying “give it time to gel” before it sounds like you’ve ran out of ideas.

The team sheet needs starting again and we need to seriously look at what our play style is because atm it’s score one weird, dodgy goal, try to hang on to a lead and then inevitably concede. Really really pissed off with that whole performance, even if we would have won 1-0 it wouldn’t have been anything to cheer about, it’s frankly embarrassing.
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If he goes one up too he’ll have Simms and Wright sitting on the bench, which is going to lead to Douglas asking some questions.
 

hill83

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  • Sep 26, 2023
  • #1,460
SBT said:
If “the old guard” think they can try and get ahead of the criticism of their own declining performances by leaking rumours to sympathetic ears then they can fuck off as well tbh
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Yeah it’s an absolute c*nt of a move
 
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BlueSkiesForever

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  • Sep 26, 2023
  • #1,461
We’re not ever going to get it but this is what I’d like to see against QPR, fucking sick of 5 at the back:

Wilson
Eccles, Kitching, Binks, Dasilva
Allen, Lati
Sakamoto, Ayari, Wright
Simms
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Sep 26, 2023
  • #1,462
shmmeee said:
As soon as Dasilva and Saka were level with Fadz while we were defending yesterday I knew it was all over. Just no bravery to get up the pitch.
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It got so deep with it almost becoming a back 7. I thought we’d gotten away with it mind you but still, the clowns managed to faff up the final 10 seconds.
 
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BlueSkiesForever

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  • Sep 26, 2023
  • #1,463
Sick Boy said:
If he goes one up too he’ll have Simms and Wright sitting on the bench, which is going to lead to Douglas asking some questions.
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I’d play Simms as striker and Wright as a wide winger, and yes I know Wright’s a shit striker, I completely get that but I think with more time and space on the ball with his pace and strength he might be okay out wide, maybe.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Sep 26, 2023
  • #1,464
BlueSkiesForever said:
We’re not ever going to get it but this is what I’d like to see against QPR, fucking sick of 5 at the back:

Wilson
Eccles, Kitching, Binks, Dasilva
Allen, Lati
Sakamoto, Ayari, Wright
Simms
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Would pair Kitching with McF, Lati at RB and Kelly at DM. But with MVE out for a lot less time than was thought, MR won’t change it.
 
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BlueSkiesForever

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  • Sep 26, 2023
  • #1,465
Brighton Sky Blue said:
If you encourage the wing backs to get far forward then you have 5 attacking players on and 5 defensive plus the keeper, the issue has often been MR using his wing backs in ultra defensive mode so it becomes effectively a 7 defender system. Ryan Giles last season was exactly the kind of wing back I’m on about being used much more aggressively
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Exactly, it becomes this weird mess of defenders all doing absolutely nothing, it sounds ridiculous I know but I would rather have lost that game trying something different and giving it a real good go than getting 1 single point performing like that. Each week the games tick by and each week we learn nothing about our team other than we’ve wasted a load of money. The system needs to change, we’ve got no play style, no creativity, no threat. Imagine the score line when we play Leeds or Norwich or Ipswich or even Bristol City etc, it’s just atrocious football at our club atm.
 

fernandopartridge

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  • Sep 26, 2023
  • #1,466
BlueSkiesForever said:
Exactly, it becomes this weird mess of defenders all doing absolutely nothing, it sounds ridiculous I know but I would rather have lost that game trying something different and giving it a real good go than getting 1 single point performing like that. .
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You really are strange

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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Sep 26, 2023
  • #1,467
Saddlebrains said:
It was. We're shit, and people have paid good money this year
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So did you boo them off?
 
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Macca

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  • Sep 26, 2023
  • #1,468
Probably shouldn’t cry about a few seconds of booing. It’s frustration and people probably regret it straight away. There is still a gram of raw emotion in the modern game. I said I wasn’t going to waste time on this shit again straight after the game but had changed my mind within minutes
 
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BlueSkiesForever

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  • Sep 26, 2023
  • #1,469
fernandopartridge said:
You really are strange
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It’s strange that you’re willing to see that bollocks every week and not ever want to change it up. I just don’t get it, how can you be happy with a point? We play some of the worst football in the league.
 

Martin180

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  • Sep 26, 2023
  • #1,470
I'm out in Turkey on holiday currently, watched it last night with a couple of Huddersfield fans . They thought Simms ,Binks and Sakamoto were useful for us but warned of their post playoff season.
I started the season hopeful but while a few new signings show encouraging signs , others seems way off it and others haven't even had a chance yet .
January is going to be crucial for this season and next .
One thing they said is we must stick with Robins as their managerial appointments since Wembley have been catastrophic.
Will always be a glass half full poster after the events of the past 15-20 years but the last few games have been worrying .
 
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