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Post by York Terrier on Jul 7, 2017 18:39:37 GMT 1
When Lee Clark got the job in December 2008 it was a very exciting time, with experienced coach Derek Fazackerley, a big name in Terry McDermott as Assistant Manager, Steve Black as a Performance Coach (that sounded modern at the time, I'd certainly never heard of one) and even a rumour about Kevin Keegan coming in as a coach! He inherited a squad full of shit players and had to play a front two of Keigan Parker and Phil Jevons who managed a massive 4 goals between them that season. The 2009-10 season was a very exciting season and the football we played that season was absolutely fantastic. Then we bottled it in the play offs against Millwall and that was it. He changed his whole philosophy the season after (2010-11) and that season saw some of the worst football I've ever seen at Town, playing 4-5-1 at home and playing for a draw. He should have got sacked after that utter debacle at Old Trafford, an occasion that I still struggle to talk about over 6 years later. He then became utterly obsessed with that stupid unbeaten run which when it came down to it was fucking pointless. Except for sacking Powell and appointing Wagner, sacking Lee Clark when he did is the best decision Hoyle has made. I don't look back on Clark's reign with any fondness whatsoever, I certainly don't miss his arrogance, his ranting and raving on the touchline and his shite football. Can we put this to bed now and never hear the pillock's name again? And I thought I was one voice in the wilderness I agree with every word of this posting, just as an aside I had a vip tour at Birmingham when he was the manager there and we got to ask the manager questions LC nearly fell over when I asked him why he left JR on the bench and started with a defensive formation against the Posh who had one of the best offensive line ups but one of the worst defences in the division,needless to say he refused to answer. I don't understand this love in with LC lets just sweep him under the carpet.
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Post by York Terrier on Jun 28, 2017 19:37:36 GMT 1
I watched my first game in 882..it was Odersefelt v Jorvik reserves..I remember their big Danish striker Ragnarsson...brute he was.. I've lost the program for the game unfortunately...but the game was played somewhere near where the post office is now..it was all farm land in those days..later I got called up for Saxon Villa, and later Wessex as an international centre half..I played 12 times for Wessex, mainly against Essex in friendlies. Sadly my leg was hacked of by an axe in a dispute with a fan and my career was over..I've seen Town play every game since then..so I claim to be the best fan ever...pity about my leg though, not long after that they invented shins pads, but alas too late for me.. I find this posting hard to believe I was OK with everything you said upto the bit about the shin pads as everyone's knows they were invented in the 1900, and they would not have saved your leg from an Axe wielding fan. On this basis Sir I would say you are a Scoundrel and a Cad.
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Post by York Terrier on Jun 26, 2017 22:07:56 GMT 1
What can I say season ticket holder living in Reading most seasons for the past 15/20 years do every game home and away,and the worst season for travel was under S Bruce 26,000 miles in one season even flown home from work in Germany and Italy to watch games looking forward to lots of games in the South this next season. For the record been married 39 years 3 kids could not afford when the kids were really young and I lived in deepest Kent
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Post by York Terrier on Jun 10, 2017 9:16:34 GMT 1
Don't want Wood, failed in PL last time not worth £15m, not our type of player there has to be better in Germany,Holland for a lot less money.
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Post by York Terrier on Jun 9, 2017 20:25:20 GMT 1
Na Na Na Na hey hey Huddersfield Town
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Post by York Terrier on Jun 9, 2017 20:17:10 GMT 1
Mooy is in my opinion the best holding midfield player I've seen since 69/70 and he could do a vital job for us in the Premiership, but I do agree that I can't see him staying and there are other players out there who could do equally well, including Williams. I would be tempted to give Wells & Hefele a chance. How do you acquire this knowledge about Williams from watching him in one game? I live and work in Reading and none of the Reading fans have a good word to say about him,they agreed he played well in the final but it was a shop window opportunity for him. Your first statement about him being a holding midfielder is also confusing as Hogg fills that role in my opinion, Mooy is ten times the player Williams is,and whilst I don't disagree there are better players out there, they are way beyond our budgets and would never come to Huddersfield.
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Post by York Terrier on Jun 6, 2017 19:41:42 GMT 1
Aron only has two ears but Patrick has three a right ear a left ear and a final frontier so I don't think they could be related
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Post by York Terrier on May 28, 2017 10:52:00 GMT 1
Thanks Reading I might try that . Are there good and bad ways of getting away from Wembley or is it just going to be a nightmare whichever way ? First time I've driven I've done that route to Wembley before and left the car at High Wycombe (there's a large multi-storey car park at the station). Trains to Wembley Stadium are about every 10 mins and it takes about 25mins to do the journey. Afterwards, it's well organised for trains going back to London (Marylebone) or the other way towards the midlands (all those trains will stop at High Wycombe...I think) Train from High Wycombe just as good easy access from M40,we go on the tube from Amersham straight into Wembley if you are coming down the M69 and A46 to M40, Warwick Services is a good stopping off point as it is 10 mins from junction 15 of the M40. I live down here and would never consider driving into Wembley even when there is no game on
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Post by York Terrier on May 28, 2017 9:47:45 GMT 1
On the basis I do this journey for each home game can I suggest the best route is as below.
M1 to Leicester Forest straight after services take M69 turn off to M40 Follow M69 to A46 ( no road works now) A46 to M40 junction 15 Stay on M40 to A40 ( runs straight in) Follow signs for Wembley
Alternativley ( our route)
Come off M40 junction 4 High Wycombe Follow Amersham signs to tube station ( lots of parking) Take tube from Amersham direct to Wembley ( 45 mins)
Safe Journey Everyone
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Post by York Terrier on May 25, 2017 19:43:30 GMT 1
My Brother In Law Chris Antich passed on in July last year and I very nearly joined him in November but he must have been pushing me back down saying one of us has to stick around for the promotion party.
I think it's fate that I am still here to see this game and Town are going up this year
PS I am wearing my Huddersfield Town tee shirt and Polo every day in Work and getting a lot of strange looks when I nip out of the office
Hope your watching Chris,even Janet is coming to the game
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Post by York Terrier on May 23, 2017 18:59:20 GMT 1
It'll be like the good old days, do you think there might be a queue forming at around 10am ? Probably... No doubt we still have a few Town fans who don't have the internet who'll be reading this thread wondering when 'old schoolers' are catered for... How can they be reading this if they have no internet?
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Post by York Terrier on May 18, 2017 17:19:15 GMT 1
Hi guys, Well done on last night and giving us all the final the media never wanted! I'm glad we're facing you guys as you've had a very similar up-turn in fortunes to us and have been a sound, non-arrogant bunch all season. I also don't think, like us, that you've been given enough credit by the media. Obviously, I hope we come through in the final but if we don't, I'd be happy to see you guys in the Premier League over the other two clubs. Can't wait for the Tinpot Final on the 29th! Cheers, A Royals fan Hi Town fan here who has lived in Woodley and Crowthorne for 31 years but is a season ticket holder at Huddersfield, this is the final I wanted and hopefully it will be a good game. Lots of our friends down here have been in touch already and we are having to put up with lots of good humoured banter let's hope we fill Wembley and give sky a game to remember with Town shading it 4-2
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Post by York Terrier on May 9, 2017 22:21:31 GMT 1
I posted about this a couple of years ago and got shouted down by all the clever people on here who always know better. The fairest way is a points system say a 100 points being awarded for season card holders, a further say 50 points for foundation members and travel members etc. Then points for every away game you attend say 15 points. You have to buy your away ticket from the club they keep a record and everyone with say 250 points gets first dabs at the big match tickets non season card holders can benefit by this system and season card holders are rewarded for their advanced purchase.
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Post by York Terrier on Apr 28, 2017 19:11:08 GMT 1
Had a lad who worked for me in Nigeria called Honesty Sunday Jones, he wasn't Welsh either. It's not unusual. Tom Jones
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Post by York Terrier on Apr 6, 2017 19:20:44 GMT 1
I think that he would try to undermine DW so he could get another crack at managment to prove he can coach/ manage don't touch him with a 50ft barge pole
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Post by York Terrier on Feb 22, 2017 19:37:53 GMT 1
Sod off I don't suppose the fact that I had an aortic dissection ( don't bother trying to work out what it is you are not clever enough) on the 4th November and was just released from hospital last Wednesday may have something to do with my not posting. Fulham was my last game and I just gave an honest opinion Bugger. Nasty things those (particularly type A/DeBakey I/II) . Glad to hear that you are ok and back for the thrills of the last 14 games. Watch the blood pressure now. Very accurate they also I understand carry a 85% fatality rate for both he discretion and the operation I was lucky it happened in central London which allowed me to get to Harefield within the 2 hour survival period.I tried to get to the Man City game but not fit enough yet and unable to drive for 3 Months
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Post by York Terrier on Feb 22, 2017 19:15:58 GMT 1
More to the point, York Terrier has been conspicuous by his absence on our great run. Only pops up to moan and slag people off when the chips are down. Sod off I don't suppose the fact that I had an aortic dissection ( don't bother trying to work out what it is you are not clever enough) on the 4th November and was just released from hospital last Wednesday may have something to do with my not posting. Fulham was my last game and I just gave an honest opinion
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Post by York Terrier on Feb 6, 2017 21:20:19 GMT 1
There was a group of 5 guys in the Kilner Bank near me. I informed the Police and stewards and they just let them sit there . I am contacting the club today asking for an explanation . Get a life
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Post by York Terrier on Jan 13, 2017 16:31:49 GMT 1
Why would it concern you in the slightest? Money could be spent elsewhere?? We should pay £5m for Ward to get a bigger % of the sell on clause
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Post by York Terrier on Jan 7, 2017 12:54:26 GMT 1
Are you both on drugs? Danny Ward is crap we would be going backwards if he is resigned let's hope these so called rumours are exactly that stupid rumours Glad to have you back, Reading. I agree with you on this one. btw I'm the grump that sits behind you. Which one of the grumps? Glad to be back I very nearly joined Chris 6 weeks in Intensive Care still in hospital for a bit yet
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Post by York Terrier on Jan 7, 2017 0:20:19 GMT 1
Are you both on drugs? Danny Ward is crap we would be going backwards if he is resigned let's hope these so called rumours are exactly that stupid rumours 9 goals this season in a side struggling at the bottom of the league and a number of Championship clubs including Derby & Wendies interested in him would suggest he's upped his game. Upped. His game? The bar was so low if he upped his game 10 fold he would still be crap
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Post by York Terrier on Jan 7, 2017 0:00:37 GMT 1
I like the way Ward leathers it when he gets sight of goal. Could be just what we need to boost our goal tally. We definitely lack someone who gives it a right good crack, apart from the odd worldie from midfield. Are you both on drugs? Danny Ward is crap we would be going backwards if he is resigned let's hope these so called rumours are exactly that stupid rumours
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Post by York Terrier on Oct 31, 2016 21:43:34 GMT 1
Agree I was only 4 rows off the front ( so I could sit down) level with the back post and the Fulham player for the first and third goals was heading the ball unchallenged in the 6yd box which has to be goalkeepers territory The first goal was actually chested down from seven yards and away from goal for the strike. The only way Ward could have claimed that would have been to race 10 or 12 yards of his line to intercept and claim it at it's highest point. Not an easy thing to do with a ball coming in at that angle and trajectory. Sorry not correct the player at the back post was in the 6yd box he actually made a mess of the header it hit him on the shoulder and bounced to an unmarked Martin a cross coming in from that far out should have been caught in my opinion with Ward having plenty of time to get to the back post and punch clear. The same for the third
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Post by York Terrier on Oct 31, 2016 19:23:00 GMT 1
No point having a massive squad of players, if players play shit and keep getting picked? Our defence, and Danny Ward truly horrendous against preston and Fulham. Someone needs to claim the god dam 18 yard box! We just stand there waiting for the worse to happen. Agree I was only 4 rows off the front ( so I could sit down) level with the back post and the Fulham player for the first and third goals was heading the ball unchallenged in the 6yd box which has to be goalkeepers territory
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Post by York Terrier on Oct 31, 2016 19:15:48 GMT 1
I'd say it's commendable that fans stay until the end despite a certain defeat, wouldn't you? Edit. Imagine if we extrapolate your decision to leave early across the entire away crowd, how would that look to the players - every supporter gone after 75 minutes? Not saying you were wrong to do what you did by the way, but if everybody did it, we'd look a bit poor wouldn't we? What? apart from our obvious loyalty to Town turns some people into some sort of patriotic Zombie when others have a more balanced view about Town and life in general. Just ask your self if you were watching a crap programme on TV would you just not turn it off or put the other channel on or would you sit there saying this is crap but I must watch it, in fact if I stand up and start singing the programme is bound to improve. What was poor is that nearly 2,500 fans turned up on the day but the players didn't for those of you who did not go to Brighton and Reading this was not the case the players never gave up and at Reading even though we lost I applauded all the players off at the end At Fulham it looked like men against boys and if you cared to read it he original post I was not bitching or complaining just telling it like it was from my point of view. Thats it from me I am in a Costa in Cambridge at the moment the Coffee is not good,but I am going to stand up and start singing instead of leaving it,as its bound to improve the taste if I do this,because the super fans tell me so. Living down south and working in London a lot,I have been given a bit of grief over the result on Saturday by everyone except the Fulham fans,to a man they have all called today saying that they could not even remember the score all of hey could remember was the way the Huddersfield fans carried on singing until the end of the game. Only when pressed did they remember they won 5-0 for their biggest win of the season
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Post by York Terrier on Oct 31, 2016 14:13:37 GMT 1
What I failed to say in my posting that I was one of a few leaving, also a lot of the posters on here thing that staying to the end when you are playing pants and getting thrashed somehow makes you a better supporter than others, who strangely enough have been watching Town since 1962 at over 116 grounds up and down the country. It's quite pathetic that these so called super fans, don't take the time to consider other people support Town in their own way and don't need to be told how they should behave at a football match. I'd say it's commendable that fans stay until the end despite a certain defeat, wouldn't you? Edit. Imagine if we extrapolate your decision to leave early across the entire away crowd, how would that look to the players - every supporter gone after 75 minutes? Not saying you were wrong to do what you did by the way, but if everybody did it, we'd look a bit poor wouldn't we? What? apart from our obvious loyalty to Town turns some people into some sort of patriotic Zombie when others have a more balanced view about Town and life in general. Just ask your self if you were watching a crap programme on TV would you just not turn it off or put the other channel on or would you sit there saying this is crap but I must watch it, in fact if I stand up and start singing the programme is bound to improve. What was poor is that nearly 2,500 fans turned up on the day but the players didn't for those of you who did not go to Brighton and Reading this was not the case the players never gave up and at Reading even though we lost I applauded all the players off at the end At Fulham it looked like men against boys and if you cared to read it he original post I was not bitching or complaining just telling it like it was from my point of view. Thats it from me I am in a Costa in Cambridge at the moment the Coffee is not good butgoing to stand up and start singing instead of leaving it as its bound to improve the taste if I do this because the super fans tell me so.
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Post by York Terrier on Oct 31, 2016 14:13:25 GMT 1
What I failed to say in my posting that I was one of a few leaving, also a lot of the posters on here thing that staying to the end when you are playing pants and getting thrashed somehow makes you a better supporter than others, who strangely enough have been watching Town since 1962 at over 116 grounds up and down the country. It's quite pathetic that these so called super fans, don't take the time to consider other people support Town in their own way and don't need to be told how they should behave at a football match. I'd say it's commendable that fans stay until the end despite a certain defeat, wouldn't you? Edit. Imagine if we extrapolate your decision to leave early across the entire away crowd, how would that look to the players - every supporter gone after 75 minutes? Not saying you were wrong to do what you did by the way, but if everybody did it, we'd look a bit poor wouldn't we? What? apart from our obvious loyalty to Town turns some people into some sort of patriotic Zombie when others have a more balanced view about Town and life in general. Just ask your self if you were watching a crap programme on TV would you just not turn it off or put the other channel on or would you sit there saying this is crap but I must watch it, in fact if I stand up and start singing the programme is bound to improve. What was poor is that nearly 2,500 fans turned up on the day but the players didn't for those of you who did not go to Brighton and Reading this was not the case the players never gave up and at Reading even though we lost I applauded all the players off at the end At Fulham it looked like men against boys and if you cared to read it he original post I was not bitching or complaining just telling it like it was from my point of view. Thats it from me I am in a Costa in Cambridge at the moment the Coffee is not good,but I am going to stand up and start singing instead of leaving it,as its bound to improve the taste if I do this,because the super fans tell me so.
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Post by York Terrier on Oct 31, 2016 13:57:06 GMT 1
What I failed to say in my posting that I was one of a few leaving, also a lot of the posters on here thing that staying to the end when you are playing pants and getting thrashed somehow makes you a better supporter than others, who strangely enough have been watching Town since 1962 at over 116 grounds up and down the country. It's quite pathetic that these so called super fans, don't take the time to consider other people support Town in their own way and don't need to be told how they should behave at a football match. You leave at a time when others are trying to watch, making them provide your egress & blocking their view. Similarities to standing? Inconsiderate! It's difficult to come back with any type of response to such an astute posting I take my hat off to you as you must be a super super fan
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Post by York Terrier on Oct 31, 2016 8:35:41 GMT 1
Not harsh at all, given leaving on 60 mins & complaining like a bitch while in 3rd aswell! Or did you selectively not read what 'Cole' wrote? Far from it. I read every word. Then re-read them. Then presumed his harshness was due to his disappointment. Readingterrier gave a balanced opinion on how he saw things. His entitled to do that. He wasn't bitching. Far from it. He's also entitled to leave when he wants. I might have done the same...maybe earlier. As it was I was sat in a Huddersfield pub watching Soccer Saturday. I had beer to numb my disappointment. He didn't have that option. What I failed to say in my posting that I was one of a few leaving, also a lot of the posters on here thing that staying to the end when you are playing pants and getting thrashed somehow makes you a better supporter than others, who strangely enough have been watching Town since 1962 at over 116 grounds up and down the country. It's quite pathetic that these so called super fans, don't take the time to consider other people support Town in their own way and don't need to be told how they should behave at a football match.
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Post by York Terrier on Oct 30, 2016 14:05:27 GMT 1
Have to say that, despite the scoreline, it was nowhere near as bad as some are saying. I went with 2 neutral supporters and they both said it was never a 5-0 game and that 3-1 might better represent the match. We made a couple of defensive errors, they got their tails up, we failed to take decent chances to get a foothold in the game, and this division works on very fine margins. It is 3 points gone. Let us move on to Brum next week. It was, another sprinkling fairy dust on another away horror show. If we were in Lg 1 or 2 i dont expect to lose 5 zip to a team halfway up this division , whatever anyone says simply unacceptable performances at Preston and Fulham Blimey Was it the same Fulham Town game I was at? we could have lost 7 or 8, before they scored their forward was clean through and hit a weak shot Ward saved,then a chip forward from midfield ended up over the bar,our defence was in tatters. Fulham attacked at will, we lost the ball almost every time trying to play out from the back their forwRd closed us down quickly and we lost our heads.
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