Welcome to the official match thread for Huddersfield Town versus Bolton Wanderers on the 8th December 2012, k/o 3:00pm
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"Let the Terrier, see the Trotter"
Huddersfield Town play host to Bolton Wanderers this coming Saturday with the home side looking to move on from a horrific team performance in the West Yorkshire derby just 4 days ago. Town will be looking to end their jittery recent form and secure a first win in 5 games.
Wanderers lie three points behind us in 18th position after an unexpectedly mediocre start to life back in the Championship. Poor form at the start of the season cost fiery Scot Owen Coyle his job and Bolton were quick to instill Dougie Freeman in his place.
A founder member of the Football League, Bolton Wanderers were founded in 1874 as Christ Church FC, adopting their current moniker Bolton Wanderers in 1877. The name was chosen as the club initially had a lot of difficulty finding a permanent ground to play on, having used three venues in its first four years of existence.
Bolton were one of the 12 founder members of the Football League, which formed in 1888. Having remained in the Football League since its formation, Bolton have spent more time in the top flight (Premier League/old First Division) than out of it.
From 1935 to 1964, Bolton enjoyed an uninterrupted stay in the top flight, spearheaded in the 1950s by the legendary Nat Lofthouse.
Bolton share the distinction of having played a part in one of the most famous FA Cup finals of all time – The Stanley Matthews Final of 1953. Bolton lost the game to Blackpool 4–3 after gaining a 3–1 lead.
Bolton Wanderers have not won a major trophy since 1958, when two Lofthouse goals saw them overcome Manchester United in the FA Cup final in front of a 100,000 crowd at Wembley Stadium. The closest they have come to winning a major trophy since then is finishing runners-up in the League Cup, first in 1995 and again in 2004.
Head-to-Head
Overall:
Town: 32
Bolton: 43
Draws: 19
At Huddersfield:
Town: 25
Bolton: 13
Draw: 9
Last Meeting
Football League Division One
10th February 2001
Bolton Wanderers 2 (Bergsson 60, Frandsen 90)
Huddersfield Town 2 (Smith 6, Gallen 23)
One to Watch: Chris Eagles
Signed from Burnley in 2011 and a product of the Manchester United youth team, Eagles is an exciting attacking midfielder and a potential match-winner on any given day. Skilful and possessing great dead-ball ability, Town must look to combat the threat of the winger.
Current Form
Town: WLDLL
Bolton: DDDWL
Ticket News
Prices
Adult – £25
Over-60 - £15
Under-16 - £10
Under-8 - £5
On Sale Dates
All remaining tickets now on open sale.
There will be coach travel provided by the Official Travel Club with return journey tickets costing £12 per person and coaches departing the Reebok at 12.30pm.
Tickets can be booked online on www.bwfc.co.uk)
Pre-Match Drinkies
Trotters fans should find us a fairly friendly lot, you can drink and mingle with local fans in the Rope Walk pub which is situated at the opposite side of your stand by the cinema. Also the Bradley Mills working mens club and Ricky's bar both On Leeds road will accommodate away fans, so will most pubs.
If coming by train the Head of Steam pub at the station does good beer and there are various places to eat and drink in the centre, some posters on here could give more information if anyone needs it.
Prediction
It's time to move on from the inquest of last Saturday and get back to cheering on the lads, well, those who are fit anyway...
Grayson should have a decent number of players available but the absence of defender Joel Lynch is a concern.
I'm going to plump for a 1-1 draw here. A niggly game with not much in it.
Huddersfield Town v Bolton Wanderers
posted on 11/12/12
ive answered el aurans misguided and incorrect "in hindsight" comments..
with bolton and lots of others you know whats coming..no suprises.. we failed to negate the bleeding obvious..
simple, straightforward we surrended too much of the pitch and allowed better quality, shorter stuff into a good front man..
no footballing genius required, no subbuteo men on pretend pitches required, no high tech sky sports bollox required..
they played to their strengths and we let em...
clarke isnt the only problem but he affects the whole team and he isnt good enough at what he does for that to be happening..
again, simple and straightforward no coaching badges required to see it...
we cannot defend in open play on the edge or inside our own box, we just cant....
again, time after time after time we have proved this, its a fact..no hindsight required...just watch what we do when the game isnt going our way... we dont try to enforce anything on the other side, we drop away and hope to hang in...
simple and straightforward if you actually watch the games instead of worrying about how much noise the crowd is making or where we should be allowed to watch the game from....
posted on 11/12/12
Can anyone work out how many CB pairings PC has had since at Town ? He's probably seen off at least a dozen I'd say...pity we couldn't get Morrison isn't it...
posted on 11/12/12
common denominator jacko... not rocket science...
posted on 11/12/12
Morrison & Lynch would have been nice this season certainly
posted on 11/12/12
The funny thing is Every other centre back has always carried the can for our defensive frailties and Peter Clarke is totally blameless, yet time and again he is caught out of position, loses vital headers/tussles and still hardly anyone can see it. He's untouchable which in it's own way is very dangerous.
posted on 11/12/12
if you work as a pair and you know what the other is going to do in "most" situations then you can cover and cope..
when you 3 other people and probably smithies not having a clue as to what is about to "happen" it becomes chaos..
wherever you decide to "form a line" then you have to try your ars- off to stick to it..
we look ok halfway between the centre circle and the 18 yard box, best work on trying to hold that line.. davies headed on loads of stuff in the first half which was easily cleared or went through to smithies or out of play etc..
if you are stood on the edge of the box you have to make the challenge , if the forward runs off you you have to go with him, its too close to goal not to.. a mere 10 yards up the pitch and the challenge isnt vital and if he runs off you he is almost back on the halfway line..
all it is is cutting down the odds and keeping the opposition that vital 10/15 yards further away from your goal for longer in games.. its simpler to pass the ball out of defence when the midfield or strikers are a bit closer..
sick of watching opposition teams defend a bit further up, not all drop back behind the ball and continually have easy passes to get clear and easy balls to break on us..
i cant work out where we think we are going to go when everyone is back behind the ball, we end up sideways, worse still backwards and at best a big punt to a large area of field which only contains the opposition.. sick of watching gaggles of town players nowhere near where the ball actually is!!!!!
happens for at least 20 odd minutes in every game..
posted on 12/12/12
How many years now have we been repeating this over and over. While pc is fit we will never see him dropped. If grayson dropped him he would have unlimited respect from me.
posted on 12/12/12
I've got to say I admired the 'shape' of Bradford City last night, kept a high line, and the gap between midfield and the back four was at least 15 yards..it enabled the 2 forwards to keep up on Arsenals back four and gave the whole team depth.
I tried to envisage it being Town playing, but the work rate and shape was so much better from Parkinsons' team ... and that's despite Arsenal having most of the ball. Some of Bradfords inter passing was top class.
posted on 12/12/12
I disagree there Jacko. I thought City, particularly after the first half, spent most of their time bunched up in the middle with not much space in between defence & midfield. Arsenal seemed to be able to get as far forward as they liked out wide but city congested the middle making it difficult for the gunners to get through them.
Arsenals only goal came from a cross out wide and I thought their inability to use the space on the flanks, instead trying to tippy tappy through the centre constantly, cost them dearly.
It did make me wonder how they could get away with it when 9 times out of 10 we get punished
posted on 12/12/12
Ur ready bradford were more than happy to allow arsenal to play into the wide aread and packed the middle to stop them waltzing straight thro em with the one 2's and it worked. Instead of getting some crosses in they prefered to smash it from 25 yards out. Aparently arsenals team last night is valued at 66.8 million my answer is overrated and my ass