Huddersfield Town vs Blackpool F.C
Terriers vs The Tangerines
Date: Wednesday 26th December
Venue: Galpharm Stadium
Kick-off: 3pm
DIRECTIONS FOR THE AWAY FANS
GETTING TO THE STADIUM
HD1 6PG (put that in your sat nav if you own one)
BY CAR:
From M1 south - exit at junction 42 and continue. West on the M62. Exit the M62 at junction 25 and turn left, following signs for Huddersfield Town Centre (A62). Follow the official car park signs thereon in.
BY RAIL
Huddersfield Railway Station is situated in St. George's Square and is approximately half a mile from the Stadium. Buses and taxis are available outside the station or you can follow the signed pedestrian route to the Stadium via Northumberland Street.
TOWN FANS:
If you dont know by now dont bother!
WHERE TO EAT AND DRINK:
In town centre numerous fast food outlets and bars/pubs for a beer or soft drink.
Down at the ground you've got Pizza Hut, Ropewalk (full meals) and Costa Coffee (snacks), burger vans and the food outlets in the stands itself.
Drink wise you've got Ropewalk or Rickys bar further down leeds road for your beers and soft drinks. Alcohol, hot and cold beverages also available in the ground itself.
TICKETS:
TOWN fans can pay on the turnstile for this fixture or book online. Avoid the ticket office as you'll pay a booking fee. Prices from £21 adults, £14 seniors, £8 juniors
Blackpool fans Ticket prices: Adult £25, Senior (60+) £15, Students £15, Under 16 £10, Under 8 £5.
Proof required
Ambulant Disabled and Wheelchair Users are entitled to a free carer. Ambulant Disabled are charged according to their age bracket. Wheel-chair Users are priced at £15
So Terriers lets get down and dirty with the 'nitty gritty'
Huddersfield go into this game on the back of 3 defeats and 2 draws from our last 5 games LLDLD. Last saturday was a much improved performance against 10 man palace but failed to kill the game off. Its encouraging to see Vaughan and Beckford both fit again and starting. Red carded Gerrard gets to play this one due to the card being appealed and the panel stuffing their fat faces with turkey until Thursday. We possibly should have come away with 3 points instead of 1 especially when you consider that clayts missed a penalty.
Saturday was a memorable day for another reason. The undroppable warrior Peter Clarke dare I say it dropped to my and a few other delights too. Certainly aroused 38 years’s little man. Mirf not happy tho but you cant please em all!
Blackpool were enjoying a great start to the championship hammering everyone out of site. That was until TOWN went to bloomfield rd and destroyed them in front of the sky tv cameras. Since then their season has been average at best but do sit a few places above us in the league at present.
Blackpools current form: DWDWL
Im sorry chaps that its not particularly long this week and sorry DARN theres no history for you to pull your cracker over but I didn’t know I was down for this until and hour ago… cheers wethers
Finally I would just like to wish you all a very merry xmas and a happy new year from Tez and family.
Make it drunken one
OVER TO YOU....
Huddersfield vs Blackpool Match Thread
posted on 27/12/12
Bryce the atmosphere is poor mate for defo. But no fu-cher cheers me on at work and i still do what im paid to do competently and to the best of my ability? Im grateful to be in a job and able to feed my kids.
posted on 27/12/12
Some do moan for the sake of it Tez, they were born moaners.
If the players aren't putting the effort in then fair play have a go
posted on 27/12/12
Ofcourse wakey i have them in my section too.
posted on 27/12/12
You can't kid the fans...they see what they see
All the pre and post match hype is bawllorks...trying to find positives where there is none...
To be fair to Grayson, he does tell it how it is...and I suppose the players would boo themselves if they could...they know when it isn't working.
I guess the players are trying to carry out the pre match game plan...holding back, covering so and so..not pushing too far upfield etc..which to us fans looks like lazy play...but if that's the managers instructions ?
If it were District League, you'd be telling the guys in the crowd...I've been told to stay back ...it must be frustrating..it is for the fans.
Over coached ? Too much tactical stuff ? Planning too much for the opposition instead of playing our own game ?
Probably a bit of all those things..
posted on 27/12/12
Tez - Your work and football are too different things,,,, Am sure Clough, Paisley, Venables etc know a little more than some on here,,, And i do recall all those at some point or other going to away games and telling their players to keep it tight, keep it simple and quieten the home crowd to such a degree that they are now audible only in their frustration at their players, They then get on their backs leading to further errors and a lack of belief in their selves,,,,,, Nobody has to do this at Town games,, Most of the crowd are already waiting to have a moan n groan,, Only a minority try to jazz up the atmosphere,, Most dont seem to give two hoots,, Many think the atmosphere makes no difference etc etc,, I disagree,, Most of my mates disagree,, The players will disagree,, A positive atmosphere does help,, A negative atmosphere does not,,,,,,
posted on 28/12/12
And there you have it.
Top stuff Brycey, Well said.
posted on 28/12/12
Do they do 'rent a crowd' anywhere...we could ship them in from where ever by the coach load...or fly them in from India or Asia...
Guaranteed to make some noise....it might be Urdu, but at least it's noise...
posted on 28/12/12
Jacko...
You could contact Central Casting (centralcasting.com), but I would expect that 15,000 or so extras won’t come cheap. Also, I would be very surprised that even if they were all to shout themselves hoarse for 90+ minutes, they would make any difference to what is currently being served up at the John Smith's Stadium (bland name, bland fare)…
1 No invention or variation at corners, free-kicks, or throws in.
2 Smithies’ diabolical distribution.
3 Not a crumb of creativity from the midfield players.
4 So-called wingers who don’t cross the ball when they should.
5 Players taking that extra touch, or two, or three, before attempting to clear, pass, or cross the ball.
6 Painfully slow speed of thought.
7 Players and coaching staff who appear not to know how to play the game of association football.
And that’s only for starters!
A number of the above failings could be put right at the drop of a hat. You might have noticed that Simon Grayson is always bareheaded.
“The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds.” American Football coach, George Allen.
posted on 28/12/12
ha ha...central casting !
Perhaps, on reflection, we should do like Bilbao do..piped sound effects !!!!
There you go...we could record some fans from some noisy ground somewhere (I'm getting carried away with this)..then blast it out at FULL VOLUME (which is pretty loud believe me)...that'll do it
Might get confused a bit when "Dusseldorf", or whoever, is chanted from time to time, but hey, you can't have everything...and we could always change our name...
Next up, of course..we could squash all the fans into 2 sides and have a big screen in front of the other stands showing the actual video footage of said Dusseldorf fans...jumping and flag waving in their green and yellow shirts...we could always change our colours....
That would be great ...
posted on 16/2/13
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