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Category B game.
This will be the 23rd meeting between these two teams, previously there have been 10 Town wins, 7 Watford wins and 5 draws..so fairly even...
Games in Huddersfield see 6 Town wins, 3 Watford wins and just one draw.
last season of course Town lost 7-2 on aggregate, including a total humiliation at Watford where we escaped with just a 0-4 in a shambolic performance which left many town fans in total despair. Never has a Town team look more like a set of carthorses, while the silky Italian skills and organisation shown by Franco Zolas' side were in stark contrast.
Anyroads, on Saturday Watford come here in 7th place, 2 places above the Terriers and 4 points better off.
Watfords away record has seen wins at Birmingham (1-0) and Barnsley (5-1); a draw at Reading (3-3) and defeats at Blackpool (0-1) and Blackburn last time out (0-1).
The Terriers are on an 'unbeaten run' of Lee Clarke proportions...5 games with 4 draws in that sequence ..however we have only won one game from our last 6.
While sitting in 9th place on 14 points, only 3 points separate us from 16th placed Millwall...
Town will be looking for 3 points prior to the enforced 2 week break due to World Cup qualifying games next week...that would keep the fans happy and looking forward to our next two games against Leicester and Leeds utd.
Questions for Mark Robins are how is he going to get Town playing with a) more fluidity b) with more possession and vitally c) having more than one shot on goal in 90 minutes ? The last 4 games has seen just 6 shots on target in nearly 400 minutes of football..that is simply not good enough.
We have a prolific goalscorer in Vaughan, plus an international striker in Paterson..but without some decent supply we're not going to win many games.
Midfield again is the main issue ~ and for me I would play Clayton at the back of the diamond, Gobern and Norwood in the centre and Hammill and Scannell in the wide positions. I might leave Gerrard out and play Richards on the left of the back 3 (assuming we do 3-5-2 again).
I would like to see Holmes get a chance for 30 minutes as a sub...
Wonder if Hydy is still reading this...if he is...'hya Hydy'
So what crowd can we expect, with home support averaging less than 12,000 so far, and Watford not expected to bring more than last years 700...we will be lucky to get more than 13,000.
Actual gate- 14,311 with 951 from Watford.
Possession 54%
Shots 16, On Target..4
prediction ?
I'm going for a defeat here...1-2 I'm afraid...
Huddersfield Town 1 Udinese Watford 2
posted on 5/10/13
Overall Town didn't play badly today, although a couple of mistakes cost us dearly, against a Watford side who are now the Leagues top scorers with 22 goals.
However, I've no complaints about the result, since I thought Watford were marginally the better side over the full 90 mins, although they couldn't have complained had Town taken a lead into the interval, since I thought Town slightly shaded the game for the first 45 mins.
Watford were the better side over last 45 mins, when Town pushed forward and left gaps at the back for them to exploit. However, overall I was not too disappointed with the overall Town performance against a very good side, who could very well be playing in the Premiership next season.
I thought both Clayton and Norwood were poor today, although my hero Wardy played well, but why do we always seem to conceed a goal straight after we score one?
Anyhow, I've no complaints about the outcome since we all know (or should do) that Town are a "selling club" - always have been and always will be unless a loaded Sheik buys us out. So that means we will settle for mid table mediocrity, whilst the more ambitous clubs such as QPR, Watford & Leicester etc. etc. aim for the top and make funds available to acheive this target.
So, 14 points from 11 games puts us on target for yet another 58/60 points haul which should just about guarantee our Championship survival, since I can't see Yeovil, Barnsley (although they beat Town), Millwall, Charlton or Sheff Wed cracking any pots this season.
posted on 5/10/13
Nice summary Mirf...
posted on 5/10/13
Just nicely got in.
Spoke to my dad afterwards. His question was;
What do these keepers do in training?
I was right behind smithies when that ball came into his chest it didn't move that much.
As for their diving little argy, he's a cracking player. Constantly harried and hussled us on the ball. Bags of energy.
Did you notice, there was always 3 men on Hammill all the time?
posted on 6/10/13
How does Charlton v blackpool (0-0) get shown before us on the football league show?
Garbage smithies, having watched it back again and again!
posted on 6/10/13
It was awful, but he has been excellent this year for us. Hardly Joe Hart proportions yet! < yikes>
posted on 6/10/13
Smithies comes across as being a nervous wreckage! Whenever he punches the ball clear, or makes a catch, and then gets rid of the ball, or clears an over-hit through ball from the opposition, he goes into the back of the net and sups from a bottle, which presumably contains nothing more than an energy drink, or flavoured water. Still, one hopes it’s not a touch of OCD he is suffering from. I can’t remember the great goalkeepers of the past even having a drink to hand. It they had, it would surely have been brown ale.
The custodian's distribution is awful, but then, ‘twas ever thus. When is the manager, or the goalkeeper coach going to catch on, after all, goalkeepers should be good at catching, shouldn’t they? It would appear that Crichton is not admirable. Hotcha, hotcha, hotcha!
As for Mark Robins' statement, “It’s all about belief.”, you really should think before you speak, Mr. Manager, seeing as some people believe the Earth is flat, others believe that Elvis is not dead, and… believe it or not… quite a large percentage of the world’s population believes that approximately 6,000 years ago, an omnipotent, omnipresent, extraterrestrial being created the heavens and the earth in six days.
If Elvis were alive, he would now sing, “I believe for every drop of rain that falls, a flower grows…”
But he isn’t, so we’ll just have to make do with…
"You do the Hokey Cokey and you turn around… that's what it's all about!"
posted on 6/10/13
If the above post fails to attract Bootsy back on here, then trust me, nowt will.
posted on 6/10/13
Like I said to Loui the other day, an old uncle dilution thread got resurrected by the one and only Jkb.
Funny that it disappeared too
posted on 6/10/13
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posted on 6/10/13
Hydy, they usually go to the teams in order of league position, that's why Blackpool were on first . Hence why QPR are always on first.