Match Day Thread Hudderfield Town John Smith's Stadium 18/10/2022

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LAST TIME OUT

FORM GUIDE

HUDDERSFIELD 8 PNE 10

MANAGER

MARK FOTHERINGHAM

Coaching career
Tomas Oral, head coach of German side Karlsruher SC, knew Fotheringham from his time as assistant to Felix Magath at Fulham. He convinced him to join him at Karlsruhe and after a few days as a guest he signed as assistant coach on 1 July 2016.[29]

Fotheringham was appointed player-assistant manager of Scottish League Two club Cowdenbeath in 2017. He left Cowdenbeath in 2019 and returned to Germany, again as assistant coach of Oral at German 2nd tier club FC Ingolstadt. Ingolstadt got relegated to 3rd division, Oral and Fotheringham left the club. The following March, Ingolstadt being outside of the promotion spots, they took over again. Ingolstadt managed promotion to the 2nd tier, Oral and Fotheringham left afterwards.[30] In March 2022 he became Magath's assistant coach at Bundesliga club Hertha BSC.[31][32]

On 28 September 2022, Fotheringham was appointed head coach of EFL Championship side Huddersfield Town on a contract until June 2025, the club sitting in 23rd position at the time of his appointment.[33]

FAMOUS LANDMARKS

The Lawrence Batley Theatre is a theatre in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England which offers drama, music, dance and comedy.

The theatre is named after Lawrence Batley, a local entrepreneur and philanthropist, who founded a nationwide cash and carry chain.

The building was originally built in 1819 as a Methodist chapel, called the Queen Street Chapel.[1] The architect is unknown but the chief mason was Joseph Kaye, the man who was also responsible for Huddersfield station.[1][2] It was opened on 9 July 1819 and the reporter in the Leeds Mercury described it as "one of the most handsome and commodious chapels in the kingdom; being capable of accommodating 3000 persons, and has been erected at an expense of from 8 to £10,000".[3] The chapel became a mission in 1906 until a decline in numbers saw the mission move out of the building in 1970 to a new building in King Street.[4] In 1973 the building was converted into an arts centre. However serious structural problems were discovered by Kirklees Metropolitan Council in 1975 and the Arts Centre was rehoused into Venn Street Arts Centre and the building remained vacant before being sublet to Novosquash Limited and converted to a squash club known as The Ridings. It also housed a restaurant and a The Catacombs Disco.[5][6] In 1989 the Kirkless Theatre Trust was given the go ahead to save the building from deterioration and launch Huddersfield's newest theatre. Building work for the theatre started in September 1992 and took 4 years to complete.

In The Dressing Room

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PNE will check on the fitness of Daniel Johnson and Liam Lindsay ahead of Tuesday night, after both missed out through injury at the weekend.

17-year-old Finlay Cross-Adair was involved for the first time on Saturday, making his professional debut against Stoke City, and he’ll be hoping to be included once again.

Troy Parrott is the only player definitely unavailable, with his hamstring injury keeping him out until December.

A Look At Our Hosts

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There’s been a change of management at the John Smith’s Stadium in recent weeks, with Hertha BSC assistant coach Mark Fotheringham replacing Danny Schofield.

Under Schofield – who was boss when PNE won 4-1 in the Carabao Cup away from home earlier this year – the Terriers had made a below-par start to the campaign, finding themselves towards the bottom of the table following their Play-Off final defeat last season.

Now with Fotheringham in charge, he’s led his side to four points in his four games so far, most recently suffering a Yorkshire derby defeat to Rotherham United.

Going Head To Head



Games played: 97
PNE wins: 37
Draws: 24
Huddersfield Town wins: 36
Last meeting: Huddersfield Town 1-4 PNE, 9th August 2022

One To Watch

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One of the Terriers’ top performers this season has been Sorba Thomas, who has carried over his impressive form from the last campaign.

Having assisted 12 goals in the Championship on their way to the Play-Offs last term, winger Thomas has already registered six assists in his 13 matches this season.

The former Boreham Wood man – capped six times by Wales – will be hoping to continue his form ahead of the Qatar World Cup.

Match Officials

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Andy Woolmer will referee his third Preston North End game of the season on Tuesday night.

Woolmer has taken charge of two goalless draws for PNE this term, away at Cardiff City and Sunderland over the past two months.

He has officiated ten games this campaign, showing 39 yellow cards and two reds, and he’ll be assisted by Philip Dermott and Geoffrey Liddle, while David Webb is the fourth official.

MACS VIEW

Almost predict the score given the ref has done two of our games and both have been 0-0. Eight goals in 15 games, on Saturday we didn't eve have a shot on goal, lots of folks are beginning to lose a bit of faith in Mr Fantastic. Good news is we actually scored four here in the League Cup a couple of months ago however this will be different, new manager bounce etc.
Big week two losses tomorrow against those Tangerine folk and his job is on the line

 

It does seem as though the brains in his managerial time at Plymouth was RL's assistant. Personally, I would have given Ainsworth a go. If we lose these 2 games, RL's time will be up. According to other supporters, RL has improved the style of football. Also, it looks as though Browne and DJ want to move on.

 

Huddersfield Town 0 Preston North End 1 Cunningham

PNE line-up: Woodman; Storey, Cunningham, Hughes; Potts, Whiteman, Ledson, Fernández (Maguire, 90+1); McCann, Woodburn (Brady, 66), Riis. Subs not used: Cornell, Browne, Evans, Diaby, Cross-Adair.

Huddersfield Town line-up: Nicholls; Leeds, Helik, Turton; Thomas, Camara, Kasumu (Rudoni, 71), Holmes, Jackson; Ward, Rhodes. Subs not used: Bilokapic, Mahoney, Ruffels, Nakayama, Diarra, Ondo.

Attendance: 18,357 (1,572 PNE fans).

Referee: Mr A Woolmer.

A wins a win after all but at the moment watching us play is about as entertaining as having root cana surgery, think we deserved the win last night after all Town didn't have a shot on target all night and looked a decidedly average although we were hardly Brazil 1970.
Unlike the roasting hot night for the league cup tie it was distinctly Autuminal and the coach had the usual difficulties getting down Gasworks Strasse.
A few changes to keep the team fresh and it was off we go, Ward headed an early chance over the bar for the home side should have buried it but apart from a great block by Storey on I think Ward the home side offered little of any danger.
We dominated possession in the first period with a period of about two minutes were Town didn't get the ball, however we did absolutely zilch with it, backwards, sidewards rinse and repeat.
Tedious it certainly was and all Twn had to do was wait for us to cock up and then break with pace down to the other end where they did absolutely nothing either. However about five minutes before the break we got a free kick just outside the box, thing was the passage of play just before the foul we were quick and insisive with the ball.
Fernandez wasn't far away from scoring and until the break we actually started to look better.
Loved the half time entertainment obviously organised by a sadist not one for people with balance issues.
Second half started better and scored within five minutes even got it on camera, corner swung in by Whiteman, Cunningham freedom of West Yorkshire heads home.

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From then on in wasn't really in doubt, they offered little apart from an aeriel assault in the last ten minutes which in the main we coped with, should have made two when Fernandez should have done better from close in.
Happy with the points but we are boring at the moment to watch.

Huddersfield head coach Mark Fotheringham told BBC Radio Leeds:

"We have to do better. It was a disappointing evening and a disappointing goal to concede.

"The fans have been brilliant since I've come in and I understand how they feel, but we have to push together as a group.

"There was a lot of naivety in certain situations but we are working hard to try and get better."

Preston boss Ryan Lowe:

"I thought the football we played first half and then second half to get the goal was fantastic.

"The defenders have been brilliant but it starts from the front, we defend as a team. I thought Emil Riis was fantastic, but people won't look at his work rate or what he's done because he didn't score.

"Those performances are for those who travel all the way, whether it be Norwich or Huddersfield, they earn their hard-earned money to watch us and I love it when we put performances on like that.

"I believe in this group, like I believed when people said we weren't scoring. People will probably start calling us boring and 'Preston only win 1-0' but it does not matter."