His hearts not in it with Udders. I don't think he cares what happens to them. Well done Agent Grayson!
12 months ago we had the basis of a promotion challenging side... Roll forward a few months to the end of the season and we wondered who we would sign to take us up a level, we debated were we 2 or 3 players short... We watched other teams around us making decent signings while we did nothing. We allowed two players to walk due to contract requests, one being Johnson who is now playing for a PL team. We then sold our keeper and nearly went into the new season with only Rachbuka (remember the fiasco with linked keepers) and a week before we kick off we drag in O'Dea on loan and go back for a Keeper I don't believe was first choice but granted a better keeper than Kasper. Roll forward a few weeks and we sell Gradel a few months and we sell captain Howson. No way are we in a better position, we started the 2011/12 season with a worse team than the 2010/11 season and unless Warnock can work some magic it might well be same again. Put it another way - Had we given a decent contract to Howson, Gradel and Johnson would we be a stronger team now? Had we given them decent contracts and signed just two decent players at the start of the season (defenders) what difference would it have made, I think a pretty huge one.
He's got 16 points from nine games, which translates to 82 points over the course of the season. Not necessarily automatic form, but still a good continuation of Lee Clark's work. Six points off the Wednesday with a game in hand and a game against them still to play. It could still end well for them, and I'm pretty certain they're going up next season if not this. Bet they go up to the Premiership within two seasons of being promoted too.
In a piss poor division. Strange there were no big jobs waiting for him or stranger still he didn't hold out for a bigger job rather than dropping back to division one management
That's because he spotted true ambition when he saw it from Dean Hoyle. He's separated from his wife now and will still want to see his kids, so staying in Yorkshire was the ideal option for him, and it couldn't have got much better than Huddersfield. I really can see them being in the top flight a few years from now with some of the players they've already got and the sort of resources their Chairman's made available. Yeah, he could have waited for a 'big job' or chucked himself at Wolves after he was 'dispensed with' from Elland Road, but he'd originally dropped down a division to come to Leeds and didn't go to Premiership Burnley or Aston Villa when they allegedly made approaches during his time with us. So he's not a mercenary type, and it made sense for him to go for another challenge at local and ambitious Huddersfield, and most of all, it presents a great chance to prove that when he is backed, he isn't the 'tactically inept' bloke sections of our support claim he was at Leeds. I have every faith he will prove those doubters wrong, and I'll gladly be laughed at if he ****s it up at the Galpharm. By the way, the way top teams in that division always come into the Championship so seamlessly and don't usually suffer badly from the 'second season syndrome' that momentum sides like Hull did in the Premiership suggests that there is some class in the third tier. It's not as bad as people make out, especially in the top third of the table.
Dean Hoyle will need some resources when Simon gets loose in the transfer market. The one saving grace for Huddersfield is he inherited a good team and hasn't yet had the opportunity to mess them up with dabblings in the transfer / loan market. Still, time will tell and another two years or so should show his ability
He never did too bad when he actually spent money at Leeds. But agreed, it's matter of wait and see. He might actually enjoy getting loanees and rejects, but I doubt that's the direction he'll go in. The thing I'd be most worried about as a Huddersfield fan is the Miller/Snodin double-act Grayson foolishly chose to take with him.
