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17-02-2025, 20:50
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Shrewsbury Town v Huddersfield Town
Sky Bet League One
Tuesday February 18th - 19:45 ko
at the Croud Meadow
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Huddersfield Town travel to Shrewsbury in Shropshire to the New Meadow on Tuesday night for a re-arranged game of football.
We will be without Brodie Spencer, who will be starting a two match ban for amassing ten yellow cards. There will be doubts too about David Kasumu and Tawanda Chirewa, who both limped off in the 2-1 win at Barnsley on Saturday.
It's only a few weeks since I did the match thread for this match, so I'm not doing a full re-write. If you want to read my original ramblings and watch the videos, have a click here........
https://www.sportsbabble.co.uk/showthrea...#pid276756
This game was originally due to be played on the 11th of January. Since then, the temparature has gone up a couple of degrees so there's little chance of another postponement. I've looked at the tv schedule on Sky Sports+ and it ain't there for some reason, so it'll be a night of Radio Leeds for us.
We have struggled a bit since we nearly headed down to Shropshire. Having just won down at Wycombe, our brave lads would've gone there full of confidence against a team languishing in 22nd place in the League One table. The win at Barnsley was our first victory since however. But that was our last game and as the old saying goes, you're only as good as your last game.
Shrewsbury still sit in 22nd place, four points away from safety, but their first game after the postponement was their "cup final" when local rivals Wrexham came across the border to a highly charged atmosphere at the Meadow. John Marquis scored twice, the second coming from the rebound after his penalty had been saved.
It didn't kick start their season though as they followed it up with two defeats, away defeats at Charlton and Stockport. They did then go and beat Mansfield at home and then Rotherham in New York. Next was a draw at Reading, but on Saturday, after taking the lead through Vadaine Oliver, they went three-one down at home to Bolton before Luca Hoole pulled one back in injury time. It was too late. They lost 3-2.
Recent form - last 6 matches:
Barnsley 1-2 Town
Town 0-0 Reading
Northampton 3-2 Town
Town 0-1 Birmingham
Town 0-1 Bolton
Blackpool 2-2 Town
Shrews 2-3 Bolton
Reading 1-1 Shrews
Rotherham 1-2 Shrews
Shrews 2-1 Mansfield
Stockport 1-0 Shrews
Charlton 1-0 Shrews
Town are 5th in the League One table with 52 points. The Shrews are 22nd with 27.
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Because it originally wasn’t scheduled to be on Sky Sports+ they don’t have to make the midweek game available, it’s up to the home club.
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Yes, we had that scenario with Cambridge earlier in the season. Well let's hope we spank Shrewsbury like we did them.
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Speaking of Cambridge - guess who's looking for a job again? Yes it's our classy friend that has heaps of humility and respect to go along with it. 
A guide to cask ale.
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First pub I've called in about 1/3rd of the way to the ground apparently has a feed from somewhere. No tell tale signs to say who that somewhere is though.
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A guide to cask ale.
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TOWN’S TEAM vs SHREWSBURY TOWN (A)
1. Lee Nicholls
2. Lasse Sorensen
3. Josh Ruffels
6. Jonathan Hogg ©
7. Callum Marshall
8. Ben Wiles
10. Josh Koroma
18. David Kasumu
24. Radinio Balker
27. Tawanda Chirewa
32. Tom Lees
SUBSTITUTES
Jacob Chapman; Dion Charles, Freddie Ladapo, Ollie Turton, Antony Evans, Loick Ayina, Joe Hodge
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That's not great. Kane injured now. Evans having to play through injections and pain for his injury, which I've read somewhere is internal bleeding in the toe when he kicks a ball. Also didn't ayina play in Latvia or something last week?
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18-02-2025, 21:43
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Yes, jjamez. Ayina was at, if I recall correctly, FK Riga. Now whether that was a trial or not, I don't remember. But it was only last week. Seems a big step, a trial at a foreign club in a low quality league, to back in the first team squad in a week.
There was nothing on the Town website or Town's X account, but somebody retwweted it from Riga's account.
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I think he was in the group of younger players told by Cartwright to find a new club last year.
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45 mins that could’ve have gone either way. Town look the better of the teams but I’d argue that Shrewsbury have had the better chance.
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