[theo_luddite]

The McGalphSmiths Stadium,
Near the ruins of what was The Gasworks,
Smells more of gas now than it ever did before,
Leeds Road on Colne
HD1 6PG

Kick-off 19:45 UK Time
Tuesday 04/03/25

The stars (and stripes?) of Disney+ bring International football back to the banks of The River Colne on Tuesday evening. I hope that young chap in charge of the stadium sound stuff does a better job than last time. For all of his failings, and being a pillock on more than one occassion, I could at least mostly hear what Rambo was waffling on about. Whoever the new guy is, I didn't have a scooby-doo what he said at any time v Posh.

Still, I won't be there for this one but at least wotsisname can get his balances sorted for when I come up for the Creepy Crawley game. 'appen. Won't hold me breath on that one.

In the meantime the chances of us scoring a home goal or even getting a home win this year are .......? Exactly.

On the tellybox

All the League One and League Two games are on Sky Sports+ and for you furriners Town are also on HTTV and probably a few dodgy stick channels. The landlord at the local has offered to put it on his tellyboxes for me, but there might be a few Vanilla and Gooners fans that moan in protest. I can always watch it on my phone whilst devouring a bowl of grey peys 'n' bayercon and some hand-pulled beverages.

Latest news

Hey Rat Fans, Kevin the Gerbil is back in Town.



- Huddersfield Town Chairman Kevin Nagle to engage supporters over afternoon tea
- Event to be held from 1pm in our boardroom at the John Smith’s Stadium on Thursday 6 March
- Supporters wishing to attend to share thoughts invited to place themselves under consideration.

Yeah.!

Well if I'm not coming up for the game, I'm definitley not coming up for tea and stickies with Kevin. I doubt he'll miss me.
Will anyone do a Trump rant on him though? 'You are not in a position to tell us fans that have supported the club for donkey's years that you can now increase the price of match/season tickets' ...... hmmm? 'appen as not.

Out Injured/Suspended/Isolating

Well, who isn't? No more injuries from Saturday for a change. Apparently, well they've still got training on Tuesday morning.

Back training but not oven ready/Back in the frame

Taylor might be fit enough to start, definitely in the squad apparently.

Musical Interlude

Wales, Wales!
Why do they build homes in Wales?
It rains and it pours,
Then it floods in through the doors.
So why do they build homes in Wales?

Apart from that .....

If you can find a band from anywhere north of Swansea and west of Chester let me know .... meanwhile ....

The Beatles and Gerry and the Pacemakers were from somewhere nearer to Wrexham than this lot, but ....... look you, isn't it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFmLVtSqQo0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h07LqOfxTck

Last time out

Well, no surprise here then, Town went on the rampage at Stevenage and even manged to score two goals more than we've scored at home this year. We also won, which is something else I might have already mentioned we haven't done at home this year.



The Disney+ All Stars drew 0-0 at home to Bowton.



Brum continued to sail off into what is a now a 12 point distant lead with a late winner at home to Wycombe. Wrexham and Bolton couldn't score a goal between them, Smogport won 2:1 at home to Blackpool. Charlton crawled into the top 6 with a 1:2 win at Orient, while Reading did what Town couldn't and won 1:2 at Wigan.



Wrexham also managed to lose to Pish Posh in the EFL Trophy on penalties. A 2-0 lead at half-time evaporated in the 2nd half and Jed Steer saved two penalties as Pish Posh won the shoot-out 2-4.

The Sack Race

Another one bites the dust (well 2 actually) as Wigan become another club to sack their manager after they beat us, they lost to Reading, which you might just have noticed, and then MK Dons pullled the plug on Scott Lindsey. Meanwhile after Neil Harris stepped in at "The Wembley of the Fens" last month, Valerien Ismael moved into the empty chair at The Chicken Run about a week ago. Not sure if he's had any of Mrs. Tweedies Pies yet though but Blackburn and Norwich both left it late to score at the weekend.

Tables, Form & all that stats stuff.

Town are 2 places and 4 points below Wrexham. Oh, where could we have been? They have rarely been out of the top three all season and were it not for Wycombe confounding everyone, they'd likely have been in the top two.



Wrexham are brilliant against the lower 16 (lost 4 drawn 3, won huggins) but are worse than average against the top 8, which probably explains why they are 3rd and not 2nd or 1st.







Innies and Outies

The Welsh, or rather North American, Wind Bags continued to splash TV money cash in the January Sales.



They also parted company with a player who's name even the Welsh would struggle to pronounce. I mean, how on earth do you pronounce Jones?



Who's banging 'em in

Callum Marshall has rocketed to the top of Town's goal scoring charts. There's every chance we'll have another chap in double figures this season and he won't be a centre back for a change.



There's a reasonable chance of Wrexham having one too.



They can't all win

There's a full set of fixtures this Tuesday and apart from us and Wrexham, Brum wander up the M6 to Bowton, Wycombe welcome The Brewers, Smogport go to Northampton and Charlton are home to Barnsalee. Tagging along for the ride, Orient are at Rotherham and Reading are home to Exeter.


Down amongst the deadmen, bottom dwellers The Shrews go to Trap Door Dwellers Brizzle, Creepy Crawley are at Lincoln whilst Cambridge are at home to Stevenage.

We've played 'em before

Only 15 previous League meetings with Town normally well on top at home, until recently.



Next up?

Town travel to Brizzle on Saturday. A city with 2 railway stations that are both a helluva long walk away from the ground. Thick end of an hour's walk each according to Google Maps, though you can normally knock about 25% off their timings. Your taxi (or Uber) may need some gas, gas, gas.

Pressers

Duff Duff and Roosken get the Radio Local grillings

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0kvtq0x

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0kvsvml

The views from the club with the bloke in charge formerly known as the empty chair

No pressure here then ....
https://www.thewrexhaminsider.com/news/w...is-season/

A classic might not be on the cards either ...

https://www.thewrexhaminsider.com/news/b...ttractive/


Diolch yn fawr!

[Lord Snooty]

Nice one, theo.

Not going to this one. Up at silly o'clock on Wednesday morning. Well that's my excuse.

Won't have that excuse soon. I shall be joining all the other retired workers on this site, halfway through next season.

[theo_luddite]

Yeah, I'll be up by about 9 o'something or another too Snoots. Might need a loo break at about 4 o'clock if i'm honest.

[Lord Snooty]

I'll not lie. Had my DNA analysed recently. Twenty percent Welsh, so I am.

There's lovely, boyo.

Well I knew that anyway but the seven percent German was a bit of a shock.

[jjamez]

Nein snoots ich nicht güt.

I'm not retired but if anyone has anything spare to help me get to it please let me know and I can send the bank details!

I took may be watching this one on sky sports +

[Amelia Chaffinch]

jj, your retirement will come soon enough with the speed that time passes. Of course, I'm working on the principle that the retirement age won't be extended again. 

[Lord Snooty]

Exciting times ahead. We have announced a new training kit supplier.

[Amelia Chaffinch]

Does it prevent injuries?

[theo_luddite]

Mostly causes injuries to the wallet/credit cards by the look of their website and that's before our logo's appear on anything.

https://castore.com/

Looks like it's all our kit Snoots.

[jjamez]

New shirts are watertight, going to cause more injuries knowing our luck

As for me am, at the risk of being morbid, by time I get to the current retirement age, I imagine it will be up somewhere near 80. Probably a nice little race between retirement and death, some companies are going to regret offering death in service as part of their contracts!