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According to soccerbase Huddersfield have a squad of 28 players, this season in league starts the average appearance per player is 17.6, the team against Brums average was 11.6.
Nobody made their league debut. The lowest was J Coleman with 2 previous starts, the highest T Smith 38. Nearly all those featured against Brum played the 4 FA Cup games, including a draw against man city.
Exactly.Originally Posted by William Treseder
Huddersfield team had 78% possession in the game. They had more shots than Birmingham. They had more corners. They committed more fouls. Sounds like they were competitive.
Team
Coleman 4th appearance
Smith 41st game
Hudson 23rd game. Club captain
Cranie 14th game
Holmes-Dennis 9th game
Whitehead 15th game
Billing 24th
Lolley 19th game
Payne 24th game
Bunn 16th game
Quaner 15th game
Subs
Ward 42 games didn't play
Hogg 36 games didn't play
Scannell 14th game
Mooy 44th game
Wells 42nd game
Schindler 42 games didn't play
Booty 0 games
And BLACKBURN. Everyone is ignoring them, is it because they won on Saturday?
Let's also not forget that some of the ones who feel Huddersfield were wrong were criticising Slade last season for not playing kids at the end of last season.
Why do I think you're referring to me there? If you're going to make accusations like that at least get it right. I didn't criticise Slade for not picking youngsters at the end of the season last year, it was the year before that when we had two months of the season when we had nothing to play for - last season we were still in with a chance of promotion until our forty fifth match, so I was hardly going to be slagging Slade off for not picking youngsters then was I.
As I acknowledged a while back, I was partially wrong to have a go at Slade in about half of the games we played in those last two months in 14/15 because we were up against sides that still had promotion/relegation issues when we played them, but there were plenty of other matches where he could have experimented a bit that wouldn't have affected the top and the bottom of the table.
We used to have threads like this over the poor old long lamented FA Cup. Draw a big club now in the early rounds to see, maybe, tomorrow's stars!
Fine by me. IMO, Huddersfield have every right do do what they think is best for them.
‘It leaves a nasty taste in my mouth’
http://talksport.com/football/it-lea...-weakened-team
The rules say Huddersfield were wrong, there are precedents which say they were wrong and now our manager is saying it was wrong.
No shit Warnock has a nasty taste, he needed a win at home against Wigan but failed to a penalty....nothing to do with any other team other than his and the referee in THAT game.
Again if its wrong, league need to make it clear and simple not teams!
I would have thought that having it in the rules and fining sides who have done it in the past was making it clear and simple.
So strange then that team persist with something that is clear and simpleI would have thought that having it in the rules and fining sides who have done it in the past was making it clear and simple
I thought the league confirmed the result will stand, as it did when Shef Utd failed to win at home
Can't believe your getting your knickers in a twist about this! Can you explain to me, with all your football knowledge, why Huddersfield should give a shit about Forest, Blackburn etc?
We laugh when club owners try to interfere with a managers team choice or tactics, but you think it's ok for the FA to do the same?
Huddersfield have a legitimate, pre season named squad, like every other team in the world. How they use that squad should be up to the manager alone.
Wasn't too many of our fans complaining when Malky played a weakened team against Macclesfield, resulting in the worst result in our history.
Good luck to the terriers. I hope they get their promotion. The likes of Forest and Blackburn should have won more points throughout the season.
Loads of city fans complained about the Macclesfield game. Far more, on here, were unhappy than happy.
Sorry Lardy. Think your wrong there. There were far more posters who didn't give a shit about it than those who did.
It could have effected who finished 9th or 14th or 17th though.
So, when is the integrity of the competition less legitimate?
Here's an example for you.
Team A and Team B are both guaranteed to be in the play offs and there are 2 games left. Team A are playing 2 mid table teams with "nothing to play for". Team B have 2 games, one against a side battling relegation.
The EFL tells the manager of Tram B that he MUST pick his strongest team for the match against the relegation threatened team. Team A has no restrictions placed on it.
Team A play Team B in the semi finals. Where's the integrity in that playoff competition - with both teams having earned the right to rest players, but one team being prevented from doing so because of the fixture list?
It's a squad game over 46 matches. Teams go down because they're not very good.
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