Playoff Countdown Huddersfield Town In

Playoff Countdown Huddersfield Town In

Its not long now. The wait is almost over. On Saturday 14th of May the League One playoffs commence. The first of these games is Huddersfield vs Bournemouth. After catching up with Cherries fan, Chris Lines we thought it was time to get a Terriers point-of-view. Thankfully for us www.thisisthebarmyarmy.co.uk was able to provide it:Huddersfield Town is embarking on its seventh Play-Off campaign looking for a third promotion via this method, the second at this level. It comes on the back of a record breaking Max Muncy Jersey season that saw the club push Southampton all the way for that second automatic promotion place, only for the relentle s final push by the Saints pushing them up in the final week of the season. For Town the 2010/2011 will go down in Club Records for the highest number of points (87), the longest unbeaten League sequence (25 matches) and the highest number of consecutive away victories (6) which blends nicely with the 13 away wins we secured, the most in League One, and a Club record for the Terriers.Lee Clark, since becoming the Town manager in December 2008, has built up a team capable of pushing for promotionin both of his full seasons in charge, last season mi sing out in the Play-Offs to Millwall at the Semi-Final stage. Granted, Clark has been remarkably backed by Chairman and Owner Dean Hoyle in rebuilding in summer, when the Terriers blended together its younger talent with some highly experienced older heads. Clark managed to persuade the likes of Joey Gudjon son, Gary Naysmith and Jamie McCombe to jointhe squad in summer all of which have played at a higher level. Whilst through the loan market he has brought in some exciting young talent in Benik Afobe and Danny A. J. Pollock Jersey Ward and made the strewed January signing of the talented Republic of Ireland International Kevin Kilbane who has been excellent since his move from Hull City.Although some of the Town support had doubts over the manager and some of his tactics, Lee Clark, is an excellent developing young manager and someone the Chairman is keen to tie up an extended deal with in summer. Over recent months, he has changed the system away from home to allow our experienced midfield to put their mark on games and really help Town to dominate from the midfield area. Towns solid midfield trio of Kilbane, Gudjon son and Scottish Under 21 star Scott Arfield have reallyhelped to shore up defence whilst supporting the attacking options. Last season in all competitions the Terriers scored over 100 goals, and despite this season not being as fluid with the goals scored count the club has certainly been more stable in defence. Since the injury to number 1 keeper Alex Smithies, the experienced and dependable Ian Bennett has really shown his worth in goal, and fully deserved his extra 12 months on his current contract. That said I still feel that our defence at times can look shaky, especially when teams attack with purpose and speed. We are quite slow in defence. Our central pair of captain Peter The Rock Clarke and Jamie McCombe is not the quickest, but they work hard and win balls in the air. They are also a pair that would run through a brick wall for the club, and continue running at the other side. Yes the wall would come off worse!At full back, we have the experienced Gary Naysmith, who I dont think we have seen the best of. He has had a number of injuries this season, but at times his lack of pace can look risky in our defence. On the right flank, we have sheer quality in Lee Peltier. He is a fantastic talent who is as happy going forward as he is in defence, rarely does he get skinned by an opposing player.At times our defence can cause a few hearts to flutter, as was seen during the final League match of the Sandy Koufax Jersey season, but since it has become more stable in positions etc and confidence of the unbeaten run has grown, they have helped to produce the strong foundations for the unbeaten League run with a series of clean sheets.Let me say a few lines about a man, who is Huddersfield Town through and through and a man who is a great a set to the on field and off field branding of the Terriers, a true gentleman. That man is the Captain, who I dub The Rock, he is also known as Captain Fantastic. Peter Clarke is a true leader of the team on the field, he works effortle sly for the team, and he often puts his body on the line making a string of fine blocks. I dont believe I have ever seen a defender make as many blocks as The Rock ever throughout my life watching my beloved Huddersfield Town. Now in his second year with Town hes been named the Player of the Year for the second time and the Players Player this year. Recently he was awarded the ESPN League One Fans Player of the year, awards all very justified. However, Im sure Clarke would give all them awards back to hold aloft the League One Play-Off winning trophy acro s the M62 at Old Trafford on May 29th. He is committed to making the team and club a succe s rather than himself and he works hard to push Town all the way.CAPTAIN FANTASTIC: Peter Clark is dreaming of leading The Terriers to promotion.Although in attack we have not scored as many goals as last season and at times we have not been as exciting going forward as last season, we still hold plenty of goals in attack. Once again young Jordan Rhodes is top scorer with bags of goals, despite not featuring many times for the full 90 minutes. In Benik Afobe we have a fine young man with the Russell Martin Jersey pedigree evident of where he learnt his football trade.A terrific prospect on loan from Arsenal, his pace, skill, judgement and sheer pleasure of playing the game he clearly loves is an handful for any defence. Through injury Lee Super Novak hasnt played as many games as he would have liked this season, but he is still a great exciting player, who gives everything when he wears the famous colours of the club.Injury robbed us of our star player in Anthony Pilkington who is recovering well from a horrific injury, but in Gary Joc Pederson Jersey Roberts and Danny Ward (on loan from Bolton) we have talent on the wings, I expect them to start both Play-Off fixtures (and hopefully the third at Old Trafford). Danny Cadamarteri and young right back Jack Hunt, can also offer excellent options on the wing. The lo s of the exciting talented Pilks appears to have helped spur the team on and the fans have become more galvanised to push Town into the Championship next season.A feature of the side that is an improvement on last season is, we now have a team that plays as a team. They are conditioned and programmed to keep going to the very end and they have lost the knowledge of how to lose. The partnerships throughout the squad and the belief in them is fantastic to see, which has put the club in a great shape going into the Play-Offs. It will use the experience of last seasons failure, t

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