New Manager is ?

[Walka003]

 Huddersfield Town fan in peace.
First thought is to wish you good luck (whilst trying to refrain from telling you that you'll need it!).
He was a bizarre appointment for us. A perfect and he was on to a loser from the start.
1) He was following the immensely popular Neil Warnock. The guy after the guy.
2) Warnock was in place to give us the opportunity to get someone brilliant. Even the most pessimistic Town fans expected someone at least slightly exciting when we ditched Neil so early.
3) Weak, unbalanced squad. There's no getting away from it - he was dealt a hand.
There's also the fan culture at Huddersfield doesn't really fit Darren Moore. 
1) We tend to take to charismatic managers. Big characters that will unite the fan base and bring a one club mentality. Moore is by all accounts a thoroughly lovely man, but inspirational? Charismatic? No.
2) We like full throttle attacking football. We like to see our team play without fear, regardless of who we're against (much of our fan base left the 5-3 defeat at Southampton pretty upbeat). Darren Moore's footballing instincts are the absolute opposite of that.
Positives?
1) He is apparently brilliant at building team spirit. I say "apparently" because it was already good when he arrived and that just carried on. He didn't build it, but it didn't fall apart on his watch either. The players were playing for him (although one of our players was really quite scathing of him in an interview since his departure!).
2) Defensively we weren't bad most of the time (although when we were bad, we were truly awful).
Negatives?
1) Good grief, the football is dull. Made the stuff we played under the Cowley brothers seem like Barcelona side of 15 years ago by comparison! I could be charitable and describe his football as "cautious" but it would be closer to the truth to describe it as timid. A cautious approach when playing against Man City in the cup is understandable. Against sides in absolute freefall you'd hope for a little more. If you expect attacking football under Moore you're in for disappointment. Half a season with us and I still don't know what his attacking philosophy is, because we never saw it. 
2) Game management is awful. Will not change things when you're getting battered, or when the scores are level and the opponent is there for the taking (back to the ultra-cautious approach). Known to make defensive subs when chasing an equaliser. I genuinely think he has no idea how to react to what's happening in-game.
In short, he was dealt a hand here, but he did not play it well. And whilst I thought he was poor here (even with a lot of draws, 3 wins in 23 is difficult to defend), given the squad he had, you might have expected another half dozen points or so. He was poor, but I think most Town fans overstate how bad he was here.
Meanwhile I suspect the bookies of Huddersfield are inundated with people betting on you guys for the drop. I just hope your former loanee Kian Harratt resists the temptation this time!

That numbering and lack of paragraphs is killing me.

He's been dealt a sh!t hand here, but it's a league below. We've got to pray he can do something with it.

Good luck for the rest of the season, I see it hasn't been much better since Moore left. Please catch that scum team from down the road and force them into L1

[The man in the pub]

5 minutes ago, Ryan Boreton said:

 Huddersfield Town fan in peace.

First thought is to wish you good luck (whilst trying to refrain from telling you that you'll need it!).

He was a bizarre appointment for us. A perfect <ovf censored> and he was on to a loser from the start.

1) He was following the immensely popular Neil Warnock. The guy after the guy.

2) Warnock was in place to give us the opportunity to get someone brilliant. Even the most pessimistic Town fans expected someone at least slightly exciting when we ditched Neil so early.

3) Weak, unbalanced squad. There's no getting away from it - he was dealt a <ovf censored> hand.

There's also the fan culture at Huddersfield doesn't really fit Darren Moore. 

1) We tend to take to charismatic managers. Big characters that will unite the fan base and bring a one club mentality. Moore is by all accounts a thoroughly lovely man, but inspirational? Charismatic? No.

2) We like full throttle attacking football. We like to see our team play without fear, regardless of who we're against (much of our fan base left the 5-3 defeat at Southampton pretty upbeat). Darren Moore's footballing instincts are the absolute opposite of that.

Positives?

1) He is apparently brilliant at building team spirit. I say "apparently" because it was already good when he arrived and that just carried on. He didn't build it, but it didn't fall apart on his watch either. The players were playing for him (although one of our players was really quite scathing of him in an interview since his departure!).

2) Defensively we weren't bad most of the time (although when we were bad, we were truly awful).

Negatives?

1) Good grief, the football is dull. Made the stuff we played under the Cowley brothers seem like Barcelona side of 15 years ago by comparison! I could be charitable and describe his football as "cautious" but it would be closer to the truth to describe it as timid. A cautious approach when playing against Man City in the cup is understandable. Against sides in absolute freefall you'd hope for a little more. If you expect attacking football under Moore you're in for disappointment. Half a season with us and I still don't know what his attacking philosophy is, because we never saw it. 

2) Game management is awful. Will not change things when you're getting battered, or when the scores are level and the opponent is there for the taking (back to the ultra-cautious approach). Known to make defensive subs when chasing an equaliser. I genuinely think he has no idea how to react to what's happening in-game.

In short, he was dealt a <ovf censored> hand here, but he did not play it well. And whilst I thought he was poor here (even with a lot of draws, 3 wins in 23 is difficult to defend), given the squad he had, you might have expected another half dozen points or so. He was poor, but I think most Town fans overstate how bad he was here.

Meanwhile I suspect the bookies of Huddersfield are inundated with people betting on you guys for the drop. I just hope your former loanee Kian Harratt resists the temptation this time!

RB did he bring in any decent signings ?

[chickensteve]

Well I for one am happy. A real statement of intent from the the club for once! It's been interesting reading the biting comments from Huddersfield fans. Obviously we will see how it plays out.

[MBE]

New manager bounce is definitely required with pivotal games coming up.

 

[Vtid]

1 minute ago, MBE said:

New manager bounce is definitely required with pivotal games coming up.

 

True mate some massive games coming up! 😬 Results aren’t going too bad for us tonight. Charlton will be flapping right now 

[Bimbleabout]

Saturdays off the scale if Cheltenham win tonight Charlton look in free fall. Could do with some other clubs taking the torch for being in free fall. We've done it for long enough. It's someone else's turn now!

[MBE]

22 minutes ago, Vtid said:

True mate some massive games coming up! 😬 Results aren’t going too bad for us tonight. Charlton will be flapping right now 

I know we will still have a good number of games left to play but I think this run of games will define  which division we play in next season. 

[Ryan Boreton]

TBF we've only had 2 games since he left but (so far!) it's MUCH better under the caretaker manager. 

Beat a much improved (vs when we drew with them under DM) Sheffield Wednesday side 4-0 and although we lost the other game, that was away to a side unbeaten in 24 and the general consensus is that we were one of the best sides to go to St. Mary's this season and we deserved at least a point.

Hopefully we'll both stay up this season.

[Vtid]

11 minutes ago, Bimbleabout said:

Saturdays off the scale if Cheltenham win tonight Charlton look in free fall. Could do with some other clubs taking the torch for being in free fall. We've done it for long enough. It's someone else's turn now!

Same points as us right now but we’ve got 3 games in hand! I know who’s position id rather be in. And we’ve got Darren Moore well they have to do with that little poo stain Nathan Jones! 5 mins later they score haha spoke to soon 🙄

[Ryan Boreton]

25 minutes ago, The man in the pub said:

RB did he bring in any decent signings ?

Only had one window, but there were 4 signings. 5 if you include the kid we brought back on loan from Motherwell (who has been a revelation but picked up an injury in his last game). A bit too soon to say, but early indications are that we have 2 fairly good and 2 fairly poor. A mixed bag.

 

 

[Bimbleabout]

Same points as us right now but we’ve got 3 games in hand! I know who’s position id rather be in. And we’ve got Darren Moore well they have to do with that little poo stain Nathan Jones! 5 mins later they score haha spoke to soon

Watching the Cheltenham game atm. DC's done a great job with them. They should be 3/4 up.
They will be no push overs come Saturday, far far from it

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3 hours ago, Smallthorne clampet said:

Its a great appointment , but dont expect too much too soon , its still the same players .

No very true. Keep us up by any means, then start the new era officially from the summer!

[Vtid]

2 minutes ago, Bimbleabout said:

Watching the Cheltenham game atm. DC's done a great job with them. They should be 3/4 up.
They will be no push overs cone Saturday, far far from it

I checked the match stats earlier & looked like they were hammering Blackpool. Yeah won’t be easy I’d take a point away from home mate with 2 home games to follow. Vale park should be a great atmosphere in his first game in charge there 

[Phantom Lord]

Just now, 1 said:

No very true. Keep us up by any means, then start the new era officially from the summer!

He's done an amazing job there and I'm so jealous that somebody else has him and he's not where he's supposed to be

 

[Bimbleabout]

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