26-04-2022, 13:57
As an outsider my opinion is that Huddersfield certainly have sufficient ability to go up via the play-offs, even though paradoxically all of the sides due to come down look markedly superior to them.
For instance none of the sides in the promotion race has a better keeper than Lee Nicholls, although Travers at Bournemouth, being much younger, ought to be far more able than the others to take that giant step up in his stride. Luton and Sheffield United certainly aren't superior to you on the pitch and would face all the same problems as Huddersfield on promotion. Forest, like you, have just one player of their own who would frighten Premier defences. Like you they have played above themselves. Their killer instinct perhaps seems sharper and to beat them you'll need to handle Johnson and Spence and possibly grab a goal from midfield, or a dead ball. This is shallow of me I know, but I cannot see their manager in the Premier League when he looks more suited to a bit-part in the film Deliverance.
The difficulty for you and any of your rivals who gain promotion is to keep everything that is good, add to it and improve it, without spoiling it and to do all that at a cost you can afford. You have to be secure enough to keep moving forward, don't you? Get up, improve to stay up, improve again and keep doing so. But the thing to remember is, it is bloody lovely to be in this position. It's not that long ago you could have ended up in the National League. You might have been thinking, Chesterfield away, that looks a tough fixture, wonder if we'll make the play-offs.
For instance none of the sides in the promotion race has a better keeper than Lee Nicholls, although Travers at Bournemouth, being much younger, ought to be far more able than the others to take that giant step up in his stride. Luton and Sheffield United certainly aren't superior to you on the pitch and would face all the same problems as Huddersfield on promotion. Forest, like you, have just one player of their own who would frighten Premier defences. Like you they have played above themselves. Their killer instinct perhaps seems sharper and to beat them you'll need to handle Johnson and Spence and possibly grab a goal from midfield, or a dead ball. This is shallow of me I know, but I cannot see their manager in the Premier League when he looks more suited to a bit-part in the film Deliverance.
The difficulty for you and any of your rivals who gain promotion is to keep everything that is good, add to it and improve it, without spoiling it and to do all that at a cost you can afford. You have to be secure enough to keep moving forward, don't you? Get up, improve to stay up, improve again and keep doing so. But the thing to remember is, it is bloody lovely to be in this position. It's not that long ago you could have ended up in the National League. You might have been thinking, Chesterfield away, that looks a tough fixture, wonder if we'll make the play-offs.