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Bournemouth v Huddersfield Town
The Sky Bet Championship
Saturday February 14th - 3:00 ko
at The Goldsands Stadium

Huddersfield Town travel south to Bournemouth to the Goldsands Stadium, formerly known as Dean Court, on Saturday. It's a revenge mission for the Terriers as they got well and truly whupped on the opening day of the season, being a goal down after only 25 seconds before going on to lose 4-0. This of course led to the club being publicly ridiculed for "sacking" manager Mark Robins. We have of course, improved greatly since then and despite a 1-4 reversal on Tuesday night against the Wolves, it wasn't a patch on the crappiness of that Bournemouth match.


How much?  
Tickets are priced at: £26 adults, £14 over-65s, under-16s and full-time students.

Coaches will be departing from Canalside at 8am, priced at £22.50 per person.


A brief history of Bournemouth:

Football League Division Three: Winners: 1986–87

Football League One: Runners up: 2012–13

Football League Two: Runners up: 2009–10

Football League Division Four: Runners up: 1970–71

Football League Third Division: Play-off Winners: 2002–03

Football League Division Three South: Runners up: 1947–48

Football League Associate Members Cup: Winners: 1983–84

Football League Third Division South Cup: Winners: 1945–46

Southern League: Runners up: 1922–23



Head to Head



Town lead the overall head to head by 17 wins to 13, with 18 draws. That's in all competitions. In league matches it's 16 Town wins to Bournemouth's 13, with 16 draws.

As mentioned already, the Cherries won at our place this season with goals from Marc Pugh, Callum Wilson (2) and Yann Kermorgant. That was the last meeting, our first ever match with Bournemouth was back in the 70s in our slump down the divisions. It was the 73/74 season and we drew 1-1 at Leeds Road with a penalty from Alan Gowling.
The most famous series of matches between the two clubs though would be the recent Play Off semi finals when an Anton Robinson inspired Bournemouth took us to extra time and penalties before we snook through after a 4-4 aggregate draw.


So what have modern day Bournemouth got?

They come here on the back of a 2-2 at home to Derby County, a result that saw them lose their grip on the league leadership as Middlesbrough won at Blackpool to go one point ahead.
Managed these days by Eddie Howe, who spent almost his whole playing career at Bournemouth and his managerial career at Bournemouth, with just a short spell away managing Burnley before he got home sick and went back to Bournemouth.

Who has Howe been playing in his first XI?

His selected first XI in the last match was.....

31 Boruc
02 Francis
05 Elphick
03 Cook
11 Daniels
30 Ritchie
08 Arter
06 Surman
07 Pugh
13 Wilson
18 Kermorgant

Substitutes:
01 Camp
10 Pitman
15 Smith
16 MacDonald
19 Stanislas
20 Fraser
22 Ward

Leading scorer - Callum Wilson  with 18.