Everyone likes attacking football, but you have to keep getting the ball to play that way. You have to be capable of winning the ball high up the field to exert sufficient pressure on the opposition. Otherwise you are permanently trying to attack from your own final third, which as we all know often ends with the ball in your own net.
To an almost total outsider like me your new choice of manager sounds original and refreshing, but I feel sorry for Powell as I wasn't getting the impression it was so much Huddersfield's style that was the problem as that too few of your personnel were really good Championship players. Mid-table seemed to be a fair assessment of their potential.
To develop your youngsters you have to play them in the Championship. You can't become a League player watching from the bench. But that was clearly a risk too far for Powell. (Must say, however, I didn't understand signing Hiwula and sending him to Wigan. His weakness is apparently being so laid-back he's horizontal ....... surely that's what Huddersfield should have been working on, not hoping that another spell in Division One might knock it out of him.)
I suppose throughout Powell's tenure you've hovered too close to relegation to allow him to do much more than fire-fighting. Though he was promised time, if you were black and a football manager you wouldn't need too many diagrams drawing to work out your inevitable future trajectory once your team stopped winning. If you couldn't break into the top ten it was always just a matter of waiting for your Chairman to play Que Sera ..... even though it did turn out more Uber Alles.
To an almost total outsider like me your new choice of manager sounds original and refreshing, but I feel sorry for Powell as I wasn't getting the impression it was so much Huddersfield's style that was the problem as that too few of your personnel were really good Championship players. Mid-table seemed to be a fair assessment of their potential.
To develop your youngsters you have to play them in the Championship. You can't become a League player watching from the bench. But that was clearly a risk too far for Powell. (Must say, however, I didn't understand signing Hiwula and sending him to Wigan. His weakness is apparently being so laid-back he's horizontal ....... surely that's what Huddersfield should have been working on, not hoping that another spell in Division One might knock it out of him.)
I suppose throughout Powell's tenure you've hovered too close to relegation to allow him to do much more than fire-fighting. Though he was promised time, if you were black and a football manager you wouldn't need too many diagrams drawing to work out your inevitable future trajectory once your team stopped winning. If you couldn't break into the top ten it was always just a matter of waiting for your Chairman to play Que Sera ..... even though it did turn out more Uber Alles.