08-02-2018, 09:51
(This post was last modified: 10-02-2018, 12:42 by Lord Snooty.)
Huddersfield Town v AFC Bournemouth
The Premier League
Sunday February 11th - 12:00 ko
at the John Smith's Stadium
The Premier League
Sunday February 11th - 12:00 ko
at the John Smith's Stadium
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Huddersfield Town welcome AFC Bournemouth to the Kirklees Stadium on Sunday for a lunchtime kick off, live on BT Sport. Those poor Bournemouth fans will have to set off so early, some of the coaches are setting off at 1:45am. Yes, quarter to two in the morning. Sounds ridiculously early for a five hour journey, six with a couple of stops, but at least the club are giving them free coach travel. Is it necessary though? A crazy kick off time with no thought whatsoever for how people are going to get here. Not only that but why has this game been chosen? When you look at the fixture list this weekend and all the derby matches being played, why have BT Sport chosen a match between two clubs 261 miles apart? We're up against Villa v Brum on Sky. I know which I'd be watching if I was a neutral supporter. Ah well, more dosh in the coffers!
A brief history of AFC Bournemouth: Founded in 1899 as Boscombe FC, they changed their name to Bournemouth & Boscombe in 1923 when they were elected into the Football League's newly formed Division 3 (South). They stayed in that division for a record number of years, neither winning promotion or being relegated, including when the leagues were reformed to a 3rd and 4th division, they didn't get relegated until the end of the 1970/71 season. They came straight back up again, but were relegated alongside us in 1975, back to Division 4. They stayed there longer than us, only getting back up in 1982.
But then success. They won the ultimate lower league trophy, the LDV Autoglass Windcreens Trophy, beating Hull City 2-1 at Boothferry Park in it's pre Wembley final days. They then won the old third division (now known as League One) in 1987 and played their first season in the what is now known as the Championship in the season we got relegated. That success was temporary and soon they were back down again and by 2003 they were back down in the Football League's basement. Only for one season though as they won the Play Offs, beating Lincoln City in the final 5-2.
In 2008 they were relegated again, not only that, they were placed in administration and started the League 2 season with minus 17 points. However, this deficit didn't stop them winning promotion again and in the next season they made the Play Offs, getting beat by us on penalties. They did get up the following season and in 2015 they completed the remarkable rise from administration and the foot of the 4th division, to the Premier league when a 3-0 win at Charlton on the final day of the season saw them win the Championship title.
Their Premier league days have seen a 16th place finish and then last season their highest ever finish, 9th in the top division of English Football. Not bad for a tinpot 10,000 crowd team, who for some reason the pundits all love in as equal measure as to how they loathe Huddersfield Town. Wankers!
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Head to Head
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Town lead in the overall head to head with 17 wins to Bournemouth's 14, with 19 draws.
We were never even in the same league as the Cherries until 1973, we being in leagues way above them, obviously. But we were in major decline by then and our first meeting was a 1-1 draw in the 3rd division at Leeds Road when Alan Gowling scored from the penalty spot for us. Although, as you see above, we do hold the advantage in overall wins against them, but it wasn't until our tenth meeting that we got our first victory. That was the final game of the 1977/78 season. We won 2-0 with goals from Wayne Goldthorpe and an Ian Holmes penalty. Only 1,638 turned out on that Saturday afternoon for what was our eighth match in the month of April because of the fixture backlog following a really bad winter. It was the second lowest ever attendance at Leeds Road, at the time it was the lowest but 14 fewer people turned out the following season for a match with Torquay Utd.
And so to 2010/11. We drew both league matches. 2-2 at home (Gary Roberts, Antony Kay pen) and 1-1 away (Danny Cadamarteri). Then met each other in the Play Offs. Away at Dean Court first and Kevin Kilbane gave us a first half lead, only for a little toss pot on loan from Manchester City called Donal McDermott to equalise mid way through the second. So back to the MacAlpharm for the 2nd leg and Lee Peltier gave us the lead, before Steve Lovell equalised from the spot in the 44th minute, only for Danny Ward to put us back in front on the stroke of half time. Surely we'd walk it from there?
No, that's not the Town way. Lovell levelled again and in extra time Danny Ings put the Cherries in front. This was the point now where the home crowd really got behind the team, the likes of which we had never witnessed before at the new stadium and the legend that is Antony Kay got us level on the night and on aggregate to force the tie into a penalty shoot out, which he scored the winning penalty. Legend!
Here, have a watch of this, but don't dwell on how the final went.
After that, when both teams had eventually reached the Championship, there were a couple of games of conflicting conclusions. We stuffed them early in the 2013/14 season 5-1 at home. Adam Hammill scored, then James Vaughan bagged a hat trick before Adam Clayton wrapped it up. But the following season saw Bournemouth come here on the opening day and that proved to be the end of the Mark Robins era at Huddersfield. The Cherries came and whupped our bottoms by a ridiculous score of 4-0, which didn't flatter them. They went on to win the Championship that season and goals that day came from Marc Pugh after twenty odd seconds, two from Callum Wilson and one from Yann Kermogant.
Wilson has continued to haunt us and in the first ever Premier League match between these two sides, he scored a hat trick in that 4-0 Bournemouth win back in November.
So what's happening at Dean Court? Managed nowadays by Eddie Howe, who spent his playing career in the lower leagues, playing for Bournemouth and errr.... Bournemouth, oh and a couple of games at Portsmouth, where he was signed by Harry Redknapp but knackered his knee and only had 2 games in 2 seasons. At the end of his two years at Fratton Park, he had a loan spell back at Dean Court and the fans wanted him back permanently. The club were in no position to pay any kind of transfer fee though and so the fans clubbed together to pay Pompey the £21k asking price.
He had three more years playing for the Cherries and was made player/coach by manager Kevn Bond and then full time coach when he retired from playing, but when Bond got the boot from the manager's job, so did Howe. However Howe came back the following season as youth coach and by 2009 he was himself sat in the manager's seat. Success followed in the shape of promotion to League One, which prompted approaches from other clubs and so Howe moved on to become Burnley manager, a few months before they got beat by us in the play offs.
He stayed at Turf Moor for a couple of seasons, seeing the Clarets to a couple of mid table finishes, but the lure of the bright lights of Boscombe was too much and he returned down south to manage Bournemouth once more. And the rest is history. Promotion to the Championship in his first season back and then a couple of years later, the heady heights of the Premier League.
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Club Connections: Well we won't have to face Benik Afobe. He went back to Wolves on loan on Transfer Deadline Day.
There's an ex Bournemouth player in the Town squad. He scored in on of our visits down south. A 2-0 win for the Cherries on Easter Monday 2012 saw our under performing, £5m left back Scott Malone score against us. He's still scored two more goals against us than he has for us.
Back in 2011, Lee Clark went and signed two of the stars of the Bournemouth team that we beat in the Play Offs. One of them was Donal McDermott, who had been on loan there and so we signed him from Man City. The other one was Anton Robinson. Both these two players turned out to be garbage and probably a factor in the departure soon afterwards of manager Clark.
Talking of managers, Town legend from the 50s, Bill McGarry managed Bournemouth in the 60s before he became a Wolves legend. And Mel Machin managed both clubs, although he was at Bournemouth a lot longer than us, taking over the reigns at the end of the disastrous Mick Wadsworth season.
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Sweet Scotty Malone
Recent form: Town are 19th in the Premier League with 24 points. The Cherries are in 9th with 31 points and now officially out of the relegation scrap, following their unbeaten run since Christmas. Since being beaten at Man City on Saturday the 23rd of December, when they finished the day in the bottom three, they have won 4 and drawn 3, including wins at home to Arsenal and away at Chelsea.
This ain't gonna be no walk in the park.
Last 6 matches:
Town 1-4 West Ham (Lolley)
Stoke 0-2 Town
Town 1-1 Birmingham (FA Cup 4) (Mounie)
Town 0-3 Liverpool
Man Utd 2-0 Town
Birmingham 1-4 Town (FA Cup) (Roberts og, Mounie, van La Parra, Ince)
Bournemouth 2-2 Wigan (FA Cup) (Mousset, S Cook)
Bournemouth 2-1 Arsenal (Wilson, Ibe)
Wigan 3-0 Bournemouth (FA Cup)
West Ham 1-1 Bournemouth (Fraser)
Chelsea 0-3 Bournemouth (Wilson, Stanislas, Aké)
Bournemouth 2-1 Stoke (King, Mousset)
Bournemouth's line up at home to Stoke on Saturday:
27 Asmir Begović - Ex Yeovil Yugoslavian born goalkeeper.
2 Simon Francis - Ex Bradford defender, now club captain.
3 Steve Cook - Ex Havant & Waterlooville defender.
5 Nathan Aké - Dutch international, came through Chelsea's Academy.
24 Ryan Fraser - Took some poor advice when deciding to join Bournemouth instead of Huddersfield.
16 Lewis Cook - Defender from Dirty Leeds.
4 Dan Gosling - Ex Plymouth Argyle midfielder.
11 Charlie Daniels - Country singer, had a massive hit with The Devil Went Down to Georgia.
33 Jordon Ibe - Ex Wycombe Wanderers winger.
19 Junior Stanislas - Ex Southend Utd winger.
13 Callum Wilson - Has scored 5 goals in 3 matches against us.
Substitutes
1 Artur Boruc - Polish international goalkeeper.
6 Andrew Surman - Ex Walsall midfielder.
7 Marc Pugh - Played against us in that Play Off.
8 Harry Arter - Was on the bench for that Play Off.
17 Joshua King - Was on trial with us a couple of years ago - Failed!
31 Lys Mousset - French striker, cost them £7m.
42 Jack Simpson - Young defender with just the one Premier league appearance.
A brief history of AFC Bournemouth: Founded in 1899 as Boscombe FC, they changed their name to Bournemouth & Boscombe in 1923 when they were elected into the Football League's newly formed Division 3 (South). They stayed in that division for a record number of years, neither winning promotion or being relegated, including when the leagues were reformed to a 3rd and 4th division, they didn't get relegated until the end of the 1970/71 season. They came straight back up again, but were relegated alongside us in 1975, back to Division 4. They stayed there longer than us, only getting back up in 1982.
But then success. They won the ultimate lower league trophy, the LDV Autoglass Windcreens Trophy, beating Hull City 2-1 at Boothferry Park in it's pre Wembley final days. They then won the old third division (now known as League One) in 1987 and played their first season in the what is now known as the Championship in the season we got relegated. That success was temporary and soon they were back down again and by 2003 they were back down in the Football League's basement. Only for one season though as they won the Play Offs, beating Lincoln City in the final 5-2.
In 2008 they were relegated again, not only that, they were placed in administration and started the League 2 season with minus 17 points. However, this deficit didn't stop them winning promotion again and in the next season they made the Play Offs, getting beat by us on penalties. They did get up the following season and in 2015 they completed the remarkable rise from administration and the foot of the 4th division, to the Premier league when a 3-0 win at Charlton on the final day of the season saw them win the Championship title.
Their Premier league days have seen a 16th place finish and then last season their highest ever finish, 9th in the top division of English Football. Not bad for a tinpot 10,000 crowd team, who for some reason the pundits all love in as equal measure as to how they loathe Huddersfield Town. Wankers!
Head to Head
Town lead in the overall head to head with 17 wins to Bournemouth's 14, with 19 draws.
We were never even in the same league as the Cherries until 1973, we being in leagues way above them, obviously. But we were in major decline by then and our first meeting was a 1-1 draw in the 3rd division at Leeds Road when Alan Gowling scored from the penalty spot for us. Although, as you see above, we do hold the advantage in overall wins against them, but it wasn't until our tenth meeting that we got our first victory. That was the final game of the 1977/78 season. We won 2-0 with goals from Wayne Goldthorpe and an Ian Holmes penalty. Only 1,638 turned out on that Saturday afternoon for what was our eighth match in the month of April because of the fixture backlog following a really bad winter. It was the second lowest ever attendance at Leeds Road, at the time it was the lowest but 14 fewer people turned out the following season for a match with Torquay Utd.
And so to 2010/11. We drew both league matches. 2-2 at home (Gary Roberts, Antony Kay pen) and 1-1 away (Danny Cadamarteri). Then met each other in the Play Offs. Away at Dean Court first and Kevin Kilbane gave us a first half lead, only for a little toss pot on loan from Manchester City called Donal McDermott to equalise mid way through the second. So back to the MacAlpharm for the 2nd leg and Lee Peltier gave us the lead, before Steve Lovell equalised from the spot in the 44th minute, only for Danny Ward to put us back in front on the stroke of half time. Surely we'd walk it from there?
No, that's not the Town way. Lovell levelled again and in extra time Danny Ings put the Cherries in front. This was the point now where the home crowd really got behind the team, the likes of which we had never witnessed before at the new stadium and the legend that is Antony Kay got us level on the night and on aggregate to force the tie into a penalty shoot out, which he scored the winning penalty. Legend!
Here, have a watch of this, but don't dwell on how the final went.
After that, when both teams had eventually reached the Championship, there were a couple of games of conflicting conclusions. We stuffed them early in the 2013/14 season 5-1 at home. Adam Hammill scored, then James Vaughan bagged a hat trick before Adam Clayton wrapped it up. But the following season saw Bournemouth come here on the opening day and that proved to be the end of the Mark Robins era at Huddersfield. The Cherries came and whupped our bottoms by a ridiculous score of 4-0, which didn't flatter them. They went on to win the Championship that season and goals that day came from Marc Pugh after twenty odd seconds, two from Callum Wilson and one from Yann Kermogant.
Wilson has continued to haunt us and in the first ever Premier League match between these two sides, he scored a hat trick in that 4-0 Bournemouth win back in November.
So what's happening at Dean Court? Managed nowadays by Eddie Howe, who spent his playing career in the lower leagues, playing for Bournemouth and errr.... Bournemouth, oh and a couple of games at Portsmouth, where he was signed by Harry Redknapp but knackered his knee and only had 2 games in 2 seasons. At the end of his two years at Fratton Park, he had a loan spell back at Dean Court and the fans wanted him back permanently. The club were in no position to pay any kind of transfer fee though and so the fans clubbed together to pay Pompey the £21k asking price.
He had three more years playing for the Cherries and was made player/coach by manager Kevn Bond and then full time coach when he retired from playing, but when Bond got the boot from the manager's job, so did Howe. However Howe came back the following season as youth coach and by 2009 he was himself sat in the manager's seat. Success followed in the shape of promotion to League One, which prompted approaches from other clubs and so Howe moved on to become Burnley manager, a few months before they got beat by us in the play offs.
He stayed at Turf Moor for a couple of seasons, seeing the Clarets to a couple of mid table finishes, but the lure of the bright lights of Boscombe was too much and he returned down south to manage Bournemouth once more. And the rest is history. Promotion to the Championship in his first season back and then a couple of years later, the heady heights of the Premier League.
Club Connections: Well we won't have to face Benik Afobe. He went back to Wolves on loan on Transfer Deadline Day.
There's an ex Bournemouth player in the Town squad. He scored in on of our visits down south. A 2-0 win for the Cherries on Easter Monday 2012 saw our under performing, £5m left back Scott Malone score against us. He's still scored two more goals against us than he has for us.
Back in 2011, Lee Clark went and signed two of the stars of the Bournemouth team that we beat in the Play Offs. One of them was Donal McDermott, who had been on loan there and so we signed him from Man City. The other one was Anton Robinson. Both these two players turned out to be garbage and probably a factor in the departure soon afterwards of manager Clark.
Talking of managers, Town legend from the 50s, Bill McGarry managed Bournemouth in the 60s before he became a Wolves legend. And Mel Machin managed both clubs, although he was at Bournemouth a lot longer than us, taking over the reigns at the end of the disastrous Mick Wadsworth season.
Sweet Scotty Malone
Recent form: Town are 19th in the Premier League with 24 points. The Cherries are in 9th with 31 points and now officially out of the relegation scrap, following their unbeaten run since Christmas. Since being beaten at Man City on Saturday the 23rd of December, when they finished the day in the bottom three, they have won 4 and drawn 3, including wins at home to Arsenal and away at Chelsea.
This ain't gonna be no walk in the park.
Last 6 matches:
Town 1-4 West Ham (Lolley)
Stoke 0-2 Town
Town 1-1 Birmingham (FA Cup 4) (Mounie)
Town 0-3 Liverpool
Man Utd 2-0 Town
Birmingham 1-4 Town (FA Cup) (Roberts og, Mounie, van La Parra, Ince)
Bournemouth 2-2 Wigan (FA Cup) (Mousset, S Cook)
Bournemouth 2-1 Arsenal (Wilson, Ibe)
Wigan 3-0 Bournemouth (FA Cup)
West Ham 1-1 Bournemouth (Fraser)
Chelsea 0-3 Bournemouth (Wilson, Stanislas, Aké)
Bournemouth 2-1 Stoke (King, Mousset)
Bournemouth's line up at home to Stoke on Saturday:
27 Asmir Begović - Ex Yeovil Yugoslavian born goalkeeper.
2 Simon Francis - Ex Bradford defender, now club captain.
3 Steve Cook - Ex Havant & Waterlooville defender.
5 Nathan Aké - Dutch international, came through Chelsea's Academy.
24 Ryan Fraser - Took some poor advice when deciding to join Bournemouth instead of Huddersfield.
16 Lewis Cook - Defender from Dirty Leeds.
4 Dan Gosling - Ex Plymouth Argyle midfielder.
11 Charlie Daniels - Country singer, had a massive hit with The Devil Went Down to Georgia.
33 Jordon Ibe - Ex Wycombe Wanderers winger.
19 Junior Stanislas - Ex Southend Utd winger.
13 Callum Wilson - Has scored 5 goals in 3 matches against us.
Substitutes
1 Artur Boruc - Polish international goalkeeper.
6 Andrew Surman - Ex Walsall midfielder.
7 Marc Pugh - Played against us in that Play Off.
8 Harry Arter - Was on the bench for that Play Off.
17 Joshua King - Was on trial with us a couple of years ago - Failed!
31 Lys Mousset - French striker, cost them £7m.
42 Jack Simpson - Young defender with just the one Premier league appearance.
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