[MNTerrier]

Vs.


(I'm putting the match thread up a little earlier than normal mainly because my once love of the international break has turned into a loathing almost exclusively dues to overpaid prima donnas strutting around a football field making me ashamed to be english)

Date: October 14th
Kick off: 3.00 pm
Venue: McAlJohnGalPineSmithPharm Stadium, Huddersfield



About the Visitors

Blackpool Football Club are an English football club founded in 1887 and based in the Lancashire seaside town of Blackpool. For the 2014–15 English season, the team are competing in the Football League Championship, the second tier of professional football in England, for the fourth-consecutive season. When they reached the Premier League, at the end of the 2009–10 campaign, Blackpool became the first club in English football to have won promotion from every division of the Football League via the play-off system.

Blackpool's most notable achievement is winning the 1953 FA Cup Final, the so-called "Matthews Final", in which they beat Bolton Wanderers 4–3, overturning a 1–3 deficit in the closing stages of the game. During that post-war period, Blackpool made three FA Cup Final appearances in six years and, during the 1950s, had four top-six finishes in the Football League First Division, their best position being runners-up to Manchester United in the 1955–56 season. In 1953. Blackpool's least successful period was in the 1980s particularly when, in the 1982–83 season, they finished 21st in English League football's lowest tier, their lowest-ever League finish.
(plagiarised from wikipedia to save time)

The Teams

 Huddersfield will come into this game full of condfidence having being unbeaten in the last 3 games which saw a 7 point haul, despit a very slow start to the season new manager Chris Powell seems to settled in and found a way to get the best from his players, after a slow start to his tenure the last 2 games in particular have seen a vast improvement in performance, they key now will be consistency. The Terriers will be wanting to put together performance and result in from of their home crowd which so far this season has had little to cheer about.
The international break will have given the team time to recuperate after picking up a few niggles. Peltier and Hogg are expected to be back in contention for a first team place and returning inured players Gerrard and Paterson have been impressive during development league games
 serious question marks are still hovering over the fitness of Vaughan and Hammill  and no expected return date is known. Although right now with Holt and Bunn being in impressive form their absence is not being as keenly felt as it was previously.



Blackpool's off the field problems have been widely advertised, they began the season with only 8 permanent players and protests amongst the fans about how majority shareholders, the Oyston family, are running the club. Blackpool will be desperate for any kind of result after having a disastrous start to the season which see them with only 6 points and 1 win this season, that win was their last game versus Cardiff.
Although its too early in the season to consider them relegation fodder even a win against Huddersfield would not lift them out of the the bottom 3 and a loss could see them further cut afield, games are coming thick and fast Blackpool will be looking to pick any result anyway they can, especially against any team in the lower half of the table.


Played for Both

Peter Clarke
probably the most famous recent player to play for both teams " Captain Fantastic" played 109 game for Blackpool in 2 spells at the club where he was player of the year in 04-05 season.


Keigan Parker
Probably the most forgettable recent player to play for both teams, he did however kind of  have a decent career at blackpool.


Gary Taylor Fletcher
A Terriers fans favorite he left Huddersfield to join Blackpool in 2007, he would play over 200 games for Blackpool and score 36 goals, he scored Blackpool's first ever premier league goal in a 4-0 win against Wigan in the 10-11 season.


Prediction
on the surface this has home win written all over it, but dig a little deeper and its not so clear. Blackpool are desperate, i can see them coming and playing spoiler, putting lots of players behind the ball and trying to counter. Dour 0-0 coming up i think

line up


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[theo_luddite]

When my Sunday morning hangover clears up I'll come back and read this properly. There's an Ingurland game to get out of the way first too. Entertaining match at the Moulinex watching t'U21's t'other night. 3 recent visits, 3 wins on the trot now for me.

[ritchiebaby]

Should Holt and Bunn not be on the Strictly thread?  

Blackpool have never been the same since Charlie Adam left and now rely on some of the donkeys from the beach to provide a bit of class. Too big too soon was their problem. No such pitfall awaits Town.

I agree with MNT - the quicker League football comes back the better.  

[Lord Snooty]

Should Holt and Bunn not be on the Strictly thread?  

Yes, definitely lining up for a quickstep there.

[Lord Snooty]

Peter Clarke passed fit for the match.

[Lord Snooty]

It's been so long since the last Town match, my fingernails have grown really long. I need some nervous energy worked up on Saturday to get them in trim again.

[WakeyTerrier]

Is David Perkins injured? that little turd seems to play well every time we come up against a team he's in

[Lord Snooty]

Don't know. He played against Cardiff in the tv game last week.

[theo_luddite]

Looks like all Championship matches are available on t'interweb this weekend.

Town's should be here on wiziwig

If the link doesn't take you to the right place let me know before Saturday.

[theo_luddite]

Clarke having a laugh at his team mates training on the beach.