Huddersfield Town: November 2011

Hello friends and welcome to my latest update albeit a short one as we only had three games to play this month. I’m still on the hunt for an international role and my latest application to Norway was also rejected.

I decided to change out the team for the game against Scunthorpe as I wanted to give the regulars a rest and also our opponents were in the bottom half of the table. By the interval that looked like a terrible error as we were two-nil down and struggling. A tactical change and a passionate plea at half time produced goals from Ayala and Skarz and earned us a draw. Charlie Austin had a terrible time up front and is very unlikely to ever replace Sigborsson as the starting target man on a regular basis.

The game against Middlesboro was the first of two tough ones and although we came away with a draw Sigborsson had two goals disallowed one of which was decidedly onside. The visitors caught us on the break for their first goal and poor defending accounted for the second. Borja got his goals with a lovely glancing header from an Emmanuel-Thomas cross and a Lee Peltier through ball created the other. Midfielders Palsson and Gunnarsson both had to be substituted for poor performances and yellow card offences.

I was expecting a difficult match for our trip to Fratton Park but in the end we totally dominated the game with Anthony Pilkington scoring the only goal with a neatly placed shot just before half time. Steve Gohouri had an effort cleared off the line minutes before and Sigborsson rocket of a shot smash against the woodwork just after the hour. Defensively we remained solid and Jansson in goal was never under any real pressure. I’m really delighted with these three points.

Current League Table

December Fixutres

So after a short month we now face a mammoth seven fixtures over the next 31 days and I feel the outcome of these games could determine the season and we face Burnley twice in three days.

Here’s a look at my current finances. Overall we are doing pretty well though the main area of concern is the salary budget which I’ve allowed to go over by almost 20k so I’m going to looking through my reserve team come January to see who I can possibly offload.

With the likes of Newcastle and now Stoke trying to tempt my youngsters I want enough payroll available to keep them on the books.

That’s it for this month and thanks very much for reading this article.