Hello and welcome back to TerrierBlog, after taking a sabbatical longer than Kevin Keegans I'm back to rant and rave about Huddersfield Town. I the meantime an awful lot of things have gone on at the Galpharm, and as I write this now 'Thimon Gwayson is the new Town chief, and Lee Clark is being touted as the next Mourinho.
Firstly, I'll start with my views on Lee Clark, and his somewhat shock sacking last Wednesday! I'd like to state that I am fully behind the decision of Hoyle to sack the geordie and get someone else in, however I must say I was shocked that it happened when it did. At Meadow lane was the first time I began to hear genuine unrest amongst fans towards the manager. As those of you who follow me on twitter will know (@TerrierBlog) I was informed by a gentleman in the toilets at half-time, that Clark was on his last legs and that O'Driscoll was the man to lead us to promotion. Unfortunately my rest-room confidante was not 100% right, but this signalled to me the beginning of the decline for Clarky. As we all know Lee spent an awful lot of money, at times looked out of his depth, and tactically inept. I did expect his sacking to come at the end of the season, after what I imagine would have been another unsuccessful promotion campaign. Fortunately in my opinion, Dean Hoyle spotted the potential for failure and acted quickly to change things, hopefully for the better.
Now onto the new manager, Simon Grayson from our arch-rival Leeds United, not for me my first choice, but still a very good manager. Myself, like many Town fans was hoping for Neil Warnock to come in, however it seems we were beaten by that shady fellow from up the road. However many people dislike Grayson for his Leeds United connections, need to embrace him, set aside their gripes and get behind the team and the manager for the crucial run-in. As we have all seen, Grayson masterminded the first cautionary steps of Blackpool into the big time. He was backed quite well by the owners of Blackpool, invested his money wisely and took a relegation threatened team into the Championship. On the way he employed a very entertaining style of football, based on hard-work and organisation but also combined with pragmatic attacking which led to a flurry of goals. Then, he took the reigns at Leeds and managed to do what previous regimes had failed to do, get a big team with high expectations out of league 1 (see the parallels?). Last season Leeds came close to the play-offs with limited funds, and looked well set to at least equal that this season. Along the way he masterminded some fantastic, entertaining results and brought the spotlight to Bell-end road with a few cup runs, and that huge victory at Old Trafford.
Although he did seem to tail off towards the end of his career with the whites, conceding bucket loads of goals and suffering embarrassing defeats, it's clear there was something sinister at play...Ken Bates anyone? I think if he can emulate even 70% of his past success then we will be very well placed to achieve promotion, hopefully this season and if not the next. I lost the belief at Old Trafford, although it came back in patches throughout the season I don't think I'd ever have had that belief under Clark, but it's back now.
#believe
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