Hopefully our first away win in aeons heralds the start of a good run of form for the mighty Reds. We have a solid home run anyway lately as we’re unbeaten in five – so the extra confidence of our win over Chesterfield will hopefully fill the lads with belief. Huddersfield have pretentions of playoff qualification, and will be smarting over losing at home 2-1 to Crewe – despite their keeper saving three penalties (so if we get a penalty, given our record with them, don’t get too excited until you see the net ripple!!).
Huddersfield sit eight points adrift of sixth place – so if they are serious about the playoffs then will need to start picking up points. We of course remain in third place, just a point behind Yeovil Town in second – and far too many points behind Scunny at the top. So picking up points and building a run of form is pretty important to both teams, indeed, possibly more so for our visitors who have a tad more catching up to do than us – so it’s going to be a hard fought game.
We’re without Tys who serves the last game of his ban, and – perhaps more crucially – the in-form Jack Lester starts a two game suspension thanks to the silly booking he picked up last week. Grant returns after his own suspension, and we will be looking to him to be more effective than he has been in recent games, and start getting into that goalscoring form we saw from him earlier in the season. I would expect Grant to line up alongside Agogo up front tomorrow, in a line-up that will look something like this:
Smith
Curtis – Morgan – Breckin – Bennett
Prutton – Perch – Clingan – Commons
Holt – Agogo
Huddersfield are missing Gary Taylor-Fletcher to suspension (it really is suspension season at the moment!) who is their leading scorer, although Danny Schofield and Andy Holdsworth return to the side having served bans. They have added Paul Hayes to their ranks on loan from Barnsley, the striker is highly rated but looking to re-ignite his career which has gone a bit quiet at Oakwell – so he would be one to watch out for against us tomorrow.
Huddersfield broke our 100% record at the start of the season back in August, we drew with them 1-1 thanks to a Grant Holt strike – the general mood after the game was disappointment that we’d not picked up 3 points, although from memory we sustained a great deal of pressure from the home side which culminated in Taylor-Fletcher putting a rebound past Paul Smith to level the scores.
Despite my lacklustre post earlier, I’m quietly confident in this game – the key is the Grant Holt factor, will be get the hardworking frontman or the petulant striker who spends more time moaning at the referee? He is filling Jack Lesters boots, and they’ve become big boots indeed – Lester has been a relevalation in the last few games, both as “the head of the diamond” and also when fully up front, so hopefully Grant recognises the need for him to perform because there is further pressure on his place. If we get the good sides to Grants game we’ll win, if we don’t we may struggle – but let’s be positive!
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I can feel it in the air tonight, the stars are bright, AGOGO…
I’m not one for making predictions, as you know, but this one is clear as mud. Agogo will do his two goal thing again, and then we’ll sit back. The trouble will be that there’s just 20 minutes an the clock, and it will be 2-1 at half time. we’ll then endure one of those horrible second halves where you just know the opposition will score – and so they sahll. It will stay like that until the 88th minutes, when Prutts will blast the winner from 30 yards, You mark my words!
YOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUU REDSSSSSS!!!
At last a great result! Anybody know why Prutton didn’t play?
It was a great result.. the Prutts absense is a mystery to me – I’d forgotten about it until you mentioned it given the great game and Sammy’s sad injury.
Forest Forest – well, at least you got Agogo’s two goals right