Ooh To Be A Terrier

Yorkshire Live writers Steven Chicken and David Hartrick discuss the 1-1 draw with Barnsley. What can we read into Carlos Corberan's selection decisions? Was this a step forward or a continuation of a poor run? And when can we say a poor run has become a slide? We also talk about the boos that broke out on the final whistle and whether that was fair; why things seem to be a lacking a bit of oomph;...

Steven Chicken and David Hartrick review Huddersfield Town's 1-2 defeat to Middlesbrough - a flattering scoreline for the Terriers if ever there was one. What went wrong? How concerning is it for fans, and are those concerns valid? And is it time to look at some alternatives either in personnel or tactics? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this long-awaited episode of Ooh To Be A Terrier, Steven Chicken and David Hartrick talk about Huddersfield Town's win over West Bromwich Albion and the defeat to Queens Park Rangers. What was the difference between the two games? What issues need to be addressed? And might this injury crisis, in an odd way, provoke some new ideas from the Terriers? We also talk about what the Terriers might ne...

Steven Chicken and David Hartrick talk through the sad news that several of Phil Hodgkinson's businesses have gone into administration and dissect what exactly that means for Huddersfield Town. Where do the club stand? What comes next? And how much cause for concern should fans have? There's also some actual football to talk about in the form of the 1-0 win over Millwall and the 1-1 draw at Peterb...

Steven Chicken and David Hartrick look back on the Terriers' last three games but with an emphasis on the weekend's 3-0 defeat at Bournemouth. What went wrong? How worrying is it that Town were so far off the pace? And what might lay ahead with Town now very much part of an increasingly congested mid-table pack? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Steven Chicken and David Hartrick take the opportunity of the international break answer all your questions about the Terriers. What's Carlos Corberan's best XI? Which players need to step things up? Who is next to emerge from the B team? We also give our views on the Newcastle takeover, since we were asked, and talk about our own relationship with the club and how transfer rumours work. Learn mor...

Steven Chicken and David Hartrick run through the 1-0 away defeat to Swansea and the 3-2 win over Blackburn Rovers. There's plenty to talk about after two such contradictory performances, but then that might just be how Huddersfield Town are this season. The two of us feel very smug about Danny Ward after sticking up for him in last week's episode, and we also have plenty of words of praise for To...

Yorkshire Live duo Steven Chicken and David Hartrick look back on a disappointing 0-2 defeat to Nottingham Forest and try to unpick what it tells us about Huddersfield Town's prospects this season. What went wrong in the game and how do they fix it? Are the players taking enough responsibility for changing things up mid-match? And does that performance give opposition analysts an obvious approach...

Yorkshire Live's Steven Chicken and David Hartrick look back on a 2-1 defeat away to Stoke City and a 0-3 win at Blackpool. What went wrong at Stoke? What went right at Blackpool? And which of the two can we expect more of as the season unfolds? We look over the next few games and conclude that Town have every reason to believe they can keep their positive run going, as well as what we can expect...

Yorkshire Live's Steven Chicken and David Hartrick run the rule over the 4-0 win over Reading, the signing of Mipo Odubeko on loan from West Ham United, and the transfer window as a whole. How do we assess Town's summer business? What does that set them up for this season? And are there any gaps and regrets left over from the transfer window that will need dealing within January? We also look ahea...

Steven Chicken and David Hartrick discuss Huddersfield Town's 1-2 Championship win over Sheffield United and the noble 1-2 Carabao Cup defeat to Everton. How important is Sorba Thomas to this side? Which defender has been the biggest pleasant surprise? How much more attacking threat will Carlos Corberan's side carry with Fraizer Campbell and Harry Toffolo back available from the start? Plus, can T...

Steven Chicken and David Hartrick review the shambolic 1-5 defeat to ten-man Fulham and the unconvincing but hugely important 1-0 win over Preston. What have we and Carlos Corberan learned from these games? How should Huddersfield Town approach the next few games? What are our expectations for this embryonic season? And what needs to be done in the transfer market? Learn more about your ad choices...

With the first competitive game of the season just days away and the transfer window about to enter its final month, Steven Chicken is joined by Opta analyst David Hartrick and his fellow Yorkshire Live writer Elliott Jackson to discuss where Huddersfield Town stand. How does the squad look position by position? Who has impressed in pre-season to push for a place in the side? Where does more work...

In the final episode of the 2020/21 season, Examiner writer Steven Chicken and Opta analyst David Hartrick embark on a mammoth bumper episode. We briefly talk about the final day of the season before quickly shifting our attentions to the retained list: who's staying, who's going, and what that tells us about the work Huddersfield Town have to do in the transfer market this summer. We then go thro...

Steven Chicken and David Hartrick discuss what there is to discuss about the 1-1 draw with Coventry City. Is the fans' treatment of Danny Ward a bit unfair? What are the plans for the summer? And has this season effectively been a nil-nil that the Terriers just had to get through? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Examiner Live's Steven Chicken and Opta's David Hartrick look back on the 5-2 defeat to Blackburn, why it was the source of such angst despite Town's survival hopes being helped by other results on the day, and where the club go from here. What does this tell us about where Town are? What's the feeling about things within the club? How can they fix it? And is there a chance this short-term pain co...

Huddersfield Town have had a very Huddersfield Town week, taking a deserved 0-2 win away to Nottingham Forest before putting in a poor performance in a single-goal defeat at home to Barnsley that should have been about 0-3.What went right against Forest that they didn't do against Barnsley? Was playing long against Barnsley the wrong approach altogether? And how important could the return of Carel...

Yorkshire Live's Steven Chicken and Opta analyst David Hartrick run the rule over a lucky, lucky goalless draw against struggling Rotherham and a defeat against Bournemouth that owed a lot to cheap opposition goals. Where did things go wrong against the Millers? What did they do better in the second half against Bournemouth? Are things over-complicated? We also have to talk about Carlos Corberan's...

Yorkshire Live's Steven Chicken and Opta analyst David Hartrick run the rule over the Terriers' last two games - that's right, they have in fact played twice over the Easter weekend fixtures - to discuss what went right against Brentford and then, much more lengthily, what went wrong against Norwich. Where does this rate among the Terriers' various troughs this season? Why have Town's fortunes swu...

Opta analyst David Hartrick takes on the hosting duties for our latest Terriers Q&A episode, with Yorkshire Live's Steven Chicken his guest. It's an absolute bumper episode thanks to all your lovely questions, from topics as diverse as club communications and season ticket policy to Oumar Niasse and Yaya Sanogo's prospects and who will be at the club next season. Thank you ever so much for contrib...

Steven Chicken and David Hartrick discuss the 1-1 draw away to Sheffield Wednesday and (once again) what that means for the relegation picture. We take the opportunity of the international break to run the rule over Carlos Corberan and the job he's done so far - what's gone well, what's gone less well and where things go from here. We also talk through the recently-released minutes of the latest A...

Steven Chicken and David Hartrick are back once again with the ill behaviour to discuss Huddersfield Town's 1-0 win away to QPR.Did we see this coming? Why have Lewis O'Brien and Naby Sarr suddenly got back to their best? Was Sarr even Town's best defender on the day? Most importantly, what does the recent upturn in form tell us about Town's survival prospects, and why is one of us much more convi...

Steven Chicken and David Hartrick go through a goalless draw against Cardiff that was more interesting than the scoreline might suggest, not least because Huddersfield Town continued to adapt to a more pragmatic approach. We talk about Alex Vallejo's form and where he might fit in when Jonathan Hogg is fit and able to return (hopefully against QPR at the weekend), Yaya Sanogo's impact up front and...

Steven Chicken and Opta's David Hartrick look back on the 3-0 defeat at Preston and the 1-1 draw against Birmingham and try to pick out what Carlos Corberan changed in his approach to the two games. We also talk about Pipa's recent decline in form, Town's best formation in the here and now, the influence Richard Stearman has on the side, and whether some fans might be going a bit hard on Ryan Scho...

Steven Chicken and David Hartrick had been looking forward to talking through Huddersfield Town's 4-1 win over Swansea but that all went out the window after they took another step back against Derby County on Tuesday afternoon. How should the responsibility be split between Carlos Corberan and his players? Why do they have such a hard time against deep-lying opposition? Is Ryan Schofield the main...