Opinions From Huddersfield

[mr cgull]

- Amazing ground - first visit, loved it. If Falmer is as good as that we're onto an absolute winner. If I have one request for Falmer, please can we organise a forest for the background behind a least one stand, looked amazing.

- Surprisingly nice place and friendly locals (mind you I'm sure even Stoke could be firendly if they beat you 7-1).

- Slade was right - we did play well for the first 15 mins and knocked it about nicely. Most of the play was in their half.

- Thought Dickenson looked good. Excellent goal, won some flick ons, looked a handful up front in a difficult role.


Fantastic, all was looking rosey after Dickenson's goal......

- Very unproffesional conceding straight after scoring, knocked the stuffing out of us.

- All this debate about the penalty kind of masks the real issue... El Abd's SHOCKING back pass. Not the first time he's done something like this. Looked a stick on penalty and sending off from where I was.

- Kuipers reaction: Might this have something to do with the fact his season could now go down the drain? Obviously he will be replaced by Smith for his ban, but as is the nature of goalkeeping, there is only room for one. Assuming Smith stays fit and plays as well as his record suggests he could do, he could be in for the season. Kuipers, I'd imagine would be highly pissed off with El Abd.

- Full backs: Ignoring the back pass and a very poor challenge from Whing for the 2nd pen, distribution is a major problem. El Abd is only filling in to be fair so unlikely to play much, but as for Whing... his defending is fully committed and usually good, but his distribution is very poor. He is fairly good running with the ball, but in tight situations he gives the ball away all the time.

- Second half - shambolic. Never seen a proffesional team destroyed like that at this level.

and finally, and this should be remembered, not as an excuse but as a fact:

- Against 10 men they looked bloody good and inparticular Robinson (SUB!!!!!) who absolutely tore us to shreads.

Oh and by the way:

- Roadworks on the M1 is not a welcome sight at anytime but least of all when you have lost 7-1 and it is 1 in the morning.

 

[Arthur]

Nice one mate.

One of the very few posts worth reading on here at the moment.

 

[The Oldman]

Best post match report from last night I have read. Thanks.

 

[fatbadger]

It is quite a nice ground, isn't it? This is aided by the fact that (a) you can walk to it easily from the town centre, which we won't be able to do, and (b) Hudds itself is a nice town. Of course, its great weakness is that it is all-seating (the very best grounds, of course, aren't).

The really horrible grounds are the out-of-town characterless all-seater boxes (Reebok, Kassam), followed by the edge-of-town or on-a-retail-or-industrial-park characterless all-seater boxes (Riverside, Britannia, JJB).

I hope that Falmer will be able to get over that hurdle and be characterful. I'm worried though.

 

[The Grockle]

Good post.

With regard to the tree bit, i'm sure i read somewhere that they will be removing 25 mature trees and re-planting 900 new ones!

 

[mr cgull]

Bonus. If any of the tree huggers who suggest that a stadium is a blot on the landscape still exist (and I'm sure they do), Huddersfield's ground looks stunning against the backdrop of the local countryside.

Easy to forget this was built over 10 years ago - very impressive, but will ours be even better?

 

[Mendoza]

The road works by Dunstable on the way home was the final insult and ensured arriving home at an hour beginning with 3am.

Dickinson's goal will win goal of the season.

The stadium does make you think of Falmer in the best way possble

El Abd is shocking and hopefully that inept display will see him in the reserves for the season

Only Walsall away 1st half (last season) was worse than the second half yesterday

 

[The Grockle]

Bonus. If any of the tree huggers who suggest that a stadium is a blot on the landscape still exist (and I'm sure they do), Huddersfield's ground looks stunning against the backdrop of the local countryside.

Easy to forget this was built over 10 years ago - very impressive, but will ours be even better?

I think at first Falmer will look a little imposing on the surrounding landscape but when the trees start to mature, perhaps after five to ten years it will blend in very well.
The fact that the stadium is set three stories below the ground will obviously help reduce its impact on the landscape, couple this with the impressive steel arches and I can see the stadium being an iconic structure for the city despite what a few nimbys might claim.

A final note, I get the impression that the design of the Galpharm stadium (An award winning stadium) heavily influenced the design of Falmer and in particular the steel arches and I think I’m right in saying Martin Perry worked on this project too. This might give some indication to the final end product?