After the whole Messageboard saga and the ongoing quest to find ‘Mr Hacker’, Orient take on seventh place Huddersfield Town in the hope of extending our unbeaten home record to seven games.
Huddersfield looked on fire earlier in the season as they brushed us aside with ease at the Galpharm by hammering us 4-0, which was followed up by scoring six in the next two home games (against Wycombe on Sky and Dagenham in the cup), all of this after running Newcastle United close in the Carling Cup and putting seven past Brighton. Things looked so good for the Terriers and surely promotion would be a certainty but away form has let them down dearly with 9 defeats and 3 draws out of 18 games. That for me has cost Town dearly and will be their downfall. Huddersfield’s poor away form has picked up of late, as they try to catch Colchester in the last play-off place, with them being unbeaten in the last four games away from the Galpharm.
Looking at the Yorkshiremen’s squad, there are only three strikers available to them for the journey to E10, which would raise a smile on some O’s fans’ faces, but between them they have a total of 38 goals to their names’. In goal, Alex Smithies has been tipped for bigger things, Peter Clarke and Neal Trotman offer something at corners and set pieces and with decent midfielders to their name, Huddersfield will be a difficult task tomorrow.
It has been a slow news week at BR this week as the main talking point will be ‘Who is Mr Hacker?’ and the arrival of a new and colourful messageboard thanks to him or her.
Team news wise, as always we know very little about who’s injured and who isn’t but as far as we are aware at VF Towers, Jamie Jones is still struggling with a back injury, which isn’t thought to be serious. Aaron Doran has been a talking point amongst fans this week as many are quick to compare him to Nicky Adams and point out that he can’t beat a man and has been likened to our crap, Irish friend, JJ Melligan.
We now sit 8 points away from the dotted line of relegation and another two wins by our calculations should really be enough to keep us in the division another season longer.
Prediction: Orient 1-2 Huddersfield
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