A much improved performance, Town were extremely unlucky not to get all 3 points - it should have finished 7 or 8 - 1 to be truthful. Danny Schofield played instead of Chris Brandon (some wag in the crowd was heard to shout "...Danny who?..."), John McCombe instead of Martin McIntosh. Formation = 4-1-4-1 again (Boothy on his own upfront).
On a bitterly cold afternoon, and in front of a crowd of only 8,500, Town didn't get off to a very good start. I was sat there musing that we really were as bad as we appeared!! Northampton took the lead, to the surprise of no-one - the ease with which they walked round our defence was laughable - here we go again I thought. But from that moment onwards though it was virtually one-way traffic, and Town played as well as I've seen them play all season.
Boothy was unlucky twice in the same 5 minutes, firstly when a bullet header was cleared off the line (although it looked to me that it had clearly crossed the line, not that the referee or his assistant were interested), and then a similar header cannoned off the crossbar with the keeper well and truly beaten. Town couldn't find a way through before half time.
Second half, and it was an almost unstoppable bombardment of the Northampton goalmouth - an equaliser had to come, and it did when Danny Schofield drilled a brilliant curling shot past the keeper in the 65th minute. I thought that Jacko should have gone to 2 upfront at that point, but predictably he waited until the last 10 minutes before doing so (too late by then imo).
It seemed for all the world that a Town winner would arrive eventually, but woeful finishing and hard luck became the order of the day, and we had to settle for a point. I look on it as 2 points lost.
Jacko on Huddersfield v Northampton (written)
Jacko on Huddersfield v Northampton (Audio)
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When Sam picked me up from the railway station later on I said to him that I reckoned that Northampton were the first side I had seen that I thought would definately get relegated. To which he replied "...you only managed a draw against a team certain to go down?...". Sometimes I don't think before I speak......
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