Huddersfield Town

Jumpers For Goalposts · Mon Oct 31, 2011 5:03 pm

Has anybody else noticed that Huddersfield Town are currently on an unbeaten run which now stretches to 41 League matches. They need to avoid defeat in their next 9 League matches to beat our all-time record of 49.

How do fellow Gooners feel about this?
* Records are there to be broken?
* Good luck to a smaller club, especially a club that are so relevant to our glorious history?
* Hope they get f**kin' stuffed at home by Walsall next Saturday????

Personally I hope our record stays intact but if we're gonna lose it, I would much rather lose it to Herbert Chapman's old team than one of our shite rivals.

SWLGooner · Post by **SWLGooner** » Mon Oct 31, 2011 5:06 pm

It won't count cause they lost in the Play Off final, which IMO is a league game. Still played under the auspices of the npower league 1.

MK Gould · Post by **MK Gould** » Mon Oct 31, 2011 5:08 pm

You beat me to it. A Terriers fan at work pointed this out to me this morning. Think they've already broken the record for a team outside the top flight.

Given that Herbert Chapman joined us after a very successful spell in charge at Huddersfield and then helped turn us into the top team in Europe (sh*t, why couldn't there have been a Champions League in the 1930's.....!) then I think it would kind of close the circle if the same team could beat our record (albeit that the bigger record for me was going for a season unbeaten - and albeit that they play in the "Third" Division!).

Chips and Chocolate · Post by **Chips and Chocolate** » Mon Oct 31, 2011 5:09 pm

Well they're playing Charlton at the end of the month, hope they get stuffed!!!

rigsby · Post by **rigsby** » Mon Oct 31, 2011 5:16 pm

Not top flight.

SteveO 35 · Post by **SteveO 35** » Mon Oct 31, 2011 5:37 pm

How on earth can they not include the play offs ? Its the climax of the League season FFS.

Doesn't count.

Jumpers For Goalposts · Mon Oct 31, 2011 6:04 pm

SteveO 35 wrote:How on earth can they not include the play offs ? Its the climax of the League season FFS.

Doesn't count.

I think the argument is that the Play Offs don't appear in the League records / statistics. For teams in the lower leagues, the yearly stats show only the 46 games played in the regular season and don't include the 3 Play Off games. I agree though that by losing what is essentially a League match, that should have been the end of their unbeaten League run.

If Huddersfield do get to 50 we can congratulate them and take the chance to remind the World what a great man Herbert Chapman was before we remind them that the record doesn't actually count!! And that our record included an entire season in the top flight, which will probably never be done again.

arsenalmorris · Post by **arsenalmorris** » Mon Oct 31, 2011 7:46 pm

playoffs counts as a leagye game,

if you score in playoff's it goes onto your league goals for the season total

topgoon · Post by **topgoon** » Tue Nov 01, 2011 12:02 am

We went unbeaten and won the premier league,

They went unbeaten and are STILL in div 3,

So...nowt to get worked up about.

Though I'm sure there'll be plenty of sad scum-supporting t**ts that will make something of it but who gives a toss what a scummer thinks

SteveO 35 · Post by **SteveO 35** » Tue Nov 01, 2011 8:47 am

Jumpers For Goalposts wrote:
SteveO 35 wrote:How on earth can they not include the play offs ? Its the climax of the League season FFS.

Doesn't count.
I think the argument is that the Play Offs don't appear in the League records / statistics. For teams in the lower leagues, the yearly stats show only the 46 games played in the regular season and don't include the 3 Play Off games. I agree though that by losing what is essentially a League match, that should have been the end of their unbeaten League run.

If Huddersfield do get to 50 we can congratulate them and take the chance to remind the World what a great man Herbert Chapman was before we remind them that the record doesn't actually count!! And that our record included an entire season in the top flight, which will probably never be done again.

Jumpers....does that mean in the land of Arseneballs that we're in the middle of a 40 game unbeaten run. I mean you can't count all those "special circumstances" defeats surely ?

spike241 · Post by **spike241** » Tue Nov 01, 2011 9:23 am

Charlton'll do 'em. Bradley Wright-Phillips has been quality this season (for a L1 player) and they've got plenty of other players who can get a goal when they need to.

I do agree that since they lost they play off final it shouldn't count anyway. Do they count the p/o semi-final in their unbeaten run?

Percy Dalton · Post by **Percy Dalton** » Tue Nov 01, 2011 9:29 am

You cannot count the play off games as they are an additional set of gamers on top of the normal league fixtures.

They are a cup event hence the knock out nature of them.

If they do it, they do it and it will be well deserved but it will never rank alongside doing it in the top flight.

Chips and Chocolate · Post by **Chips and Chocolate** » Tue Nov 01, 2011 9:36 am

Percy Dalton wrote:You cannot count the play off games as they are an additional set of gamers on top of the normal league fixtures.

They are a cup event hence the knock out nature of them.

If they do it, they do it and it will be well deserved but it will never rank alongside doing it in the top flight.

Ditto but as spike and I said Charlton will do them!

Bradley Wright Wright Wright!!!

SouthCoastArsenal · Post by **SouthCoastArsenal** » Tue Nov 01, 2011 10:12 am

4 draws in there against Bournemouth, 2 of which were in the play-off semi final legs.

I believe they are counting these but not the final in the 41??

*Edited* - They aren't counting it!

shu · Post by **shu** » Tue Nov 01, 2011 11:07 am

I hope that they do not beat the record , i remember going up there to the old ground for a mid week cup game in the pouring rain (92/93) and the bastards smashed the windscreen of the minibus in. Really fun trying to get a replacement at 11 at night in the grim north.