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First of all well done Swindon! On the day you wanted it more than us!

The two ex-Leeds lads bossed midfield and the ferocious tackle by Douglas that took Roberts out just about summed it up for me. Mind you, I've seen players 'walk' for less than that. I'm not saying that because Robert's sustained a serious arm injury (he needs surgery and could be out for months) but because of the 'malice intent' in the tackle. It was uncalled for in that part of the pitch in my view. If I 'tackled' someone like that out side my local boozer I'd in the local nick this morning! :nod:

On the whole you had far more aggression than us and there's nowt wrong with that but to call us soft moaning northerners is slightly unfair given the circumstances. However, if you like it that way, I hope you're okay with something similar for our lads when you play at The Pharm'. Us Northerners have long memories!

The game seemed pretty even in the first half I thought with two good sides giving as good as they got. It was really crucial for us that Scot Arfield didn't start the second half because that coupled with the Roberts incident meant our creativity totally dried up. I'm not making excuses because we should have risen to the challenge in the second half and we just didn't. On that performance I can see why a lot of you are surprised we were 'up there' but hey, there's plenty of matches to come and we'll stay up there. Obviously we'd have been happy to take a point but fair play to Swindon for winning it at the end. Although I would have liked to have seen the ball smacked into the stand, as it was your lad was allow a free header!

Good luck Swindon Town, I'm sure you'll be up there yourselves come May time. I'm not surprised you won the game if I'm honest but it's the injury to Robbo who's one of our best players that concerns me most!

Regards AceT :D

Like fuck. Fair but hard challenge.  Not even a foul let alone a red/GBH. It was just unfortunate he broke his arm. Hope its not too bad.

As the ref confirmed by not only not sending him off, but not a booking either, looked a great tackle from where i was, just your lad fell awkwardly. Looking foward to the away leg, might be a bit "frantic" I reckon. Anyway no doubt you'll be up there, but you need to learn how to take more points of the better teams, as to me  if Hudds were a cricketer you'd be Graham Hick. I.e batter the lesser lights but freeze when you need to up your game, that must be down to tactics, so seems to be your manager needs to adapt his thinking.

Take the red blinkers off mate!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00v37lj/The_Football_League_Show_2010_2011_Episode_8/

Scroll to 43min.33secs.

A ridiculous tackle especially in that area of the pitch. If he'd done that in or around the their penalty area I could understand it. Jeeeeesus Christ he'll get some hammer when he's up at our place for that! ;)

Confirms a good tackle, gets the ball then makes contact with the player.

Then some fat bloke in a number 9 Huddersfield shirt must have jumped onto the pitch to shove people around. Not seen anyone that big at the CG since Ruddock left.

Ha bloody ha! Very funny  - NOT! :smugfu:

He didn't jump in, he got the ball, the ref was right in front of it and didn't book him.
It's not nice that he's broken his arm but that was the way he fell, it makes the tackle sound worse than it was.

That's the problem with terriers - they have very short legs so rarely have a good view :)

It's a contact sport. Dougie won the ball, player fell awkwardly which is unfortunate but absolutely nothing wrong with that challenge.

Funny how a challenge by one of the Udders players on the sideline (can't remember who on - possibly Prutton) goes unmentioned as that looked much more malicious. 

Yes, just like the Austin incident v Southampton was an accident

I can see it being a feisty return game in March! Can't you everybody? :D

Look at the ball for god sake, it was literally yards from the ref and he gave NOTHING, if its as bad as you make it out to be, he would of walked go questions asked.

looking at the replay i bet he thought he was a hard man when he did that

On and off the pitch. Saw a minibus full of unhappy rough looking northerns in the fire station.

absolutely mental, with 20 20 memory even in the face of video evidence you're sticking to the fact it was a foul and should have been sent off! do you work for the FA?

carey's tackle on douglas by the touchline was worse and the ball wasn't anywhere near to being won.

we all have slightly biased opinions but this is a bit silly now.

what was your view on the advantage being played so you could advance with a man down, but then when we broke the play was stopped?

oh and as for the highlights that really doesn't show how well we played. fucking great one BBC

Roberts' arm looks well fucked. It was just a 50/50 challenge though. If he hadn't broken his arm nothing would have been said about it.

That was a great tackle, 50/50 ball which Douglas won cleanly. The injury occurred because of the way Roberts landed.

The area of the pitch doesnt fucking matter for christ sake, Douglas has every right to go for any ball in any area of the pitch.

The ref got it spot on, no red card, no yellow card - infact I dont think he even gave a foul but when Douglas won the ball he pulled play back for the foul on Arfield as Huddersfield had no advantage.

If you tackled someone like that outside your local boozer, Huddersfield Town would probably sign you up and play you centre midfield.

I dont think the replay will be 'tasty' Huddersfield havent (on that display) got the balls for it.

Also, no mention of our goal which on the one real time viewing I've had got disallowed because Pericard jumped within the vicinity of the goal keeper.

I think the FA should stamp down on this sort of thing and seriously consider fining Huddersfield for fielding a player with shit arms, it could be quite dangerous.

If it was such a bad tackle then surely a manager like Lee Clark would talking about nothing else in his post-match interviews.

Didn't see it 'live', but watching it back on the highlights you can see it's proper snapped. Ouch.

Good post.
When Austin got his shoulder injury with a collision with Davies the Saints keeper...there was uproar against him.
In fact looking at the incident later there was no malice on the keepers part.
So i can see your point of view on the Douglas tackle but watch it again and yes he thundered in so can see why you would be peeved....the boot on the other foot and i would have been most probably.
As for the game Lee is a good player but long ball made you one dimentional and i personally think we have the best defence in the division now so not really any chances i can remember for you.
We always struggle against teams who have lively nippy front men or wide men....you didn't have either so really it was a comfortable win really.
No one wishes players serious injury and i for one wish Roberts a speedy recovery.

i was also going to point this out but 3 consecutive posts by me would have been crazy!

I do accept Robert's arm being broken might have coloured my view to some degree. However, it will be exactly that fact that people will remember about Douglas in March when we play you. That was an overly aggressive tackle on a man trying to play the ball and if you people can't see that then I give up! I always try to fair in my assessment of incidents in games and in this case too. If our player had caused such mayhem I would be saying the same - Trust me I would! But not one of you guys will even concede it was even an unfortunate tackle! ::)

See you all in March! Good luck until then! ;)  

Meh he'll at Brighton by then.

Our player won the ball, cleanly, in a tackle he had every right to go for. It was a fine tackle. That wasnt punished with a card or even a free kick.

It was unfortunate in the fact Roberts landed on his arm and I wish him a speedy recovery.

But, malice intent, overly aggressive - you are talking complete and utter shit, again.

Look where the ref was FFS! Perfectly positioned, and rightly gave fuck all for a perfectly good tackle.

I thought it was just a proper old school cruncher... the free kick was given for Pruttons challenge as no advantage fell to you... it was a nasty fall though. To be honest, it was a strange decision to play advantage... if he'd just blown, the Douglas tackle would never have been made...

I reckon our players will be remembering the few occasions when play was stopped for injuries to your players and the ball wasn't given back to us fairly. Douglas and Prutton came started kicking off towards the end of the game when it happened.

shut up lee clarke

Whats with all this 'we'll get you next March' shit? You've practically repeated it in every post. Its all a little 'we'll get you after school' don't you think....? Leeds fans were great at setting themselves up for a fall when posting on here, perhaps its a Yorkshire thing.

Seriously though, Lee Clark? is he the man for the job? I thought you were so tactically naive in the 2nd half, I counted at least 5 occasions when our centre backs could stroll into your half without one single Udders player being within 10 yards, it was all very 'Andy King'. Yes you could play the 2 players off injured card, but a decent manager should be able to re-organise and counter the way we were playing. Gus Poyet got it spot on when he bought Brighton here.

Do you reckon he's the man for the job?

You are aware that football is a contact sport, aren't you?

Anyone who uses this line needs ignoring straightaway. It wasn't on the fucking street, it was on a football pitch. If you done anything at home in the boxing ring or the rugby pitch on the street you'd be arrested, but it's within the rules of the game.

The ref didn't even give a foul did he? He blew up for the foul on Arfield a split second before.

One final point on Huddersfield. Every media outlet, and their own fans, bang on about a being a fluid side who play lovely football and score for fun, yet you came down here and changed yoour shape to match up, and everytime you got the ball it was lumped towards that fat twat up front. You even held the ball in the corner at 0-0 for fuck sake.

Only one side even tried to play football, only one side deserved to win and we should have been out of sight.

Whats with all this 'we'll get you next March' shit?

All this 'so called' 'shit' is because one of our best players is probably going to be out for several months due an incident involving one of your players! If you can't understand why people might just be a tab pissed off by what went on then you need a reality check! :D

Douglas didn't break his arm, the fall did.

A reckless tackle contributed to that though! :nod:

A tackle in which he won the ball, recieved no card or even a warning from the ref. Stop moaning.

Yes you're absolutely right.

Happy now? Good. Now kindly fuck off because you're boring the shit out of me.

It wasn't fucking reckless you senile old fucktard

A perfectly fair but strong challenge in which Douglas won the ball.

Allow me to reiterate: he broke his arm in the fall.

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Hahahaha, that is just brilliant!!

See, that clearly confirms that it was the fall that broke his arm and not the challenge. Thanks Ben.

Good work, that's excellent.

Ben, that's amazing. If you can make that into an avatar/signature I'll buy you some alcohol.

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Love the backflip Roberts does  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Come, we've all seen players pick up serious injuries in perfectly fair challenges...

If he'd done the 'i'm a stupid footballer and fallen down the stairs and injured myself act' would you blame the stairs?

Fair challenge, entitled to go for it, as was Pericard with the disallowed goal by the way, if that challenge is in the Prem by, for example Essien, then the MOTD pundits would be hailing it as a tremendous challenge ending in an unfortunate injury.

And as has already been asked - what did you think of the advantage incident where you attacked and then the ref stops play as soon as we have the ball?  You seem to have ignored that before so I ask again...

Are you of the opinion that conkers should be banned from schools by the way?

Just saw the injury on the Football League Show. That really is horribly horrible.

reality has been bypassed bazza, we're now taking ben's account of what happened as gospel

Sorry dude, can't get my gif program to resize the whole thing at once, which means that I can't be bothered. It must do it somewhere, it will crop all the frames. Strange.

Also I've got to go start on the roast dinner in a min.

Don't worry. It's your loss but thanks for making me chuckle :)

Wonder what the challenge will look like on that udders guys animation job?

a predator-esque target will fall on roberts shoulder, whilst simultaneously looking and playing the ball

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I played the ball ref!

avatar sized
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sig:
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Although I've fucked up somewhere becasue teh sig is bigger than the original image. Fuck knows what I've done.

Best I can do I'm afraid.

Ben thats fucking ace!

I can't stop laughing! :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Damn, I was going to post it on the Huddersfield forum but I've been banned :(

This is all very amusing.

And this is where the northern monkeys are getting confused :nod:

Oh yes, funny as fuck BTW 8)

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Here you go, sig at a much more reasonable 50(ish)kb, instead of nearly half a meg...

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And that's it now. spread them where you will.

The Udds fan conveniently forgot about to mention the blatant elbow in Douglas' face a few mins after the 'incident', which was right in front of the ref but said 'play-on'.

Or their full-back, who should've got booked for kicking the ball away a few minutes after getting away with only a yellow for the very late challenge on Douglas.

...or the guy who had Sheehan round the throat.

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And the one who flattened Caddis with a two footed challenge in the second half. I thought Caddis was likely to be really hurt but being the rock hard scot he is, he got up after 10 seconds and carried on.

Good work FB.  Very good..

They really are up their own arses aren't they.

I notice that Arch Stanton's question about whether Lee Clark is the right man for the job was conveniently ignored?

Does this whippet fucker seriuosly think Douglas is going to give a shit about the return game. If I was Douglas I'd be well up for it after completely bossing the midfield yesterday. Does he also think any Town fan is going to refuse to go because of the incident. The stupid delusional cunt is probably waiting to be beemed up to his mother ship.

Oh god how am I supposed to resist.

He might get a few boos, but that will gee him up. Not that he ever needs to be. Hudds is one of my favourite away trips, already looking forward to it.

I thought he would have got more stick yesterday purely for being ex-Leeds.

Good point joteddy! I demand answers!!!

Dirty bastards...

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:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: :clap: :clap:

awesome :D

I wondered how long it would be before all the 'life's one big joke party' lot got out of bed and started to show just how immature they can be. Our player has sustained a serious injury and it seems all some of your so called fans can do is laugh about it. How very sad is that?

Losing Gary Roberts is a massive blow to us and that's where my comments are coming from, nothing else! I don't wish any of your players any harm but if Douglas does that again to any other player I hope he it gets noted! ;) 

stop being a fucking dick.

We arent laughing at the fact Roberts was injured. Austin got injured in similar fashion two weeks back, so we sympathize.

However, you are still talking complete and utter bollocks. There was nothing wrong with the tackle, it was the fall that did his arm in - NOT THE FUCKING TACKLE.

I should bloody well fucking hope Douglas makes more fantastic successful tackles through out the season, he'd be pretty useless to us if he didnt.

Bad landing, fluke injury. DECENT TACKLE

not fuck off back to where ever you came from. We've met our 80% bollocks quota for the day.

Is that all you've got! Insults? Don't you think it's about time you grew up? I have my opinion you have yours, no need for the obscene insults - or am communicating with some one with 'small cock complex' or no brain, or both even? :D

I am sure that Douglas will get his punishment after the appeal by Huddersfield is heard , oh hold on a minute there is'nt one. If he had broke his leg or ankle I can understand the point but he fell awkwardlly and broke his arm, the day They stop players making full bloodied FAIR tackles is the day we may as well all give up and start watching Basketball.

You've got your opinion which is complete and utterly wrong. The video proves it wrong. Anyone with half a brain and a proper functioning eye can see it.

...and I have a massive cock but thanks for the concern

It was an arm injury. You get them from the way you land on the ground. If it was a leg injury, any reference to the tackle would be valid. Shame about Roberts. But it has nothing to do with the tackle, does it.

God you're tiresome. Your team deserved fuck all out of yesterdays game and thats what they got. When Roberts was being carried off most fans around where I was clapped him off. Other than when we play the Scum ( certain individuals excepted ie Hughes of Notts Co ) Town fans do not want to see opposition players getting hurt. It was a good challenge and Roberts got hurt. The challenge Prutton did moments before was a bad one.
If you're taking the moral high ground then there plenty of incidents we could raise including your cock of a keeper inciting the Town End at the end of the game.
Get over it and move on to Rochdale and tuesday.

Judging by the rest of the Huddersfield team, they've practised falling over a lot. Roberts should have put more effort in during training and maybe he wouldn't have fallen so awkwardly.

Acetripper - we abuse each other loads so we wouldn't make an exception for you - feel the love !!! (you cunt)

Just fuck off now, you boring boring cunt.

I have never known anyone argue so much about a perfectly legitimate tackle.

Perhaps Huddersfield should come out in bicycle helmets, knee and elbow pads next time or alternatively, wrap themselves up in a giant ball of cotton wool.

Yeah, often other teams fans wander in, thinking this is some kind of friendly corner shop, where opinions and views are traded freely... but alas its not, its more of a 99p bargain warehouse, stocked to the rafters with hate and anger.

We love it.  :D

If he's having problems with Town players he'll be fucking raging / apopleptic when they play the Gayboys

They'd still go down like they've been shot every time they get touched. Even a tap on the arm or something.

I think I actually dislike Huddersfield more than I ever disliked Leeds. Just a few choice quotes from their forum:




And they didn't like Ben's little animation. Boo-hoo.

They're right though. I've got far better things to do.

Probably cooking.

Haha this sounds all like the whole Millwall and Manks' saga all over again doesn't it? "They're going to get some shit when they come here" bla bla. Never happened. In fact Manks' got booed about 4 times in total in that much and it was only a small section of the support. I wonder if Huddersfield will make the Galpharm a "bear pit" for our game in March?

I never really considered that my animation would be considered in bad taste, or maybe I just didn't really care. Now it has upset some people I'm very happy.

e: considered considered considering 

Fucking he'll, the Huddersfield fans have spent the day well.

He broke his fucking arm, big deal. The way their all going on, You'd think douglas broke his leg.

If there was ever a thread needing someone to delete it, this is it.

Fucking cringeworthy and embarrassing in equal measure.

really?! I've enjoyed it - especially the


bit. Brilliant.

Huddersfield fans giving it the big'un.

I'm sure Douglas and our fans are really scared of the silent atmosphere they will encounter.

I think they are over looking the fact they were shit and got out played, maybe they should direct some of this hatred and anger at their players with no balls, who didnt fancy a battle and Alan Lee who was about as much use upfront as herthab in a shampoo advert.

I just had a look over at their forum out of curiosity. Jesus Christ.

any chance of a link?

http://downatthemac.proboards.com/index.cgi

ah, the one I tried to look at yesterday. Cant be arsed to register just to read alot of bollocks.

Too much time watching Drogba and co mincing around on MOTD perhaps?

Oh my days ive just read their forum

Fuckinv hell

Just a small town in bradford

I miss one game and all this happens, jesus. Ben's animations made me laugh, but then again I haven't seen any of the highlights so have no idea what actually happenned.

Plymouth on Tuesday will probably be dead dull now.

Ben's animation is exactly what happened, Mortal Kombat stylee.
How he never got a red card I don't know!

Its one opposing fans view on here about the injury, who originally came on here to big up his side and tell us how good they were, and now he needs an out to blame his sides defeat.

Second half did anyone hear the away support, I think that says everything about Huddersfields performance on Saturday from their own supporters, they were a very poor side and lucky to go home without receiveing a real thrashing.

I seem to be banning people a lot recently.

There wasn't really enough of them to make any noise, guess it was because Leeds were at home so the smaller neighbours attendances suffer........like Walsall and Villa.

Fuck off, the pictures were just some fun, no need to throw your toys in a canal.

Sick bastard. We don't need your type here.

I WILL CUT YOU

You've already pierced my heart.

Banned of there forum after 1 post? Thats no fucking fun...  :doh:

Again, haven't seen the highlights, but how on earth did a tackle break his arm? Awkward fall or what?

Roberts was walking on his hands at the time

Dont see what the issue is,

Its called football for a reason

He fell backwards and landed on his left arm. Looks pretty bad as his arm appears to be flopping about all over the place, surprised the BBC showed it.

Douglas tackled him and when he was on the floor Dougie got out a samurai sword and sliced his arm off before putting the sword back down his shorts - all in front of the ref and 8600 for everyone to see. Well, thats if you were watching in whippet vision.

Fuck all wrong with that tackle.

Regretable that he fell awkwardly, yes. Definately feel sorry for him. A terrible injury for anyone to sustain, but that's just bad luck.

Whilst it's a shit injury, I did crack a somewhat sick laugh watching Roberts trying to catch the attention of the Shuddersfield bench by madly pointing at his puppety limb as he sat square on his arse after the tackle :wink:

he didn't get a chance to tell us about the advantage rule rewrite :(

I was speaking to a number of Hudders players at half time and none of them saw it as a dirty tackle - they said that Roberts had the weight of his body on his arm and that's what took the force of it... From the sounds of it they were giving Roberts version of events having spoken to him

They also liked the pitch which was how the conversation started :)

Shows what they know, if the pitch was softer and bouncier he'd never have broken his arm. It's entirely your fault!

Indeed - maybe I shouldn't go to the away game for fear of being knobbled!!

to be fair, thus far (not looked at their forum) its only been this senile old twat who thought the tackle was anything other than fair.

if the tackle broke the fella's leg then maybe it could be scutinised a bit more.as it didn't there isn't even an issue here.

There's a fair few on that DATM forum who reckon they're going to give Douglas a going over when we play them at their place.

someone broke there leg against villa last night from a challenge by steve sidwell, he wasnt even booked and nothings being made of it.

He was booked.

So the gentlemen of the DATM forum are going to give him a going over.  I suspect thats not the case.  They may boo him but the players are the ones who are going to be near him and they wont do anything out of the ordinary.  Makes me laugh fans who think they are going to scare the players and give them a going over.

This is mental.

Kevin Amankwaah (if the allegations were true) deserved a bit of stick from Millwall.

Jonathan Douglas is a figure of hate for a legitmate challenge? Crazy.

Did fans go for Denis Irwin for his involvement in David Busst's professional career ending? Nope. This is because it was an unfortunate accident in a football match.

or the roy keane challenge on alfie inge haaland which also ended haaland career

Will mateys arm be fixed in time for the away fixture?

That's different though... because Roy Keane went for Haaland!

Douglas didn't 'go' for Roberts.

was keane banned for the challenge? and he never admitted he went for him until after he retired douglas may come out in 10 years and say he meant it

It wasnt even that tackle that ended Haalands career anyway.

It was persistent injury with his other knee.

Douglas meant to break the blokes arm with a sliding tackle, if he did - then thats a very impressive skill!

:D

It reminds me of how we wanted to kill that Grimbsy player when Brezovan fell and broke his arm going up for a cross.


Oh wait..

The pitch is brilliant...a credit to you and the club.

Are you the man who keeps the pitch in such superb condition Triseros?  It was a travesty you didn't win the aware last season!

Think he helps joteddyred....puts whiskey on it so it comes up half cut.

Out for 6 weeks (according to the BBC website). Given the return fixture is in March, I guess so......

6 weeks? You gotta question the BBC/'Udders staff on that. His arm looked completely fucked.

It was in a cast from shoulder to wrist on Saturday evening. There's no way he'll be back in 6 weeks.

Most of the credit has to go to Marcus Cassidy - works with an incredibly small budget compared to most Premier League clubs and yet has a pitch that beats them hands down.

We were all gutted not to get recognised last year but to be honest this years pitch is twice as good and should be there for the award come the end of the season...

If anybody wants to sponsor the Groundstaff our old sponsors have pulled out so names on the back of the coats is up for grabs...

how much is sposorship? i know we already sponsor a player every year but 'TheTownend.com' on the back of the coats would be cool

Fair play for that shout out. Marcus is a great lad and does deserve to win the best pitch award this season, along with you and the others, of course!

So what would it cost?

There are two levels of sponsorship, Groundstaff clothing which basicaly pays for the jackets/tops with sponsors name on the back for 12 groundstaff (circa £100 per groundsman - £1200 total)

The other is sponsorship for equipment which can be negotiated with the club - very favourable rates have been previously agreed for buying the equipment needed for keeping the pitch up together and can include pitchside advertising - if anyone is seriously interested then PM me or Grubby