The Championship as always promises to be competitive and I might be totally out with these:-

West Brom

Bournemouth

Fulham

Swansea City

Stoke City

Middlesbrough

Sheffield United

Nottingham Forest

Cardiff City

Blackburn Rovers

Huddersfield Town

Luton Town

Barnsley

QPR

Millwall

Hull City

Coventry City

Reading

Preston

Birmingham

Bristol City

Derby County

Blackpool

Peterborough

West Brom and Bournemouth I expect to lead the way, but I can see the strength in depth of West Brom seeing them over the line.  Fulham, Swansea, Stoke and Boro’ for the play offs.  Stoke perhaps a surprising choice but after several seasons of poor starts, I feel that if they get it together early on they could surprise many.  No immediate return for United but an improved season for Forest with Cardiff and Blackburn challenging.  Obviously biased but I would say that Town will have a comfortable mid-table season with Luton, Barnsley, QPR and Millwall also having decent seasons with Hull and Coventry safe from relegation.  Despite the financial problems at Reading they are too good to go down, but Preston and Birmingham I can see struggling and Bristol City continuing their poor form of last season.  Derby look short in depth and of the filed antics will not help but Blackpool and Peterborough I feel will occupy the bottom 2 spots.

With the transfer window yet to shut player movements could considerably affect my thoughts on where sides will finish this term, but going on the basis what we already have: –

Premier League

Chelsea

Manchester City

Manchester United

Liverpool

Tottenham

Leicester City

Arsenal

Aston Villa

West Ham

Leeds United

Everton

Watford

Crystal Palace

Newcastle United

Burley

Wolves

Southampton

Norwich

Brighton

Brentford

I don’t think there is much to chose from the top 6 in all honesty, however the recent capture of Lukaku is the reason why I would tip Chelsea.  I don’t really feel that City have replaced Aguero and will miss him but I’ll stick my neck out and say that they will just pip their Manchester neighbours to second.  Liverpool, Tottenham, Leicester and Arsenal I don’t really feel that they have consistency at the moment to mount a title challenge.  West Ham, Leeds and Everton can be capable of the odd surprise result but I see a safe mid-table season for them.  Watford, Palace, Newcastle and Burnley I can see them all having troubling spells but a mixture of experience and strength in depth will see them through.  A change of management won’t help Wolves and the loss of Ings will be felt by Southampton, but I can’t see Norwich, Brighton or Brentford avoiding the drop.  

Bournemouth and West Brom kicked off the Championship season with a share of the points. I have to say both sides were impressive, and the result was a fair one in the end. Billing continued his goalscoring form of late last season and ex-Town man Karlan Grant showed glimpses of what he can provide. On the basis of this one showing both sides will do very well this term.

West Brom were strong physically and we have not shown that degree of toughness for some time which would be a concern when we play them. They liked to pack the 6-yard box on corners which Schofield struggled with last season, although he lacked support and may not be first choice keeper this term.

Bournemouth struggled with the West Brom corners planted in the 6-yard box and whilst they came off second best in the physical battle they moved the ball quickly and showed lots of pace. We have struggled against such movement and unless we have improved, again We will not fair well against them.

Derby 1 – 1 TOWN
A share of the spoils which normally I would be pleased with away at Pride Park, but due to the turmoil at Derby and the fact that we dominated this was a prime opportunity to take all 3 points. Having said that an early season point on our travels and with our plans being thrown out with O’Brien, Nicholls, Toffolo and Ruffels unavailable due to testing positive for Covid it could have been a lot worse. Corberan tested positive as well and therefore was unable to be on the touchline too.
Nabby Sarr scoring our equaliser shortly after conceding a scrambled goal was a good quick response. He turned in a cross from the ever improving Sorba Thomas, who is fast becoming a crowd favourite.

Charlton 0 – 0 Sheffield Wednesday

Wednesday lost Paterson early on to a head injury which was not an ideal start for them. Both sides lacked quality in the final third but looked solid otherwise and loo likely to not leak too many goals. I would expect both sides to do well this season in the batle for the play offs/promotion.. Bannan as always was the figurehead for Wednesday and looks like he is still a cut above League 1 standard.

Ex-Town player watch – Interestingly Wednesday used Jaden Brown in a more advanced left sided role supporting the front man. I always liked Jaden at Town but after his first season with us he failed to kick on, possibly hinded by the managerial merry-go-round.

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I am a lifelong Terrier fan having experienced the highs and the lows.  My first game, at Leeds Road that I attended was in September 1982 with Town beating Orient 6-0 with goals from Stanton (2), Lillis, Russell, Sutton and Pugh on his debut.  With a game like that it was a no-brainer that I was hooked.

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