Cup run would be nice, but it’s not a priority for Town
HUDDERSFIELD Town don’t do cups. Not recently.
Their most recent victory in any knockout competition was a replay against Birmingham in the FA Cup fourth round in 2018.
Since then, they have lost FA Cup games to Manchester United, Bristol City and Southampton, and League Cup games to Stoke City, Lincoln City and Rochdale.
All but two of those were against opponents from the division below.
As such, a game against League One opposition in Plymouth Argyle in the third round of the FA Cup should really have felt inevitable - but the result doesn’t have to be.
Their FA Cup defeat at Ashton Gate proved to be the penultimate straw for David Wagner’s position at the club.
Likewise, the 1-0 defeat to Lincoln City in the Carabao Cup last year was the secondto-last time Jan Siewert would take charge of the Terriers, with his opposing managers on that day picked to succeed him.
The Cowleys’ only cup game at Town came between two humiliating league defeats to Stoke and Barnsley that brought them back to earth after a positive December. Misery after misery after misery.
Even the brave new world intended to be ushered in by Carlos Corberan was not impervious to the cup curse as his first competitive game in charge saw his makeshift side slump to a 1-0 defeat to Rochdale.
That came to be seen as having essentially been an extra pre-season friendly at the end of a truncated summer.
And let’s be honest, if they lose to Plymouth Argyle too having just played 12 games in the space of 43 days, we’ll all be