Terriers may not have kit sponsor
recalled at the expense of Chelsea loanee Trevoh Chalobah in central midfield?
“We were obviously without our two No.9s (Campbell and Mounie), which was unfortunate, but it was what it was,” explained Cowley, who refused to make excuses after the match.
“Karlan actually played as a No.9 in the three friendlies (against Sheffield United, Hull City and
Middlesbrough) and had done well.
“We know that when Karlan plays as a No.9 there is a real responsibility for us to build.
“We know that they press in a 4-4-2 and we should overload their front two and hopefully get Hoggy (Jonathan Hogg) to receive the ball behind their 10 – and then use our 6s to occupy their 8s and give us a good rhythm into the game.
“But we didn’t execute well enough. We just didn’t pass the ball well enough.
“We got stuck and were too slow with our build-up on the right hand side.
“We didn’t make enough angles for ourselves in midfield and our execution wasn’t as good as it needs to be to play in that way, and that was obviously disappointing.”
WHAT do the new Huddersfield Town kits look like? We don’t know yet – but chairman Phil Hodgkinson does.
He revealed on fan podcast And He Takes That Chance that the three new Huddersfield Town kits for next season are in a bag at his house and he ‘loves them’.
If we had to guess, we imagine the home shirt will consist of blue and white vertical stripes – we do like to go out on a limb!
Umbro are the manufacturers, with the sportswear company set to make Town’s kits for at least the next two years.
“Umbro have got them and they’re asking us when we want them,” said Hodgkinson.
“They’re in the country and they’ll be in stock as and when we’re ready.
“It will probably be [at least] two or three weeks before we’re ready.
The chairman’s personal preference would be for the side to wear the new shirt for the final home game of the season, which as it stands would be against West Brom on Saturday, July 18.
However, he is also conscious of the need to be sensitive to the fact that a big fanfare around the shirt reveal may not be appropriate depending on how the public mood changes over the next few weeks amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
This season’s shirt was infamously and eventually revealed not to have a sponsor on it after Paddy Power’s prank top which was worn in a friendly against Rochdale last summer.
Hodgkinson has confirmed that like many Championship clubs, a front-of-shirt sponsor has not yet been secured for the new kits, and that the club are undecided as to whether they will be revealed in their current sponsorless form or they will wait until the sponsor is confirmed.
That is if, indeed, they have one, with the Town chief saying he could not rule out the possibility of going genuinely sponsorless next season.
Finding a sponsor is in the hands of new commercial director Andy Ward, who replaced the longstanding Sean Jarvis in the post last week.