Season openers are always a strange thing to behold, this was no different. Three months of a football starvation after one season ends and another season begins. It is a long wait for fans to endure as your Saturdays take on a whole new meaning. No screaming at missed fouls, no bellowing at players lacking effort, no tears of joy as your team pulls improbable draw from the teeth of inevitable defeat. Three months of ‘filling in’ come down to today, three months of waiting, three months of pretending that there was another life out there for 90 minutes we call football.
The result is a byproduct of the game and one that will join the next 45 in determining the fate of Huddersfield Town. Today’s result, a 2-0 defeat to the Tigers, is one that Terriers fans will look back on and hope that they don’t repeat too often this season. Saying that, it’s a case of being beaten by a relegated Premier League team, a decent one at that too. In the grand scheme of things, it is one down and fourty-five to go for the fans. Ah the fans, how did they think it went today?
Huddersfield Town vs Hull City – Twitter reacts
A fan’s humorous reflection of the opening…
Game at Hull began with minute's silence & the throwing of oranges onto the pitch. Novel. I mean Navel. #htafc
— Helena Pielichaty 💙 (@HelenaPielichat) August 8, 2015
…against a fan’s honest appraisal of the game itself.
In all seriousness we lacked an attacking outlet for most of the game and Hull were too clinical with their chances #htafc #UTT
— James Pickles (@JamesMPickles) August 8, 2015
Further honest appraisal of the difference between the teams…
Fine margins,just that extra bit of quality in both penalty boxes makes the difference.Hull got ex Prem players.We haven't #htafc
— Simon (@simonmick1) August 8, 2015
…with stoicism in the face of defeat.
Not too disheartened. Showed some glimpses. Hull won't be far off and it's 5-30pm n we've still got a manager! #result #htafc
— Andy Needham (@andyneedham01) August 8, 2015
Sometimes the simplicity of explanation is all that is needed…
Not a bad performance just outclassed by hull #htafc
— Kieran Clarke (@kieranclarke2) August 8, 2015
…sometimes brutal honesty is needed.
@WYSdaily #htafc we've all been saying it all summer we are just too soft, never really looked like scoring today.wat an easy game for hull
— Andy Mortby (@andymortby) August 8, 2015
Sometimes honesty is so basic it needs saying twice.
Be proper good if our defenders could not pass the ball straight to Hull strikers in the box #htafc
— Dominic White (@domwhite8) August 8, 2015
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