Five conclusions as Huddersfield Town’s struggles continue at Doncaster

Another toothless display and a needless penalty sum up everything wrong with the Terriers at the moment

1. Not good enough

Ten away defeats, a clean sheet conceded to the worst defence in the league, no shots on target since the Blackpool game, and we’ve barely even begun to look at the issues plaguing Huddersfield Town at the moment.

January, February, and March are results business months. It doesn’t have to be pretty, it doesn’t even have to be convincing, but you must keep putting points on the board. Wherever you are in the league, and whatever your aspirations are, these are the grinding weeks. Just get over the line however you can.

Town have now lost five games of football in 2026 alone, and the Valentine’s Day chocolate is still half price in the supermarket. If last season was the ‘could’ and ‘maybe’ one, this was supposed to be the ‘should’ and ‘definitely’ campaign. It’s in danger of slipping away if they don’t arrest the slide immediately.

There are too many teams in the chasing pack for at least one of them not to hit form at just the right time. There are too many teams above them who have at least found a way to make sure they don’t lose two games in a row for Town to be able to play like this. We’ll get into specifics, but to be that flat at a point in the season when they need to be ticking over as a bare minimum is a huge worry.

I questioned whether Town had momentum after the Peterborough game on our podcast. Manning’s first two games had been weird for different reasons, and then there were signs of old habits returning in the Posh victory that worried me. It’s clear that they don’t, and they’re on the edge of dropping out of the play-off places as teams begin to play the multiple games in hand around them. This isn’t how it was supposed to be.