Five conclusions: Lee Grant inquest continues as Huddersfield Town beaten by Burton

So what’s really the problem here — the players, the manager, or both? Because that 3-1 defeat was absolutely awful

How many times would you expect a promoted side to concede three goals or more in a single season? Four, three, one, none? David Wagner’s famous Championship side of 2016/17 did it seven times. This was an unusually high number, which explains why they finished the season with a negative goal difference.

Lee Grant’s Huddersfield Town have already matched that mark after just 27 league games, with six of those occasions coming away from home. Doing it to Bradford and Cardiff is bad enough, but Blackpool, Wimbledon and Burton? That is utterly unacceptable.

Even with Town still in sixth place, somehow, the concept that this season might end with glory at Wembley is both the best-case scenario and a laughable notion.

With better than a one-in-four chance of a defensive calamity on that scale, expecting to survive three play-off games is optimistic at best — never mind qualifying for them.

The possibilities are:

1. These players, many of whom have arrived in the past year or so, are not as good as they appeared to be when they were signed.

2. These players are as good as their reputation and track records would suggest, but they are being led by a manager who cannot bring it out of them.

3. Both of the above.

So which is it? Let’s use the first three of our five conclusions to find an answer.

1. Option number one: the players are to blame