The psychology behind Huddersfield Town’s travel sickness

We saw some stinking away performances from the Terriers in 2025/26 — putting that right could be one of the keys to a successful outing next term

“How s*** must you be, we’re winning away.”

Let’s be honest: most sets of fans sing it at some point in a season, even when they have a decent record on the road. But this self-effacing ditty has been deployed with good reason by Huddersfield Town fans in the past few years.

Poor performances on the road were one of the main reasons Lee Grant ended up getting the chop midway through last season.

They won their first away trip of the season at Reading, and there were further excellent performances to come at Exeter, Mansfield and Rotherham. Still, as far as League One went, those were all the away victories Grant’s Town managed.

And when Town were bad, boy were they bad. Blackpool, Barnsley, Bradford, Wycombe, Cardiff and — fatally, for Grant’s employment — Burton Albion all put three goals past them. The defeat at Luton featured some of the worst defending we saw all season. Even ultimately relegated Northampton kept Town to a 1-1 draw.

It was a similar story for Liam Manning. Huddersfield won 3-2 at Peterborough in his first away game in charge, then picked up just one more point from his remaining five.

Come the end of the season, Town had a bottom-half record from their 23 away trips — and they were only as high as 13th because interim bosses Martin Drury and Jon Stead turned things around by leading them to two wins and a draw against Leyton Orient, Bolton and Wimbledon.

On Easter Sunday, just before that trip to Orient, Town ranked 18th in the league on their away record, and 5th at home.

So what was behind that gap — and how can Town go about closing it next season?