First of all: a massive massive thank you to everyone reading this, whether you are getting it in your email inbox or seeing it as someone who is visiting us for the first time. David and I have been blown away by the expressions of interest so far, genuinely.
Next, we have a name. This site, newsletter and project - which, again, is an independent venture entirely away from Reach plc - will officially be known as We Are Terriers. Why? It was the name we most medium liked that was not already taken by some other endeavour. But we also think it has a nice ring to it, don’t you think?
That means that our URL has changed: we are now at weareterriers.substack.com. All future emails will show as being from “We Are Terriers”, too.
Finally and most excitingly: we will officially launch on Friday 1st December. Yes, that’s this Friday.
That means we’re going to turn on the paid subscription service on Friday. As a reminder of what you’ll get, for just £5 a month you will get two quality written pieces about Huddersfield Town per week (including five conclusions) AND a weekly podcast throughout the season - and all of it will be ad-free and easy to access, just like this very post.
With nine games to come between now and New Year’s Day and the opening of the transfer window, we think these first couple of months are the ideal time for us all to start the ride together.
We’re also going to provide player ratings free of charge to help build our audience, because the more people sign up, the more viable this project will be on an ongoing basis.
And don’t worry…we won’t keep inundating you with this kind of housekeeping once we get going.