"Disappointed" - Neil Warnock issues Huddersfield Town verdict as potential relegation looms | OneFootball

Neil Warnock has given his views on how Huddersfield Town's season has panned out, and the position that they currently find themselves in.

Town look set for relegation as things stand, as there is a three-point gap between them and Sheffield Wednesday who - for the first time since the season kicked off - are outside the bottom three.

The Terriers had a mini new-manager bounce when Andre Breitenreiter came into the club, picking up a win and a draw in his first two games in charge against Watford and Lees United respectively.

The latter of those two fixtures came on the March 2, but Huddersfield have only scraped together six points since then, and they've been on the wrong end of some pretty convincing results in that time.

Conceding four goals in a match has become much more of a regularity than it should be. The Terriers have shipped a quadruple in three separate games out of the 11 fixtures that they have played since the German boss took over and they have also let in three goals once in that span; at home to Coventry City.

After last season's heroics by Warnock to help them survive the drop, the hope was that they could kick-on with him in charge and create a bit of a gap between them and the bottom three.

But, since the veteran manager left in September, the decline has been becoming evermore apparent, and so has the mistake that the Huddersfield hierarchy may feel that they have made by letting him go.

Speaking to Benjamin Bloom on his YouTube channel, the former Town boss revealed how sad he was to see the club in the state that it is in.

Warnock said: "I’m disappointed to see where Huddersfield are, because when I left them in September, I said I’d do a season for them, and I thought if I took them until January, we’d almost be safe by then, and then a new manager could come in.

"It didn’t work out, I was asked to leave in September, and the decisions that they made haven’t really been the correct ones, and they’ve really gone the other way.

"I’m disappointed, because I think the squad’s a good squad. I’m hoping that they can still claw their way out of it, but it’s going to be very difficult."

The 75-year-old was succeeded by former Sheffield Wednesday boss Darren Moore, who was sacked in January and has subsequently got Port Vale relegated from League One to League Two.

Warnock also touched on last season, with Bloom, when he miraculously helped the club avoid relegation, and what it was like for him.

"I remember last year we were supposed to be relegated, and we had two games to play,"said the veteran manager.

"If we lost to Sheffield United, we had it all on Reading on the last game, and Reading, they were a better goal difference than us, so they would go [above us] if we lost.

"Sheffield were flying, and the relief [was clear to see], not just with me, with all the fans, with everything, to know that it wasn’t going to the last game."

Huddersfield aren't going to have that luxury this season. No matter what happens in their next match, they are still going to have to battle for survival on the final day of the 2023/24 Championship season, if they even make it to that point.

Huddersfield's next game is their most important of the season

The Terriers' penultimate match of the season takes place at the John Smith's stadium, and it is against the team directly above them in the league. Birmingham City will make the trip up to Yorkshire in what will be a season-defining game for both clubs.

No matter what the result is, if Wednesday fail to pick up points against West Bromwich Albion, then one of the Terriers or the Blues will go ahead of them, and be out of the bottom three heading into the final match of the season.

If the Owls fail to get any points from their match on Saturday, City will only need a draw to go ahead of them; Huddersfield have to win to get ahead of their fellow Yorkshire relegation-battlers.

To even give themselves a chance of controlling their own destiny, they have to beat Gary Rowett's Blues on Saturday. There are no ifs, ands, or buts about it; it simply has to happen. Otherwise, they run the risk of having their relegation confirmed against Birmingham, if the results go against them.