Jacko's plea to Terriers
20 Nov 2006 - 10:19:30
Huddersfield Town boss Peter Jackson has urged his players to get back to winning ways in order to keep alive their promotion aspirations.
The Terriers went down 3-1 at Blackpool on Saturday to make it three League One games without a win and leaves the side 11th in the table, six points off the play-off places.
And Jackson is demanding his players pick up maximum points from the game against Oldham at the Galpharm Stadium next weekend.
He said: "We need a win at home against Oldham on Saturday. I know that puts pressure on, but our form at home has been jittery and the crowd knows it.
"I feel we are a club with promotion credentials, but we need to get that back on track."
Huddersfield will have to do so without the services of Polish striker Pawel Abbott, who revealed he will be missing for the next few weeks due to a double hernia operation.
He told the Examiner: "With not being in the team at the moment I might as well get the operation done and get myself fit again.
"The problem has been pretty bad, although I'm not trying to make excuses in any way.
"I was feeling the injury back in September and Lee Martin (the club physio) said I would be okay to carry on playing until the stage where I just couldn't continue any more.
"We have been putting it off and putting it off but, with not being in the side right now, we felt it would be a good opportunity to get it sorted out.
"Hopefully I will be back in the minimum time of about three weeks, but everyone is different so we'll have to just wait and see."