QPR draw serves as reminder to Huddersfield Town of their task ahead

Huddersfield Town’s quest for promotion continued with another point gained in Friday’s see-saw draw with Queens Park Rangers. The Terriers led twice but ended the game with QPR more than worth their point as the away side’s disastrous run of form disappeared on what was a very Good Friday for the London club.

It also proved yet again that there is no quarter given in the Championship regardless of form or position in the table. The Terriers started the game in third off the back of a hugely impressive home win against fourth-place Luton, QPR had lost their last five on the bounce and had only taken seven points from their last available 36. Rangers grew into the game and on the final whistle had the two best players on the pitch in Ilias Chair and Sam McCallum.

Results around the division had also fallen kindly for Town before kick-off. Head coach Carlos Corberan may have been keen after the final whistle to point out he never checks scores around him until after Town’s result, but everyone in the dressing room has a mobile phone. Before the Terriers had kicked a ball in anger Luton had beaten Nottingham Forest, Bournemouth had been held by Middlesbrough, and Sheffield United and Blackburn had been beaten by Reading and Peterborough respectively.

Perhaps then the entire day served as a reminder not to take anything for granted in the world of the Championship for many, but in particular Huddersfield Town with the run in ahead. It would undoubtedly take a huge collapse for them to fall from the play-off places from here and indeed your writer is on the record as saying he thinks it’s pretty much a done deal. There is always an element of doubt until you are mathematically safe however, and that’s something that