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Huddersfield Town boss Lee Grant is under pressure from supporters after his team lost for the fourth time in League One against Stockport County

Huddersfield Town head coach Lee Grant is coming under pressure on social media following his team's 2-1 home defeat to Stockport County on Saturday.

It was the Terriers' fourth League defeat of the season - and their first at home - with the result leaving the team in sixth place in the League One table after eleven matches.

In his pre-match press conference on Friday, Grant had been bullish towards his growing number of critics, saying that, "the real danger is that we go away from the things that we work on and we go away from the things that we are, and that we then go off-script".

But the following day, his team were sunk by goals from Oliver Norwood and Odin Bailey, only finding a consolation goal themselves in stoppage-time with a strike from Bojan Radulovic despite Stockport having to play most of the second half with ten men following the 53rd-minute sending off of Tyler Onyango for a second bookable offence, which has left many Huddersfield fans wondering what the script is that his team is supposed to be following at the moment.

Huddersfield Town fans are running out of patience with Lee Grant after Stockport County loss

Huddersfield fans took to social media following the home defeat, and they didn't hold back in expressing their dissatisfaction over the team's first home league defeat of the season, with some critical of a perceived lack of changes after a poor first hour from his team.

Others, meanwhile, focused on his comments from 24 hours earlier, questioning what the "principles" were that Grant was referring to, and whether he was crossing the line between having conviction and just being plain "stubborn".

And there is a growing belief among Huddersfield fans that he won't last until the end of this season, and that the new manager is already being found out as being "out of his depth".

Even among those who seem less convinced that sacking him might not be the answer to the team's problems, there is an element of resignation to the argument that he may stay because, at this early stage of the new season, the club would be limited in terms of who they could bring in as a replacement.

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While the Stockport defeat was Huddersfield's fourth defeat of the season and their first at home, the Terriers have won six of the other seven league matches that they've played so far this season and remain in sixth place in the League One table, the final play-off position, which equates to a win percentage of 54.5% over his first eleven league games in charge of the team.

But expectations at The Accu Stadium are high this season. Huddersfield had been in play-off contention until the final third of the season, before winning three and losing twelve of their last 15 games and slumping to a final finishing place of 12th in the League One table.

This led to a lot of changes around the club over the course of the summer. Grant was appointed from the coaching staff at Ipswich Town as soon as the 2024-25 season ended, and the club had a busy time of things in the transfer market, bringing in 15 new players to rebuild his squad.

The highest-profile arrival at the club was Alfie May, the former Birmingham City striker, who signed for the club for a fee reported to be £1.2 million in July.

But May hasn't caught light for the Terriers to the extent that many will have hoped. He's only scored two League goals so far for them this season, and hasn't hit the net for them in League One since scoring their winning goal against Stevenage on the 23rd August, a run of five straight league matches without a goal.

There's a case for saying that such reactions from fans don't help anyone, and that this sort of criticism can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy at times.

But the senior management at many football clubs often listen to the voices from the stands and on social media, and a look at the League One table, which shows Stevenage and the newly-promoted Bradford City currently occupying the automatic promotion places, will only further fuel feelings that the Terriers should be able to compete near the top of the division.

Eleven games isn't much a basis upon which to establish the competence (or otherwise) of a manager in his first position, but Lee Grant is already finding that the expectations for his team this season are extremely high, and he may start to run out of road sooner than expected, should results not start to improve.