What a week for Huddersfield Town fans – a new manager, a new beginning and hopefully some new impetus to the promotion campaign.

So is it a good or bad change?

I’m a big fan of Twitter. I use it regularly @Skybet_dale to not only pass on my thoughts, opinions and betting tips, but to do research.

The best article I’ve read about the Simon Grayson move was by a betting analyst called Mike Holden at bestofthebets.com.

He made some great points and has suggested to his followers they should be backing Town to go up to the Championship.

Holden argues that Grayson has been over-achieving on a small budget at Leeds where Clark was under-achieving with his big budget at Town.

Whether you agree or not, history tells us Grayson has two League I promotions with different teams in different situations – so that must be the experience Town chairman Dean Hoyle was looking for.

Another fascinating point Holden makes is that last season Leeds finished third in the most points gained from losing positions in the Championship table, and that this season the Elland Road club have scored 13 goals in the last five minutes of games taking a total of 14 points in the process.

It is this willingness to take chances and change tactics that will probably keep Town fans on the edge of their seats for the rest of the season.

Many of Lee Clark’s supporters will point to the 43-game unbeaten run as a massive achievement and it is, but it also suggests a manager unwilling to take chances to win games.

In fact, the more I think about it, the unbeaten run seemed to have become a weight around Clark’s neck as his mind turned to the record and the personal achievement of it rather than being positive about turning draws into wins.

In 2009-10 season Town had a 24% draw ratio. This season that is up to 43%.

Season-ticket holders and travelling fans will know better than me how many times winning positions were thrown away, or how often games were there for taking and the positives moves weren’t made.

Working in the betting game I tend to trust statistics and in this instance they don’t seem to lie.

However, only time will tell!

THE first major trophy of the season is up for grabs on Sunday but I don’t think we’ll be getting rich backing the winner.

You have to go back to Sheffield Wednesday in 1991 to find the last lower league winner of the League Cup.

Liverpool who have won the League Cup seven times, the most of any English team, are 1/6 to take the trophy at Wembley on Sunday and 4/11 to win it in 90 minutes.

Apart from Lucas, for the first time all season Liverpool have all their big guns back and firing against Cardiff, so I’m expecting a strong end to the campaign for the Merseysiders.

I’ve backed them to finish fourth in the Premier League as well.

You just have to oppose Arsenal and Chelsea in their present form.

DRESSING-room power struggles always fascinate me.

Modern managers need to be more like psychologists rather than football coaches.

Andre Villas-Boas at Chelsea looks like he is struggling to find the balance between the two.

To leave out Cole, Lampard Essien, Torres and Mikel when looking for a positive result in Naples was mind-boggling.

He seems to be placing his faith in Luiz at the heart of his side, which can only cause him more problems.

I heard him described the other day as the spitting image of Sideshow Bob from the Simpsons. At the moment he’s defending like him and if he continues with his suicidal defending it’ll soon be costing AVB his job.