Grayson: 'Full Credit To The Players'

Simon Grayson watched his side battle hard and snatch a last minute point against Blackburn Rovers last night when Novak bundles home a stoppage time equaliser. The terriers took the lead through Lee Novak before Jordan Rhodes equalised for the visitors just before the half time interval. Rovers were then awarded a rather dubious looking penalty from the referee which Murphy slotted home to give his side a one goal lead. However, in the dying seconds of the game it was Lee Novak who popped up to get his brace and send the home fans away with a smile on their faces.

Simon Grayson spoke highly of his team in what may prove to be a vital point come the end of the season;

"The lads are buzzing. It always feels like that when you snatch a last gasp draw. Full credit to the players, they kept going and showed a fantastic desire to get something out of the game, which I thought we deserved."

The talking point of the game was when Olssen went down after a superb challenge by Lynch only for the referee to award a penalty and Grayson expressed his thoughts on the officials decision;

"A decision like that can change a teams seasons, in my opinion he got it wrong. Sometimes when players come together like that you have to look at where the ball ends up. On that occasion if the Blackburn lad had the last touch on the ball it would have gone near the corner flag, which it didn't."

"It is testament to the players that they reacted positively. The decision if anything galvanised them. The fans played a part and got behind the team and we had players on the pitch that caused the opposition problems. Big Alan and Lee were a handful together and we were positive in everything that we did."

Lee Novak's brace was the strikers first goals at home for the current season and they became even more impressive when Grayson stated that the striker was feeling under the weather and hadn't trained all week;

"Lee hasn't trained since Saturday, but we patched him up and he declared himself fit. He worked extremely hard as the lone striker in the first half and he reaped the rewards. He probably won't score two more scrappy goals in his career, but you have to be there to put them away. We have got some tired bodies in the changing room and a few players with some knocks, but we will patch them up and get ready for the weekend. Tonight feels like a victory because of the manner that we did it in."

Huddersfield Town came up against Jordan Rhodes for the first time since his club record transfer of £8m to Blackburn Rovers. The striker looked good last night, if not better than what he was at Town & he grabbed Rovers first goal of the night to bring his side back into the game;

"You know what you are going to get with Jordan, he has fantastic goalscoring ability. We switched off for 30 seconds in the first half and he punished us, just like he did many times during his time here. It was inevitable that he would score."

Grayson finished his post match interview in traditional fashion with an update on why both Beckford & Vaughan missed out on the game last night as well as how fit they both are;

"Jermaine Beckford was close tonight and hopefully he won't have any more reactions to his injury ahead of the weekend. Hopefully he will train Thursday and Friday and be available for selection on Saturday. James Vaughan has had a scan and we will see what the results are of that over the next couple of days, hopefully that will give us a clearer indication of where he is at for the weekend."

Huddersfield travel to struggling Championship side Barnsley on Saturday and are expected to take over 3000 fans in an effort to make the difference in the Yorkshire derby.

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