Paul Hurst

As a fan at the present I feel totally disconnected from the Board,the Manager and yes even the Team,there is an terminal apathy permeating this club.

Quoted from arryarryarry

I really think that some on here must have a photo of PH on top of the screen and every so often look at it put their hands in their pants and pleasure themselves.

He left on his own accord to go to a higher league club on more than likely higher wages, a club that has far better facilities than BP.

I think JF said after the Burton game that we would likely lose £500,000 per season being out of the Football League so the priority must have been to spend cash on the players in the hope that we would return. Considering it took 6 years any cash on preparing for our actual return would have been a waste of cash.


No not really and PH probably didn't either.

I'm not suggesting we should've had one before we were promoted, but it certainly should've been planned for in the event of a promotion. The murmurings from those in charge were that it wasn't something that was needed.

This is developing into a very important thread
PH has proved to us and the football world his promotions are no flukes I wish him well but I wish there had been some way we could have negotiated him staying
Maybe he wanted to leave as he saw the ambition at the club not matching his own
Shrews where no bigger club than us at the time but their future seems so much brighter than ours at this time
This situation over the last year or so perhaps shows the current dilemma at the club finds itself in without the ambition and cash to back it up. Or seemingly anyone else with John and the board to provide a long term strategy

Quoted from barralad

No it's because I've gone into great length in two long posts as to why I don't agree with your assertion that it is a display of ineffective management not to have prepared for the return back to the football league in the way you think they should've done. It's not very often I agree with Harry x 3 but the bit in blue in his last post nails it for me.

Fair enough. I was just curious as to what confidence you have in the current leadership.

Maybe PH was simply flattered that a team in a league above wanted him. Compare that to the personal abuse he got from 60% of the so called supporters on here
Even if Shrewsbury went down it was expected and he could rebuild. If they stayed up he would be seen as some sort of miracle worker. Plus when someone wants you, the negotiating position is simple. I want this, this, this and that much please. Easy peasy

Quoted from sydney

This is developing into a very important thread
PH has proved to us and the football world his promotions are no flukes I wish him well but I wish there had been some way we could have negotiated him staying
Maybe he wanted to leave as he saw the ambition at the club not matching his own
Shrews where no bigger club than us at the time but their future seems so much brighter than ours at this time
This situation over the last year or so perhaps shows the current dilemma at the club finds itself in without the ambition and cash to back it up. Or seemingly anyone else with John and the board to provide a long term strategy

Agree with most of this but to be honest in reality he went to a bigger club, maybe not one with a history as long as ours but one that had been in league 1 for a while had a decent ground a bit of cash behind them and a good if not smallish fan base.

don't people remember it took hurst how many years to get us promotion. !!! Bignot was given 5 minutes because johns right hand man became available it's funny old board we have here and I hope he's made the right descision for the first time in 20+ years !!  

He'd been here much longer than most managers last at a club and maybe he was ready for a new challenge. He was offered League 1 footy, almost certainly more money, better ground, better facilities and a nice part of the country. He's gone, he's doing well, good luck to the guy but time to move on methinks.

Agree
Nothing we can do and I will leave it there but I worry that the board and ambition of the club hasn't and doesn't move on and somehow someway that needs to

Quoted from ginnywings

He'd been here much longer than most managers last at a club and maybe he was ready for a new challenge. He was offered League 1 footy, almost certainly more money, better ground, better facilities and a nice part of the country. He's gone, he's doing well, good luck to the guy but time to move on methinks.

Well we have moved on, and moved on again. Or rather back 12 years.