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Noticed a few posts celebrating Hurst proving critics wrong on Saturday, why am I not surprised to see this thread today? It is quite dull to go from Hursty for knighthood, to Hurst for the sack threads depending on the result.
I am trying to keep the faith and have generally been a backer of Hurst, my general view is to agree with davmariner. Also I never know who we get who we think will be better.
However I am starting to lose confidence in Hurst, after the playoff defeat last year I said we needed more for Hurst to keep his job, in flashes we have but then at times it sounds like same old. And while we should respect the opposition we should have the confidence we can go out there and beat them, all the successful teams have that swagger in them, we do not seem to.
In all fairness though I have not seen us live for a little while, am going on Saturday so will reserve a judgement until then, but I am getting very fed up of our form at the moment.
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A change would be better now than later on. It baffles me that we made teams worried about us from the gateshead game to welling then when we play lincoln the whole system changes and we play into the oppositions arms like we are the worried ones. This is what I carnt hack, so the sooner hursty is replaced the better. I carnt see us getting anywhere near a play off place with him in charge and the likes of Torquay, barnet, bristol, wrexham, halifax up there.
Alan alger must be kicking himself putting us as his favourites to win the league!
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Forgive us. We should have had the bunting out and given Hurst the Freedom of the Borough* (which I believe is the right to drive haddock across Corporation Bridge if I'm not mistaken).
* fill in your own punchline about Grimsby Borough
Have a pop mate, that's upto you. Do me a favour and read my posts from last December and you'll know what side of the fence I'm on.
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I think you might find Ackos opinion is broadly in line with your own....but then I guess that's what happens when you quote a post out of any context....
Thx for that
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ive always been a hurst fan.
but he does better in away games than home.
when we are struggling at home, he simply swaps players, not the formation.
today showed why we wont get out this league.
and in his Post match interview, he never mentioned winning the league, just the play-offs.
so if we out of the race for automatic after 14? games, then it shows he needs to go.
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There is no running away from the fact that this was an unspeakably bad result against team with only one win in the last six games.
For third time this season we have thrown away home points against very poor opposition. It is not the form of serious play off contenders. We are over a quarter of the way through the season and still appear inconsistent and woefully short of ideas against even mediocre opposition.
I was optimistic when the season started, given the new signings. But now I just don't think we have the players or the management, capable of the sustained consistency that would be needed to catch the leaders and top this division given the pace they are setting. So I see the probability of automatic promotion to be close to zero.
Can we make the play offs? It is of course still possible. But it will be tough. Let's not forget we took four points from our last two, very tough, away games. But on current home form we simply will not make it.
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We oscillate between such extremes on here it's ridiculous. The reality is we have some good results, we have some bad results, like every team. Freak results happen every week in this division - in every division - that's what makes football so interesting. If PH doesn't make the play-offs this year then by all means let's consider someone else but while we are in a position where we might achieve something (and we're still in the hunt for every possible prize, including automatic promotion) then we should stick with the course wer're on. Considering the horrendous injury problems we've had we're not in that bad a position IMHO. Yes some people might pick a different side, but that's always going to be the case, and it's easy to say with hindsight. We did well without LJL in the team, we have quite a poor record when he starts as the stats pages on the Fishy show, as well as the consensus of anecdotal opinion on here it seems to me. Hopefully he'll go back to a winning forumula at Dartford.
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'Some good results, some bad results'.
That is true. That's the problem. It's called inconsistency. That will not get us out of this division.
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Last night I stopped to give an old lady in a town scarf a lift as she was waiting at a bus stop, presuming she was going to the game and she was. 84 years old and having to go watch that shower of shite, getting on a bus for an hour there and back in the cold been following town since she was 16 year of age. I'd like anyone to challenge her opinions on what she thinks of town at this moment! We are in a rut, fans should be walking away from blundell park happy not angered most of the time because we either scraped a result or we played shite and lost to a part time team.
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