the statement!!!

Quoted from Tangerine Chris

This shows the lack of ambition by both the club, and the current manager.  Why should we be satisfied with playoffs?  11 points can be caught up, if the players and manager show more back bone, and go out to win games instead of trying not to lose them.

We have known since May, that we needed strikers, so Hurst signs one who spends more time on the physio bench than he does on the pitch, NICE SIGNING PAUL!!

He praised young Winfarrah when he had to come on for Aswad, then does not play him again, WHY?  Arnhold came in, and why is he not being selected?  If rumours are true, then he is not injured, he told Hurst his tactics are wrong, so is being punished by not being selected.

I am afraid this statement will not encourage the people to come back to watch games, infact, I think it will drive more people away.  Shame really.

Where on earth did you hear that from????

Well at least he`s shown and hoisted his colours its whether you want to march with or against  him, hidden beneath that statement  IMO is points on the board or else, we shall see,  future gate receipts could be interesting------------now on to Wrexham

Good statement down to the fans now to back the team

How can the supporters have any hope/faith in JF's statement after 10 years of dreadful management.

Quoted from GrimRob

Good statement down to the fans now to back the team

but equally down to the manager and team to perform. I see it as a two way street.

Getting the missing punch in the attacking areas will help enormously in my view

Well it's not the route I'd have taken but we might as well just get behind the team and Hurst unless Fenty changes his mind now.

I actually think it is embarrassing when a chairman has to come out and make a statement like that, it is basically saying "yes I know we are playing sh!t but still keep coming and spending your hard earned cash".

Now that may work for the diehards who will keep going no matter how bad we are but what is that statement saying to the 1,200 odd that have voted with their feet.

So the whole board is looking at it? clearly he hasn't got faith in Paul Hurst to turn it round himself then.

Using injuries as mitigation is a weak excuse. If Hurst had recruited an adequate number of attacking players, injuries wouldn't have been such a problem. It wasn't all injuries either - Neilson was unavailable for the first 3 games of the season because Hurst forgot to appeal his red card. There's no excuse for that.

As pointed out by Too Good To Go Down, Hurst has only won 16 out of 45 games which isn't even play-off form. You can't blame injuries for a record that mediocre over such a long period, yet Fenty still wants us to blindly back the manager? Stop taking us all for fools John.

Quoted from BIGChris

but equally down to the manager and team to perform. I see it as a two way street.

Getting the missing punch in the attacking areas will help enormously in my view

Exactly BC. But how long does PH need and how much cash is required to improve the area where we are so sadly lacking. Signing Pittman was questionable and signing Arnold looks like a disaster (whatever rumours and reasons there are) and we are left reliant on triers that are proven to be not good enough.

Clearly, there are a number of floating fans for whom this is not good enough and a plea from a man whose tenure at the club has been nigh on disastrous isn't going to win them back. Football is a results business, the chairman (or whatever title he gives himself) has admitted that and that's what he and Paul will be judged on. Like many, I've sort of given up on being entertained so long as the results are right - when you are getting the entertainment and the results wrong, then it's time to do something about it.

I don't agree that this is (in Johns words) a critical time in the season. Results are basically what they were in the second half of last season, a bit better than mid-table, no progression, so why not change it now before you have to write another season off?

Quoted from Chrisblor

Using injuries as mitigation is a weak excuse. If Hurst had recruited an adequate number of attacking players, injuries wouldn't have been such a problem. It wasn't all injuries either - Neilson was unavailable for the first 3 games of the season because Hurst forgot to appeal his red card. There's no excuse for that.

As pointed out by Too Good To Go Down, Hurst has only won 16 out of 45 games which isn't even play-off form. You can't blame injuries for a record that mediocre over such a long period, yet Fenty still wants us to blindly back the manager? Stop taking us all for fools John.

Good points, as a matter of interest are you one of the section that did not go Tuesday?