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When people talk about sacking the manager at any time but the close season, I think back to recent history and how things went for us.
Getting rid of the manager mid-season just hasn't worked for us that I can remember from the past 20-odd years. It was sheer luck (i.e. Luton's enormous points deduction) that kept us up when Newell arrived but his chaotic reign ultimately set out the stall for our collapse into the Conference. Every other time, getting rid of the manager mid-season has led to relegation directly or a further downward spiral.
This isn't too surprising because it must be pretty difficult for a new manager to come in to a club and quickly discover what the strengths/weaknesses of the current squad are. This is why there tends to be a massive turnover of players very quickly with all sorts of loan signings coming in. Our circumstances mean that these players will either generally not be up to much or will bring a number of problems with them.
The arrival of a new manager can, on rare occasions, invigorate a club but there are few such managers around and you'd have to say it would a surprise if we got one of them given our current situation. Unsurprisingly, the better managers tend to be mostly in employment already or, if looking for a job, aiming their sights higher than a Conference club.
If we had sacked Woods during that long run without a win then I believe we would have stayed up but we didn't and the rest as they say is history.
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I just wish Hurst would be a bit more positive and hope to god that he brings in 2 or 3 players that can get us firing again. I appreciate it's not easy but sometimes you have to speculate to accumulate. A couple of exciting signings would bring back some floating fans and pay for themselves.
I know he was an bottom but for a few weeks, Conlon had us believing in the team and the atmosphere at BP changed completely. I remember a decent Gillingham side (i think) coming here in the later stages of our league status and being blown away 3-0. Their manager said the crowd that day were the main reason we beat them as their players froze. He said it was very intimidating.
I don't think that's going to happen. Hurst is a safety first man. I have this theory. This is hursts one and only chance as a manager and therefore his professional and financial future depends on him not getting sacked after a disastrous season. If hurst had been sacked in the first 6-12 months he was unlikely to get any sort of job, especially as his sidekick scott was practically unemployable.therefore he depended on percentages and playing it safe to do th best he could.he now has got himself in the groove where if he plays the percentages allied with the money that we've got, the quality of the players and the fact we're full time then he's more or less guaranteed to be in or around the play offs. Suppose he gets sacked in six months ,he can now point to three play offs, a trophy final and trophy semi final and he's established himself as a successful conference manger so he's not going to find himself out of work for very long. And of course one season he might just fluke it and get us through the play offs! I don't think it will happen and I think JF will say bye bye in the summer and move on. That will be a because he's had enough chances and b because his unsealing style will start to affect attendances and therefore bottom line
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I don't think that's going to happen. Hurst is a safety first man. I have this theory. This is hursts one and only chance as a manager and therefore his professional and financial future depends on him not getting sacked after a disastrous season. If hurst had been sacked in the first 6-12 months he was unlikely to get any sort of job, especially as his sidekick scott was practically unemployable.therefore he depended on percentages and playing it safe to do th best he could.he now has got himself in the groove where if he plays the percentages allied with the money that we've got, the quality of the players and the fact we're full time then he's more or less guaranteed to be in or around the play offs. Suppose he gets sacked in six months ,he can now point to three play offs, a trophy final and trophy semi final and he's established himself as a successful conference manger so he's not going to find himself out of work for very long. And of course one season he might just fluke it and get us through the play offs! I don't think it will happen and I think JF will say bye bye in the summer and move on. That will be a because he's had enough chances and b because his unsealing style will start to affect attendances and therefore bottom line
Yeah, that is exactly what i think and have said that any half decent coach could achieve the same given our resources. He is chugging along on a par score for the budget. We have been starved of anything even approaching success for that long, a lot of people accept what he is doing, but for me, there needs to be more ambition and risk taking. If we are going to fail again, i'd rather we did it with a more expansive brand of football. I appreciate others see it differently.
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Yeah, that is exactly what i think and have said that any half decent coach could achieve the same given our resources. He is chugging along on a par score for the budget. We have been starved of anything even approaching success for that long, a lot of people accept what he is doing, but for me, there needs to be more ambition and risk taking. If we are going to fail again, i'd rather we did it with a more expansive brand of football.
I appreciate others see it differently.
Lot of truth in there. To play Devils advocate I bet there's quite a few conference fans who say that they wish they had Paul hurst in charge,especially if they had watched the usual efficient town away performance. If hurst had been reckless and had been sacked he'd have been lucky to get a job at helper town,let alone a pro job.as it stands now he would be top of the list for any conference job and if you were tranmere or Hartlepool and being relegated you'd deffo be looking at hurst as the man to steady the ship and get them back up
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I think that the last 10 years has proved that there's a big difference between running a fish company and running a football club.
But if you look thoughout our history you will find there has been many leading fish merchants, builders , electrical contractors and grocers on the Board or as Chairmen. What background does qualify in making you an ideal person to run a football club? The analogy I used was only to point out that constantly missing targets in managing a football club should carry the same penalty as missing your production targets in a manufacturing environment - replacement.
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But if you look thoughout our history you will find there has been many leading fish merchants, builders , electrical contractors and grocers on the Board or as Chairmen. What background does qualify in making you an ideal person to run a football club? The analogy I used was only to point out that constantly missing targets in managing a football club should carry the same penalty as missing your production targets in a manufacturing environment - replacement.
Any business replaces anyone not doing their job properly, right from the very top, look at Tesco!
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If we had sacked Woods during that long run without a win then I believe we would have stayed up but we didn't and the rest as they say is history.
Well, I never thought Woods was a good appointment in the first place, especially after his failure during the period as caretaker manager. That said, I'm not convinced getting rid of him later in the season would have brought about any great improvement as the squad he had built really was very poor with the defence especially weak.
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Found myself nodding in agreement. I don't think it'd be wise to get rid of him now and I don't think his record necessarily deserves it. No doubt we will fail miserably in the play offs again and that would be the time to do the deed
In that case, it should have been done in May 2014 as some of us said then.
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I don't think that's going to happen. Hurst is a safety first man. I have this theory. This is hursts one and only chance as a manager and therefore his professional and financial future depends on him not getting sacked after a disastrous season. If hurst had been sacked in the first 6-12 months he was unlikely to get any sort of job, especially as his sidekick scott was practically unemployable.therefore he depended on percentages and playing it safe to do th best he could.he now has got himself in the groove where if he plays the percentages allied with the money that we've got, the quality of the players and the fact we're full time then he's more or less guaranteed to be in or around the play offs. Suppose he gets sacked in six months ,he can now point to three play offs, a trophy final and trophy semi final and he's established himself as a successful conference manger so he's not going to find himself out of work for very long. And of course one season he might just fluke it and get us through the play offs! I don't think it will happen and I think JF will say bye bye in the summer and move on. That will be a because he's had enough chances and b because his unsealing style will start to affect attendances and therefore bottom line
Put another way, you seem to be saying Hurst is not attractive to other clubs. I disagree, but he just isn't good enough for us in our promotion push.
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