Neilson gone

Talented player but not consistent.  And did not generally play well against the so called smaller teams.  Frustrating for all parties.  We move on.  

Difficult to call. Always like to see talented footballers in black & white but not at the cost of team spirit - seems that Aswad & Scott tick one box but not the other. Happy however that we won't come across him playing against us this season.

Quoted from TAGG

Put all three of them on the pitch at the same time still not worth one Neilson.
Should have used him more IMO but don't think Hurst likes flair players.  
Good luck to the lad what ever he does next.

It's not so much a case of not liking " flair players " but more a case of playing " team players ". Admittedly Scott could be exciting to watch but awful to play with because he very rarely included other players until it was too late.

Quoted from TownSNAFU5

Talented player but not consistent.  And did not generally play well against the so called smaller teams.  Frustrating for all parties.  We move on.  

That is very often the case and we've seen it before with the likes of Sweeney. There is no answer to it. If there was he wouldn't be in the Conference at all. Maybe it just took Hurst a long time to work this out or maybe it was just The Long Goodbye.

Too inconsistent, on his day he's the best but just not enough

I'm currently reading Michael Calvin's Nowhere Men. It's about scouts and how they operate. If you are interested in how players such as Raheem Sterling were discovered then give it a read.

There's a great reference to players who end up in League One, League Two or Conference but possess good technique yet lack the mindset or attitude to play higher. Of course there are some players who sustained potential career-ending injuries at a young age such as Carl Magnay. I don't think anyone on here doubts that he would be playing much higher if he had not had such a bad knee injury.

Diego Costa is a player, for example, who possesses world class talent but also a high work rate. When combined, Calvin writes, you get an outstanding footballer.

Back on Scott Neilson and you can probably put Peter Sweeney in the category of those who possess skill and talent but had poor attitudes on the football pitch. That is why they became luxury players for us.

Yes, Neilson had his injury troubles, but if he'd have kept himself in shape I think he'd have stayed. His physical condition was obviously of great concern to Paul Hurst and Chris Doig which is why he's gone.

I wish him all the best as when he was at his peak he was brilliant. I just wonder how many like him will go on to regret that they didn't work hard enough when they had the chance to "make it".

couple of muppets on social media saying Hurst Out for releasing our best player.

are they on crack or something?

honestly glad his gone, wish him all the best elsewhere.

Well I am gutted.

I hope paul knows what he's doing because lets face it two of our better players have left the club in recent days with reasons why all hear say..

Paul has shown his ruthless streak and lets face it no one knows whats happened but scott neilson was one little cracking player at our level.

For your sake paul you better be getting these decisions right.

Brave decision but PH knows his players best. At least he's made a decision, it would have been easy to let Neilson drift through the remaining weeks of the season.

I'm all ready for the negative votes on this one.

Last week how I posted how I thought the fact he was 'ill' was a cover up for something else. Cue people questioning how I could possibly criticise the club who were quite obviously not lying to fans for weeks now. That's now two of our best players gone within a week of each other and nobody has a bloody clue why.

Neilson was our most creative player, bar none. A player who had the ability to tear teams apart on a regular basis when utilised properly (as he was at the start of the season) he's obviously not got a brilliant work ethic but I've not seen some wild idiot who has no interest, if that was the case why would he have uprooted from his preferred location down south to come back up? What I have seen is a player who the manager is happy to publicly criticize despite him being no worse than anybody else on the pitch and despite the manager publicly blowing his top at fans when they criticised other players. I have also seen a player played in a position he's not at his total best in, the Scott Neilson in the first few games of the season you would've built a team around, absolutely no question. Ask yourselves why the club would make sure he couldn't sign for anybody else? If this decision was for footballing reasons then i'll be gobsmacked. Nathan Arnold, who has shown to not have an inch of Neilsons talent coupled with a similar attitude on the pitch is still at the club, what's the difference?

It's an absolutely massive decision from Hurst and I can't help but thinking this is a personal one, which is a dangerous game to play.