Paddy Mc

When was it that "4-3-3 wasn't working" anyway?

Quoted from Les Brechin

Does every thread have to turn into a Hurst bashing one.

For me it's a great move for both player and club. He's not getting games here at the moment, so he needs to get games under his belt elsewhere. I'm sure he'll play regularly for Harrogate and if anything happens to anyone then I'm sure we'll be able to recall him immediately and he'll go into the team with a few games behind him rather than coming into the team cold having not played for a number of weeks.

One of the first rules of football is that you should never change a winning team, so hopefully we won't have to recall him.

Never saw that one when I did a refs course!

Regarding the Hurst bashing thing, isn't it a valid point to ask the question why he signs several players who are more comfortable in a 433 when he insists on playing a 442?

It's only a question on a message board based on differing opinions!

Those claiming 'Hurst bashing' are the negative ones. Stop moaning about other people's considered opinion.

Quoted from chaos33

Those claiming 'Hurst bashing' are the negative ones. Stop moaning about other people's considered opinion.

Exactly.

Whenever someone questions his decisions or selections etc it is bought down by fishy law as hurst bashing.

I seem to remember chants of "442!, 442!" when we used to play 433. How times change.

Quoted from jonnyboy82

Exactly.

Whenever someone questions his decisions or selections etc it is bought down by fishy law as hurst bashing.

I'll keep bashing away then at his boring defensive set ups if that's ok  

Quoted from psgmariner

I seem to remember chants of "442!, 442!" when we used to play 433. How times change.

Do you mean 4-5-1 PSG  

We don't have the players to successfully play 4-3-3 in my opinion.

None of our central midfielders has anything in the way of pace (Disley is probably the quickest of them, I'd have thought!) and I just don't think we are capable of covering the ground quickly enough in the centre of the park to cover the space when you have just 3 in midfield. Our defence doesn't really have much in the way of pace either, Toto aside.

We've certainly got the mobility and strength amongst the forwards to play three up front, but I don't think the midfield would cut it. Two of the attackers would need to do a lot more defending than is ideal and it would end up as more of a 4-5-1 which is fine in itself if you can play it well, but not exactly the attacking formation some desire.

On that note, I don't think we're nearly good enough on the counter-attack to play 4-5-1 successfully too often. Passing through our midfield tends to be excruciatingly slow, we rarely make incisive passes and the midfielders don't get up in numbers quickly enough either.

With this in mind, I think 4-4-2 is probably our best choice.

Quoted from jonnyboy82

Criminal someone like Craig clay gets in ahead of Patrick McLaughlin.

Absolutely bizarre , obviously because he can play a bit of football Hurst doesn't  like him.

At least we got parslow to come in if needed to get us playing.

FFS .

For me clay is easily a better prospect, his workrate is excellent and commitment to challenges has put a bit of bite in our midfield, he can pass and makes clever runs forward. But for having a couple of injuries I think he would have been the main starter in the middle this season. He is an intelligent footballer and I think he may really improve with us if he stays.