Paul Hurst vs Shrews Fans!

All this talk of Monkhouse being injured being the reason we achieved promotion... He was a first choice player in a team that was in the playoff places pretty much all season!

As for him being too stubborn to change players when the fans are crying out for it...we’ll, he was the manager? It was his choice to make, not ours.

Unless you’re a big 6 team, it’s incredibly difficult to stay in the top 6 of any league for 4 consecutive season. Hurst’s football was dour, with questionable subs, a lack of goalscoring ability and obvious favourites. But he signed good, hardworking honest players, always had a good team spirit, won promotion at each of his previous clubs whilst also unearthing some gems along the way. He’ll end up at a high end Championship/low PL club and I hope he gets Shrews promoted this season.

Typical of the whinging illegitimate. Shrewsbury's a town of 50,000 people. What does he expect?

All fans are fickle and hard to please, myself included. On my daily walk today, i was joined by my brother, and he was telling me about a table he had seen of the best performing sides in terms of wins over the last three seasons. Scunny were in the top 5. The same Scunny that sit 5th in League 1, despite having a p1ss poor fan base. Those very same fans are calling for his head because of a recent blip. In the top 5 performing sides in the country over a sustained period and it's not good enough for them.

The problem with Hurst is that his pragmatic nature, on and off the pitch, will never endear him to the fans. He just isn't someone who people naturally warm to, and his teams reflect that. Boring winning football is still boring. It's better than boring losing football, but the novelty wears off eventually and fans want a bit of excitement on a Saturday. Slade had the same problem in his first spell here.

Quoted from Bigdog

Eddie Howe
Sean Dyche
Mauricio Pochettino
Chris Hughton
David Wagner
Dean Smith
Lee Johnson
Pep Guardiola
Gary Rowett
Daniel Farke
Nuno Espirito Santo
Alex Neil
Aitor Karanka
Paul Heckingbottom

Just to be really pedantic, Chris Hughton is 59

Quoted from Abdul19

Just to be really pedantic, Chris Hughton is 59

Oh yeah..

Hasn't he aged well?

Damn you Abdul.. Damn you  

Quoted from Abdul19

Just to be really pedantic, Chris Hughton is 59

I should have said homegrown managers really. I forget that Championship clubs like to go to the Bundesliga and get their B team coaches now.

Quoted from LH

I should have said homegrown managers really. I forget that Championship clubs like to go to the Bundesliga and get their B team coaches now.

He still gave more names than asked for though

I hardly think getting every team he's managed promoted, then taking over a struggling Shrewsbury, keeping them up and then on a very small budget for the league taking them to the brink of promotion to the Championship proves anything.

Don't forget Hurst had one of the best budgets year in year out and the promotion year we struggled only just scraping into the play offs, I bet even slade would of made play offs with our budget. Hurst is nothing special and I fully expect (as I predicted when they were top of the league) to not make automatic promotion.