Another wembley defeat for hurst.

More likely a case that those with money have the strength and depth in the squad to keep going until the end of the season. The bizarre Hurst-hatred continues unabated with some gleeful comments that he's somehow bottled it because Shrewsbury (with a budget a fraction of that of some of their competitors) have only managed 24 league victories so far this season.

In comparison, our much-lauded 1998 team (which had one of the biggest budgets in the division thanks to the Oster money) won 19 games and won just 72 points.

Some football fans are really, really weird.

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More likely a case that those with money have the strength and depth in the squad to keep going until the end of the season. The bizarre Hurst-hatred continues unabated with some gleeful comments that he's somehow bottled it because Shrewsbury (with a budget a fraction of that of some of their competitors) have only managed 24 league victories so far this season.

In comparison, our much-lauded 1998 team (which had one of the biggest budgets in the division thanks to the Oster money) won 19 games and won just 72 points.

Some football fans are really, really weird.

I get your point but no Hurst hatred here I bought back to back Season tickets for his last two years at Grimsby but never renewed for Slade. PH good manager BUT seldom won the big games that mattered in his time at Grimsby the stand out wins being Scunny in the Cup and FGR.Also we petered out every season after usually being in a good position Xmas time we used to blame it on the FA Trophy.

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How many years ago was that ? Things move on

Of course things move on but with the right players " route one " is a very effective tactic. To a lesser degree it is used at Premiersh*t and Championship level but not as a " be all or end all " tactic.

Quite pleased the tinker man has screwed up just as I predicted, I now fully expect him to fail in the playoffs before blaming the fans, the fans that pay his wages.

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Quite pleased the tinker man has screwed up just as I predicted, I now fully expect him to fail in the playoffs before blaming the fans, the fans that pay his wages.

I would quite like to see him make it , despite the way it ended here and i was happy for him to move on at the time as his style of play and the patterns were becoming all too obvious.....don't begrudge him any long term success.  

People are just pointing out the similarities to his season patterns, type of results (1 goal margins..draws)  and the all too familiar comments from Shrews fans.

Looking from the outside, just take their result Saturday...1-0 up ...concede an equaliser just before the 70 min mark ....all too common a scenario in his time here....the in joke of his 70th minute sub coming just after we usually conceded a goal in the 50 -70 min period.

Find it embarassing some of the vitriol towards a good bloke and a decent manager.

He has done an unbelievable job at Shrewsbury given budget and resources.

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I would quite like to see him make it , despite the way it ended here and i was happy for him to move on at the time as his style of play and the patterns were becoming all too obvious.....don't begrudge him any long term success.  

People are just pointing out the similarities to his season patterns, type of results (1 goal margins..draws)  and the all too familiar comments from Shrews fans.

Looking from the outside, just take their result Saturday...1-0 up ...concede an equaliser just before the 70 min mark ....all too common a scenario in his time here....the in joke of his 70th minute sub coming just after we usually conceded a goal in the 50 -70 min period.

Pretty much my thoughts as well. Yes it was time for him to leave us. I’ve no doubt he was just as relieved as we were to move on.  Having half the fan base against you and then having the non chairman not deliver (allegedly) must be pretty depressing when you have just won promotion back to the league.  Whatever happens in his future I can’t say I will be overly bothered either way. But as an outsider, what he appears to have done at Shrewsbury seems pretty damn good. Even if (yet again) the fans don’t seem to think so 🤔

I suppose the parallels are quite accurate to some degree, though his budget will be relatively lower (in comparison to the opposition) than when he was with us. We were reportedly outspent, often considerably, by at least a few clubs every season that he was in charge of us in the Conference, so I was never surprised we didn't get particularly close to winning automatic promotion. Our finishing position was generally around where you would expect from our budget.

Rather more than a few clubs will have outspent Shrewsbury this season, so he's overachieved this time around whether or not they manage to win through the play-offs.

Off the main topic but as with Shrewsbury, another team who have bottled it big style this season is Wrexham.

They were actually top, not that long back and then looking nailed on for the play-offs (which actually go down to 7th in The National League this season) but after another deafeat on Saturday they are now down to 10th and their fate is now out of their hands.

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Off the main topic but as with Shrewsbury, another team who have bottled it big style this season is Wrexham.

They were actually top, not that long back and then looking nailed on for the play-offs (which actually go down to 7th in The National League this season) but after another deafeat on Saturday they are now down to 10th and their fate is now out of their hands.

That's because a couple of months agoe their manager (Keates) upped and left to go to Walsall.  According to my Wrexham mate, Shaun Pearson was asked by the press if he would be interested in Player Manager to end of season, but declined as he wanted to just concentrate of football.