Paul Hurst sacked (merged)

Rovrum will be the job he wants - he could well get it in the not to distant future

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If you want to read the dislike for Paul Hurst then you should read the thread about his sacking on the Shrewsbury forum.  

http://blueandamber.proboards.com/thread/98181/hurst-sacked

Quoted from Mariner Timsky

Rovrum will be the job he wants - he could well get it in the not to distant future

Actually, it'll be Wednesday if he can. He is a Wednesdayite.

Yes please going to Wednesday,
Scunny, Hull or Lincoln

Quoted from Paris Mariner

Actually, it'll be Wednesday if he can. He is a Wednesdayite.

After 15 years playing for Rovrum naturally i'm assuming he would love to one day manage them

Quoted from Les Brechin

If you want to read the dislike for Paul Hurst then you should read the thread about his sacking on the Shrewsbury forum.  

http://blueandamber.proboards.com/thread/98181/hurst-sacked

Very similar sort of split isn’t it? There were some on the Ipswich forums who thought he should have more time there but he did not have many supporters after last weekend.

I don’t know him personally but he has left a lot of fans at two clubs with a nasty taste as he left, which isn’t exactly clever. As they say, be nice to people on your way up because you never know when you might need them on your way down.

He left us and he left Shrewsbury because he knew the only way was down and neither club was ready to play at the next level. In effect he jumped before he could be pushed, only this time he has no safety net of achievements at Ipswich to fall back on when he applies for the next job.

As a manager he is distinctly average in my view. One of the Shrewsbury fans said how teams sussed them out later on during last season but he didn’t have a Plan B and he was always useless with subs wasn’t he?

Still I do not wish Hurst ill, he has to make a living in the game. I suspect he may have to do a bit of thinking about his ambitions now though because he will have to work his way up again ...... but there are quite a few clubs on tight budgets that will see Hurst as a good choice.

Quoted from Paris Mariner

Actually, it'll be Wednesday if he can. He is a Wednesdayite.

He's not going to get that any time soon though is he, even if it came up he wouldn't be considered. The pool of players he knows best don't operate well enough at Championship level for him to work there without a total rethink.

Quoted from TheRonRaffertyFanClub

Very similar sort of split isn’t it? There were some on the Ipswich forums who thought he should have more time there but he did not have many supporters after last weekend.

I don’t know him personally but he has left a lot of fans at two clubs with a nasty taste as he left, which isn’t exactly clever. As they say, be nice to people on your way up because you never know when you might need them on your way down.

He left us and he left Shrewsbury because he knew the only way was down and neither club was ready to play at the next level. In effect he jumped before he could be pushed, only this time he has no safety net of achievements at Ipswich to fall back on when he applies for the next job.

As a manager he is distinctly average in my view. One of the Shrewsbury fans said how teams sussed them out later on during last season but he didn’t have a Plan B and he was always useless with subs wasn’t he?

Still I do not wish Hurst ill, he has to make a living in the game. I suspect he may have to do a bit of thinking about his ambitions now though because he will have to work his way up again ...... but there are quite a few clubs on tight budgets that will see Hurst as a good choice.

Not many ‘average’ managers go the first 8-10 years of their careers without the sack.
IMO average managers do not get the sort of buy in from his squad that Hurst got in our last season in the Conference. Every player was totally supportive of him, knowing the personalities of pro footballers that is a fantastic achievement!

Underrated by many ‘fans’ but not it seems by the players he works with

Quoted from Cloudy

Not many ‘average’ managers go the first 8-10 years of their careers without the sack.
IMO average managers do not get the sort of buy in from his squad that Hurst got in our last season in the Conference. Every player was totally supportive of him, knowing the personalities of pro footballers that is a fantastic achievement!

Underrated by many ‘fans’ but not it seems by the players he works with

That is a very simplistic way of looking at football achievements. Six years to get Grimsby out of the conference was ridiculous, and please don’t quote Luton, Oxford etc. This is Grimsby Town where he was manager and he needed pressure from outside with OP even then. Average at best. Not getting the sack is no yardstick of achieving success over that timescale.

I cannot ever remember a player mouthing off about a manager after he left Grimsby, even Bignot. And when you have the euphoria of promotion you are not going to say anything else but fantastic are you? But even if every player he managed thought he was the best thing since sliced bread, that is still no great measure of football management ability.

Hurst’s best asset is his realism and his caution. The latter is what he shows in his sides on the pitch, Rule One - any point is a good point even if we could have had three. His realism is in his own career. He recognised GTFC was not going to invest in what he wanted and there was a distinct danger of disillusion so he left. Shrewsbury was a great choice because it did not matter what happened. If they had been relegated no-one would blame him and the next year he would have a decent budget to get promotion. He saved them though so he was a messiah and then he got a good run of results with a group of players he knew plus some decent loan players. They were clear in the top two for much of the season before caution came in again and draws replaced wins. Funny thing is that if he lost here, Shrewsbury and Ipswich he publicly complained his team had not played a passing game and had reverted to the long ball.

Sorry to go on but though I bear him no animosity, Hurst is not a manager to excite the fans at any club. He Is a  DOJATL manager at best.