Hurst interview in the metro

Quoted from Northbank Mariner

I'll mention no.names, but I am good friends with an ex Hurst player who has reiterated several times that Hurst was a tosser to work for, and if you weren't in his inner sanctum he spoke to the players like cr@p...the man was completely unapproachable and arrogant bordering on the point of ignorance...so you ask why Amond, Arnold and a few others couldn't wait to get away...look no further than a poisoned dwarf .

I think there's several players who loved working with Hurst and several who didn't - much like most managers at most clubs. I'm not suggesting you do name your friend but not doing so means that there's no real context to your claim.

Quoted from MuddyWaters

I think there's several players who loved working with Hurst and several who didn't - much like most managers at most clubs. I'm not suggesting you do name your friend but not doing so means that there's no real context to your claim.

Of which I cannot do, and that's kind of what I've hinted at, the players that "got on" with Hurst will say he was great to work with but you if you didn't agree with him or questioned him you were slammed in the reserves or sent packing ..yet, if you listen to the Woolie interview, MJ appears to listen, talk, understand and give all players the chance to play and show him why they should be in the team...JJ being the obvious to this.

He gave it his best, we spent far too long in that cesspit., he's probably right. I'm so glad he's gone, never liked the bloke. He didn't help himself.

Quoted from Northbank Mariner

Of which I cannot do, and that's kind of what I've hinted at, the players that "got on" with Hurst will say he was great to work with but you if you didn't agree with him or questioned him you were slammed in the reserves or sent packing ..yet, if you listen to the Woolie interview, MJ appears to listen, talk, understand and give all players the chance to play and show him why they should be in the team...JJ being the obvious to this.

How is Richard Brodie these days?

Podge said in the press recently that he is still close to Hurst & Doig and met up with him in earlier this season after a Newport game close to where Ipswich where playing.

I always had the impression that if a player came in and worked really hard then he'd be o.k. I worked with a relative of Scott Neilson who told me that Scott found Hurst decent to work for despite many thinking they fell out.

I think what you describe Northbank is no doubt correct but would be more credible if you could say where it came from, I get that you can't though. Also what you describe make Hurst no different to many managers in and out of professional sport I'm sure.  

On a different note I spoke to Hurst a few times and tough he came across a bit shy I found him polite and relatively friendly.

Quoted from jamesgtfc

If we had backed Hurst and given him the back room team that he wanted, I still believe he would have gone that season.

Bristol Rovers kept most of their promotion team whilst the following year, we dismantled ours. Players that fans could identify with were gone in an instant, replaced by seasoned professionals picking up their last contract (Vernon).

I doubt he will manage in the Premier League, unless he takes a club there himself.

Completely agree.