Hurst in the Telewag

Quoted from Marinerz93

Fcuk the telewag, the only people I know who buy the telewag are old age pensioners who remember the old days when the local paper was worth reading nowadays it's not fit to wipe anyone bottom, let alone grace a bog of fish and chips.

The only thing the telewag is good for is Deja Moo for all the recycled bullshit it continually prints.

I prefer to sit at a table to eat my fish and chips and possibly grace a bog later.

If, in his eyes, the vast majority of fans were brilliant with only a handful of bad ones then why did he celebrate our best day for a long time in the manner he did?
The guy is rubbish and was lucky to have one of the best budgets to eventually get us back in the league. I like to think he was also lucky at Shrewsbury.
His luck ran out at Ipswich which just leaves the rubbish.
A bitter little man.
Good night Vienna

Typical cheap Telegraph reporting picking bits out to cause controversy.

If you listen all the way through, it forms part of his career that he’s got some regrets over. Was I a fan? Not really. Did he get a bit lucky with the Monkhouse injury? Probably. But it’s harsh to judge the interview on just the GTFC bits.

Hopefully the Telewag won't be doing something similar with Slade any time soon.

Quoted from jock dock tower

Hopefully the Telewag won't be doing something similar with Slade any time soon.

I wonder what Slade and Wilko are doing now ?

Cold light if day......

When he took over on his own the squad wasn’t good enough largely because we where skint he improved us the next year and just missed out versus Brizzle. He improved us again and took us up from a league where only 2 go up. We came up and when he left looked relatively stable.

The football wasn’t great, has to be said though that the players we had though decent at that level where playing non league for a reason.

Before Hurst where all our managers nice friendly souls who engaged with the supporters, showed them complete reverence and always got it right in the press? Nope! In fact our most successful ever Sir Alan could be a right miserable so and so when he wanted to be.

It’s really easy to focus on the micro but the makro is that he get us up. On and off the pitch at times it wasn’t pretty but in the end effective.

Comments in the press? Well he’s out of work and clearly like many managers worried about being forgot about. He’s entitled to his opinion as everyone is but history is history and it ain’t going to change.

Cupping ears? No big deal for me players inc ones in Town shirts have done it before and will do it again in fact in the PO final Omar did it in front of the FGR fans, does that make him a d1ck, nah not IMHO. Those who dish it out shouldn’t be surprised to get a bit back, that’s the way it is.

As a club we’re moving forward he’s part of our history and some success so I’d prefer to just remember the feeling when Nathan scores the 3rd on the day to take us back up, the rest means fcuk all in reality.

Regarding the Telewag, I was flicking through it when I visited my parents house earlier and was amazed to see that they are advertising hand jobs! The class ads have a "Adult Services" section with lots of massagers selling their, erm, wares. That's the 21st century for you.

Why has the telegraph given his short bottom the time of day? the stubborn dwarf is finished in football by doing podcasts to make himself relevant is all he’s got now. I will be glad if I never hear his name again the most overrated manager we’ve ever had, a tactical bore who got a lucky

Quoted from Cod Cheeks

If, in his eyes, the vast majority of fans were brilliant with only a handful of bad ones then why did he celebrate our best day for a long time in the manner he did?
The guy is rubbish and was lucky to have one of the best budgets to eventually get us back in the league. I like to think he was also lucky at Shrewsbury.
His luck ran out at Ipswich which just leaves the rubbish.
A bitter little man.
Good night Vienna

I am not a hurst lover or loather. He did a few things wrong while with us and the football was pragmatic, but to say he is rubbish is very harsh imho. He got us promoted back to the league with a budget that was probably never in the top 3 of the league he was in. Yes it took longer than we all wanted, yes he got lucky (imo) with the monkhouse injury and thankfully we had a good ref for the second leg against Braintree, but let’s not forget if was not for one of the most incompetent refs in history we would probably have been promoted the year before.

As for getting lucky with Shrewsbury - really? To take a team from bottom of league one to the play offs the following season takes a lot more than luck.

As I say, not a lover of the man, but not sure he is the bitter one here.

UTFM

Quoted from Cod Cheeks

If, in his eyes, the vast majority of fans were brilliant with only a handful of bad ones then why did he celebrate our best day for a long time in the manner he did?
The guy is rubbish and was lucky to have one of the best budgets to eventually get us back in the league. I like to think he was also lucky at Shrewsbury.
His luck ran out at Ipswich which just leaves the rubbish.
A bitter little man.
Good night Vienna

I don’t like him but he isn’t rubbish. It’s just that he could be a much better manager if he threw away the chip on his shoulder and became more positive in the job. His ambitions are limited. He did well at Shrews in the first season to save them from the drop and created his usual defensive side for year 2 that got to the top spot in the league by January with a lot of 1-0 wins. Then for some reason, just as he did at BP he settled for the play offs much too soon. Games he could and should have won were drawn and the side lost points and momentum. Some Shrews fans said the same as some Town fans about his negative tactics against poorer sides and his aim being not to lose.

Ipswich? He let good players go too soon probably because he has no experience of managing “stars” who are paid more than him and tried to do a Shrews again but his signings were not good enough. The football was even more defensive than McCarthy and not what Ipswich fans wanted to see. Lambert will take them down but he is on a hiding to nothing with the players Hurst left.

I feel sorry for Hurst in a way. There is a decent manager in there but he is scared to let him out. In the end it was his fear of failure that caused him to fail.