Paul Hurst interview

Boring , drab , relegation , out his depth , clueless .......just a few of the words used to describe hurst from Scunthorpe supporting work colleagues. Can’t wait to point out this interview to them 😀 if they haven’t already seen it that is , I’m sure they will be loving the fact he could spend so much time talking about us 🤔

The rise and fall of Paul Hurst reminds me a lot of Russell Slade’s but a lot faster. A poor performance from his side tonight  May well earn the  man another P 45.

Grateful for his contribution to our club, but time to move on..

The thing with Hurst and Scunthorpe is, that when a team are desperately on a downward spiral, it's hard to stop that.

Look at Nathan Jones at Stoke...

Hurst is a good manager, and I thank him for getting us out that league, I don't care how long it took.
I can't stand Doig.

But we are in a better place now than when he left.

MJ & AL are doing wonders here, and managing to turn a club on another downward spiral around, and I think Hurst will do that with Scunthorpe, if Swann gives him time, like Fenty has Jolley

I take on board he ultimately got us up but at no point did we challenge for the title , we choked plenty of times in big games ( Wembley & play offs ) and his refusal to change tactics when it was going wrong bored me stupid. I would say he was professional in his approach day to day but that’s a given in my eyes but obviously not in every case. All in all I’m glad he’s at scunny and not managing us

Quoted from dapperz fun pub

I take on board he ultimately got us up but at no point did we challenge for the title , we choked plenty of times in big games ( Wembley & play offs ) and his refusal to change tactics when it was going wrong bored me stupid. I would say he was professional in his approach day to day but that’s a given in my eyes but obviously not in every case. All in all I’m glad he’s at scunny and not managing us

that's not the case, we played well away at Gateshead and we were done over by terrible refereeing, the same in the Wembley final against Bristol Rovers, a ref that could do his job would have seen us win that game ( and we played well)

We were also challenging for the title in 2013, we was top at Christmas, unfortunately falling away
i'd have him back in a heartbeat but all about opinions isn't it

Quoted from Hagrid

that's not the case, we played well away at Gateshead and we were done over by terrible refereeing, the same in the Wembley final against Bristol Rovers, a ref that could do his job would have seen us win that game ( and we played well)

We were also challenging for the title in 2013, we was top at Christmas, unfortunately falling away
i'd have him back in a heartbeat but all about opinions isn't it

Just out of interest would you have him back now? Over Jolley?

For me Hurst's level is max L1 due to the fact that he only has one plan as a manager "keep us shape". He was often tactically out thought by Semi Pro sides managers in the conference at Blundell Park.

He did well for us in getting us back on track and stabilizing a sinking ship, for that he deserves a lot of credit. But I think the troubles he is facing at Scunny show that he is limited as a manager. He needs to create that siege mentality to be successful with a really tight knit squad. With the current crop of relegated wasters at Scunny he cannot do it.

Myself I am taking no satisfaction in seeing him struggle as I do appreciate that he was the manager who potentially stopped the rot before it was too late, if he had any sort of personality at all, instead of being possibly the most dull Yorkie in history, he would have been one of the most popular managers for a long time at Town.

  

Quoted from Hagrid

that's not the case, we played well away at Gateshead and we were done over by terrible refereeing, the same in the Wembley final against Bristol Rovers, a ref that could do his job would have seen us win that game ( and we played well)

We were also challenging for the title in 2013, we was top at Christmas, unfortunately falling away
i'd have him back in a heartbeat but all about opinions isn't it

We were unfortunate with the reffing decisions but we definitely didn't play well and we'd played pretty poorly in the first game too.

Quoted from Malta_Mariner_90

Just out of interest would you have him back now? Over Jolley?

For me Hurst's level is max L1 due to the fact that he only has one plan as a manager "keep us shape". He was often tactically out thought by Semi Pro sides managers in the conference at Blundell Park.

He did well for us in getting us back on track and stabilizing a sinking ship, for that he deserves a lot of credit. But I think the troubles he is facing at Scunny show that he is limited as a manager. He needs to create that siege mentality to be successful with a really tight knit squad. With the current crop of relegated wasters at Scunny he cannot do it.

Myself I am taking no satisfaction in seeing him struggle as I do appreciate that he was the manager who potentially stopped the rot before it was too late, if he had any sort of personality at all, instead of being possibly the most dull Yorkie in history, he would have been one of the most popular managers for a long time at Town.

  

At this present moment no i wouldnt. So i should have worded it better, i like what MJ is doing at the moment

Quoted from Hagrid

that's not the case, we played well away at Gateshead and we were done over by terrible refereeing, the same in the Wembley final against Bristol Rovers, a ref that could do his job would have seen us win that game ( and we played well)

We were also challenging for the title in 2013, we was top at Christmas, unfortunately falling away
i'd have him back in a heartbeat but all about opinions isn't it

How soon we forget. That was the case. Hurst has never been a one game tactician. How many times did pub teams come to BP and park the bus and Town did nothing but lump the ball up to LJL or whoever? What tactics did he have in the promotion season apart from a huge diagonal lump from RB to LW so his mate could try and nod it on. We had the only left wing target man in the business and it was not until he was injured that we looked more like a side with a few ideas and actually won. What other manager would bloody-mindedly persevere with a loan striker who failed to score for more than a dozen games while keeping a player like Bogle or Podge on the bench?

He did well at Shrewsbury and cleverly left before he had to do the hard work of fulfilling expectations. He was found wanting again at Ipswich, perhaps the level was too high. He has been a bit unfortunate down the road but given a 3 or 4 years might be able to turn that round. He should have given a good interview, Grimsby is the only place he has struck lucky.

Quoted from mariner91

We were unfortunate with the reffing decisions but we definitely didn't play well and we'd played pretty poorly in the first game too.

Not how I remember it. Their keeper had a worldie at BP and they scored from a Mckeown howler. The second leg we were absolutely hammering them, even with 10 men. The second sending off was when they really got on top. The stats from the second leg don't agree with my memory, but I seem to think a lot of their chances were in the last 10 minutes when we were chasing the game.

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