New Hurst

Quoted from Fillipe Noche

He’s absolutely no different. He’s always been a class act.

This season you cannot see a great change because all is going well but his demeanour last season when we were in a real mess was so different to his first tenure here. Age, experience and probably an awful lot more in the bank but in any career where you make progressions you would expect to see changes.

I agree with the rest on here he is different. I am sure you often post a contrary opinion for devilment utm

I would be happier and more relaxed working for his new employers. He must feel good at being part of whats happening at the club like the rest of us.

Quoted from buckstown

Never forget that we spend a large chunk of our lives at work and the person you work for has a massive impact on your life, outlook and attitudes. PH is currently working for one of the best leaders in the country so his demeanour is bound to be very comfortable
Add that to the points others have made regarding financial security, stage of his career etc. and he's effectively a different person
Regarding the opposition there's barely a manager who slags off upcoming opposition to the media, it's just not the done thing. Show respect in front of cameras but slag em off behind closed doors!!

Quite literally poking the hornets nest with that comment.

Everything is coming together at the club in the right way at the right time.  We deserve this after
everything that we have had to put up with for many years.

Bad or unsuitable owners pick bad managers.  In turn, they buy bad players, then have the wrong tactics and any half-decent players are left out the team.  We have been there in recent seasons, especially last season.

Now we seem to be in the completely opposite position in every way. There is an energy, excitement and expectation about the club and fans that something special is happening.  Long may it continue.

I would never have thought last season that a year later fans would be complaining that they cannot get a ticket for a league game!  Because the home stands are full.

Can't imagine anyone could have done a much better job of putting a squad together this season. It's not like we have been splashing the cash on £200k plus players.

PH is more content, relaxed, mature, knowledgeable
Huge bonus is new owners/board/CEO/optimism around the place etc

He has probably learned so much more about coaching/managing and wants to bring a more exciting brand of fotty to his teams?

He may also feel the game has moved on at this level and you do need a pacy, attacking team to win the league?

Whatever - he is way more relaxed and was when he took over last season

Always liked and rated PH - decent, honest man as well as very good lower league footy manager
Hugely respected in the game

I didn’t particularly want him back but I’ll happily eat my words if this form carries on , like others have said he seems really different this time round and I like it

There's no single reason, as we've pointed out in this thread, but for me the key one is the people he works for.

Never underestimate the effect that has on your work life. I've worked at a few different places but the ones I've enjoyed most are the places that trust me and don't micromanage me. Can't speak on behalf of everyone but that definitely gets the best out of me.

I'm treated like the expert in my field. I've got support when I need it but otherwise I'm left to do things the way I think they should be done, and that's incredibly liberating.

It changes your outlook on working life. Imagine that culture spreading through the corridors of BP, through the training ground, youth team, sports and education trust...

JS and AP, along with Debbie, have started something here and it's snowballed. Culture is an intangible thing; you can't hold it, and it's difficult to measure and understand, but it's probably the most important thing because of what it unlocks.

Does an improved culture win you 3 points on a Saturday? It could win you new fans, bigger crowds, better players, promotion, respect within the game and potentially improve the whole town and its communities.

Hurst is probably loving life because he feels comfortable and unthreatened. He's in charge, he's making the big calls on the football side of things. He knows his role in this. We're getting the best out of Paul Hurst. Ipswich and Scunny could have never made that happen.

Hurst is a very, very good manager at this level and our culture is allowing him to reach his potential. The same can be said of the players, because of Hurst's influence. This culture is infectious - we can all feel it (and I'm 70 miles away having not been to a game since March 2020).

I think the fanbase has changed too, I think the fanbase of 2010 was angry, tired, divided and depressed, and though I dont blame the fans for any of it whatsoever, we probably needed telling when rob scott famously ranted 'this isnt 10 years ago', I think by the time 2016 came around this fanbase had grown and evolved into a strong central community ready for a club to take a new place in modern football, knowing what our roles as fans could be and the potential to make a difference we had, we'd accepted where we were, the challenge we had, and that things had to change before we could build on them, unfortunately the previous owner was just completely blind to all that and our time back in the football league was a bit of a waste, but now I think its all coming together and the potential that was there in this club, to be a modern club fit for the world of modern football and not one of the old guard clubs hanging on and being overtaken by new small enterprising clubs working their way up the leagues

It is clear why he left last time. Crap training facilities, penny pinching owner, a board with no vision and no ambition. Why would any up and coming manager stay? The mishandling of the Amond situation must have rankled too.

New regime now. Committed to doing things properly on and off the pitch. I thought we would end up with a competitive squad of disciplined, committed and skillful players. I just never imagined it would happen so soon. This is where I hoped we would be in a year's time.