Paul "Teflon" Hurst

No need to cry. I just wondered because you’re about the 100th person I’ve seen say it and didn’t know what I was missing.

The easiest thing in football is to blame the manager and demand he be replaced. After 20 years in the wilderness we should have learned that changing the manager doesn’t guarantee either success or improvement.

First time round I was not a PH fan but thought his reappointment would keep us in the EFL but an horrendous first 8 games meant that this was misplaced optimism. The first ten games this season witnessed us play some of the best football I’ve seen us play in many a day but recently results have not been poor but appalling. However, I think we have made some decent signings and others that have proved to be not of the standard or have the consistency required to play at this level.

For me we struggle, as town teams have done for years, by not having the required quality in midfield and if we can address this we should still finish in the top five at least. I am disappointed to hear Hurst continually building up the opposition and believe he should be asking if they can cope with our qualities not worried about theirs. That said I am firmly of the opinion he shouted given January to make decisions on which loanees we retain and what players are brought in which will hopefully include at least two midfield players and a striker. If we can then push on and return to winning ways we stick with him but if improvement is marginal or intermittent we sever ties at the end of the season and start again.

Quoted from ska face

Someone please - in all seriousness - tell me which matches we’ve lost?

I can only count 8 in 9.

It's the bad run of form equivalent to Dave Smith's 65 yarder against Brentford.

Quoted from Abdul19

It's the bad run of form equivalent to Dave Smith's 65 yarder against Brentford.

Not a yard over 50 for me…

https://mobile.twitter.com/onthisGTFCday/status/1218088200767508480

Quoted from Poojah

Not a yard over 50 for me…

https://mobile.twitter.com/onthisGTFCday/status/1218088200767508480

I do so wish you hadn't posted this and against a Premiership team too!

Quoted from Lincoln Mariner 56

The easiest thing in football is to blame the manager and demand he be replaced. After 20 years in the wilderness we should have learned that changing the manager doesn’t guarantee either success or improvement.

First time round I was not a PH fan but thought his reappointment would keep us in the EFL but an horrendous first 8 games meant that this was misplaced optimism. The first ten games this season witnessed us play some of the best football I’ve seen us play in many a day but recently results have not been poor but appalling. However, I think we have made some decent signings and others that have proved to be not of the standard or have the consistency required to play at this level.

For me we struggle, as town teams have done for years, by not having the required quality in midfield and if we can address this we should still finish in the top five at least. I am disappointed to hear Hurst continually building up the opposition and believe he should be asking if they can cope with our qualities not worried about theirs. That said I am firmly of the opinion he shouted given January to make decisions on which loanees we retain and what players are brought in which will hopefully include at least two midfield players and a striker. If we can then push on and return to winning ways we stick with him but if improvement is marginal or intermittent we sever ties at the end of the season and start again.

Equally, Hanging on to a manager for too long has lead to relegations.

Quoted from Poojah

Not a yard over 50 for me…

https://mobile.twitter.com/onthisGTFCday/status/1218088200767508480

Daryl Clare channel(island)ing his inner Romario for the 4th. Fake shot, into soft shoe shuffle, into favela toe poke. Jogo bonito.

Quoted from Azimuth

Equally, Hanging on to a manager for too long has lead to relegations.

Don’t disagree but we are not going to get relegated from the Conference this year and we were unfortunate to lose our two home games although to be fair we would have been lucky to win them both. Our current form is not a bad patch it’s a disastrous run which needs to end asap but that said I would still prefer Hurst to be given the full season in charge and a decision made then on his suitability to remain in place.

Me too. Starting again from scratch will take ages to establish and consolidate and that’s not helpful or realistic. I reserve the right to change my mind if we go on losing, losing, losing, but, for now, we should persevere and abide in my opinion.

Quoted from Ipswin

I do so wish you hadn't posted this and against a Premiership team too!

More than a quarter of the current Premier League is made up of sides we used to routinely beat in that era (Norwich, Burnley, Watford, Brentford, Palace and Wolves). Oh, plus Brighton, who were so far beneath us we rarely even played them. How times change.

I was born in 1985 and yet we've either drawn against or beaten 17 current top flight sides (and I've witnessed many of them) in my lifetime. Man Utd and Southampton we haven't even played in that time, so there's only Arsenal that's 'officially' evaded us.

A slightly tenuous reminder of what we're capable of and that losing 14 out of 15 games (or whatever it is now) in non-league isn't really acceptable.