Hurst preseason interview

Quoted from TonySmith

It's noticeable that he wasn't asked about his thoughts on Max Wright. It would have been interesting to hear what he had to say about Max's situation.

I agree it would be interesting, but maybe it's a question better left to a later date.

Quoted from TonySmith

It's noticeable that he wasn't asked about his thoughts on Max Wright. It would have been interesting to hear what he had to say about Max's situation.

I imagine because we already know his thoughts since last season. Was pretty much done with him, constant injury issues and complaining about injuries ruling himself out even when the medical team couldn't find something wrong with him. No idea what his actual problem is but after another season of barely playing and weird issues that nobody could figure out he had no future with us. Not sure if he was trying to get himself released or something but he was doing a good job of it.

Quoted from Kris2

I imagine because we already know his thoughts since last season. Was pretty much done with him, constant injury issues and complaining about injuries ruling himself out even when the medical team couldn't find something wrong with him. No idea what his actual problem is but after another season of barely playing and weird issues that nobody could figure out he had no future with us. Not sure if he was trying to get himself released or something but he was doing a good job of it.

I do wonder whether a lot of it was psychological you know. He didn’t think he was fit enough to play and give a good account of himself and therefore he wasn’t, if that makes sense? On the other hand there are other players who just get on with it and play game after game. Paul Groves certainly springs to mind.

I love the story of Stuart Pearce when he was at West Ham in the latter stage of his career. He was tackled very very hard and went off injured just before half time. Then in the break he said to the manager that his leg bloody well hurt but thought he could go back on in the second half. The manager said no and it transpired he had a broken leg!! They don’t make them like that anymore!! 😁😁

With the best will in the world you couldn’t see Max Wright doing that.

How come Max Wright seemed ok to play when he went out on loan ? Other fans raved about him and he played plenty of games in even more physical leagues.

It is a real head scratcher for sure as he obviously loves GTFC and has enough ability.  I guess we will never know.

Too much, too young?

Played quite a lot of games in men's football as a youngster and I wonder if he perhaps overdid it a bit back then?

It may be that he's just better suited to the training for part-time football and ends up playing a lot more games at his next club?

After the Barnsley game - 1st September - https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-division-1/01-september-2001/

After Burnley beat Bradford 3-2 the following day - 2nd September https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-division-1/02-september-2001/

After the Coventry game - https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/league-division-1/08-september-2001/ - no change in the gap between Burnley at the top and us in second (two points).

Burnley beat Rotherham 3-0 on the day we beat Coventry, they took the lead after 48 minutes whereas we took the lead after 58.  So technically we were never top of the league that day.