Match Thread Stockport

Quoted from Limerick Mariner

The buck stops with Hurst on recruitment but a different manager is stuck with the same squad, which patently unbalanced and lacking depth. No defender on the bench, Hunt not trusted, Pyke not good enough as a third striker, three wide players but none have real pace. We failed to use the loan market in the last week of the window despite the injury to Wilson.

Agree with most  of your points LM, but despite  the  'unbalance' of the squad it still has players  easily capable  of being top half
of the bottom EFL league, i just feel they are confused and frustrated by the  limited 'style' of play they are instructed to play,
with very limited ideas in  the final third, constant team changes  and players being seemingly frozen out, everything at the club just
seems worryingly so negative again, just as it did in our last relegation season.
I hope PH can turn this around, but to be honest  i worry he cannot.

I loved our fight back today to get to 2-2 but it hides the fact it should have been 3 or 4 nil by ht , some stupid mistakes every game

Left that feeling more hopeful than I expected after the opening 10 mins

Showed fight and urgency

Not saying all is rosy but that was, overall, a decent fight against the league leaders and we could have came away with a draw which I'd have taken before the match started... Their 3rd was never a foul and the resulting free kick, they were offside before it got bundled in.

I think the time has come and indeed passed for us to part ways with Hurst, it is still relatively early in the season but we should not delay any longer in making a decision and allowing freah ideas and an assement of the current squad by a incoming managment team before Christmas.

Time and time again we give away soft goals, which is odd given that the manager and all the coaching staff are former defenders.

In Wilson, Eisa and Rose we have players that can score quality goals, but it's no good if we can't keep a clean sheet. It needs sorting. quickly. Otherwise we will drop into the relegation dog fight pretty soon.  

We are in it now I'm sorry to say.

Quoted from chaos33

3:10. Game done. Turning off. FFS.

Toss,r

Quoted from golfer

We are in it now I'm sorry to say.

Lets see where we are in 7 months time!

Tuesday is critical. Anything other than a win and we are in trouble.

That said, I have seen Stockport fans saying that we are one of the best sides they have seen at home. The only away games I have seen were at Bradford and Wallsall and we looked really good in places in both games, though we didn't win either. So this team has potential. We have some good players. We just need to firm up at the back and we are overdue the rub of the green to turn our fortunes round.    

Quoted from MarinerWY

Left that feeling more hopeful than I expected after the opening 10 mins

Showed fight and urgency

Not saying all is rosy but that was, overall, a decent fight against the league leaders and we could have came away with a draw which I'd have taken before the match started... Their 3rd was never a foul and the resulting free kick, they were offside before it got bundled in.

The question is why can't we replicate it at will.?  Other teams would have been pushed aside by Town if they played like the last 60mins at Stocky, but we normally play like first 30 minutes, It's a mystery.