Paul Hurst Sacked (MERGED)

Quoted from GollyGTFC

Absolutely the right decision but can’t help thinking the owners have treated PH & CD poorly today.

The decision was clearly already made. The owners talk about taking the emotion out of decisions and waiting for the dust to settle, so I can only assume they would have been sacked even if we won today.

Surely they should have done it earlier in the week. Even if they had  given Paul & Chris the option of taking charge of the Doncaster game or not.

It just feels like they’ve used PH & CD today to avoid having a caretaker manager taking the match today.

And this finally puts to bed the idea that the owners won’t be ruthless.

Quoted from Withnail

Sad day. I feel for Hurst. But as has been said countless times it was inevitable as the tide had turned against him and the results don't lie.

To those saying at least we won't go down now, I'd say the chance of us going down has actually increased at the present time.

Hopefully Hurst's replacement's the right one and he can get a tune out of a bunch he inherited rather than wanted and quickly plug any gaps.

My beer tonight is certainly not celebratory.

Quoted from Mappers

I get the Woods comparison , afterwards today I was frustrated as hell - we have better players than Doncaster , gave 100% yet still lost ; that one that roled along the line in front of us just summed up the last few weeks . Although today Hurst  fully reverted to type , rather than trying all these new systems and formations , it seems his luck ran out ; today I did feel we were quite unlucky .

No doubt the small few who disliked Hurst from the outset will be delighted at this outcome , whereas the few on here who know Paul personally will be gutted for their mate - no doubt he's a good one , seems a genuinely solid guy .

Did he move us forward ?
Yes and no - it depends if we retain our league status this season doesn't it really - we look far too good on paper & on the pitch but points win prizes and we are not picking any up , and seemingly dropping them when they are there for the taking .

We get Stockwood's & Pettit's first big test ,  making an appointment fully of their own ; something that may well show us the level of both their short and medium term ambition .

Thanks to Paul-  IMO he can hold his head up high and should be welcome back at BP anytime (not as manager for a 3rd stint).


Over to Andrew & Jason to make sure his reign doesn't become clouded by another relegation .

Quoted from Maringer

As somebody else alluded to, it has looked similar to that Woods period where we just kept losing games, even when we hadn't been bad on the day.

The failings at the end of the transfer window is what has done for us. The squad is a few players short in areas and having just three strikers in the squad (one of whom doesn't really look like a striker), is a real error.

Quoted from Vance Warner

What makes you think we have less chance of relegation? What are you expecting to change? Genuinely interested as for me the shortcomings of the current players will still be there. I don’t think the players have stopped playing for the manager at any point so what change are you expecting?

Quoted from GollyGTFC

They had longer than they deserved, but sacking him at 5PM in the tunnel at an away game is no way to treat PH & CD.

Quoted from 140381

Also, there’s a shock in store for those who are expecting a decent replacement. An up and coming National league manager isn’t going to want to risk moving and going back down at the end of the season, blowing their likely only chance. Expect those who’ve been screaming for his head are going to go very quiet when the replacement is announced, or a short list leaked.

I think our best chance of surviving relegation was Hurst turning it around, as unlikely as that seemed recently.
I think we’re fûcked.

Quoted from GrimPol

Colchester sacked their manager a few days before they came to Blundell Park. A rubbish team with no manager hence rudderless. A dead cert 3-pointer. We lost They have now have 6 points, we have have 0.  I rest my case

Quoted from 140381

Also, there’s a shock in store for those who are expecting a decent replacement. An up and coming National league manager isn’t going to want to risk moving and going back down at the end of the season, blowing their likely only chance. Expect those who’ve been screaming for his head are going to go very quiet when the replacement is announced, or a short list leaked.

I think our best chance of surviving relegation was Hurst turning it around, as unlikely as that seemed recently.
I think we’re fûcked.

Quoted from Wiley2405

Completely disagree, we are bad but I think we are good enough even now to about stay up and there’s another transfer window coming up shortly where a new manager can bring in their own players. It’s a good set up, seems like decent owners and a chance to be much better than our current position so I think we can get someone decent in.