Is DA a snake oil salesman.

What really worried me was the body laguage of our players after they scored the equaliser...we were already beaten.

I really hope I am wrong (I was buzzing after the Salford win but, in truth, they were little short of appalling). Occasionally the football is a joy to behold but we are all style and no substance. Fur coat and no knickers. There is no backbone to the team.  There is just something about this set up which makes me think this is going to be a bloody disaster.

As I say...I hope I am wrong.

I would say that he needs his own Assistant Manager to help with the process who gets his style of play.

Quoted from headingly_mariner

That's just balderdash, there's no way a Hurst side are losing 6-1 at home, regardless of the players.

It's too early to tell on Artell but it's not Hurst's fault we were beaten 6-1 today

It’s Hurst’s fault we have an unbalanced squad full of bottlers though.

Quoted from headingly_mariner

That's just balderdash, there's no way a Hurst side are losing 6-1 at home, regardless of the players.

It's too early to tell on Artell but it's not Hurst's fault we were beaten 6-1 today

How many of the players were brought to the club by DA ? What happened today was typical of Hurst's teams from earlier in their season - early lead and then capitulate. The only difference today was that Walsall punished us for every mistake we made.

Quoted from mariner91

It’s Hurst’s fault we have an unbalanced squad full of bottlers though.

Agree completely, but to play out you need two decent centre backs and I’m not sure why he can’t recognise ours are NL level and aren’t capable.

But you’re bang on this side has too many finger pointers.

When 1878 have spent money on BP did they remove the kitchen sink or was it that there was nobody willing to find it and throw it into the game when we needed it.

At 1-0 we inexplicably sat back, gave away silly free kicks and then of course our Mr dependable Waterfall was exposed for his biggest weakness, speed. From then on we failed to lay a glove on them. A terrible afternoon for the club.

Quoted from rancido

How many of the players were brought to the club by DA ? What happened today was typical of Hurst's teams from earlier in their season - early lead and then capitulate. The only difference today was that Walsall punished us for every mistake we made.

We got beat 6-1!

In reality until they scored we didn’t look that bad and had put together some decent moves including the one that led to the goal. Watching Luke trying to get to the ball in front of the Findus was in many ways just demoralising for both him and the team but nobody came over to assist once he was beaten and the guy just had a free run at goal. Second goal was Glennon doing another sloppy pass into no-one and within 20 seconds it’s in our net. Eisa for the third, poor control led to the penalty and crap marking for the fifth and I was going past Caistor when the sixth went in.

Conteh, who I rate highly, was just lost playing further forward, Andrews control was poor and no physicality and Green did great for the goal but is not the man to take the ball off the back four. Clifton and Eisa offered nothing and for Rose to get 11 goals by now shows we have at least one decent player.

Quoted from Yoda

Rose is good
Elisa is ok
Couldn’t care if the rest went.

DA is paid 150k a year to sort out our squad so crack on.

Elisa may be ok but we have Eisa

Quoted from mariner91

It’s Hurst’s fault we have an unbalanced squad full of bottlers though.

Universally described as the best squad we've assembled in years.

Recently described as a decent squad for a new manager after our caretakers got a tune out of them.

Artell has come out and blamed the players but it was tactical flipping suicide in the 2nd half