Hurst interview in the metro

Quoted from fleabag1970

He is a nice bloke and a very good manager . He always had us challenging at the business end of the conference . Which given our leadership was nothing short of brilliance . He gave us a team to be proud of . Most players had songs dedicated to them . He gave us some great moments in a poor league . Had he been backed when we ee entered the FL he would of given us more great moments . Instead our board let 2managers urine away money and nearly get us relegated again ......... Alan Buckley wasn't loved by a section of our support which makes it no supprise that that same section didn't like PH .  He brought success and a winning mentality back to the team . If the same supporters carry on beating up on Jolley he to will have his head turned and we will end up with another merry go round ..... All Imo of course

Skewed thinking there. I didn't like PH because his brand of football was, and probably still is, very dull. I loved Buckley because not only did he win stuff, his team did it with some incredibly exciting football. Buckley was dour himself, but his team was poetry in motion, so it didn't really matter. Hurst was dour off the pitch, and his team were the same on it. All our group of regulars loved the Buckley era, and none of them loved the Hurst era, so as far as i'm concerned it's not the "same section". Neither is it just about winning stuff either, because even if Jolley fails, at least he is trying to do it the right way on the pitch. Football should be fun to watch, and it very rarely was under Hurst. That's my gripe with him and any other manager who sets up a team the same way.

For me,under Hurst every team we played he spoke of them as though they were world beaters and we would be lucky to get any kind of result against them. So we had to play a nervous defensive game, regardless of who they were.

Also he made the fans feel, I think, like we were some kind of nuisance, instead of the people paying his salary.

Quoted from NorthseaMariner

For me,under Hurst every team we played he spoke of them as though they were world beaters and we would be lucky to get any kind of result against them. So we had to play a nervous defensive game, regardless of who they were.

Also he made the fans feel, I think, like we were some kind of nuisance, instead of the people paying his salary.

Probably why he fitted in at our club and got a long tenure. "Us" against the fans, the pesky feckers.

Pretty much sums my feelings up as well the man was as dull as dishwater and I am sure he viewed Operation Promotion as putting unnecessary extra pressure on himself and the players rather than an incentive.

Never endeared himself with the fans the "Spoilt" rant really came back and bit him on the backside during and after the Halifax fiasco plus the ear cupping at Wembley confirmed what he thought of us.

Probably true what he said about nothing changing when we got promoted though to be fair.

If we had backed Hurst and given him the back room team that he wanted, I still believe he would have gone that season.

Bristol Rovers kept most of their promotion team whilst the following year, we dismantled ours. Players that fans could identify with were gone in an instant, replaced by seasoned professionals picking up their last contract (Vernon).

I doubt he will manage in the Premier League, unless he takes a club there himself.

He got lucky with his favourite Monkhouse being sidelined and forcing changes otherwise Braintree would of had us in that playoff(plus the luck of their playing giving us that peno) That’s how I saw it, otherwise we’d still be in the conference. Stubborn describes him so well.

He has zero chance of managing in the premiership.
Took league 2 players to the championship and only won one game.
For me i was glad when he left.

Quoted from headingly_mariner

Gave us a team to be proud of and that we connected with for the first time in many years. His players loved him. With a bit of commitment from the board we might have gone straight through league 2. We backed the wrong horses and spent the money after he’d left.

He’s a good manager and I’m sure he’ll be back in the game soon. Young bloke who I expect to manage in the prem eventually.

I hope you are being ironic. He builds teams that don’t lose many but struggle to win a lot. His risk free strategy quite likely cost Shrewsbury automatic promotion because he would not push on when they were top of the league, just like he nearly cost Town promotion by settling for playoffs too soon and with his devotion to the Monkhouse Plan. He is a good judge of a player but only at the lower level. I would bet that everyone in football now knows all that and it is not what prem clubs (or championship) want from their manager and why he is still waiting for the call. His best bet could be to go abroad (Lancashire?) before his name is completely forgotten or the only jobs will be L2/Conference relegation candidates, back where he started.

I am grateful to Hurst as he got us up and though we didn't walk the league that year I though we where a half decent side even if at times we lumped it long.

However comments like "When we got into the Football League I expected some things to change but very little did" portrays him as a bit stupid IMHO.

In all reality what did he expect we got up in May and he left in October after all that time in non league in reality the club wasn't going to pull millions out of it's backside was it. Maybe if Hurst had been a bit more loyal and stayed to make it work things would have been different.  

We're fortunate with MJ he understands football and finance many managers struggle with at least one of those.  

Skewed thinking ?  You have a short memory . Next time you bump into Alan ask him about it ..... I was there through it all and a section of support were pleased when he was sacked . That is a fact ....