Paul Hurst interview

Properly fell out with Scott then!

That’s a really good interview. Surprised he was so open about Town considering he’s now managing Scunny.

Fair play that is as open and honest an interview as you could ask for in modern football when your now the manager of local rivals and at the bottom of the league.
90%+ of managers would have wrapped it up after 30 seconds with a "i dont want to talk about Grimsby, i'm now the manager of Scunthorpe so that's where my focus is, I'm not thinking about the past" type comment.

I think it’s probably fair to say that neither Paul Hurst nor our fan base fully appreciated what they had when he was here.

I’m currently very happy with the direction Michael Jolley is taking us, but there’s no doubt whatsoever that Hurst did a monumentally better job for this club than his two successors in Bignot and Slade. Yes, you can argue he should have got us promoted sooner but as he points out we were on the receiving end of some shocking officiating at key times in big games.

Likewise, I think Hurst has also learned from his experiences at Ipswich and now Scunny that there will always be dissenting voices when things aren’t going so well on the pitch. It’s not a ‘Grimsby’ thing, and it seems now that he at least appreciates that our support went above and beyond to try and help get us back in the league with the likes of OP and our away followings in general. I do think there’s something special about this club and it’s fans.

Sadly, when he talks about looking forward to the derby games in the league, there’s a look in his eye that suggests he knows he may well not make it that far...

Very good interview if he spoke like that when at town he might not have had so many crictics

Judging by the X’s we must have more than our fair share of midgets on the fishy

Is a good interview, he comes across well, I like him. He was in charge  of us at a very difficult time, yes I think he took longer than he should have to get promotion, but equally he did not get the rub of the green against  Gateshead or Rovers.

Sad that it sounds that his friendship with Scott completely  broke down.

Nice to see him speak so nicely about the club especially when he is now managing one of our rivals. I get him getting frustrated about not getting certain things especially as this then continued with bignot having the same complaints. As for us being a great club to get into full time management I hope that Jolly will get the same experience from managing us. Great to see he doesnt harbour any Ill will towards the club or the fans and couldn't big up Towns support enough.

One of his better interviews from one of our better Manager`s whilst I was never a huge fan due to his cautious nature especially at home he made us a very difficult team to beat and is one of only 3 Manager`s in my 40 years to get us promoted.In my opinion he should have enough about him to turn Scunny around and get them going but he looks very downbeat to the point he fears the Grimsby Reaper

The way he speaks about us the twinkle in his eye is that he kind of misses us and the team we had. I'd be furious as a Scunthorpe fan but it's kind of made my anger to Hursty a little less so, wish he would of been so open when he was managing us.