Hurst

So with Hurst supposedly been approached by club...

Would you be happy?

I certainly would, give us the best squad we've had for many years, and imagine what would of happened if it wasn't for fenty...

Yes. He is one of the few that I think could navigate us out of this shitshow. We desperately need to keep us shape as he can’t stop shipping goals.

Yes. 1000%

Why would anyone want a bloke back who has such contempt for Town fans is beyond me.

Boring but safe appointment. Fine with me.

Quoted from TAGG

Why would anyone want a bloke back who has such contempt for Town fans is beyond me.

He cupped his ear boo hoo. So what. People need to get over it. He got his fair share of abuse so who cares if he gave a bit back.

He’s on record as saying that he thinks we have great fans, especially away from home.

Quoted from TAGG

Why would anyone want a bloke back who has such contempt for Town fans is beyond me.

Another myth...the only people who have contempt for fans at GTFC are in the boardroom...

With bells on. Should’ve never let him go in the first place.

Would be a decent appointment.

His percentage style football keeps us in the league. Boring yes but you know what you’re going to get every week. There’s no chance he’d work for Fenty again though is there?

I would be happy with Hurst but nothing will make me change my stance Fenty.

Fenty Out.

Meh, I think with the narcissistic Baron Ego still in charge we are going down regardless.

Yes, with new owners would be even better.

If that little excrement comes back I will be finished with Gtfc for good.

Quoted from TAGG

Why would anyone want a bloke back who has such contempt for Town fans is beyond me.

Has he? How do you actually know that for a fact?

Yes he cupped is ear at Wembley as Bogle did after scoring on of his goals....... personally if I’d have got the abuse Hurst got I’d have probably done a bit more than cupping my ear.

Quoted from realist

If that little excrement comes back I will be finished with Gtfc for good.

bUt hE cUpPeD hIs EaR

Quoted from HertsGTFC

Has he? How do you actually know that for a fact?

Yes he cupped is ear at Wembley as Bogle did after scoring on of his goals....... personally if I’d have got the abuse Hurst got I’d have probably done a bit more than cupping my ear.

With some of the absolute nonsense aimed at hurst after we’d lose a game I’d have walked on to the pitch at Wembley, faced the town fans, stuck my fingers up and copulated off...

Let’s not forget, the Lord wasn’t exactly the easiest person to get along with...

Id be happy for him to come back till the end of the season but wouldnt fancy him as long term boss again.

Yeah we won loads of games in the conference, but when we had a top 5 budget, you expect to finish in the top 5. It's a different kettle of fish managing in a league where you have one of the lowest budgets. Thats where you need a manager who can over-achieve based on expectations resulting from the budget.

I'm not saying it wouldn't work. But i certainly dont think it would, long-term, if its under the current ownership.

Just to add.....this is nothing to do with the ear-cupping. I thought it was a bit daft him doing it but it didn't bother me. My view, which is probably an unpopular one by the looks of it, is based on football reasons only. Just my opinion.

It’s almost irrelevant. With no change in the boardroom we’ll tree water at best.

Hurst has got what it takes to keep us up. Not sure he’d want to come back unless he wants to avoid dipping further into his severance package.

Get Him in asap
Get us safe keep us shape
No team has played with the same spirit and togetherness since
I would swap every position player from that team for every one now
And that was hursts team
Hurst
Davies or Collins as no 2
Moore O
That will keep us up
Ignore the bitter ear cup brigade PH 👂

Would have him back in a heartbeat.

The fact UTM are reporting it leads me to suspect it’s true, they are always bang on and I suspect have very good sources.

Would suggest ownership may change as can’t see him working with Fenty again.

Absolutely ridiculous idea.

Going back never works.

Quoted from cannylad68

Absolutely ridiculous idea.

Going back never works.

Buckley second time around.

I'd be ok with it

Not ecstatic but would expect him to be able to sort out the mess we're in ( although he didn't pull up any trees at Scunny last season did he?)

Of course Fenty still on the scene would surely scupper any move back here...

There’s no way he’d come back with fenty still in charge . If that means new owners coming in I’d take him but I’d hope the new owners would bring in a new guy with fresh ideas we haven’t seen before.

Quoted from Nelly GTFC

Buckley second time around.

Hurst isn't in the same league or same mold as Lord Buckley, and if he does come, at the very best we'll tread water around the trapdoor with the dour one in charge of us.

You could get Gaurdiola in but without proper player investment and contracts that do not include clauses that other clubs don’t put in then we’re going nowhere, we’ll maybe to the conference.

I don’t think he would keep us up....

Hates the fans, boring football, delusions of being a premier manager at a league 2 club. No for me.

New owners then Hurst back..

I thought with all these sensible posts about ownership that Fishy fans were getting sensible. Are we going to keep on having polls for Hurst until someone gets the result they want?
I don’t think he would come but in any case I wouldn’t want another moaner at the club.

I still can’t get over his obsession he had with Monkhouse which in reality would have cost us the promotion had he not got injured...

Quoted from sydney

Get Him in asap
Get us safe keep us shape
No team has played with the same spirit and togetherness since
I would swap every position player from that team for every one now
And that was hursts team
Hurst
Davies or Collins as no 2
Moore O
That will keep us up
Ignore the bitter ear cup brigade PH 👂

You would imagine sniffer Doig would be part of any return but I do like the idea of Collins back to get the defenders working as a unit.

He'd be good for us team

I was biased for collins thought he was always superb
I would assume his complete 100% effort and professionalism he would carry into his coaching management career?

When I look back over the last 15 years, there have only been a few seasons where supporting town has been genuinely enjoyable, and Hurst’s spell in charge stands out.

Sure his style of play isn’t the best, but you’re guaranteed a team that will play for the shirt, and that’s what we need right now. I also think he would improve us and make us league 2 contenders given time - I know we struggled for promotion in the conference, but we were the big dogs and teams were happy to come and sit behind the ball. That won’t happen in league 2 and will suit his style better, like what he managed at Shrewsbury.

I also think we have a good enough spine to the team (definitely a strong enough defence) that needs a bit of organisation, and we all know hurst will get them into shape.

People suggest that Hurst didn’t get the supporters but actually under Hurst the bond between players and the support felt much stronger especially in the promotion season and the one before. On the pitch after the Braintree 2nd leg with players and supporters interacting together was great especially for the younger one’s who’s traveled that day.

Once Hurst was on his own and developed his approach there was barely an away game where you didn’t know we’d win 1-0 or get the much needed result.

People point to the fact we were along way from the top spot the year we actually went up but who actually cares...I wouldn’t trade that day for anything.

People always forget we almost missed out on the playoffs in Buckley MKII...

Hurst’s style may not have been overly exciting but it was effective regardless of what people say. Perhaps he was too cautious at times and I’ve spoke with him and he’s admit that but let’s face it, the minute we re-entered the league the club reverted to type which meant bringing in cheaper players...however, those players still bought in to what Hurst was about and it was working.

The man at the top was responsible for the relationship breaking down and we’ll never really know if Hurst could’ve taken us beyond...probably not given the leadership at the top but just becauee he cupped his ears and some fans got all sulky about it shouldn’t mean the guy isn’t listed in there with Buckley, McMenemy, etc...he got us promoted. Only two managers in my life time have achieved that.

He’s the only manager that hand on heart any of us could say assembled a team we felt connected with aside from the Lord.

I don’t believe he’ll come back under Fenty’s rule, if he did it would shock me and I’m not sure it would be worth ruining what went before. For me, whilst Fenty remains intercourse all changes and the club remains on life support regardless of manager...

I think it would be good to move the club forward of new owners came in and that would mean a new manager we’ve never seen before but if new owners brought Hurst back I don’t it would be the worst thing ever...

This was in a previous thread from DieHardMariner and it sums up my thoughts entirely !

Hurst taking us to the next level is one of the funniest things I've read in ages.

He did his job, eventually, in getting us out the Conference but we fell over that line and you could argue that he only actually stumbled upon a system that worked because his favourite, Andy Monkhouse, got injured which meant he made to switch things up in midfield.  It also meant we couldn't continue with the long ball out to the left wing, having seen it fail pretty much every time since about late August of that season.

Whist I had no issue with his decision to rebuild that squad, because it was barely good enough to get promotion from the Conference, he then spectacularly failed to do so and ended up weakening it.  Vernon for Amond.  Berrett for Clay.  Chambers for Arnold. That's ignoring the players that he had no chance of keeping like Toto, Nolan and Tait, those were well out of his control.

His public relations skills were dreadful.  He was never going to take us to the next level of anything because he totally alienated a large proportion of the fan base.  A banner hanging from the flyover declaring 'Hurst Out' on the eve of a play-off semi-final second leg was in poor taste.  But cupping your ears to the fans having finally stumbled over the line was even poorer.  He hadn't been there for the last 15 years of abject failure, he hadn't felt it when we failed time after time after time.  He didn't have the right to stick that middle finger up at us.  That moment was as much ours as it was his, if not more.

Am I grateful he got us out the Conference?  Yes, but I don't hold him in this state of some sort of Messiah.  I always felt he held us back with his negative style of play.  I'll always remember him saying that as a player he much more enjoyed those 1-0 smash and grab wins than trouncing someone 5-0, it showed in his managerial style too.  

Did he deserve better investment from the board?  Yes, absolutely.  Promotion or not, denying any manager that level of basic infrastructure is criminal in this day and highlights the wider problems we've got.  

But to say he would have taken us to the next level is fantasy stuff in my eyes.  We had a poor squad that year and were in a bit of a honeymoon period type false position when he left.  What probably makes his record look better is that he was followed by a guy who was bat excrement crazy!

If I had to sum Hurst up it would be a great spotter of talent, but largely fails to get the best from those players when he has them at his disposal.  His other outstanding attribute is building a dressing room.  You can't deny the spirit he built here and evidently he built one at Shrewsbury too.  But that will only take you so far.

Unfortunately to some of our younger fans Hurst's tenure was the only success they have ever known and as such he is deemed worthy of return, however taking six years to get us back into the league with a good budget most seasons was completely unacceptable. Many have very short memories of his constant "Bigging Up" the competition and awful performances against Dog and Duck sides.

So for me, its a NO !

Quoted from HertsGTFC

People suggest that Hurst didn’t get the supporters but actually under Hurst the bond between players and the support felt much stronger especially in the promotion season and the one before. On the pitch after the Braintree 2nd leg with players and supporters interacting together was great especially for the younger one’s who’s traveled that day.

You are right but the key word is Braintree! We were still down among the dead men struggling to make a playoff final after all his seasons with a decent budget to put together a team to get out of that league. He’s a firefighter so I can see there may be an attraction, but he is not a “promoter”. I am sure good owners could find a better manager.

The argument of Hurst failing to recruit instantly falls down with what we know about Amond...he won’t have been the only one in that situation you’d have thought...

Quoted from TheRonRaffertyFanClub

You are right but the key word is Braintree! We were still down among the dead men struggling to make a playoff final after all his seasons with a decent budget to put together a team to get out of that league. He’s a firefighter so I can see there may be an attraction, but he is not a “promoter”. I am sure good owners could find a better manager.

And a firefighter us what we need now.

There must only be one objective from now until the end of the season ....... survival!!

I would have Hurst back but it was a love hate relationship with fans, Hurst lack of using youth players has been the one positive from him leaving, so I would be worried about our youth system with Hurst in charge.

I think Hurst will end up at Bradford.

Quoted from aldi_01

Once Hurst was on his own and developed his approach there was barely an away game where you didn’t know we’d win 1-0 or get the much needed result.

People point to the fact we were along way from the top spot the year we actually went up but who actually cares...I wouldn’t trade that day for anything.

People always forget we almost missed out on the playoffs in Buckley MKII...

Hurst’s style may not have been overly exciting but it was effective regardless of what people say. Perhaps he was too cautious at times and I’ve spoke with him and he’s admit that but let’s face it, the minute we re-entered the league the club reverted to type which meant bringing in cheaper players...however, those players still bought in to what Hurst was about and it was working.

The man at the top was responsible for the relationship breaking down and we’ll never really know if Hurst could’ve taken us beyond...probably not given the leadership at the top but just becauee he cupped his ears and some fans got all sulky about it shouldn’t mean the guy isn’t listed in there with Buckley, McMenemy, etc...he got us promoted. Only two managers in my life time have achieved that.

He’s the only manager that hand on heart any of us could say assembled a team we felt connected with aside from the Lord.

I don’t believe he’ll come back under Fenty’s rule, if he did it would shock me and I’m not sure it would be worth ruining what went before. For me, whilst Fenty remains intercourse all changes and the club remains on life support regardless of manager...

I think it would be good to move the club forward of new owners came in and that would mean a new manager we’ve never seen before but if new owners brought Hurst back I don’t it would be the worst thing ever...

I don't know how long you have been watching Town but that statement ignores quite a few of us who have been watching for some time :-

Lawrie McMenemy (probably the best manager in Town's history to get the players engaged with the fans)

Tom Casey

John Newman

George Kerr

Dave Booth

Alan Buckley

Yes yes yes.

If he joined with the consensus that this season is about maintaining league status (absolutely vital for so many reasons) and therefore its about doing what's necessary with the squad we have and that could mean boring 1-0 wins and 0-0 draws, then I think most would agree to that - with a view to build something more exciting for next season.

I voted for him because I misjudged him over the Amond fiasco.

I thought it was his decision but it was Fenty being petty yet again.

Sorry Paul.

Not a flipping chance, an abject failure, year after year.  No doubt we would have to endure that bullying piece of excrement Doig as well. intercourse off

Quoted from arryarryarry

I don't know how long you have been watching Town but that statement ignores quite a few of us who have been watching for some time :-

Lawrie McMenemy (probably the best manager in Town's history to get the players engaged with the fans)

Tom Casey

John Newman

George Kerr

Dave Booth

Alan Buckley

agreed, utterly ridiculous statement to make from the child

Waiting to see which way Ipswin votes and I’ll follow his lead.

Hasn’t been proven wrong about a manager yet.

Quoted from Fishy clapper

Waiting to see which way Ipswin votes and I’ll follow his lead.

Hasn’t been proven wrong about a manager yet.

Think you’ll find Swin was a supporting advocate of Newell’s appointment so he’s not flawless!!!

Quoted from davmariner

He cupped his ear boo hoo. So what. People need to get over it. He got his fair share of abuse so who cares if he gave a bit back.

He’s on record as saying that he thinks we have great fans, especially away from home.

No
If you want a manager to get us out of this excrement its not him. It took him a fucin age to get us out of non league.
Boring bloke, boring football and had contempt for the fans.
Not just the ear bit, he fuckin hated the fans.

What we need right now is someone who can put a half decent defence together and churn out some 1-0 wins. Hurst, for all his numerous faults, fits that bill. A five month contract with a juicy bonus for avoiding relegation would probably tempt him

The worst thing about Hurst back is that Scunthorpe would stop paying his wages !  

Quoted from wigworld

Boring but safe appointment. Fine with me.

Just remind me what was boring about having a team with players like Bogle, Podge and Nathan Arnold?

Reluctant yes from me because of the situation we are in. Sums this club up that we are constantly firefighting and looking for a new manager to come into the club and rescue us at this stage of the season. If he comes back, we will have come full circle since we got back in the league, and that's another four years wasted going nowhere. I'm sick of it all to be honest, and just think what will be will be.

Would much prefer a new board and fresh, forward thinking ideas, but I fear Fenty and the men in grey suits will just blunder on regardless, as if the last 15 years was the fault of everyone except them.

Quoted from Humbercod

Hates the fans, boring football, delusions of being a premier manager at a league 2 club. No for me.

And the 'football' we poor illegitimates have had to put up with since has been a right barrel of laughs filled with non-stop excitement?

Deluded.

Of you look at the team that got us back in the league and look at the sides we have turned out since.

We have not come near it since.

intercourse it let go the whole hog and get Slade back.

Why do we have to go back??
Get someone in whos not been tainted by Fenty

Quoted from TAGG

intercourse it let go the whole hog and get Slade back.

Why do we have to go back??
Get someone in whos not been tainted by Fenty

I like you TAGG and agree with vast majority of what you say but on Hurst you are wrong

He took issue with a minority of fans who gave him very unfair criticism and I refer back to Halifax away in which he was subjected to some of the worst abuse i’ve ever heard at a football match

For me its a Yes. get him in

Quoted from Hagrid

I like you TAGG and agree with vast majority of what you say but on Hurst you are wrong

He took issue with a minority of fans who gave him very unfair criticism and I refer back to Halifax away in which he was subjected to some of the worst abuse i’ve ever heard at a football match

For me its a Yes. get him in

That was a particularly toxic afternoon

To be honest the manager and the team did well to put that behind them and eventually get us promoted a few months later, because it was pure raw aggression aimed at him and the players

To some extent there is always a latent anger with Town fans after all the years we've been let down but that day at Halifax sticks in my mind as being well over the top

Quoted from A Brace Of Tees

And the 'football' we poor illegitimates have had to put up with since has been a right barrel of laughs filled with non-stop excitement?

Deluded.

Was it 5 years in the conference with a top end end budget scrapping for 1-0 wins, I lost count the amount of times I walked out with more than 30 mins to go, just bored to intercourse. And this is this man let’s not forget who can’t deal with any criticism!
he was a total anus the way he turned on lord Tondeur for doing his job, absolute disgrace the way he shut the door on him for his last post match interview. Little male masturbator.

Nooooooo please not Hurst

With a new team at the helm investing in the future lets not go back (again)

Very pragmatic style of football, just like we require atm.
When he left us we were in and around play offs, and haven't been back since, so it's a yes from me...

He’s the most realistic option available and arguably the best option available at the moment given our current predicament, so on that basis it’s a yes for me. I just hope he has new owners to work under who’ll hopefully give him the opportunity to change the culture and back room staff within the club, given that was one of the reasons he quit first time around.

If u do come PH, leave Clifton and Pollock Alone

Quoted from Humbercod

Hates the fans, boring football, delusions of being a premier manager at a league 2 club. No for me.

Your pal/brother whatever he is, is quite happy to be here despite having nothing but contempt got the fans and has  his own delusions.

Quoted from TAGG

No
If you want a manager to get us out of this excrement its not him. It took him a fucin age to get us out of non league.
Boring bloke, boring football and had contempt for the fans.
Not just the ear bit, he fuckin hated the fans.

What makes you think he hates the fans? A remark about being spoilt ‘which we were’ an ear cupping after winning promotion a week after some numpty put up a Hurst out banner? Is there something else I’m missing because neither of those suggest he hates the fans. Please enlighten me.

My own view is he turned around a club that was mid table in the conference and despite budget restraints build a side better than any we have had since being back in the league.

If we want new owners we need to hold off this board appointing a new manager.

Maybe the consortium have someone in mind - you know, a proper, proven manager 😉

I think anyone coming in will look at game videos first to see what we have. And say we would need this amount of players and it is going o cost  this much at least , Will i get the backing to get these players if not its a goodbye from me cos am not having a relagation out the league on my cv.

I would welcome Hurst, safe boring football but It got results and whilst it wasn't very well suited to the national League where we are expected to go up, in league 2 it would suit us and we will certainly have some shape which is more than we do now.

Halifax away was a very poor away day I remember it very well, it was the game after he said we was spoilt and we lost like 4-2 I think after being 4-0 down at half time.

He had issue with a minority of fans, and he thought the majority were very good, he never had a good relationship with Fenty, don't forget when he left we were in or around the play offs in league 2 and it has been absolutely awful since then. and he went to Shrewsbury and did a very good job, he was out of his depth at Ipswich and Scunthorpe was a mess but nobody does well at Scunthorpe.

I think he would come back if the takeover happens but he wouldn't come back under Fenty I don't think.

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Quoted from realist

If that little excrement comes back I will be finished with Gtfc for good.

Every cloud has a silver lining

if his name wasn't Paul Hurst we'd be over the moon that we could get someone of his experience and ability at picking players.
it's not an exciting choice, but we are 3rd bottom in the football league and beggars can't be choosers. with him in charge we are almost guarenteed to be safe

in his defence he  now has 4-5 years experience at a higher level and should be a better man/manager for it. he will also be more confident hopefully , both in terms of style of play and in getting what he wants in regards to financial and personnel support.
the final thing is that he is now financially secure - i always felt that he was very conscious of this and  that his first spell  was his only chance of carving out a managerial career, so he went ultra cautious and played the percentages
people do change and we might see a different paul hurst 5 years on

No no no we are looking forward not backwards again.

I’d take Hurst back. 1. I’m boycotting watching the club while Fenty is in charge so I won’t have to watch the boring (but effective) football he serves up. 2. If Fenty goes Hurst may have kept us allowing us to build from a higher level.

I’d take boring football and victories with this crap team. We’ve seen what happens when you try to play out from the back at this level.

Does anyone know if he played the same style of football at the other clubs he’s been at?

Its a NO from me, we need to move forwards not look back at a manager whos style of football has been well and truely found out since he left here.
His time a Scunthorpe should tell us we need to know.

Selective memory from some people...barely a mention of the brilliant job he did at Shrewsbury.

His win ratio at Town absolutely pisses all over any manager we’ve had since. We were in and around the playoffs in league two when he left and haven’t so much as troubled them since.

Listening to and reading interviews with that promotion squad shows you how much they were all behind him and playing for him.

And he praised the fans on SO many occasions in interviews. One throwaway comment aimed at a small section, and putting his hand to his ear and all of a sudden he hates us all? Christ get over it.

his win ratio was high because of 5 seasons in the conference
If Hurst is here i won’t be rushing back to watch his boring football.

Quoted from Yoda

his win ratio was high because of 5 seasons in the conference
If Hurst is here i won’t be rushing back to watch his boring football.

I’m not so sure the jump in levels is as much as people like to think and you can only beat what’s in front of you, but fair enough.

I am though, 100% of the opinion that we’d have had a better time supporting town in the last 4 odd years if he hadn’t have left.

Was it boring though? Occasionally we parked the bus when we were wining with ten minutes left but wouldn’t that be a lovely position to be in? We had goals from all over the pitch and a connection between team and fans that hasn’t been bettered. Maybe the boredom at home games was not having any away fans but Hurst can hardly be blamed for that!

He couldn’t win the league with Boggle and Amond up front.

Quoted from Yoda

He couldn’t win the league with Boggle and Amond up front.

His budget in the Conference was a lot lower than most people would expect.

I still remember his comments when he joined Shrewsbury "It's nice to be somewhere where you can trust people".... so what changed Paul for you to come back. Because the trust levels here are not higher.

You weren't a bad manager, you weren't a good manager. You had far too much opinion of yourself and couldn't hand any criticism from the fans (cup the ear). You fluked the play off due to the Monkhouse injury which meant you had to reposition Nolan (he was never a central mid in a two, he always needed to be part of a three).

Thanks, but no thanks. Next.

The thing about the Monkhouse injury drives me mad. Why not talk about the ridiculous sending off of Nielsen at Gateshead or the decision not to send off the Bristol Rovers keeper? We never had a top two budget in the conference. Lots of town fans were wrong about Hurst - only two mangers have won promotion in my lifetime and he was one.

Quoted from Yoda

He couldn’t win the league with Boggle and Amond up front.

The mind bogles

I agree with you a bit Vance. That Gateshead year was a travesty, the home game was ridiculously one sided and the Neilson sending off absolutely atrocious.

The year before at Newport though we were so shite it was almost impossible to believe.

I guess the playoffs for us down there was a right mixed bag to say the least.

Play off games, If only..

I was one of Hurst’s biggest critics in the conference years. Too negative to go for promotion, when there was only one automatic place. Back in the League we’d have been fine with his approach with 3 automatic promotion spots and the play off placed as low down as 7th.

So if he’d come back I’d be happy. He might, if he’s considering it, wait until the sale is assured.

When Buckley came back there was a lot of negativity about him at first.

I would expect Paul Hurst now to be different to the one who managed us non-league. The experience he has picked up in the higher leagues and the success and failure he has had would change anyone. He would only come back though if he could trust the people he was working for. So are the current Board listening at all? Tick tock...

I wasn't a fan of Hurst and frequently criticised him on these boards. Would never vent my spleen at games toward any manager, but find nothing wrong with a healthy debate online.

However, when he got us back into the league, I remember saying on here that I thought he had earned the right to get all the fans backing to see how he did in the league and I would put my prejudices to one side.

To be fair, he was doing a decent job despite the obvious lack of backing , and I thought he was  let down by the boardroom.  Was miffed when he left for the Shrews, but in hindsight he saw a better offer and took it. If the club had backed him as they should have, things could be very different now. Always struck me as honest and straightforward, if a little dull, which was reflected on the pitch. We seem to have had nothing but barmy, volatile managers since, so perhaps he's just what we need right now. A steady hand.

Not For me

Quoted from Vance Warner

Was it boring though? Occasionally we parked the bus when we were wining with ten minutes left but wouldn’t that be a lovely position to be in? We had goals from all over the pitch and a connection between team and fans that hasn’t been bettered. Maybe the boredom at home games was not having any away fans but Hurst can hardly be blamed for that!

Like at Chester?

Seen a lot of people mention how he did well in the conference etc because we was expected to and that it's different managing a shoehorn budget... do people forget the position he left us in? If he had stayed that season I fully believe we would of made the playoffs and Bogle wouldn't of left until the end of the year. He's a manager that gets his players buying into what he does and I see people saying his football wasn't pretty.. I seem to remember a very different Town side under him, he did what he had to win but we definitely wasn't a non football playing side. We absolutely played Bristol Rovers and Forest Green off the park in both play off finals we was in and if it wasn't for a bottle job of a ref then we would of gone up a year earlier. I also see people slagging his recruitment off but the same people asking for the likes of Pearson, Disley, Tait, Amond, Bogle type of players back.. all players signed by PH. Him or Graham Alexander are the only two i'll accept and I hope it's PH.

Quoted from LocalLadGTFC

Seen a lot of people mention how he did well in the conference etc because we was expected to and that it's different managing a shoehorn budget... do people forget the position he left us in? If he had stayed that season I fully believe we would of made the playoffs and Bogle wouldn't of left until the end of the year. He's a manager that gets his players buying into what he does and I see people saying his football wasn't pretty.. I seem to remember a very different Town side under him, he did what he had to win but we definitely wasn't a non football playing side. We absolutely played Bristol Rovers and Forest Green off the park in both play off finals we was in and if it wasn't for a bottle job of a ref then we would of gone up a year earlier. I also see people slagging his recruitment off but the same people asking for the likes of Pearson, Disley, Tait, Amond, Bogle type of players back.. all players signed by PH. Him or Graham Alexander are the only two i'll accept and I hope it's PH.

But then we were crap in the other two seasons when we got to the play-off semi-finals against Gateshead and Newport.

Quoted from arryarryarry

Like at Chester?

One game that we didn’t close out when there’s loads of examples of games we went in to win. Don’t forget he was new to managing on his own at that point but IMO was better tactically than a manager we’ve just had with nearly 1000 games under his belt. He certainly did a number on us with Scunny last season.