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LH
December 31, 2020, 11:24am

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I’d say 5 or 6 names from five years at one club is pretty good going. Especially when a supposed top manager who assembled our current squad has recruited maybe double that number of terrible signings in the latest window.

FI gives some good mitigation for those names too. Further to those: Brodie was just a complete male private head.
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December 31, 2020, 11:46am
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Every manager gets things wrong and Hurst is no exception.

What he did have a knack of doing though was getting more right than he did wrong and moving any problematic players on quickly.
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December 31, 2020, 11:49am

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I was a huge fan of Podge, and was gutted when we stupidly drove him out of the club. But that was four and a half years ago. He is 32 now and probably not the player he was.
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December 31, 2020, 11:56am
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I was a huge fan of Podge, and was gutted when we stupidly drove him out of the club. But that was four and a half years ago. He is 32 now and probably not the player he was.


Ron give your head a wobble. He is a consistently excellent league 2 striker. He never had pace , just nous. Age isn’t an issue especially at 32.


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December 31, 2020, 12:25pm
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I was a huge fan of Podge, and was gutted when we stupidly drove him out of the club. But that was four and a half years ago. He is 32 now and probably not the player he was.


Matt Green is 34 on Saturday. James Hanson is 33 and unfit. The rest of our strikers have little experience, or in some cases, ability.
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December 31, 2020, 12:30pm

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He got plenty wrong.

He got plenty right and he got plenty wrong. Which is what you'd expect of any manager. Even the best.

I don't mean to be negative and I'm not being critical of the appointment, but this picture that's painted now of Hurst being a recruitment specialist is a bit off the mark for me.

Yeah he signed good players, and he also signed some terrible ones.
Brodie, C.Taylor, G.Pearson, Spencer, Hoban, Tomlinson, Straker, Fyfield etc.

He did have a decent record but was far from perfect. I'm not trying to say he was poor in the market, just that I think the views towards this should be a bit more balanced.


How many of those bad ones stayed any length of time?
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December 31, 2020, 1:07pm

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Matt Green is 34 on Saturday. James Hanson is 33 and unfit. The rest of our strikers have little experience, or in some cases, ability.


I agree he is better than we have currently. He would probably work well with a fit Hanson, if we ever get a fit Hanson.
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December 31, 2020, 1:48pm
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How many of those bad ones stayed any length of time?


Not many (particularly as we only ever seemed to give out 1-year deals when in non-league), but thats part of my point. Every manager, even the best, will have plenty of signings on their record that aren't successful. It's all about evolving the squad over time and continuing to try and replace the poor signings with good ones.


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December 31, 2020, 1:56pm
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How many of those bad ones stayed any length of time?


Was going to make the same point as I recall Hurst was very quick to get rid when he believed he had made a bad signing.
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Not many (particularly as we only ever seemed to give out 1-year deals when in non-league), but thats part of my point. Every manager, even the best, will have plenty of signings on their record that aren't successful. It's all about evolving the squad over time and continuing to try and replace the poor signings with good ones.


That’s the point though isn’t it, if they weren’t up to scratch they were quickly weeded out. I bet most of those players didn’t get to 20 games. The good ones played loads.
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