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I really like Hurst, but agree with some on here who say he’s more concerned with not losing than going out to win. It’s fair enough in some cases, but you want a team to be confident in their ability to go and win, not have an organised battle and hope for a good outcome.
I say it every year but we really, really need to get off to a good start next year and be pushing for the top spots. I don’t get why getting 3 points in August isn’t treated with the same urgency as getting 3 points in April, regardless or which end of the table you’re at.
When was the last time we had a decent start over the first 10 games? Probably not in my lifetime.
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Hanson injured.
Lamy a possibility but not really a striker.
Jackson - there is obviously something Hurst doesn't trust or he thinks he's too inexperienced. He could have played.
You'll recall one of our our strikers headbutted a team mate and made himself unavailable!
Who else?
And that would be the Matt Green who had scored 4 days earlier in a critical game when he'd been told he was playing DURING the warm up.
Yes you're right, that goal green scored was fully intentional and then he ended up having a sensational game and ran Exeter ragged - Paul Hurst was correct to pick him and not go with a fit Jackson |
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Yes you're right, that goal green scored was fully intentional and then he ended up having a sensational game and ran Exeter ragged - Paul Hurst was correct to pick him and not go with a fit Jackson
Alright, put your handbag away girlfriend...... I noted Jackson could have played but it's obvious Hurst doesn't trust/rate/want him. I'd have preferred Jackson to start but I don't see him every day in training, I don't know what he says to Hurst and I do know that Green scored at Oldham. When the sh*t hit the fan Green scored and that's what you pay strikers for, regardless of how pretty the goal is. If your criteria for picking strikers this season is having a sensational game and running the opposition ragged we would have started most games with 6 in midfield. |
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Well I must be a moron then. My first ever post on here was in about February that season in exasperation calling for Hurst to dispense with Monkhouse and 4-4-2 in favour of playing Clay in a midfield three with Disley and Nolan. How poor were we towards the end of that season limping into the play-offs behind Braintree and how did playing three in centre midfield work out in the return leg at Braintree and the final then?
I actually like Hurst as a character, but I do have certain misgivings about him managing us next season. Quite prepared to see how his recruitment is in the window and how we're going around Xmas before taking a view. Far more interested to learn of what plans Stockwood and Pettit have for the club going forward than whether Hurst is manager or not. It's far more important. Hoping to be excited and fearing of being underwhelmed at the same time. Not long to wait to find out.. but at least that charlatan Fenty will be out of the building, a major step forward for the club all on it's own..
I will join you in the moron ranks. Going forward, I hope PH has learnt a lot in the way of tactics and substitutions over the past 5 years. There will be a lot of sides coming to BP and parking the bus. When this has happened before Hurst didn’t seem to anticipate it and looked pretty clueless about how to deal with it. I would settle for just getting out of the NFL any old how. We don’t want another 5 years slowly building up to a play off, I want to see us bully sides home and away. Hurst has said the right things about fitness, it does matter. Therefore facilities matter. We also need to do something about the seemingly endless stream of training injuries. But most of all we need to have tactical ideas on how to get results even from lousy games, 3 points not one, look how that has cost us. Plus we need at least one player sharp enough to take those half chances that put opponents on the back foot. |
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I really like Hurst, but agree with some on here who say he’s more concerned with not losing than going out to win. It’s fair enough in some cases, but you want a team to be confident in their ability to go and win, not have an organised battle and hope for a good outcome.
I say it every year but we really, really need to get off to a good start next year and be pushing for the top spots. I don’t get why getting 3 points in August isn’t treated with the same urgency as getting 3 points in April, regardless or which end of the table you’re at.
When was the last time we had a decent start over the first 10 games? Probably not in my lifetime.
1990-91 season. Pretty good start in 1998-99. And in 2001-02 weat least resultswise if not the performances. 2005-06? Certainly won a lot away. |
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