Artell Out  (triple merged)

Quoted from Nelly GTFC

November 2022: https://gtfc.co.uk/hutchinson-becomes-head-of-recruitment-analysis/

I wonder which players the above has been an influence/difference in signing compared to someone Hurst thought would be good to sign, and for that matter Artell?

Quoted from mariner91

I think Artell has to take some of the blame for today certainly. A midfield trio that between them has less than 100 appearances in the FL and it showed, lacking in physicality and in Green having one of the most technically limited midfielders to have ever worn a Town shirt. Putting Clifton out wide for Vernam was also a strange choice. I can understand the thinking of giving the fairly useless Mullarkey a bit more defensive support but we were playing Tranmere, not Man City. The lack of attacking substitutions and the bizarre timing of the substitutions was also a mistake. I also think he's being too pigheaded given our situation where, despite what he says, we're not safe from relegation and trying to play this very technical game does not suit the players available who are in the most part pretty crap.

However, this situation is generally not his fault. Since the first half against Bradford, we were utterly shite under Hurst. There was a good performance against Morecambe under the caretakers amongst some equally shite performances (FGR, Sutton and Slough away). And other than a few games, we've continued to be shite under Artell. The common denominator is the players who are stealing a wage and should be ashamed of themselves.
Absolutely  spot on IMO!
The overall quality of the squad is non league standard and most of the signings in the last two years have either never had much success in the FL or mostly played in non-league interspersed with young, inexperienced players. If all of our players were released at the end of the season, how many would you expect to get a FL club? Rose, Clifton, Vernam, Eisa, Cartwright, possibly Gnahoua, Wilson and Pyke too? The rest I think would struggle to find a FL club and I suspect we will be the last FL club of a lot of these players. Our starting back line today had FOUR out of five players who were relegated LAST SEASON. In short, we've got a squad full of losers.

We have precious few who show any leadership. We have very little pace throughout the team. We're not a very strong team. We never seem to be as fit as the opposition.. We're technically quite poor on average and always seem far poorer than the opposition at doing the absolute basics. The match intelligence of too many players is alarmingly poor. We are found wanting in virtually every aspect of the game. I totally agree with those that are saying Artell is trying to get them to play in a way that they're not capable of playing. But then the question remains, what style of play could you implement with this team?!

The next few days are crucical. We need a right back, a left back, someone to replace Conteh cause Green is shite and can't do that role and another centre back at an absolute minimum if we're going to get ourselves out of trouble and not just rely on there being two teams that are worse than us. Hurst did a lot of good in the last two seasons but he's left us with an absolute turd of a squad.

Quoted from petethemariner

Wow! got  a red cross  to a quoted post when in error i  didnt even make a comment! Some very strange people on this forum.