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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2020 22:14:20 GMT 1
would Hurst or any future club look at his time here as brilliant? If they educated themselves on how s**t we were when he over, then yes. ‘Brilliant’ is quite a strong word! There’s probably one or two seasons or teams per decade that can be described as brilliant. - Liverpool now and in the 80’s - United in the 90’s - Barcelona in 00’s Not likely to describe any league one team. Ever!! ✌️
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2020 22:15:11 GMT 1
Oh and the Invincibles
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Post by cheggersdrinkspop on Jan 29, 2020 22:49:47 GMT 1
But we all remember the big curly t*** he dropped out of his backside on the club don't we. Won nothing and actually lost us something significant with his greed and deluded ideas of grandeur.
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Post by staffordshrew on Jan 29, 2020 23:01:24 GMT 1
I'm sure someone will say "Hello Paul Hurst" come back and replace Sam after Gills defeat. The answer is NO, please refer to previous post.
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Post by Dale on Jan 29, 2020 23:10:02 GMT 1
2 Wembley defeats and a position in the league in January that was heading for automatic promotion completely thrown away. He has only really had success at Grimsby, we will all remember his time here but on his CV it's just failure at his last 3 clubs. Yup, the season where we finished third was undoubtedly a miserable failure. Hated every second of it. Highest league ranking for 28 years as well... terrible manager!
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Post by GrizzlyShrew on Jan 29, 2020 23:42:23 GMT 1
Yup, the season where we finished third was undoubtedly a miserable failure. Hated every second of it. Highest league ranking for 28 years as well... terrible manager! Well he aint pulled up too many trees since he left us.....
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Post by Chief Inspector Swan on Jan 30, 2020 1:17:06 GMT 1
Well, well, well how the mighty has fallen. Hope Rickets takes note don’t do the dirty on us Salopians cos it will come back and bite you. Did us a big favour tho we could have been Bolton’s neighbours had he still been here 🙈😽 2 Wembley defeats and a position in the league in January that was heading for automatic promotion completely thrown away. He has only really had success at Grimsby, we will all remember his time here but on his CV it's just failure at his last 3 clubs. Hi mate. Yes, his time here was an unmitigated disaster. I think I’ve worked out why you’re struggling to get a job, son.
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Post by theNOTORIOUSfbs on Jan 30, 2020 1:26:08 GMT 1
There's plenty on here who'll agree with me on this. Ricketts is on borrowed time at STFC. But he may of extended his tenure by pen and ink this week... After securing a £1M club pay daywith the Scouse replay etc..... He'll be looking to 'take a chunk'...an extended deal perhaps? Expect that contract extension announced before the replay against Liverpool's kids The League matters to Shrewsbury fans. Cup money's always nice. But in the League Ricketts will be exposed!!!
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Post by Dale on Jan 30, 2020 7:16:16 GMT 1
Highest league ranking for 28 years as well... terrible manager! Well he aint pulled up too many trees since he left us..... And I just think it’s sad that so many want him to fail and take pleasure since he left our club, the 2017-18 season will probably go down as the most enjoyable in my 25 years of regularly watching STFC, because it was so unexpected and we on and were outperforming teams with budgets twice or even three times the size of ours. I was very disappointed with the way he left and I’ll admit I did chuckle a bit when Ipswich sacked him but any ill feelings from me have gone now as I prefer to remember the good times rather than the sour ending, and I don’t really want to waste too much energy in willing other people to fail.
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Post by Exkeeper on Jan 30, 2020 9:01:22 GMT 1
Well he aint pulled up too many trees since he left us..... And I just think it’s sad that so many want him to fail and take pleasure since he left our club, the 2017-18 season will probably go down as the most enjoyable in my 25 years of regularly watching STFC, because it was so unexpected and we on and were outperforming teams with budgets twice or even three times the size of ours. I was very disappointed with the way he left and I’ll admit I did chuckle a bit when Ipswich sacked him but any ill feelings from me have gone now as I prefer to remember the good times rather than the sour ending, and I don’t really want to waste too much energy in willing other people to fail. Great season -up until March at least. Strangely though, our form over the last ten games was mid table at best. Do you think that that it is pure coincidence that that was almost to a day when the Ipswich rumours started to surface, especially so in Suffolk? The Ipswich “rumours” grew stronger by the week led by an “in the know” Ipswich Town reporter in their local press. As an attendee at all Town games, it was plain to see that focus had changed over the last ten games when a continuation of previous games form would have seen us promoted automatically.. As for what may have happened if he had stayed, I believe that he was quoted that it would be difficult to replicate that season especially when the highly successful loanees would not be returning. I normally sympathise with anyone who loses their job but how much do I care in this instance? About as much as he cared about STFC, when he walked out and then proceeded to unsettle a couple of our best players.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2020 9:23:04 GMT 1
He got the best out of a certain group of players and that sadly petered out at the fag end of the season. He did well but better evidence of his long term capabilities was borne out by the dross he signed in the January transfer window. That was the big chance to cement our position.
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Post by thesensationaljt on Jan 30, 2020 9:37:06 GMT 1
Hurst gave me my lowest ever feeling in football, but to be fair, he's given me a couple of high's since. The day he got sacked at Ipswich, and the day he got sacked at Scunny.
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Post by northwestman on Jan 30, 2020 9:50:21 GMT 1
Hurst gave me my lowest ever feeling in football, but to be fair, he's given me a couple of high's since. The day he got sacked at Ipswich, and the day he got sacked at Scunny. They aren't too complementary about him in the Grimsby Town fanzine either! "Even at his moment of triumph at Wembley, his first action was to turn to sections of the Grimsby supporters with a hand cupped to his ear as if to say "you're not moaning now". It was pretty clear that the relationship was broken and that the negativity between Hurst and the fans was mutual. Unfortunately, despite the achievement of the ultimate goal of promotion, the last few months of Hurst's reign left something of a bitter taste in the mouth". codalmighty.com/site/ca.php?article=6231
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Post by sheltonsalopian on Jan 30, 2020 9:58:58 GMT 1
Going to make it clear I'm not Ricketts out (yet) and definitely not in the bring Paul Hurst back club.
But give Paul Hurst the squad Ricketts has at the moment and I'm not having for one second we'd be worse off in the league. The man managed to take a distinctly average squad (minus a few exceptions like Henderson and Godfrey) to 87 points. Can also say I looked forward to match days a hell of a lot more when he was in charge. Can't understand some of the vitriol from some on this board towards him, yes he went about leaving the wrong way completely but he was voted our best ever manager in the last century for a reason.
The man is responsible for one of my favourite ever seasons following the town.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2020 11:05:33 GMT 1
Would you want a wife you couldn't trust,a friend you couldn't trust,a manager of salop you couldn't trust.no me neither. thankyou for a wonderful season mr hurst,but your lack of decency and moral fibre turns my stomach.you could have been a hero,rememberd for ever,you will still be remembered forever,but for being the most horrible backstabbing pile of t***,you realy are.
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Post by martinshrew on Jan 30, 2020 11:09:51 GMT 1
Would you want a wife you couldn't trust,a friend you couldn't trust,a manager of salop you couldn't trust.no me neither. thankyou for a wonderful season mr hurst,but your lack of decency and moral fibre turns my stomach.you could have been a hero,rememberd for ever,you will still be remembered forever,but for being the most horrible backstabbing pile of t***,you realy are. Weird comment. There's no loyalty in football, he moved to a bigger club, up a division for more money. Nobody wants a bitter wife, friend or manager ... Get over it.
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Post by harboroughshrew on Jan 30, 2020 11:19:41 GMT 1
More important than the fans views are the opinions of Roland and Brian. I remember the dire straits the club was in when Roland over and the way Brian has transformed the business side of the club. It is clear from statements Brian has made he will not work with Hurst again and I respect that. We dont need a change of manager anyway but, if we do at some point in the future, lets give an up and coming young manager a chance.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2020 11:19:51 GMT 1
Would you want a wife you couldn't trust,a friend you couldn't trust,a manager of salop you couldn't trust.no me neither. thankyou for a wonderful season mr hurst,but your lack of decency and moral fibre turns my stomach.you could have been a hero,rememberd for ever,you will still be remembered forever,but for being the most horrible backstabbing pile of t***,you realy are. Weird comment. There's no loyalty in football, he moved to a bigger club, up a division for more money. Nobody wants a bitter wife, friend or manager ... Get over it. It's just the way he went about thing's when he knew Ipswich were interested,i.e. Speaking to them when his focus should have been fully on taking us up.speak to them,turn your back on us fine,but do it when you have completed the job here,and led us to the championship.you say there's no loyalty in football i totally agree,but there's a decent way to behave that shows respect for your current club,and it's fan's.Shaun dyche comes to mind when he's linked to bigger and better thing's.Everton springs to mind.
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Post by ssshrew on Jan 30, 2020 11:22:26 GMT 1
But as always it’s not what he did but the way that he did it. I would have loved to have waved him off at Wembley with all the best sentiments in the world but, for whatever reason, he didn’t let us do that. I would have liked him to take the trouble to thank us the paying fans for all their support but he didn’t do that either.
The whole thing was just weird - almost as if he didn’t have enough confidence in himself away from the football pitch.
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Post by staffordshrew on Jan 30, 2020 12:23:08 GMT 1
Those were the days aye Paul, then Ipswich lifted their skirts and you had an affair. Grass wasn't any greener and both the club and you lost out, you even more than us maybe. Goodbye and thanks for the big season, enjoy spending the second sacking pay off.
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Post by Exkeeper on Jan 30, 2020 14:53:41 GMT 1
Hurst gave me my lowest ever feeling in football, but to be fair, he's given me a couple of high's since. The day he got sacked at Ipswich, and the day he got sacked at Scunny. 😁
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Post by Exkeeper on Jan 30, 2020 15:00:55 GMT 1
Those were the days aye Paul, then Ipswich lifted their skirts and you had an affair. Grass wasn't any greener and both the club and you lost out, you even more than us maybe. Goodbye and thanks for the big season, enjoy spending the second sacking pay off. And, as an added bonus the instigator of the whole sordid affair.Mr Marcus Evans, owner of Ipswich Town, saw his club relegated. That is something that would have been unthinkable if he had stuck with Mick McCarthy.
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Post by tvor on Jan 31, 2020 12:31:14 GMT 1
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2020 12:37:11 GMT 1
I wonder if his assistant Chris Doig will decide to strike out on his own at some point?
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Post by ssshrew on Jan 31, 2020 13:04:48 GMT 1
I wonder if his assistant Chris Doig will decide to strike out on his own at some point? well if he doesn’t want to be permanently in temporary work he will!
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Post by staffordshrew on Jan 31, 2020 15:23:31 GMT 1
I wonder if his assistant Chris Doig will decide to strike out on his own at some point? well if he doesn’t want to be permanently in temporary work he will! Football management = temporary work. But it's another pay off!
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Post by ssshrew on Jan 31, 2020 15:28:13 GMT 1
well if he doesn’t want to be permanently in temporary work he will! Football management = temporary work. But it's another pay off! True But at least he would lose the job in his own right and not through a third party.
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Post by staffordshrew on Jan 31, 2020 15:33:38 GMT 1
Football management = temporary work. But it's another pay off! True But at least he would lose the job in his own right and not through a third party
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Post by Pilch on Feb 3, 2020 14:46:12 GMT 1
We’re 2-0 down in the bread and butter of the league. Shades of 2003. Ricketts out, Hurst in. the bread and butter of football these days is not the league, its money ricketts has brought far more money in since he arrived than hurst ever did
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Post by Namur on Feb 3, 2020 16:13:20 GMT 1
We’re 2-0 down in the bread and butter of the league. Shades of 2003. Ricketts out, Hurst in. the bread and butter of football these days is not the league, its money ricketts has brought far more money in since he arrived than hurst ever did You’re not wrong. Money talks and BS walks. For all the hashtags of two years ago, I’ll bet Ricketts l, like you say, has been more successful finance-wise. Barring an absolute stone-drop loss in form forcing the board’s hand, I think he’s safe for now. I still think there’s a good manager and squad waiting to blossom... just hope it turns out that way.
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