Hurst time officially now up

We're nowhere near that stage yet. With players coming back things can only improve. I'd give him the whole season with a target of top 5 finish.

Some teams promoted (or thereabouts) have struggled at the start of the season.  We won at Crawley, Kiddo struggled badly for a long time and Luton started poorly last season.

It is a marathon not a sprint.  

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Quoted from GrimRob

We're nowhere near that stage yet. With players coming back things can only improve. I'd give him the whole season with a target of top 5 finish.

Can't give him the whole season if this carries on.

Quoted from mariner91

Can't give him the whole season if this carries on.

i know but we can honestly say the last 2 seasons'  starts haven't been too great, but we never looked back at the end of them.

UTM!

The test for me will be what happens when we have the full squad and PH has more permutations and combinations.  Will he release some of the cautious shackles and take a few risks?  Will he try something a bit different?  Will he build the pointy end of the team around beauty rather than brawn?  Let's rate progress then.[/quote]

Unfortunately I feel he will still be as cautious as usual ,  rotating the team , playing the same style , leopards don't change their spots .
When will the players start to loose faith ?

I am as sick as a parrott,

AND

I hope Hurst is as well,

I do not think he should be sacked though,

Give him 5 or 6 games with a full squad then if we are still as bad,

He will have to go.

It's only a week ago that we were laughing at Huddersfield for sacking Robins after one match of the season. Now people are seriously saying we should sack Hurst after three drawn matches? Ridiculous.

However, it must be said that it was a pretty dire performance today. I was surprised that we played with 3 at the back as I really don't think we have the players available to perform in this formation. Neither Boyce nor Nsiala is much good on the ball so this led to way too many hacks upfield. Probably Boyce's worst game for us I'd say and he was incredibly lucky that McKeown was able to save that penalty at the death as it was a ridiculous penalty to concede as there was no danger. Nsiala made a few good tackles but most were recovery tackles because he'd been caught badly out of position. I hope to see a big improvement from him this season as he's not been too good so far. Pearson slotted back in very well and was probably my man of the match which doesn't say a lot for the team's performance.

For me, the biggest disappointment today was how poor our central midfield pairing were. How on Earth was Brown awarded Man of the Match? He was poor today - barely in the game, not even bothering to challenge for headers and our passing from and through midfield from him and the others was poor. Heaven only knows how he managed to miss the open goal near the end - a certain player in our team would have been crucified for that miss, but it doesn't seem to be worth much mention on here. Clay tried hard but is distinctly average and really doesn know what to do when he finds himself in a wide position. Disley blew hot and cold a lot today as well.

Magnay tried his hardest from wing-back but, with the best will in the world, he's never going to be a great attacker. On the other side, Paddy showed he's not a defender as he was caught out of position a fair bit against their quick winger and his lack of pace didn't help. I don't put all the blame on him for their equaliser as he did at least put a challenge in but it was simply pathetic that the other two defenders took themselves out of the game by just standing in completely the wrong position.

Up front, LJL worked hard as usual and did OK I thought, especially as Connell was mostly invisible once again. Did LJL's shot just hit the post or did the keeper get fingertips on it as well? Should have done better with his header a few seconds later though when he beat the keeper to the ball. Pittman a big improvement when he came on with some pace and aggression so let's hope he can stay fit. Not sure if we'll see too much more of Connell now as three games of doing nothing must surely be enough for us to decide he's not worth keeping.

I just hope that the return of Nielsen, Hannah, Arnold and Mackreth can spur us on and give us some pep that we were so badly lacking today.

Quoted from GrimRob

We're nowhere near that stage yet. With players coming back things can only improve. I'd give him the whole season with a target of top 5 finish.

I really do admire your optimism but ............. Might as well give him next season as well then, and the one after that?

Give it 10 games then release your frustrations. Your missus must be really disappointed if your this quick with everything.