Just Back

Same here. Wanting town to loose is wrong,, i dont like Hurst , he will not get us out of this league, and will also be an also ran. we need someone to get us out this league, and he is not the man to do this

My first game of the season yesterday: thought we tried to play football and on the ground, looking good until we got towards their penalty area where we seemed to over elaborate or make to wrong pass. We went a little more direct when young Oates came on and Kidderminster were not ready for that, or expecting it. Kidder played high balls all game and gave us an aerial bombardment at times with some very tall guys all over the pitch. Good result with some fine defending and a well taken goal by the keen, awkward and strong Oates. Midfield ran their socks off and we controlled the game for long periods, an all round good performance. Obviously my first look at quite a few players and unfair of me to pick up anyone from just one game or part of one, none of them looked poor though: first home game next Saturday for me, looking forward to it.

Quoted from TAGG

Can't read all posts but only seen one wanting Town to lose.
You may be happy with a top 5 finish but I and a lot of others aren't. We need a Manager in who looks to win the league outright not like Husts who is satisfied with the lottery of the playoffs and thinks that success.

Sick of this nonsense. Hurst is trying to win the league and I would fuccking love us to win the league. I have the club badge tattooed on my arm and crave league football just as much as anyone else. But it is wilful ignorance to not recognise that there are at least 5 other sides competing for top spot, several of which have bigger budgets than us and have more advantageous geographical locations. We should absolutely be challenging with them for promotion. But on what basis do you demand that we win it and consider anything else failure? Budget? Attendances? Bristol Rovers kick our bottom on both counts. Don't try to paint me as someone who cares less or doesn't mind if we lose in the playoffs. I am as passionate as any other Town fan but I will not apologise for the fact that I am capable of taking in to account more factors than just how much I hate being out of the league. UTFM

Quoted from mariner91

4 bookings already seems excessive even for a centre back.

Depends how many tackles you make Matt, that's a normal amount of bookings for a Pointon CB.

Quoted from MeanwoodMariner

This has reached new levels this week. Some posters even said they would rather have lost, or at least had mixed feelings about the win, because it means Hurst won't get sacked! Simply staggering. Particularly when you consider that there has been no indication that the board are even close to pulling the trigger. We have clearly dropped more points than we would have wished but we're by no means out of the promotion shake up and given Hurst's superb track record over several years (at several clubs) of getting his teams in to the top 5 I wouldn't back against him doing it again.

I believe one person said they would have preferred a loss. Personally I am delighted we got 3 points but that does not stop me from believing PH is not the great manager some people think. He has had one season with a very decent budget so a play off place was the least that he should have achieved but the side never was strong enough or well organised enough to go further.

To his credit Hurst re-jigged the squad this season and has signed some reasonable players. Once again he has had a pretty good budget to work with. He has had bad luck with injuries but nevertheless we are a mid-table side that has just fluked a game we could just as easily have lost over another mid-table side with a much smaller budget. Those are the relevant facts.

To go on from this win to say Hurst is the THE man to take us forward is a foolish step in my view because he is responsible for the play and the players that have put us where we are. Nobody else did. Nobody else failed to finish off the squad with a proper striker. Nobody else plays around with team selection but waits forever to change tactics during a game. If we go up I will be over the proverbial and more than happy to give PH the praise. Until that happens I will express my doubts about his ability to manage a promotion team.

Quoted from mariner tommy

He is on five, he got yellows against-
Gateshead, Alfreton, Aldershot, Halifax and Kiddy.

UTM

Toto was not cautioned at Aldershot.

http://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.....29-detail/story.html

Quoted from BIGChris

Toto was not cautioned at Aldershot.

http://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.....29-detail/story.html

About time we heard from you.....

Quoted from 1739

Toto now on 4 yellows. If he gets another one before Christmas then he will get a 1 match ban.

That's being optimistic the rate he's going he'll have 10 bookings by Christmas

Football is all about winning - end of!
We had only shot on target and scored
We had 15 shots and 7 on target and lost 2-0 to Torquay

Doesn't make sense really, other than luck play a huge part in any sport

I would NEVER want us to lose so a manager is under even more pressure but up until the goal I was listening to (and the stats would bear this out) another disjointed, fractured, unconvincing Town display.
As such I was as fed up as many Fishy posters and wondering if we were just not able to 'click' this season and whether we will 'click' under PH... I seriously believe this squad is stronger than last season.

and then Mr Oates strikes and we all feel happy...bloody football as Mr Ferguson once said

I would still plead with PH to
1) Start thinking about the problems we can cause oppostion - ditch 4-5-1 bo*locks as it doesn't suit us
2) Drum into the players how sh*t we are at set piece delivery - it has to improve cos it's a huge source of goals in lower league footy
3) Free Neillson up every game so he picks ball up in dangerous areas and not in cul de sacs on the wings

Quoted from forza ivano

Fair assessment by barra.be interested to see the goal again.did Oates drop his shoulder and 'do' gowling ? Coz certainly gowling for the first time in the match was left floundering and it was a very very good turn n finish. The difference between the teams? We scored from our one moment of quality whilst gash missed john lewis style after their moment of brilliance from the impressive thompson

Nowhere near the team and he still gets a bashing... ...