Hursts interview

I don't like it when Hurst slags off the fans. I think it's really unprofessional.  GTFC is a business and how many businesses  are abusive about their customers?

The interview was spikey from the start and not a very good advert for our club.

Thought John Tondeur did a great job though.

Quoted from horsforthmariner

I don't like it when Hurst slags off the fans. I think it's really unprofessional.  GTFC is a business and how many businesses  are abusive about their customers?

The interview was spikey from the start and not a very good advert for our club.

Thought John Tondeur did a great job though.

See your point but football is a business like no other, we are not purchasing a product when we go see Town, we are actually a part of that product.  Also while any business wants to make money as its prime aim, in football making money is more of a secondary aim for most involved in it.  

So don't think it is as clear cut as that, Hurst has used his interview to try and get the fans united again in a way we were before the season, think he probably chose the wrong way to go about it but wasn't that critical of fans always focusing on the word minority.  

Mind you agree 100% that John Tondeur (who I often think is unfairly criticised for his interviews) did a v good job in that interview.

Fantastic interview Hurst is absolutely spot on his ethos is building a team in spirit as well as effort it is this spirit which makes players want to run through walls to help each other. Is it to much to expect fans to do the same, this negativity is well known here remember the shouty one famously having a face to face with fans?? Hurst remembers all the booing and jeering it is counter productive ffs we are on the brink of a top spot are we not all happy??

Quoted from Mrs Doyle

Fantastic interview Hurst is absolutely spot on his ethos is building a team in spirit as well as effort it is this spirit which makes players want to run through walls to help each other. Is it to much to expect fans to do the same, this negativity is well known here remember the shouty one famously having a face to face with fans?? Hurst remembers all the booing and jeering it is counter productive ffs we are on the brink of a top spot are we not all happy??

I don't get this constant emphasis on Paul Hurst being special about building team spirit as well as effort, surely most if not all managers who want to be successful are doing the same.

Quoted from arryarryarry

I don't get this constant emphasis on Paul Hurst being special about building team spirit as well as effort, surely most if not all managers who want to be successful are doing the same.

The fans got the spirit going last year after forest green, the fans kept it going again with operation promotion...... So its not all the manager as Mrs Doyle tries to get across

He is provoked into making a comment by JT and so he should be. There are quite a few fans that are 'Hurst out' and others who simply doubt his ability and that is what JT is alluding to. What's PH going to say? I love them and feel great about the fact they want me out of a job. For me it's the playing out of a media role play that's inevitable - least it's not boring and at least he doesn't deflect all these questions. There are too many times when 'PH's black and white army' is belted out during games, to doubt the fact, he is well regarded by many. At the end of the day I don't mind the dissenting voices, however loud they are. It would all be too cosy otherwise.

JT was fine last night - as was Paul Hurst, someone once said ' you can't please all of the people all of the time' and PH needs to remember that. We played pretty well last night and should/would have been out of sight last night had the strikers taken their chances and Macca not made his howler.

Many sat near me last night are frustrated with the needless points we've dropped and the feeling when Gateshead scored was 'here we go again', surely he feels that himself? There is a feeling out there that, on the balance of play, Wrexham (where we ironically drew) could have been the only game we've lost so far.

Quoted from ackomariner

The fans got the spirit going last year after forest green, the fans kept it going again with operation promotion...... So its not all the manager as Mrs Doyle tries to get across

Agree totally.

Accentuate the positive Paul and as you rightly pointed out several times, it is a minority, so just get on with it and ignore them. Bigger crowds bring with them more mouthy fans. We aint Boston or Ilkeston.

I wonder if pressure just tells a bit sometimes. Must be pretty horrible at times when people are speculating over your job and when I think how nervous I am watching the last five minutes of a game so god only knows what it's like for managers. I know he's paid to deal with it and a positive interview would have been more use but he generally conducts himself in a very dignified way.

There were "fans" in the main stand giving him "advice" on a regular basis last night. " Get some proper strikers on Hurst" was a regular call. His ability as a manager was brought into question. When Tomlinson failed to put a chance away "get him off Hurst" rang out, and so on. Not unusual at games I guess but he surely has the right to reply and he was quite measured in his response to JT. One thing he made very clear was that as far as he is concerned it is the team above any individual and will always be the case.