Hursts interview

Quoted from Rodley Mariner

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.

I sat in the Main Stand for a while last season and the abuse he gets from some in there is horrendous. Hard for him to ignore when they are right behind him but i'm afraid it goes with the territory as some people think they have a right to hurl abuse. I know a lot of it is frustration but i get frustrated and don't feel the need to shout crap at the top of my lungs to players and the management.

More a reflection of them as people than anything else I guess. Didn't I read on the match thread that there was some confrontation with a screaming Main-Stander before the game? Maybe that set him off and then a bit of (predictable) mock cheering of Macca and it just built up to a bit of an outburst. Agree with you that it would've been better if he'd bitten his tongue but understand why occasionally managers struggle.

Quoted from MuddyWaters

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.

Poet, John Lydgate  .  I didn't know that but google is a wonderful source of useless information..

I actually think, on reflection , that Hurst was more pleading for unity and stressing the importance of support to the players than he was intentionally having a go.  For which, of course, he is right.

Alan Buckley was far more dismissive of the opinion of fans than Paul Hurst could ever be. It was almost a weekly occurance that he'd get involved in a slanging match with fans in the Main Stand especially in the early days. I can only wonder what his reaction would have been to the shenanigans last night. Someone said earlier that the fans have a right to moan and heckle. The right is pretty undeniable but I cannot think of any other form of entertainment where five thousamd people think they can do a better job than the professional paid to do it.
I dont know how long it has been on but I caught a programme on R.H. tonight where they are still debating it! Talk about overkill!

It's only because Hull haven't got a game this week and the RLs finished! We'll be back on the backburner again from next week.

Quoted from barralad

Alan Buckley was far more dismissive of the opinion of fans than Paul Hurst could ever be. It was almost a weekly occurance that he'd get involved in a slanging match with fans in the Main Stand especially in the early days. I can only wonder what his reaction would have been to the shenanigans last night. Someone said earlier that the fans have a right to moan and heckle. The right is pretty undeniable but I cannot think of any other form of entertainment where five thousamd people think they can do a better job than the professional paid to do it.
I dont know how long it has been on but I caught a programme on R.H. tonight where they are still debating it! Talk about overkill!

Agreed. It was on RH Sportstalk tonight. As I said earlier - it's a mountain out of a molehill - both the mistake by Mckeown and everyone's reaction to Hurst's comments. I see the whole thing as no big deal and would rather talk about the performance and move on.

Buckley wasn't very good with the fans was he. The difference being he delivered 3 promotions and 0 relegations so could get away with it.
And for all the praise he now gets, people seem to forget the awful low attendances when he was in charge
They were crap. I started going in 90/91 and even with big away followings, I think our average attendance was under 6k most seasons
So basically, the fans must like the current regime baring in mind how many went against Forest Green

Quoted from barralad

Alan Buckley was far more dismissive of the opinion of fans than Paul Hurst could ever be. It was almost a weekly occurance that he'd get involved in a slanging match with fans in the Main Stand especially in the early days. I can only wonder what his reaction would have been to the shenanigans last night. Someone said earlier that the fans have a right to moan and heckle. The right is pretty undeniable but I cannot think of any other form of entertainment where five thousamd people think they can do a better job than the professional paid to do it.
I dont know how long it has been on but I caught a programme on R.H. tonight where they are still debating it! Talk about overkill!

Could be worse. He's not Des O'Connor be appearing at the Glasgow Empire.

Grimsby is in buckleys heart, was like a fan arguing with a fan, he was very passionate... Hurst is the exact opposite in every way.