Pennock leaves FGR!

As long as we do the business on the day that's all,  that matters , we know we can as do they .  With the money they have a washing around they could get anyone to see them through .

I would hazard a guess that he had lost the dressing room. Recent bad form and various comments would suggest that. At the end of the day it is the players that call the tune wether we like it or not. Maybe the atmosphere around the training ground etc was bad. So you've got a workforce of which the majority dislike the boss. So much so it affects performance. Three big games coming up, sack the unpopular boss, happy workforce, improved performance.  
The downside may be that any potential new manager would wonder what he had to do to be safe !!

I have been a critic of Hurst since the transfer window but if we followed F.G.,s  " The Nutty Professor " in sacking the manager this late in the season we would need our heads examining. Their owner knows sweet Fck All about football-- it,s just his money that has done the talking. If we had got rid of Hurst earlier I would have agreed but for C,s sake we couldn,t possibly follow this idiot now we are in the playoffs. . Pennock has been moaning at his players, moaning about the pitch,  maybe having a go at the wrong people too much. Could this be one of the reasons he has gone never mind the results. Hurst has never called the hierarchy maybe handbags with the fans and the odd player but on the whole he seems a bit of a  "nice guy  " Don,t lets compare  Hurst with Pennock or FGR  with  GTFC,  There is no comparison.

Compare their first ten games of the season with their last ten. They had already won the league seemingly, which goes to show that you never know what is going to happen over a season, unless you are a Town fan of course, as our seasons are like Groundhog day.

It certainly is an incredible decision, as too is the timing, and I can't get my head around whether it is a truly inspired or absurdly inept one, and I suppose only their fortunes over the next couple of weeks will answer that one, but it's certainly a ruthless decision after all they are guaranteed to finish second and Pennock could argue that results since Cheltenham were crowned champions were in the scheme of things quite irrelevant really.

Trying to pre-guess the reasoning is a tough one, recent criticisms won't have helped his cause, nor too would his refusal to shoulder the blame for an awful run of results. In fact their might be a valuable lesson for Mr Hurst here as bad results or bad performances can't always be put down to the fault of others, or by apportioning responsibility sometimes you have to put your own hands up in the air and admit you got things wrongs, in all the interviews I saw Pennock give, not once did he come across as one who accepted blame for any of it.

Perhaps the FG board are hoping that his amazing dismissal and all things considered it is amazing, will lift all the supporters, a lot of whom don't exactly appear to be in mourning over his departure do they and of course the team who with their results and obviously as an outsider looking in don't appear to have given as much as perhaps they could have been?

Will 'new manager' syndrome prove the decision made an inspired one. Certainly their board will be praying it does, and on reflection, I rather come down on that side of the fence myself. Before this decision I actually wouldn't have minded finishing fifth and getting them in the play off's so abject had their form been, but now I am not too sure, given the choice it could be a really bad time to play them couldn't it.

Hell they couldn't have played any worse could they, but now with a new boss, they could quite conceivably, in the same way a team having their three best players coming back from long term injuries be completely galvanised by the move.

We'll soon find out. Still find it staggering though      

Think hindsight will be key on how to judge this, they go up, genius and we should of done it, they don't the its panic decision and unless they storm the leagues next year will be a bad move.

I am going to call it as a bad decision now and hope I am right, but as mad as it seems right now I do think this is the type of decision that could go either way.

Here you go, here's why: http://www.gloucestercitizen.c.....37-detail/story.html

And Paul Hurst would never be like this??? "Yes, Pennock was blaming everyone and everything apart from himself, yet he did not seem to have the answers to turn their increasingly woeful form around."

Quoted from kingster72

Here you go, here's why: http://www.gloucestercitizen.c.....37-detail/story.html

And Paul Hurst would never be like this??? "Yes, Pennock was blaming everyone and everything apart from himself, yet he did not seem to have the answers to turn their increasingly woeful form around."

Hurst is certainly very relaxed at present, very open and honest with fans on Tuesday at POTY.

Think Hurst and Pennock are totally different characters

After having a spat with a fan during the Woking game he turned his fury on the pitch afterwards, saying that it was a "disgrace" and "unprofessional" to go so long without a groundsman, which would have no doubt irked the club's hierarchy, who are proud of having the world's first organic pitch.

I find it harder to take VGR seriously by the week...

Quoted from RoboCod

After having a spat with a fan during the Woking game he turned his fury on the pitch afterwards, saying that it was a "disgrace" and "unprofessional" to go so long without a groundsman, which would have no doubt irked the club's hierarchy, who are proud of having the world's first organic pitch.

I find it harder to take VGR seriously by the week...

TBF he had a point with that. No groundsman for over a month and the manager resorted to getting the roller out to flatten out the divots from the previous games