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Just read this....... https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/56378958It just shows you it can be done ........ They were 11 points adrift of safety at the bottom,with 12 games left......they won 7 and scored a 89th minute winner at Notts County on last game to stay up..... I know I’m clutching at straws but we cannot give up hope....... In theory we’re in a much better position than they were.......even though it doesn’t feel like it! UTM
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Just read this....... https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/56378958It just shows you it can be done ........ They were 11 points adrift of safety at the bottom,with 12 games left......they won 7 and scored a 89th minute winner at Notts County on last game to stay up..... I know I’m clutching at straws but we cannot give up hope....... In theory we’re in a much better position than they were.......even though it doesn’t feel like it! UTM
Whilst it can be done, he turned the team around in 12 games, Paul Hurst has had 12 games and where are we?
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Just read this....... https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/56378958It just shows you it can be done ........ They were 11 points adrift of safety at the bottom,with 12 games left......they won 7 and scored a 89th minute winner at Notts County on last game to stay up..... I know I’m clutching at straws but we cannot give up hope....... In theory we’re in a much better position than they were.......even though it doesn’t feel like it! UTM
He said they want 22 points from 12 games. Hmm 12 games 6 points for us. Flynn's looking optimistic and Hurst is looking any ideas???????
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Maybe the difference was DB, Newport had a decent team already and Flynn didn’t need to re-build it from scratch.
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Genuine question - did Hurst need a complete rebuild or just half a dozen better players?
We were averaging close to a point per game before he came in, now he’s somehow managed to halve that.
I’m no fan of Holloway but when he needed a left back last season he went out and got Glennon, Hurst goes out and brings 2 bang average players in, one of whom has had significant injury issues in the past couple of years.
We clearly needed some better players bringing in but did he need to bring so many in??
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Defensively, we are better. We could hardly be worse. Hurst has done the right thing by tightening up at the back as we were shipping loads of goals. Perhaps that has come at the expense of our attack. He needs to adjust that balance as we need the three points, one points here and there an no good to us.
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Hurst has definitely signed better players, and we do look better despite not getting the results.
Eastwood better than Mckeown, Habergham better than Preston, Manayese brings more pace and mobility compared to Waterfall and Pollock, who are very similar, Matete far better than Taylor, Spokes, Morton, Rose, Williams etc, whilst I can’t say im a fan of LJL, he is far better than Green, or any of the young strikers, Lamy looks a real player.
We have tightened up at the back and look far more organised, it’s the inability to score that is killing us. Under Jolley’s great escape, we couldn’t score from open play, but won a crazy amount of penalties to get the goals to survive.
Survival often has fine margins- if LJL had scored from 2 yards rather than hit the bar, if we hadn’t conceded at the death in the previous match etc, we would have been a further 4 points better off and in the mix.
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Maybe the difference was DB, Newport had a decent team already and Flynn didn’t need to re-build it from scratch.
This is something which seems to be conveniently forgotten. Especially when people bang on about Barrow since Jolley was sacked. And why a change of manager is pointless.
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This is something which seems to be conveniently forgotten. Especially when people bang on about Barrow since Jolley was sacked. And why a change of manager is pointless.
So your point is that changing manager for Newport and Barrow worked, so we shouldn't change manager?
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So your point is that changing manager for Newport and Barrow worked, so we shouldn't change manager?
i thought his point was that Newport had a better squad to start with, but maybe you are deliberately missing his point? I dont know the Newport situation but assumed the poster meant a fit smaller squad with more quality. Instead of the Holloway chaos whereby he promoted schoolkids instead of trying Hope/Painter/Curran etc..., was about to ditch his skipper keeper, acquired Mohsni who he never used, gave lengthy contracts to untested strikers and didnt really use them and brought in multiple loanees etc etc
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