Hurst should 100% stay

Quoted from GollyGTFC

During his last spell I wasn’t Hurst’s biggest fan. I felt he should have been sacked in both May 2014 & 2015 when he failed to win promotion. But he got the job done in the end even if it took longer than we wanted it to.

I think he’s done a great job trying to rescue the season and did remarkable to construct a nearly entirely new team in January.

If you look at Holloway he inherited a decent squad. His 14 matches last season returned 21 points (1.5 per game) with a goal difference of -1.

The useless squad he assembled managed 19 points from 19 matches and a goal difference of -15. That’s a third less points than last season and a catastrophic GD.

And much of this points were at the start of the season when every team was struggling with consistency and training restrictions. (Even Colchester got 20 points from their first 8 home matches)

Which sums Holloway up. His 2 stand out successes came when he took squads that were already largely assembled into the Premier League. He never built a successful team himself. He’s a motivator not a builder.

Hurst had 5 matches with the dross he inherited. And got just 1 point from those matches (0.2 per game) with a -9 GD (-1.8 per game).

The squad he knocked together in January has so far managed 19 points from 17 (1.12 per game) with a -4 GD (-0.24 per game).

Over a season that’s around 51 points which whilst not spectacular is enough to stay up. And he did that in 31 days in January. If he had the summer it’s safe to say he would have built a better squad than he was able to in January and would have achieved more than the 51 points his team has averaged since the transfer window closed.

Hurst did a good job last time when he just had an assistant, a GK coach & a physio. He also did most of the player recruitment scouting.

He now has an assistant, a first team coach, a GK coach, a fitness coach, a performance analyst and a physio.

He has more tools at his disposal and if we add infrastructure improvements that have been suggested as well he will have everything he needs to be even better than he was last time.

Quoted from GollyGTFC

During his last spell I wasn’t Hurst’s biggest fan. I felt he should have been sacked in both May 2014 & 2015 when he failed to win promotion. But he got the job done in the end even if it took longer than we wanted it to.

I think he’s done a great job trying to rescue the season and did remarkable to construct a nearly entirely new team in January.

If you look at Holloway he inherited a decent squad. His 14 matches last season returned 21 points (1.5 per game) with a goal difference of -1.

The useless squad he assembled managed 19 points from 19 matches and a goal difference of -15. That’s a third less points than last season and a catastrophic GD.

And much of this points were at the start of the season when every team was struggling with consistency and training restrictions. (Even Colchester got 20 points from their first 8 home matches)

Which sums Holloway up. His 2 stand out successes came when he took squads that were already largely assembled into the Premier League. He never built a successful team himself. He’s a motivator not a builder.

Hurst had 5 matches with the dross he inherited. And got just 1 point from those matches (0.2 per game) with a -9 GD (-1.8 per game).

The squad he knocked together in January has so far managed 19 points from 17 (1.12 per game) with a -4 GD (-0.24 per game).

Over a season that’s around 51 points which whilst not spectacular is enough to stay up. And he did that in 31 days in January. If he had the summer it’s safe to say he would have built a better squad than he was able to in January and would have achieved more than the 51 points his team has averaged since the transfer window closed.

Hurst did a good job last time when he just had an assistant, a GK coach & a physio. He also did most of the player recruitment scouting.

He now has an assistant, a first team coach, a GK coach, a fitness coach, a performance analyst and a physio.

He has more tools at his disposal and if we add infrastructure improvements that have been suggested as well he will have everything he needs to be even better than he was last time.