| Did Hurst stumble across it...? 14:40 - Oct 8 with 4890 views | Keaneish |
On this week's Blue Monday a comment was made about Paul hurst "stumbling across" a team that clicked to give us a much needed a win at the Liberty Stadium. Is this accurate?
I'm in two minds. You'd have to assume he bought Nolan and Jackson/Harrison to make those places their own, which they haven't for varying reasons. Given Dozzell may have been going out on loan at one stage and has had rehabilitation issues, it's fair to say he probably wasn't first choice until Nolan decided to disappear in games after the first whistle.
Sears you'd assume wasn't first choice striker given he didn't start there on the opening day and had an injury here and there but now he's back in the fold after some good displays from the bench and in training i'd assume, he's a definite starter against QPR.
These two additions Saturday gave us more cohesion by all accounts but were they stumbled across or has Hurst wanted them to start but for one reason or another ie: injuries, form of others etc... they've not. MM was unfortunate in that his signings got injured and he never had a the side he signed to really play together. Has Hurst suffered a similar fate and Saturday bore the first fruits of what his desired first eleven is or was it fortuitous and did he stumble across it? |  |
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| Did Hurst stumble across it...? on 14:51 - Oct 8 with 4832 views | Steve_M |
You surely answer your own question, the personnel have very much been stumbled upon.
That said, it seems to be more of a reversion to an approximation of his preferred formation than previously but crucially with Edwards and Ward right up with Sears at times. |  |
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| Did Hurst stumble across it...? on 15:04 - Oct 8 with 4765 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
I hope Sears can continue with that type of performance.
To be fair, many posters on here have been lambasted in the past week or two for calling for Sears.
I would hope that Hurst always thought of Dozzell as a first teamer and only overlooked him due to fitness problems. |  |
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| Did Hurst stumble across it...? on 15:06 - Oct 8 with 4757 views | textbackup |
| Did Hurst stumble across it...? on 15:04 - Oct 8 by Marshalls_Mullet |
I hope Sears can continue with that type of performance.
To be fair, many posters on here have been lambasted in the past week or two for calling for Sears.
I would hope that Hurst always thought of Dozzell as a first teamer and only overlooked him due to fitness problems. |
I laughed at Sears being talked about as the answer...
However my Sears image is only of him doing fck all our wide weekly... forgotten he may actually be a success down the middle |  |
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| Did Hurst stumble across it...? on 15:07 - Oct 8 with 4749 views | Garv |
Think you're looking too far into it.
He could have stuck with Jackson as he's not been bad recently. But Sears came on against Boro and showed his worth, Jackson had justified his place until then I'd say.
He didn't have to drop Nolan, but saw, as everybody else did that Dozzell would give us something else.
At the end of the day he's just using the squad. Have some of his signings been disappointing? Yes. |  |
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| Did Hurst stumble across it...? on 15:09 - Oct 8 with 4730 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
| Did Hurst stumble across it...? on 15:06 - Oct 8 by textbackup |
I laughed at Sears being talked about as the answer...
However my Sears image is only of him doing fck all our wide weekly... forgotten he may actually be a success down the middle |
He was one of the most in form strikers in the league for the half a season when he first joined.
In fairness to Sears, he has never claimed to be a wide man, but was a good pro and did a job for the team.
I guess Mick had good goal scoring alternatives, whereas right now we dont.
I hope he can take the chance he has now got. | |
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| Did Hurst stumble across it...? on 15:10 - Oct 8 with 4720 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
| Did Hurst stumble across it...? on 15:07 - Oct 8 by Garv |
Think you're looking too far into it.
He could have stuck with Jackson as he's not been bad recently. But Sears came on against Boro and showed his worth, Jackson had justified his place until then I'd say.
He didn't have to drop Nolan, but saw, as everybody else did that Dozzell would give us something else.
At the end of the day he's just using the squad. Have some of his signings been disappointing? Yes. |
In fairness to Jackson, hes done a great job considering he's jumped up two leagues.
He'll contribute plenty over the season, and it might do him some good that he's not being solely relied on. | |
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| Did Hurst stumble across it...? on 16:26 - Oct 8 with 4530 views | homer_123 |
| Did Hurst stumble across it...? on 14:51 - Oct 8 by Steve_M |
You surely answer your own question, the personnel have very much been stumbled upon.
That said, it seems to be more of a reversion to an approximation of his preferred formation than previously but crucially with Edwards and Ward right up with Sears at times. |
Also, two crucial differences.
We were not punished by Swansea for mistakes and we actually took our chances. |  |
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| Did Hurst stumble across it...? on 16:30 - Oct 8 with 4505 views | Darth_Koont |
I wouldn't say so, no.
Hurst looks to be a little too keen to rotate players for my liking but that was a pretty standard team. Jackson is a case in point as he got dropped to the bench at a time when he was starting to show decent form. |  |
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| Did Hurst stumble across it...? on 17:02 - Oct 8 with 4412 views | strikalite |
| Did Hurst stumble across it...? on 15:09 - Oct 8 by Marshalls_Mullet |
He was one of the most in form strikers in the league for the half a season when he first joined.
In fairness to Sears, he has never claimed to be a wide man, but was a good pro and did a job for the team.
I guess Mick had good goal scoring alternatives, whereas right now we dont.
I hope he can take the chance he has now got. |
If we want better than Sears then we'd have to cough up serious money(for us!).
League One Striker banging in goals playing for a small Club cost Derby £5m.. |  | | |
| Did Hurst stumble across it...? on 18:12 - Oct 8 with 4265 views | BryanPlug |
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| Did Hurst stumble across it...? on 18:22 - Oct 8 with 4234 views | ernie |
| Did Hurst stumble across it...? on 18:12 - Oct 8 by BryanPlug |
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Your question seems to be: Does a manager rotate his squad and change players when they're not performing well? |  | | |
| Did Hurst stumble across it...? on 18:40 - Oct 8 with 4199 views | ronnyblue |
| Did Hurst stumble across it...? on 18:22 - Oct 8 by ernie |
Your question seems to be: Does a manager rotate his squad and change players when they're not performing well? |
Or does he drop all of the shirt numbers in a bag and draw them out like a raffle ? | | | |
| Did Hurst stumble across it...? on 18:50 - Oct 8 with 4172 views | Herbivore |
I think it might be a bit early to say that he's stumbled on a team that works, we've won one game. Let's hope it's the start of something but I'm not convinced Saturday's starting XI is likely to work in every game, or even many games. |  |
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| Did Hurst stumble across it...? on 20:01 - Oct 8 with 4033 views | BryanPlug |
| Did Hurst stumble across it...? on 18:22 - Oct 8 by ernie |
Your question seems to be: Does a manager rotate his squad and change players when they're not performing well? |
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| Did Hurst stumble across it...? on 22:33 - Oct 8 with 3792 views | WicklowBlue |
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I think confidence is the key thing here. Confidence is such a difficult thing to quantify and encourage but is equally the easiest thing to lose. It can make the difference between scoring with a first time shot or taking an extra touch and the opportunity to score is lost.
Let's stop over analysing every minute detail and hope the win over Swansea instills a new level of confidence within the squad. |  | | |
| Did Hurst stumble across it...? on 23:00 - Oct 8 with 3745 views | caught-in-limbo |
Are we talking about a team that clicked for a solitary win? Or the sort of "clicking" that can be described as some sort of winning formula?
If we're talking about the former, some might argue that laws of probability finally showing up had more to do with the result than anything else.
As relieved as I am about Saturday's result and as hopeful as I am about our long-term future under Hurst I'm not going to describe anything as "clicking" into place until it's backed up by several weeks of consistency.
Patience and cautious optimism are what the players need from the supporters at the moment not emotional yo-yos.
(Just to clarify, I'm not calling you an emotional yo-yo. I just think the language of "stumbling across" something which "clicked", is far too premature and is likely to lead to disappointment too soon). [Post edited 8 Oct 2018 23:25]
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| Did Hurst stumble across it...? on 23:12 - Oct 8 with 3719 views | BLUEBEAT |
| Did Hurst stumble across it...? on 15:10 - Oct 8 by Marshalls_Mullet |
In fairness to Jackson, hes done a great job considering he's jumped up two leagues.
He'll contribute plenty over the season, and it might do him some good that he's not being solely relied on. |
Agree with this.
A few games in the successful U23 team will do him the world of good. |  |
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| Did Hurst stumble across it...? on 12:15 - Oct 9 with 3445 views | Keaneish |
| Did Hurst stumble across it...? on 23:00 - Oct 8 by caught-in-limbo |
Are we talking about a team that clicked for a solitary win? Or the sort of "clicking" that can be described as some sort of winning formula?
If we're talking about the former, some might argue that laws of probability finally showing up had more to do with the result than anything else.
As relieved as I am about Saturday's result and as hopeful as I am about our long-term future under Hurst I'm not going to describe anything as "clicking" into place until it's backed up by several weeks of consistency.
Patience and cautious optimism are what the players need from the supporters at the moment not emotional yo-yos.
(Just to clarify, I'm not calling you an emotional yo-yo. I just think the language of "stumbling across" something which "clicked", is far too premature and is likely to lead to disappointment too soon). [Post edited 8 Oct 2018 23:25]
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They weren't my words, i think they were the words of Harry From Bath on the Blue Monday Podcast. He was inferring the formula i think, a click that created the win which could lead to a winning formula as the changes provided more balance throughout the side. | |
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