| Hurst interview on 13:04 - Jun 9 with 4525 views | J2BLUE |
He has a family to look after. I don't mind him blaming others but he was clearly the main reason for the failure. He made wholesale changes to the squad so they should have known what they were signing up for. Also, I can't believe the likes of Skuse, Bart, Chambers etc weren't man enough to handle his harsh words. Doesn't add up. |  |
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| Hurst interview on 13:13 - Jun 9 with 4466 views | mrshallisfit |
| Hurst interview on 13:04 - Jun 9 by J2BLUE |
He has a family to look after. I don't mind him blaming others but he was clearly the main reason for the failure. He made wholesale changes to the squad so they should have known what they were signing up for. Also, I can't believe the likes of Skuse, Bart, Chambers etc weren't man enough to handle his harsh words. Doesn't add up. |
Selling all your established strikers and buying untested lower league replacements might be at the heart of his failure. |  | | |
| Hurst interview on 13:15 - Jun 9 with 4457 views | footers |
| Hurst interview on 13:04 - Jun 9 by J2BLUE |
He has a family to look after. I don't mind him blaming others but he was clearly the main reason for the failure. He made wholesale changes to the squad so they should have known what they were signing up for. Also, I can't believe the likes of Skuse, Bart, Chambers etc weren't man enough to handle his harsh words. Doesn't add up. |
Hurst probably saw fit to dump his beauty queen wife in favour of the pensioner who runs the corner shop. Thought he could make her into a page 3 stunner in a season or two. |  |
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| Hurst interview on 14:17 - Jun 9 with 4261 views | JDB23 |
No apology to the fans who backed him tremendously for decimating the team and sending us to the 3rd tier for the first time in 60 years. Instead, he quotes a radio interview in some effort to act like it was destined to happen. Do one. | | | |
| Hurst interview on 14:32 - Jun 9 with 4224 views | RegencyBlue |
Well he’s never going to say it was his fault is he? Not if he ever wanted to work in football again!
The reality is that Hurst accelerated a decline which had been underway for several years. Had the club not already been weakened by the business model followed by Evans we might have got away with it but ......! |  | | |
| Hurst interview on 14:32 - Jun 9 with 4221 views | bluefunk |
There’s self belief, and there’s self delusion - he’s clearly tending to the latter here, no acknowledgement of the need for adapting his approach to fit the needs of individual players (as in some need an arm round the shoulder, some need a boll0king), no sense that he believes he made poor decisions, no realisation that his approach alienated the very people he needed to implement his approach - did he believe that all those players he brought in would be able to do that on their own.
In summary, an arrogant man, lacking self awareness and humility |  | | |
| Hurst interview on 14:41 - Jun 9 with 4182 views | Guthrum |
Sounds very much like he had trouble handling the bigger characters at a higher-level club, players who are good enough to expect that a manager has to earn respect from them (from their own career, their character, their ideas), not giving it unquestioningly. Possibly Hurst's meteoric rise and lack of experienced advisors did not prepare him adequately for that. |  |
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| Hurst interview on 14:59 - Jun 9 with 4105 views | No9 |
Was it Ronnie Moore who thought he was coming to manage ITFC? | | | |
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| Hurst interview on 14:59 - Jun 9 with 4112 views | Garv |
It's pretty clear players didn't buy into his ideas.
Keeping hold of Mick until we did and watching a attendences dwindle was probably just delaying the inevitable. |  |
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| Hurst interview on 15:04 - Jun 9 with 4093 views | No9 |
| Hurst interview on 14:59 - Jun 9 by Garv |
It's pretty clear players didn't buy into his ideas.
Keeping hold of Mick until we did and watching a attendences dwindle was probably just delaying the inevitable. |
The signs had not been good for several seasons.
The changes should have been rung immediately after the failure to get to the P.O. finals | | | |
| Hurst interview on 18:00 - Jun 9 with 3826 views | ActionMan |
| Hurst interview on 13:13 - Jun 9 by mrshallisfit |
Selling all your established strikers and buying untested lower league replacements might be at the heart of his failure. |
I don't think he had much say in that, bids came in and were accepted by the club and he was told to bring in players the sales were needed. Didz was gone before he arrived and Hurst claims he was released without him having any decision on that. It's been this way here for years and it finally came to bite us in the backside, not Hursts fault, but Evans.
Football wise a lot of this is on Bart, Chambers and Skuse along with Hurst, because as bad as Hurst was, and he was, those three were absolutely terrible on the field and have been for the better part of 2 years before Hurst even arrived, and frankly let themselves down last season with their falling out with Hurst over Braintree and Exeter. We were bottom all season for a reason and thats not just the manager, in fact Lambert proved it as he couldn't get blood from a stone either. New players needed to step up but the veterans were far from blameless in this either and to put the sales on Hursts head alone is also wrong.
The whole thing was a disaster of Marcus Evans making, not Paul Hursts. |  | | |
| Hurst interview on 19:06 - Jun 9 with 3697 views | tractorboy1978 |
| Hurst interview on 15:04 - Jun 9 by No9 |
The signs had not been good for several seasons.
The changes should have been rung immediately after the failure to get to the P.O. finals |
We did freshen up the side the following season and was better on paper. We added Pitman, Fraser, AMN and the only noticeable player we lost was Mings. If Fraser had stayed fit we would have got in the top 6. [Post edited 9 Jun 2019 19:07]
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| Hurst interview on 19:11 - Jun 9 with 3671 views | Coastalblue |
| Hurst interview on 14:59 - Jun 9 by No9 |
Was it Ronnie Moore who thought he was coming to manage ITFC? |
Yes it was, I think he made a couple of comments to the media as well that were said as though from an incoming Manager.
I bet his agent got hell after that. |  |
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| Hurst interview on 19:12 - Jun 9 with 3671 views | tractorboy1978 |
| Hurst interview on 18:00 - Jun 9 by ActionMan |
I don't think he had much say in that, bids came in and were accepted by the club and he was told to bring in players the sales were needed. Didz was gone before he arrived and Hurst claims he was released without him having any decision on that. It's been this way here for years and it finally came to bite us in the backside, not Hursts fault, but Evans.
Football wise a lot of this is on Bart, Chambers and Skuse along with Hurst, because as bad as Hurst was, and he was, those three were absolutely terrible on the field and have been for the better part of 2 years before Hurst even arrived, and frankly let themselves down last season with their falling out with Hurst over Braintree and Exeter. We were bottom all season for a reason and thats not just the manager, in fact Lambert proved it as he couldn't get blood from a stone either. New players needed to step up but the veterans were far from blameless in this either and to put the sales on Hursts head alone is also wrong.
The whole thing was a disaster of Marcus Evans making, not Paul Hursts. |
Hurst was the one who decided to bring in 7 permanent players that had never kicked a ball at Championship level before. | | | |
| Hurst interview on 19:16 - Jun 9 with 3657 views | pablovian |
This interview appeared several months ago, when the sense of shock was still new. It would be interesting to hear how PH sees things now. Here is my assessment/conjecture:
PH saw his move to Ipswich as being high-risk but with decent risk-reward potential. It was high risk because the squad was mediocre by Championship standards, and the owner is financially conservative and detached from day-to-day operations.
PH attempted to establish his authority in a way that alienated the senior players. The pre-season trip to Spain was an exhausting experience that did not foster cohesion. Key players had seen enough and wanted out. Webster, Waghorn and Garner found greener pastures. Although the club received approximately $10 million in transfer fees, less than half was made available for new signings. At this point, a mediocre Championship squad had lost three of its best players plus several key loan players, and was unhappy with its new manager ...
Hurst's signings were better than he or they are given credit for. Harrison, Edwards, Nolan, Nsiala and Donacien were (still are ...) legitimate contenders for a League One All-Star team. Hurst may have overpaid for Kayden Jackson, but the concept of adding pace was valid. Loan signings, such as Pennington and Chalobah were effective. If Bartkowski and Knudsen had had an opportunity to recharge during the off-season, and Chambers had not started to slow down, the team could have notched a couple of early wins, in which case morale would have turned around.
It was not to be. |  | | |
| Hurst interview on 19:31 - Jun 9 with 3603 views | tractorboy1978 |
| Hurst interview on 19:16 - Jun 9 by pablovian |
This interview appeared several months ago, when the sense of shock was still new. It would be interesting to hear how PH sees things now. Here is my assessment/conjecture:
PH saw his move to Ipswich as being high-risk but with decent risk-reward potential. It was high risk because the squad was mediocre by Championship standards, and the owner is financially conservative and detached from day-to-day operations.
PH attempted to establish his authority in a way that alienated the senior players. The pre-season trip to Spain was an exhausting experience that did not foster cohesion. Key players had seen enough and wanted out. Webster, Waghorn and Garner found greener pastures. Although the club received approximately $10 million in transfer fees, less than half was made available for new signings. At this point, a mediocre Championship squad had lost three of its best players plus several key loan players, and was unhappy with its new manager ...
Hurst's signings were better than he or they are given credit for. Harrison, Edwards, Nolan, Nsiala and Donacien were (still are ...) legitimate contenders for a League One All-Star team. Hurst may have overpaid for Kayden Jackson, but the concept of adding pace was valid. Loan signings, such as Pennington and Chalobah were effective. If Bartkowski and Knudsen had had an opportunity to recharge during the off-season, and Chambers had not started to slow down, the team could have notched a couple of early wins, in which case morale would have turned around.
It was not to be. |
Two pedantry points - Donacien was a L2 player when we signed him. Webster had gone before the Spain trip.
Hurst and Doig didn't seem to know anything other than the sledgehammer approach. He not only alienated senior players but also staff that were already at the club. The side he put together was cr@p in reality and that was shown consistently last season. He bought in too many inexperienced players and expected them to gel and step up quickly. | | | |
| Hurst interview on 20:07 - Jun 9 with 3513 views | christiand |
| Hurst interview on 14:32 - Jun 9 by RegencyBlue |
Well he’s never going to say it was his fault is he? Not if he ever wanted to work in football again!
The reality is that Hurst accelerated a decline which had been underway for several years. Had the club not already been weakened by the business model followed by Evans we might have got away with it but ......! |
Exactly Regency Blue. It certainly doesn’t help matters when PH’s Ipswich rarely looked an attacking threat and we failed to keep clean sheets. Just a recipe for disaster. | |
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| Hurst interview on 21:36 - Jun 9 with 3340 views | Argyle_blue |
It’s a weird excuse is it not when most of them were his players - players he’d brought in decimating the squad of proven championship players. Fair enough if you pick up a team half way through a season but it’s hardly cloughie at Leeds. |  | | |
| Hurst interview on 15:59 - Jun 11 with 2841 views | Garv |
| Hurst interview on 15:04 - Jun 9 by No9 |
The signs had not been good for several seasons.
The changes should have been rung immediately after the failure to get to the P.O. finals |
Can't see many agreeing with that.
More like April 2017. | |
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