| Recollections of the Paul Hurst era at Portman Road 14:33 - May 7 with 1631 views | MaySixth |
short and not sweet at all
was quite optimistic when we got him and Woolfenden, Downes, Dozzell and Nydam featured in pre-season
Hurst was soon out of his depth and his assistant Chris Doig was not a nice man |  |
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| Recollections of the Paul Hurst era at Portman Road on 14:42 - May 7 with 1585 views | MattinLondon |
He certainly knew what was wrong with the club - early on didn’t he get Evans to spend 500k on the gym at the training ground?
I think he did try to improve the style of football and I think if he recruited much better he would’ve fared much better but he didn’t and the players were poor.
His inexperience did hinder him - he was too abrasive with the players who in turn didn’t help him out and went running to Evans to get him sacked. |  | | |
| Recollections of the Paul Hurst era at Portman Road on 14:44 - May 7 with 1576 views | homer_123 |
| Recollections of the Paul Hurst era at Portman Road on 14:42 - May 7 by MattinLondon |
He certainly knew what was wrong with the club - early on didn’t he get Evans to spend 500k on the gym at the training ground?
I think he did try to improve the style of football and I think if he recruited much better he would’ve fared much better but he didn’t and the players were poor.
His inexperience did hinder him - he was too abrasive with the players who in turn didn’t help him out and went running to Evans to get him sacked. |
If my memory is correct. For 15 or 20 mins in that opening game against Blackburn we were pinging the ball about lovely, playing some really good football.
That was it. We could not defend for toffee, confidence went and the players just were not good enough.
I think I could see in the 15 min spell what he was 'trying' to do.....it never materialised though. |  |
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| Recollections of the Paul Hurst era at Portman Road on 15:12 - May 7 with 1471 views | FBI |
I was sitting with the Exeter fans at St James Park.
That was enough. [Post edited 7 May 15:16]
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| Recollections of the Paul Hurst era at Portman Road on 15:56 - May 7 with 1354 views | WD19 |
Waghorn downed tools pre-season because he had seen enough. |  | | |
| Recollections of the Paul Hurst era at Portman Road on 16:05 - May 7 with 1324 views | Blueschev |
I remember at the time feeling a bit sorry for him as it seemed clear that the senior players didn't want to play for him. Turned out that although that may well have been true, the players in question were just crap and didn't play for Lambert either.
Lambert was worse in my opinion, our relegation "fight" was absolutely pathetic. [Post edited 7 May 16:07]
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| Recollections of the Paul Hurst era at Portman Road on 17:25 - May 7 with 1218 views | jas0999 |
Evans allowed either fees OR wages. So we ended up spending fees on players with lower wage demands … league one and two mainly. |  | | |
| Recollections of the Paul Hurst era at Portman Road on 17:40 - May 7 with 1174 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
To be fair to him, he was clearly asked to manage with one hand tied behind his back.
Evans had effectively said that summer that we had to rely on youth or player sales.
So, we sold, and in most cases, traded down. Sacked in late October, and an allegedly more experienced manager couldn't arrest the slide.
My head in hands moment was the signing of Ellis Harrison for nigh on three quarters of a million quid. Living down this way, I'd seen him play a few times, and he was never a Championship quality player. |  |
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| Recollections of the Paul Hurst era at Portman Road on 18:20 - May 7 with 1118 views | TRUE_BLUE123 |
That QPR home game.
Potentially the worst game I have ever watched. |  |
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| Recollections of the Paul Hurst era at Portman Road on 18:32 - May 7 with 1095 views | ParisBlue |
| Recollections of the Paul Hurst era at Portman Road on 15:56 - May 7 by WD19 |
Waghorn downed tools pre-season because he had seen enough. |
Adam Webster had seen enough after one day!
In fairness losing McGoldrick wasn't his fault. But buying Nolan, Nsiala, Harrison etc probably was.
Never won a game on English soil. The game after swansea was qpr at home. It was dismal, and after Gerken threw the ball into the net I made the decision to relinquish my season ticket. He was sacked the following week.
No regrets - with a 450+ mile round trip to Portman Road I mostly do away games now. |  |
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| Recollections of the Paul Hurst era at Portman Road on 18:33 - May 7 with 1093 views | jasondozzell |
Deputy Doig |  | | |
| Recollections of the Paul Hurst era at Portman Road on 18:44 - May 7 with 1050 views | ParisBlue |
| Recollections of the Paul Hurst era at Portman Road on 18:20 - May 7 by TRUE_BLUE123 |
That QPR home game.
Potentially the worst game I have ever watched. |
See my post above! | |
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| Recollections of the Paul Hurst era at Portman Road on 18:48 - May 7 with 1042 views | Churchman |
Alan Lee’s view of Hurst when interviewed some time back said it all. Hurst just spewed a load of nonsense about exciting football and Evans swallowed it.
Hurst had absolutely no idea what he as doing. Neither did Evans. Was Hurst worse than that gormless, rather unpleasant waste of oxygen Lambert? Yes, but they, madman Keane and porno Paul J represent the two darkest times of my following this football club. I never thought they’d surpass dreadful Duncan but they did with aplomb. |  | | |
| Recollections of the Paul Hurst era at Portman Road on 18:56 - May 7 with 1014 views | ITFC_Essex |
I was in the minority that though he was a toilet appointment (he won the Lincolnshire league as a co-manager as his career highlight) and then we had the kamikaze window where we exchanged players like Webster, Bru, Hyam, Didz, Garner, Waghorn and replaced them with people like Roberts, Edwards, Harrison, and Nolan.
We were relegated before a ball was kicked. |  |
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| Recollections of the Paul Hurst era at Portman Road on 19:05 - May 7 with 981 views | Reuser_is_God |
I remember sitting down watching his Shrewsbury team in that okay off final & thinking “oh feck” |  |
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| Recollections of the Paul Hurst era at Portman Road on 19:47 - May 7 with 899 views | TRUE_BLUE123 |
| Recollections of the Paul Hurst era at Portman Road on 18:44 - May 7 by ParisBlue |
See my post above! |
Wow!
I can't remember the exact details but iirc it all went off in the changing room after that QPR game with Hurst Doig vs Chambers and co. That was the rumour at the time anyway. | |
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| Recollections of the Paul Hurst era at Portman Road on 20:16 - May 7 with 831 views | ClareBlue |
He built a league 1 team because he knew about that. But little did we know that after he was sacked we were going to enter a parallel universe of being told what we had just seen wasn't what actually happened in some incomprehensible post match ramble. Hurst wasn't dislikable, just out of his depth and constrained. Lambert was only concerned about Lambert and he tried to gaslight the whole fan base and club. That contract extension was probably one of the most unfathomable events in the history of our club. When did we actually stop paying him? | | | |
| Recollections of the Paul Hurst era at Portman Road on 20:33 - May 7 with 778 views | ParisBlue |
| Recollections of the Paul Hurst era at Portman Road on 20:16 - May 7 by ClareBlue |
He built a league 1 team because he knew about that. But little did we know that after he was sacked we were going to enter a parallel universe of being told what we had just seen wasn't what actually happened in some incomprehensible post match ramble. Hurst wasn't dislikable, just out of his depth and constrained. Lambert was only concerned about Lambert and he tried to gaslight the whole fan base and club. That contract extension was probably one of the most unfathomable events in the history of our club. When did we actually stop paying him? |
Stopped paying Lambert last summer, poor bloke had to find a new job. He's now Dortmund's Asian scout.
In fairness this guardian article is quite interesting on his time in Dortmund (weird he never mentioned playing for them more often). It also means I have one thing in common with Zinedine Zidane.
https://www.theguardian.com/fo | |
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| Recollections of the Paul Hurst era at Portman Road on 22:34 - May 7 with 630 views | rgp1 |
| Recollections of the Paul Hurst era at Portman Road on 18:56 - May 7 by ITFC_Essex |
I was in the minority that though he was a toilet appointment (he won the Lincolnshire league as a co-manager as his career highlight) and then we had the kamikaze window where we exchanged players like Webster, Bru, Hyam, Didz, Garner, Waghorn and replaced them with people like Roberts, Edwards, Harrison, and Nolan.
We were relegated before a ball was kicked. |
I felt we were relegated in the 2-0 pre season defeat at Braintree. Never even had a shot on target. In fairness to Hurst, he did point out that Mcgoldrick and Webster were not on his squad list when he arrived. Maybe they knew what others didn't. | | | |
| Recollections of the Paul Hurst era at Portman Road on 22:40 - May 7 with 602 views | ITFC_Essex |
| Recollections of the Paul Hurst era at Portman Road on 22:34 - May 7 by rgp1 |
I felt we were relegated in the 2-0 pre season defeat at Braintree. Never even had a shot on target. In fairness to Hurst, he did point out that Mcgoldrick and Webster were not on his squad list when he arrived. Maybe they knew what others didn't. |
Our then owner was trying to save a few quid?
I was at that game too, absolute farce. I remember us playing West Ham at home during the pre-season and some getting over excited because we didn't do too badly, although it was clear that West Ham were not even trying that day! | |
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| Recollections of the Paul Hurst era at Portman Road on 22:55 - May 7 with 572 views | TresBonne |
Remember that video of some tw*t on the coaching staff dancing like a prat while we were losing at half time and down near the bottom of the league?
And all the players just ignoring him... |  | | |
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