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YorkieLancsHampyLondoner said:
We didn't outplay Swansea - the away team rarely does - but you don't score three goals in a match by accident. On another day the header for 3-2 just comes back off the post, but that time we had the rub of the green. Before the international break the performances were at the very least encouraging so I reckon the players already knew by the QPR game, especially given that Matt Holland said he was told it was happening and others have talked about Holloway and Sherwood.

I could see it coming because Evans never came out in public to support Hurst, but when we're judging Hurst we have to remember this nonsense going on in the background has undermined at least the last couple of performances and results.

We will never know if it would have been better to give Hurst the chance to build on getting the monkey off their back with the Swansea win.
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Definitely best to write this goon off. He’s started spouting the “well we were tipped for relegation anyway “ rubbish and trying to pass the buck for his absolute incompetence.

Tell you what, I despise Keane but Hurst has maybe just about topped it. Absolute rubbish from day 1 to final day.

He will struggle to ever manage at this level again.
 
Westlake33 said:
Definitely best to write this goon off. He’s started spouting the “well we were tipped for relegation anyway “ rubbish and trying to pass the buck for his absolute incompetence.

Tell you what, I despise Keane but Hurst has maybe just about topped it. Absolute rubbish from day 1 to final day.

He will struggle to ever manage at this level again.
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It was time for him to go but it’s a shame the way it’s been done and Lambert is the last person I would have chosen to replace him.

Not everything he did was bad, by the way. As Klug has stated, everything that could go wrong did go wrong.
 
YorkieLancsHampyLondoner said:
It was time for him to go but it’s a shame the way it’s been done and Lambert is the last person I would have chosen to replace him.

Not everything he did was bad, by the way. As Klug has stated, everything that could go wrong did go wrong.
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You obviously weren't there for the QPR game then! Freddie stranded up front against 2 hulking Centrebacks just running the channels with no support! <doh>
 
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johnnywarksmoustache said:
You obviously weren't there for the QPR game then! Freddie stranded up front against 2 hulking Centrebacks just running the channels with no support! <doh>
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I was actually, it was the worst performance of the season by some distance, but I think it’s pretty obvious now what’s caused it. He was in the same position against the Swans and we scored thrice.
 
YorkieLancsHampyLondoner said:
It was time for him to go but it’s a shame the way it’s been done and Lambert is the last person I would have chosen to replace him.

Not everything he did was bad, by the way. As Klug has stated, everything that could go wrong did go wrong.
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Sorry what should the club have done differently regarding his sacking?!
 
YorkieLancsHampyLondoner said:
It was time for him to go but it’s a shame the way it’s been done and Lambert is the last person I would have chosen to replace him.

Not everything he did was bad, by the way. As Klug has stated, everything that could go wrong did go wrong.
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Well please tell me what he did that was good. As Alan Partridge said to Lynn “ I’ve gotta hear this “
 
Westlake33 said:
Oh behave would have been the same with royle burley probably Robson et el. It’s how the game works.
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Of course it wouldn’t have been. The club used to be run by decent people.

You can argue that Hurst made his own bed with regard to whether he kept his job or not but putting him and the players through two matches when everyone at the club already knew he was a dead man walking is undignified at best and damaging to our season at worst.
 
Westy and me were saying weeks ago that he must go and quickly, but you were saying only a week ago that he should be given another 3 games, is there no point of view you won't argue with?
 
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fieldmarshall said:
Westy and me were saying weeks ago that he must go and quickly, but you were saying only a week ago that he should be given another 3 games, is there no point of view you won't argue with?
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Fieldmarshall you’ve missed the point. I’ve no problem with making the decision after the appalling performance against Middlesbrough, but at that point get him out instead of waiting three more weeks. My preference would have been to back him just a little longer, but having him at the club with his card marked is bad for everybody involved.

It’s Westy arguing with my point, by the way.
 
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YorkieLancsHampyLondoner said:
Of course it wouldn’t have been. The club used to be run by decent people.

You can argue that Hurst made his own bed with regard to whether he kept his job or not but putting him and the players through two matches when everyone at the club already knew he was a dead man walking is undignified at best and damaging to our season at worst.
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I agree that the club used to be run by decent people. Sheepshanks and the Cobbolds, as far as I’m aware, never fired a manager while talking to other candidates and always seemed to navigate managerial sackings with respect and dignity.

I agree it’s a different game these days, and I guess firing a manager without a replacement lined up will be portrayed as bad planning. But let’s not pretend Evans has any class on that front. Jim Magilton, the first manager he sacked, was fired while away on compassionate leave visiting his sick mother in Northern Ireland.
 
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Nuggets said:
I agree that the club used to be run by decent people. Sheepshanks and the Cobbolds, as far as I’m aware, never fired a manager while talking to other candidates and always seemed to navigate managerial sackings with respect and dignity.

I agree it’s a different game these days, and I guess firing a manager without a replacement lined up will be portrayed as bad planning. But let’s not pretend Evans has any class on that front. Jim Magilton, the first manager he sacked, was fired while away on compassionate leave visiting his sick mother in Northern Ireland.
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I’d forgotten about that but you’re absolutely right, that was shocking.
 
Mick McCarthy comes out tonight with some ****ty comments about us getting what we deserved that show just how much he loved the club. Everything from top to bottom at the Football Club is now toxic.
 
YorkieLancsHampyLondoner said:
Mick McCarthy comes out tonight with some ****ty comments about us getting what we deserved that show just how much he loved the club. Everything from top to bottom at the Football Club is now toxic.
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He targeted those comments to the “ones who were hounding me” and previously described them as just a “section” of the fanbase. I also think it’s fair to point out in the interview that he said he had a “good time” at the club, where there were a “lot of good people” and he “feels sorry for them”.

He had to get his dig in though. And I know he sees himself as something of a media personality these days, but why he even took the interview in the first place smacks of a certain lack of class. You don’t see the likes of Paul Jewell, Roy Keane, Jim Magilton, and Joe Royle take to the media to air their opinions when their successor left the club.

Honestly though, who cares? He’s nothing to do with us anymore. People need to move on from him and I wish he actually got a job to help the process.
 
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