Town Granted Permission to Speak to Hurst 28th May 2018 21:51
Town have been given permission to speak to Shrewsbury manager Paul Hurst about the vacancy at Portman Road, the two clubs have announced. We understand Hurst could be confirmed as Blues boss as soon as tomorrow. 60

Is it Mick McCarthy 2.0.... surely not....? by Swansea_Blue 30 May 2018 19:06
Must admit that I keep having irrational thoughts along the same lines. No idea why (otherwise they wouldn’t be irrational!). Maybe it comes back to us not going for the likes of Ross or Nathan Jones who made headlines for their teams’ attacking play. Dunno.

I also worry that the changes, on top of ME’s austerity drive means we’ll really struggle. There’s only so long, in the main, that teams can fail to invest season after season before it catches up with them. But hopefully we’ll continue to buck that trend.

No logic to any of this of course. And I’m pretty neutral to Hurst’s appointment - and in no way against it. As with any manager (Keane aside) I’m quite happy to see how things go. All I ask is we see some progression in his first 6 months or so.

Maybe this is just a long-winded way of saying his appointment doesn’t excite me. But that obviously doesn’t mean it couldn’t turn out to be a very shrewd one.

Or it just means I’m a miserable bügger!

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