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Reply | Shrewsbury's new manager
at 12:05 1 Jun 2018
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Reply | It will be interesting to see how Paul Hurst adapts to quality
at 20:25 31 May 2018
I imagine wages wise you would far exceed anything we could pay, our budget was a long way off a top League 1 budget last season. We can definitely hold out for the right transfer fees though as the club is financially sound and doesn't need to sell unless the right offers come in.
4-1-4-1 with wingers was Hurst's preferred formation. In his first season with us, when he had to more make do with what he inherited he played 4-4-2. but switched to 4-1-4-1 after he'd recruited more of his own players last summer. Either way he definitely likes to play with wingers, but not luxury wingers they're expected to work as hard as anyone else off the ball.
He does likes to play with the ball on the ground, pass and move to move opposition teams around. We did play with good movement and had a decent amount of technical ability.
As our results shows we normally won by the odd goal with our organisation and defensive strength and ability to keep clean sheets a major reason for that. We went 1-0 up in a lot of games and then saw the game out well.
The side had pace in key areas and could counter very well, but we rarely pinned opposition teams back or dominated them for very long periods, like Wigan or Blackburn were much more capable of doing. That said we were very capable of keeping possession well and dominating the ball for decent periods.
We were quite dangerous from set plays, but we probably should have been more dangerous given the aerial threat we had from three or four players.
We did sometimes go long but the impression was this was not a pre-planned tactic more a sign of frustration or plan A not working. It wasn't our strength to play this way and rarely worked well. As I said in another thread having a viable plan B is not one of Hurst's strengths.
I wouldn't say a talented squad, just a number of talented key players who gelled well with a lot of hard working capable players around them to form a good unit.
Our problem was a lack of strength in depth and the high number of games played which eventually caught up with us against Rotherham. If only we could have got knocked out of the Checkatrade Trophy early on we might be facing you in The Championship next season, but Hurst placed a high value on winning that competition which, with hindsight, wasn't the right approach.
Hurst's strengths are he will organise your side and make you hard to beat. He will probably surprise you with some of his signings, but we learned very early on not to question his signings as you would generally end up with egg on your face. He brought in, on the face of it, some journeymen from League 2 but who ended up as key players, like Alex Rodman for example.
The question is whether he can replicate what he did with us in The Championship given a relatively small budget.
Personally I have my doubts based on what happened when we came up against Wigan and Blackburn, who had much greater resources, last season. Yes we got two clean sheets against Wigan but it was real backs against the wall stuff and we got totally outplayed at Ewood Park. He'll come up against this sort of thing far more often in The Championship. [Post edited 31 May 2018 20:32]
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Reply | Grimsby Fan's view of your new manager
at 18:40 31 May 2018
I can't disagree with much of what the Grimsby fan says about Hurst.
One major plus is that we were probably the fittest side in League 1 last season. The side, Wembley last week aside, always looked strong right to the final whistle and often won games or came back into games very late on.
In terms of organisation, the team were exceptional in terms of getting back into shape after losing possesion. For the most part we were very difficult to break down.
On the flip side we often didn't commit enough men forward, or forward quickly enough, and as a result weren't very prolific goal scorers. Apart from Bristol Rovers at home we rarely took a team apart.
As has been said Hurst likes his 4-1-4-1 but he appeared to have no real plan B. He tried switching to 4-4-2, or occasionally 3-4-3, mid game but it didn't really ever work.
His substitutions became rather predictable. He would nearly always swap the sole forward around the 70-75 minute mark. His substitutions were often reactive rather than proactive. |
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