Paul Sturrock

[Bernie Friend]

Just thought you'd like to know, there's a two-page interview with Paul Sturrock in tomorrow's Sunday People.

 

[Lincoln Shrimp]

Anything eye opening Bernie?

 

[johnlattimerssponge]

Article is mostly quite well known facts but certainly a few new things as well so an interesting read.
Perhaps the most relevant being the following that fly's in the face of those that think he will retire at the end of the season on health grounds.
'I'd love to go on as long as Fergie.I'm only 150 odd matches short of clocking up a 1,000 matches as a boss,which is a milestone I am to reach'.

 

[tia]

Article is mostly quite well known facts but certainly a few new things as well so an interesting read.
Perhaps the most relevant being the following that fly's in the face of those that think he will retire at the end of the season on health grounds.
'I'd love to go on as long as Fergie.I'm only 150 odd matches short of clocking up a 1,000 matches as a boss,which is a milestone I am to reach'.

Thats good to hear,I still think Sturrock is the best man to lead us next season.

 

[onceknownasrab]

Good luck PS with reaching that 1000 match milestone. I just hope the remaining games you need are with another club.

 

[A Century United]

Good luck PS with reaching that 1000 match milestone. I just hope the remaining games you need are with another club.

:zzzzz:

We would have to go a long way to find another manager who could do as well under rather trying circumstances.

 

[onceknownasrab]

:zzzzz:

We would have to go a long way to find another manager who could do as well under rather trying circumstances.

We would have to go a long way to find another manager who could do as badly under very average lg2 circumstances.

 

[Barling Magna]

We would have to go a long way to find another manager who could do as badly under very average lg2 circumstances.

Crikey, what were you on last night? Sturrock may have not been brilliant, but he's certainly one of the best managers in the division; last season we were undone by Aldershot's floodlights, this season it's by a remarkable run of injuries that would have challenged any manager. Southend are 9th in the division, despite the injuries - how can that be seen as doing badly under average circumstances? Surely we'd have to be well below 13th place for that to be true......?

 

[Jam_Man]

Crikey, what were you on last night? Sturrock may have not been brilliant, but he's certainly one of the best managers in the division;

The table says there are 7 better.

last season we were undone by Aldershot's floodlights,

Really?

What about the form from December to about March when we were near the bottom of the form table and threw a 10 point lead away? That was because of one game?

this season it's by a remarkable run of injuries that would have challenged any manager. Southend are 9th in the division, despite the injuries - how can that be seen as doing badly under average circumstances? Surely we'd have to be well below 13th place for that to be true......?

All teams have injuries.

Why did in January we let Tam go without having players in place? We were very slow in plugging a gap we all knew was going to appear. Since then our form disappeared.

He isnt doing 'badly', he he is however underperforming this season. You can bring up injuries as often as you like, but other teams have them, and on top of that our squad is still good enough to have got more than 1 point out of the last 9.

Ive defended Strurrock plenty of times over the last couple of years, the first season he performed a miracle building a team in 2 weeks to keep us safe, and last year was our best league points ever in the division.

However this was the season to push on and we havent, we are without any doubt gone backwards.

Personally Id like Sturrock to stay and turn things around, but unless we see a massive change in fortunes in the run in I dont see that happening and a change may be best all round. No guarantees a new manager will get us up but as Sturrock looks to have completely failed to even get us in the play offs I dont see he deserves another season.

 

[southchurch]

Thats good to hear,I still think Sturrock is the best man to lead us next season.

What makes you think that?

If he stays we now know for certain that he is going to be playing the long ball for all home games. He made that clear in his interview the other day. He stated the change off style at home was a mistake and one I will not make again. So you can look forward to defenders hoofing it at every opportunity next season, if he stays. Prosser must be delighted,

 

[DTS]

Thats good to hear,I still think Sturrock is the best man to lead us next season.

Strong number of people disagree with this.

 

[C'mon you Shrimpers]

Strong number of people disagree with this.

Face it DTS you're in a minority.

 

[Jam_Man]

What makes you think that?

If he stays we now know for certain that he is going to be playing the long ball for all home games. He made that clear in his interview the other day. He stated the change off style at home was a mistake and one I will not make again. So you can look forward to defenders hoofing it at every opportunity next season, if he stays. Prosser must be delighted,

Being away Ive not heard that interview, and if thats what he said thats the last of my support for him gone.

My understanding was he bowed to pressure from above to change the style which he did, now if thats true he is saying thats the reason we are struggling, although he seems to have completely failed to get results by reverting to his old style.

I really dont fancy another season of one up front at home....

 

[Jam_Man]

Face it DTS you're in a minority.

Majority surely.

Most people are pretty disillusioned right now.

 

[The Big Shrimp]

Sometimes I think our fans should support Manure & be glory hunters there.

Sturrock has worked wonders at our club, & as much as I liked Tilly, he would have got us relegated to the Conference if he had stayed. Sturrocks contacts have got us the players we have on loan. Tilly didn't have the contacts that Sturrock does & with RM screwing up the finances, he wouldn't have coped!

 

[Jam_Man]

Sometimes I think our fans should support Manure & be glory hunters there.

Nonsense comment. Its because people are passionate about our club and not a big club that they care. If we dont aspire to win games and get promoted whats the point ?

Sturrock has worked wonders at our club,

In the first two seasons he did, being 8th in the league and getting 1 point out of 3 home games isnt doing wonders.

& as much as I liked Tilly, he would have got us relegated to the Conference if he had stayed.

Again nonsense. Tilson got us relegated at a time when the money situation was far far worse than Sturrock has had to deal with. I do think at the end of that season he could have kept us up but to say we would have been relegated again is over the top.

Sturrocks contacts have got us the players we have on loan. Tilly didn't have the contacts that Sturrock does & with RM screwing up the finances, he wouldn't have coped!

Agreed, Sturrock has much better contacts and certainly got players Tilson did, yet still failed to get us in the play-offs so has has still failed. Saying he did better than Tilson might of is hardly a good defence.

 

[Beefy]

What makes you think that?

If he stays we now know for certain that he is going to be playing the long ball for all home games. He made that clear in his interview the other day.

He didn't actually make that clear. What he said was that he should have reacted sooner and changed styles when we lost the players who made the earlier style work. I'm not sure that you can necessarily read into what he said that we're going to be hitting it long for the rest of the season purely because Gavin Tomlin is now back and he doesn't fit into that style of play.

 

[onceknownasrab]

Sometimes I think our fans should support Manure & be glory hunters there.

Sturrock has worked wonders at our club, & as much as I liked Tilly, he would have got us relegated to the Conference if he had stayed. Sturrocks contacts have got us the players we have on loan. Tilly didn't have the contacts that Sturrock does & with RM screwing up the finances, he wouldn't have coped!

Sturrock has contacts that have got us a myriad of players that are underperforming on a regular basis. Whoopydo!

 

[onceknownasrab]

Nonsense comment. Its because people are passionate about our club and not a big club that they care. If we dont aspire to win games and get promoted whats the point ?


In the first two seasons he did, being 8th in the league and getting 1 point out of 3 home games isnt doing wonders.



Again nonsense. Tilson got us relegated at a time when the money situation was far far worse than Sturrock has had to deal with. I do think at the end of that season he could have kept us up but to say we would have been relegated again is over the top.



Agreed, Sturrock has much better contacts and certainly got players Tilson did, yet still failed to get us in the play-offs so has has still failed. Saying he did better than Tilson might of is hardly a good defence.

Go steady Jam man I keep having to agree with you!:smile:

 

[C'mon you Shrimpers]

Majority surely.

Most people are pretty disillusioned right now.

Why do we bother to have polls on this site if people wilfully ignore the results. You're in the minority.