James Hurst suspended by club
Posted: 20 Nov 2015, 09:07
Regardless of what has and hasn't been made public, the reality was that Hurst was on his way out of the club BEFORE ( he said his goodbyes at the Altrincham away game, remember !) the events of THAT weekend - clearly he (Hurst) had an attitude problem (witness the walk straight down the tunnel when he was subbed off in the Grimsby game) and had a very poor work ethic (not prepared to track back all too often). Unfortunately, what cannot be argued though was the fact that he has been head and shoulders our BEST player this season, simply because of what precious few highlights there have been this season have almost exclusively come from him!
Nico clearly didn't rate him, or like him it seems, as it was noticeable on a couple of occasions in post match interviews with Radio Devon that he singled him out for comments, like when he mocked him by saying something like "even Hursty was tracking back" after one game and then the comment where he said that in the next couple of years he (Hurst) would either be earning a very good living in the Football League or he would be stacking shelves at Tesco's!!! His move to Guiseley suggests that the latter is probably more likely than the former at this stage in his career, but you never know.
As for the incident that happened in Torquay town centre, I am not sure there is anything else to say on the matter quite honestly. David Thomas in the Herald podcast states that as he understands it (and it backs up what I had heard) no charges have been made - and so that is probably the end of the matter. At the end of the day, in cases like this, where you would imagine that drink was involved, if the "victim" of the alleged assault doesn't want to press charges then there is no case to answer.
No doubt Hurst is a very talented player and it is no coincidence in my opinion that two of (probably) our poorest away performances of the season - at Basingstoke and Barrow - have come when he was not in the team. It certainly is a massive call by Nico to let him go, rather than try to patch things up with him, but clearly whatever issues they had have been building up since he took over - and as the poster (Lucy?) informed us recently he (Hurst) has been wanting to leave for around a month or so - well his wish has been granted! How this will effect the team, well I guess we will find out over the coming weeks, hopefully the return of Fairhurst and eventually Marsh, and fingers crossed Campion comes good, will mean that we won't miss him as much as I fear we will!
Nico clearly didn't rate him, or like him it seems, as it was noticeable on a couple of occasions in post match interviews with Radio Devon that he singled him out for comments, like when he mocked him by saying something like "even Hursty was tracking back" after one game and then the comment where he said that in the next couple of years he (Hurst) would either be earning a very good living in the Football League or he would be stacking shelves at Tesco's!!! His move to Guiseley suggests that the latter is probably more likely than the former at this stage in his career, but you never know.
As for the incident that happened in Torquay town centre, I am not sure there is anything else to say on the matter quite honestly. David Thomas in the Herald podcast states that as he understands it (and it backs up what I had heard) no charges have been made - and so that is probably the end of the matter. At the end of the day, in cases like this, where you would imagine that drink was involved, if the "victim" of the alleged assault doesn't want to press charges then there is no case to answer.
No doubt Hurst is a very talented player and it is no coincidence in my opinion that two of (probably) our poorest away performances of the season - at Basingstoke and Barrow - have come when he was not in the team. It certainly is a massive call by Nico to let him go, rather than try to patch things up with him, but clearly whatever issues they had have been building up since he took over - and as the poster (Lucy?) informed us recently he (Hurst) has been wanting to leave for around a month or so - well his wish has been granted! How this will effect the team, well I guess we will find out over the coming weeks, hopefully the return of Fairhurst and eventually Marsh, and fingers crossed Campion comes good, will mean that we won't miss him as much as I fear we will!