Hopkin.... should he stay or should he go now

You must be a world class grudge holder. He did well for you, got tapped up, as it goes, who'd have thought that?

There is no hope for us, you could give us Hurst and the best 3 players in their position in L1, we are still going down.

 

Mate Penn and Teller couldn't sort this shower of shite out.

 

The revolving door will stop once Abbott gets his promotion
He should have left with McCall but didn't and is the reason Hopkin didn't bring in his own staff If you think it's bad now just wait till he is given the job

 

Optimistic then?

 

You missed off option ..should go, because he has the worst managerial stats of any City manager in history

 

He's inherited one of the worse squads in our history,

 

Maybe he has. But still inferior stats than Collins with same squad, and we all thought he was out if his depth.
Hopkin is clearly out of his depth at this level too

 

Hopkin over Collins for me.

 

Is it THE same squad? And given time Collins would have achieved similar stat status IMO. You have an uncanny ability to bark up the wrong tree.

 

I can’t see Hurst and Doig pitching up at VP whilst Edin is in town.

 

Of course it's the same squad, bar Jim O'Brien. Barking up the wrong tree?..go on then, tell me which is the right tree

 

Hopkin has done nothing to change things infact as the stats show his record is worse than Collins. He has not even got as far as making us difficult to beat !. But this squad is "a pile of dogs doings," and would struggle in League 2 ! so for me I think Hopkin should go if nothing more than to save his own plummeting reputation. Is he a bad manager ? I'd like to think not ? he worked well at Livingstone but he certainly has his work cut out with this group of players and has to work with Abbott and the remnants of the old "failed regime". So he might have to go simply to save himself the ignomy of it all.
If he does go; then presumably Abbott will get what he's always wanted ...somehow I kind take a perverse pleasure out of the thought of Abbott being left to sort his own mess out ! Least we can then hurl pelters at the people responsible for this shambolic ruination of our football club Rahic & Abbott !

 

O'Connor...really...he doesn't defend, he just backs off and backs off and lets his man run into the area or have a shot...for a CB he seems to be poor in the air defensively...

 

There's an obvious reply to that one...….

 

It virtually is the same squad, give or take a player here and there yes. Riley, Chicksen and Akpan featured more for Collins than they have for Hopkin but I would argue Hopkin has benefited from Chicksen being out because Wood is shaping up to be a better player then him. Collins had Colville for a few games who did well, but Hopkin has had Luke O'Brien who has also done well, and when Akpan and Wright were injured, he had Jim O'Brien who is better than both of them.

 

I'd love Hurst if Hopkin went. Shrewsbury were bottom when he took over in October and he saved them and then improved them year after.

We need that experience at this level. Not saying its Hopkin's fault but if he does walk we need to act quick

 

Tbf to Hopkin, you just have to look at the state of our bench today. Barely a league appearance between them, and Isherwood making his league debut. The squad has got worse from the Collins era.

He has inherited a squad without a front man to lead the line. A squad drafted together with some sort of 433/343 fast fluid football vision, using wing backs etc. Unfortunately, we haven't got the players remotely capable of this. We have the league one equivalent of a man turning up for a gun fight with letter opener.

I'd have hoped we might have scraped a win or two more, but I don't blame DH at all. He has nothing to work with on the pitch or on his staff.