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Whilst I agree Evans is a horrible man and I wouldn’t want him at the club, his track record is up there with the best of them. As for saying he gets success from spending, not actually true. Spent nothing at Crawley and had success. Spent very little at Rotherham and guided them into the Championship from being in L2. Don’t confuse signing lots of players and moulding his squads with spending shed loads of money.

Other than that, spot on. I wouldn’t want him anywhere near the club

 

All when and good but when you see someone doing the same thing (wrong) time and time again, why would you want to persevere? Yes he needs his own squad of players and won’t get that chance until AT LEAST this summer, but equally continuing to play tactics he hasn’t a squad for does not help.

We were garbage last week for the whole 90mins and he refused to change it. And again yesterday we played similarly for the 1st 45mins. Amazing (and not a surprise to fans), we played much better in the second half when we tried to play football.

That’s why fans are starting to call for his head. If a player makes the same mistake every week, you’d want them out of the team and not given another season. How is it any different for a coach?

 

Maybe @NorthernMonkey is talking about wage budget rather than transfer budget. I don't know the answer but did they sign people on free transfers, out of contract etc?

 

You are missing my point. He didn't say budget for what. You read it as transfer budget, I read it as wage budget.

 

I’ve tried this but fighting a losing battle.

 

You love him really !!!!!

 

I think you've got to look at Hopkins reign as Pre Edin and Post Edin and the league table where we are 8 points adrift was just before Rhodes came in. Since then results have been more of a mid table standard Played 16 points 23 . Not great but a significant improvement.

 

Hang on, he threw around an unsubstantiated claim, was unable to back it up AND was actually incorrect.

Remember, it was HE that told me that I was wrong in the first place, but then posted inaccuracies himself.
Glass houses is correct, but you’re aiming that comment at the wrong person

 

To be fair though Jon, we DID improve and we did climb out of the relegation zone for a short while. However, teams worked out it was easy to play against and since then our form and tactics have been woeful, resulting in us being back in the bottom2.

And don’t forget that thousands are still staying away because of the poor offering on show (actual attendances have been around 10k for a while now).

 

Oh please stop!

So we just allow all of this season targets and aims to go out of the window. What kind of business does that?

Hopkin is responsible for on the pitch matters and is failing at this moment.

We should of just kept Collins if we're going to just make up excuses for on the pitch matters.

Dire football
Clueless tactics
0 goal in 3 games
1 up top.
2nd from bottom.

This has nothing to do with Edin or a 5 year recovery plan.

Hopkin has to go if we go down as he would of failed and won't be the man to lead us back up.

 

I cannot imagine him being interested in leaving his hometown club to join us.

I would look no further than unemployed Paul Hurst

 

Hurst or Evans for me.

 

Whilst you are correct that they spent a fortune in his 4th season and thus ‘buying their way out of non-league’, his net spend after his 5yrs in charge was actually -£35k (earning Crawley a promotion and a small profit);

07/08 - spent £0 - received £30k
08/09 - spent £15k - received £120k
09/10 - spent £0 - received £0
10/11 - spent £910k - received £75k
11/12 - spent £245k - received £980k

 

Why would he even consider coming to City.

Plus the track record of past players as our management hasn’t brought any success recently.

 

Go on then Monkey, how do you know he had a top4 budget (twice)? You’re their accountant, right?

In his 1st season in charge of Rotherham, he guided them to promotion from League2 without spending a penny on transfer fees. In fact he ended the season +£370k after selling Grabban to Bournemouth.

He spent £159k in his 1st season in League1, finishing 4th and winning the PO final. So in his 2yrs at that point, he was still £211k in profit on transfers, delivering back to back promotions. What worth were those 2 promotions and did that offset any wage bills spent during those 2 seasons?

Now in the Championship, this is where they then spent big. And even then, after taking into consideration their player sales, they still only ended with a circa £170k loss in the transfer market.

In his 2nd season in the Championship (2015/16), he was replaced in the September.

So I ask again Monkey, how the frig did he manage to have a top4 budget TWICE in League1, when he only spent one season in that league....!

I think it might be YOU that is “wrong on Rotherham”!!!!!

 

You’ve completely missed the point. He said and I quote “... twice had top4 budgets in League1”. Rotherham, under Evans, only spent 1 season in League1 so impossible to have 2 top 4 budgets. No?

And as I’ve said, how does he know what their player budget was? And for that matter, what their net spend was for those seasons.

Surely if he’s going to tell me I’m wrong, I have every right to ask him to back his claim up?

 

Ignore the frigging budget.... concentrate on the flaw in the argument.....!

How can he have had the 4th highest L1 budget for TWO SEASONS when they were only in L1 for ONE SEASON...!

Is it REALLY that difficult to grasp???

 

The club did have budgets in the top 4 of league one twice. Evans might not have been there for the second one though so yep, made a mistake there.