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O’Connor bad attitude, crap performances and laughig at fans. Making jokes in the dressing room allegedly after a 3-2 defeat which pretty much condemns us to go down.

Slagged off fans at his old club didn’t he? Worst captain ever. Get rid.

Get p O’Connor in on Saturday

 

Maybe he hasn't, it could have been a very ill judged and poorly timed attempt at a joke. Given the seriousness of the situation we are in, I don't think Hopkin would have reacted to that well.

 

Hopkin's first error was making him captain. Second error was not getting at least one other centre back in during January that we can actually use without having to drop another loan player further up the park. Third error probably dawned on him after Saturday's little incident and is linked to one and two. He didn't feel like he could continue to work with O'Connor but equally, he couldn't freeze him out like he had done with Wright and Riley. As Trevor says, it only takes one bad apple.

 

no, not a club employee.. what comment is it that you are referring to?

i haven’t started these rumours, all i’ve done is pick up on what has been said on social media and on this forum. i wasn’t the first and i’m not the only person to have mentioned an incident in either the changing rooms or the bus, in fact these rumours were going around days before i mentioned them and were mentioned by other posters on here and people on social media before i did. i have no idea if they are true or not, the only thing i know is that from where i was in the bescott stadium last week i didn’t see anthony o’connor laughing - what i did see was a player slump to his knees as the final whistle blew, gutted that we’d lost another match.

what i am saying is that there are a maximum no of people who are within the inner sanctum of the changing rooms and team bus. if someone from one of those two settings has leaked what should be in-house information to fans who then put it on social media then they should be reprimanded by the club too, just like anthony o’connor seems to have been if the rumours of what has occurred are true.

all players and staff should know what goes on in the dressing room should stay in the dressing room end of story. if o’connor has acted unarcodingly then punish him, if a player or member of staff has leaked what happened then punish them too.

all this has done is stir up more bad blood, more animosity, more dislike and argument between fans who have no idea what has actually happened and it’s the last thing the players selected for today or martin drury and the coaching staff need.

can only imagine the atmosphere down on the south coast if any players were on social media last night or today. farcical.

 

Can't argue with any of that mate. They should (but won't) be totally ashamed of themselves.

 

Excellent Post
Footballers these days are pampered spoilt children and have the power to destroy managers
Perfectly Bourne out by Kepa in yesterday's cup final they have no regulator they play bad they still get paid they get nowhere near the first team they still get paid the only thing i ever agreed with Mr I Know Football was that a large percentage of their wages would be paid in win bonuses
It's not unique to us look at Man Utd they get a manager the players like and all of a sudden it's lift off time,surely the governing bodies could have some input
I think we have bigger problems at the club than the players any manager worth his salt would want to see committment from the heirachy and be sure who would be running the club next season and a plan to take the club forward
No one has a clue at the minute we are on a very slippery slope and maybe some of these players if they stick with us will get what they deserve a place on the bench in the National League North

 

That’s not like him as he’s been one of the better players recently.

 

Sounds like it Keefly but to be fair to him he has been one of the few successful additions to the team

 

Most of the players need to follow the Yellow Brick Road. Don't deserve any applause when they take to the field this Saturday.

 

When David arrived, the players were unfit and useless. Now they are fit.

 

I think they tried on Saturday. Too many fans see they lost and hurl abuse saying how lazy they all are. Not really the case here.

But did they have the extra commitment that Walsall showed?

Again a mixture of giving up pathetic goals and missing chance after chance cost us. {and their first goal was a foul}

The whole squad is so disjointed. I'm not sure Hopkin added to it sensibly to give us anything different.

 

The squad is mainly disjointed due to Rahic because of his recruitment over his tenure and the financial mess he left the club. It left Rhodes and Hopkin in a straight jacket since he went especially for the January's transfer window.

 

I was at Walsall and this in my opinion is an excellent assessment.
There was a huge amount of effort from the whole team - and especially from the loanees (who others (wrongly) appear to be blaming for lack of effort or character). Not so - they all worked their socks off - though Butterfield has an unfortunate "saunter" to his approach I am convinced he too was really putting in a shift. Although he didn't feature on Saturday the other loanee Miller is a real trier too.
Its the shape that is the problem. Witness Caddis having to push on to give us width. It leaves a huge hole for Walsall to have an easy out ball that ultimately leads to conceding two horrendously soft goals.

I was at Walsall and I felt the players gave it their all. They absolutely dominated the home team, it was frankly like a training exercise we were so on top (red card helped, granted). Butterfield ran the game, as you'd expect. Everything good came through him. But we didn't get the goals our dominance suggested we should have.

However, we were defensively appalling, especially from set-plays. Did they switch off? It looked that way. The third goal is horrendous. It should never have even got to being a corner for them. Chicksen could have cleared a long ball, but he tried bringing it down and failed to do so, they won the corner. And then chuff knows what ROD is doing in goal. It's a great delivery, but that's his ball to punch.

There's quality in this side, in midfield especially, and we've some decent enough second strikers. What we don't have are proper wingers who will take a man on, or get back to help their full-backs.
We don't have a proper target man who will hold the ball up to allow our quality midfielders to push on and feed off seconds.
But worst of all, I don't rate any of the defenders, except Mellor who's not been available.

Still enough decent options in the right system and playing the appropriate style to finish fifth bottom. Let's hope Drury gets a tune out of them on Saturday before the new man arrives.

9 times out of 10 we win that game on Saturday. Not having it that they don't try/care. They just failed. It wasn't a lack of effort, in my opinion.

Let's pull together as one and assess the bullshine in the summer, once we've stayed up.[/QUOTE]

 

Perhaps he realised that the players had already thrown theirs in ?
If so ............Hopkin possibly had (like a few of us in our own jobs) one of those moments that screamed - "Why in the Hell am I doing this ? All this wasted time and effort ............................. Feck it - I'm gone ..... " ?
(I've been there and done it myself.)

 

We've all worked in places where a bad atmosphere descends and no one wants to be there. You could probably talk forever about what has led us to this situation but the buck should only ever stop at Rahic. He brought players to the club who, for whatever reason, have decided they can't even be bothered to play for personal pride. They need to go, the club needs to move on and the fans are going to need patience to see us get out of this mess, inevitably now, from League Two. It's bigger than one man and one man alone will never be able to fix it.

 

Might be about o’connor and a scoring bonus?

 

Disagree with some of that I don’t think it’s down to lack of effort or desire from the players. More to do with being poor in vital areas of the pitch the whole spine of the team is poor apart from midfield.
Goalkeeper average
Centre halves poor
Forwards crap

 

I'm not one to look for a scapegoat buts it's that Bloody Chicksen again isn't it

 

Any thing to do with a comment one of the players made on the players coach coming home from Walsall @Faithful Bantam .