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That's kinda the whole point.

 

I heard it was the reaction of the other players in hear shot that annoyed Hopkin he was blasting them for a shocking performance and joke or no joke they were taking the piss.

 

not the goal bonus thing, maybe the laughing thing but like i said, i never saw that last weekend.

point being, the bantamsbanter lads are now saying their 'source' was there when he said what it is he is rumoured to have said. considering that it appears to have been said in either the changing rooms or on the bus means that their source is one of a very few number of people; it's not difficult to have an idea of who considering there is only one current player that they seem to have a close relationship with who will have been present at the time. either that or the now ex-manager.

whatever has or has not been said should stay in the dressing room and not leaked to amateur journo's with an influence on social media - look at the reaction now the night and morning before a massive game! if the mole had such a problem with it they should have sorted it out there and then and kept it indoors and not be leaking details of what goes on inside the dressing room. imagine what the atmosphere will be like on the bus, in the hotel and in the changing room now - it will be carnage and make todays task even harder for drury and the coaching team.

they're all as bad as each other.

 

I wonder why the players forget all the newspaper rhetoric and playing up to the fans just before the game starts, then put in an exact opposite performance to what they're intimating?

 

Ha 5 if you include Drury and Abbott

 

So Hopkin has resigned on the basis of a poor defence.

It’s almost as if he lost his bottle. It’s such a shame - we have Mellor back in the squad, Callum Woods can’t be far off.

I can’t believe he’s snapped so much he wanted to resign. Granted it was a shit result, but I feel he’s just taken the easy option and given up too readily.

We’ve had some OK results recently if you take away Fleetwood. Shrewsbury doesn’t seem
2 minutes ago.

I feel Hopkin was slowly but surely getting there. I’m disappointed in him for going. Just seems like such a waste after all the efforts he’s gone to to try and build up the club again

He’s done things off the pitch to get us going the right way and brought in his own staff only to throw it away on the back of one bad game. And now we have to start again. Can’t help but feeling it’s curtains for us now. Relegation would set us back 10 years. We’ll be back to having 7,000 crowds rattling around an empty stadium with no money, and playing bloody Macclesfield and Cheltenham. I can’t face that again.

 

Thank you for your game report. Sometimes we get lost in the emotions when we thought we would win this needed to win this game, but then lost to ten men.

 

Drury is pep guardiola.

3-0 Pompey at weekend?

 

No matter who comes in as Manager ............ I doubt things will change much ........... The games are tough, and time is running out.
Unless the new bloke has a cabinet full of BCAFC DVD's, he too will need time to assess and judge ....... time is running out.
By the time the team start to play as a team - It could be too late. I'm not being pessimistic if I suggest City could be 10 points from safety, come the end of March .............. time is running out.

THIS is where the 'appointed one' is crucial. I go with the suggestion of many, in that we appoint someone with a view of Lge 2 football next season. To appoint a Manager to 'save us' could actually be a long term downfall. The guy needs to just do his best, and demonstrate some form of improvement to give us all hope for next year. Because like it or not - Many of these under performing players will still be with us next season.

 

Which is essentially what I said ?

 

Yes I’m agreeing with you

 

I think he became ‘frozen’ worried how poorly our defence was playing but then worried about replacing them with untried or barely better players. My main concern was his lack of bravery. When we were 7 points adrift, he went for it, nothing to loose type attitude, and it worked. Then For some reason put the brakes on for the Barnsley game. It then became a vicious circle.

 

Anderson isn't on loan

 

Blaming the players is nonsense, They play to orders as professionals and the systems that Hopkin continued to use with a narrow formation with no wingers or hoof ball to a CF we do not have did not suit them at all, He played round pegs in square holes and played players that were just not good enough to keep been selected and ignored others, His tactics were woeful and he was unable to react to other teams changes, Our players were hung out to dry by him but nether the less kept trying, Blaming them is well wide of the mark.

 

He wouldn’t be the worst short term appointment ever. Anybody lucky enough to see him play will know what I’m talking about.

 

Maybe Edin moved too far away from small basic large bonuses to large basic small bonuses so it now doesn’t matter what the performance is

 

I agree with both you and @Faithful Bantam, yes the club is and was a shambles and not the best place to try and work. However, honesty and integrity are innate characteristics you either have or you don’t. You still do your bit, and more, because you do not want to be associated with letting yourself down.. I am sure we have all worked in those type of environments throughout our careers, but you just don’t abandon ship. You cajole and find ways to make it work. Caddis is a shining example of someone who has bags of personal integrity, other players have it too. I have a good idea who might be the culprit and it doesn’t surprise me. We need a clear out, but that cannot happen, what we need now is one last push to see if we can get our club out of this relegation mess.

 

You were always calling fans out when things were quoted with regards Edin (the ego) Rahic and his running of our club many turned out to be fact.
You'll be telling us next were undermining the club, I can assure you some of our so called players don't need any help from fans.