Superhursty7 Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 Now we know the manger we need to back him with a decent backroom staff safe to say Derek Stillie is not going anywhere unless he gets a seat in parliament (Tory b******), I'm assuming the boy from Morton he will be assistant but I still feel we need at least one more there like McCall had. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayrmad Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 5 minutes ago, D'Jaffo said: So you’d rather go for someone we weren’t talking about just for the excitement factor. Hate to break it to you but clubs don’t appoint managers just to excite fans. We all had our own preferences but I think it was always going to be someone like McIntyre or Hopkin. No, I'd rather we went for someone we weren't talking about that makes everyone go wow, not every time, but once would be bloody great before I'm pan bread. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMIP Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 Have we really just appointed the guy who built the Morton team we watched on Saturday? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D'Jaffo Posted March 11, 2021 Author Share Posted March 11, 2021 Smith has been saying he wants us to be a stable Championship club over the next couple seasons, then push on. Feck knows. If Hopkin can do that then he deserves more time. He’s effectively got to keep us up and at least make an actual challenge for the playoffs next season. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 6 minutes ago, rorymac7 said: Very underwhelming. Long ball football galore incoming. Gets my support obviously but I’m surprised there weren’t better candidates. You can only play the cards you're dealt, I don't think it would be possible to play "long ball football" with our squad of players, well, certainly not successfully. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UpInTheAyr Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 7 minutes ago, D'Jaffo said: So you’d rather go for someone we weren’t talking about just for the excitement factor. Hate to break it to you but clubs don’t appoint managers just to excite fans. We all had our own preferences but I think it was always going to be someone like McIntyre or Hopkin. Sometimes they do, i.e Rangers 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D'Jaffo Posted March 11, 2021 Author Share Posted March 11, 2021 Doesn't matter now. Had my wee moan and now it's full backing for the guy. It's not an obviously outright terrible appointment like a MacPherson or someone like that and with the right resources Hopkin will hopefully do OK.Aye I’m the same. I’m not ecstatic but I said before so long as it wasn’t a completely terrible appointment I’d be fine. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UpInTheAyr Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 I'm fine with the appointment, I'm sure he'll steer us out of trouble at least. After a rancid transfer window at Morton he can't do any damage that way this season and hopefully he's learnt from that 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D'Jaffo Posted March 11, 2021 Author Share Posted March 11, 2021 I think one thing we’ve learned from this that we should already have known is Scott Burns is never wrong 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie_M Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 2 minutes ago, Superhursy7 said: Now we know the manger we need to back him with a decent backroom staff safe to say Derek Stillie is not going anywhere unless he gets a seat in parliament (Tory b******), I'm assuming the boy from Morton he will be assistant but I still feel we need at least one more there like McCall had. We only had one other coach in addition to Hopkin and McElhone, Dave Timmins the GK coach/super scout (ROFL) who Hopkin brought up from England and who walked at the same time as him. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superhursty7 Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 I've also said he would not be my first pick but wither it was Martindale who was the brains or not he was still in charge of a team that won back to back promotions to the top league 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grazza Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 14 minutes ago, HMIP said: Have we really just appointed the guy who built the Morton team we watched on Saturday? Get the feeling he had to scrape the barrel with budget Morton had. £300 a week average wage would arguably get better squad going part time on that budget. Then he was asked to make further cuts. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMIP Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 3 minutes ago, Superhursy7 said: I've also said he would not be my first pick but wither it was Martindale who was the brains or not he was still in charge of a team that won back to back promotions to the top league Depends what you mean by “in charge”. Seems clear that Martindale’s remit went far beyond a typical assistant manager and was more like director of football/operations. Suggestion was that he was in charge of recruitment and was involved in coaching. Kenny Miller’s shot spell seemed to end over tensions around who was picking the team. Martindale’s bubble seems to be bursting already so who knows what the split of responsibility was. Cynical view is that they weren’t sure he could pass the fit and proper test and therefore needed a front man that Miller in particular wasn’t willing to accept. Hopkins subsequent failure at Bradford and Morton doesn’t make him an obvious choice for us. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 All those days of pointless cock-teasing, only for The Famous to mic drop the entire exercise 12 hours in advance. You hate to see it happen. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie_M Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 1 minute ago, grazza said: Get the feeling he had to scrape the barrel with budget Morton had. £300 a week average wage would arguably get better squad going part time on that budget. Then he was asked to make further cuts. No dice. He assembled a squad of 22 (TWENTY TWO) that comprised 1 GK, 5 defenders (only one of which was a full back), 6 CMs, 9 'forwards' (none of which were strikers) and whatever the f**k a Rabin Omar is. The budget did not constrain him, ineptitude did. He was told to make cuts but didn't want to make any and actually wanted to add another 4 (probably ineffective forwards). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superhursty7 Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 Depends what you mean by “in charge”. Seems clear that Martindale’s remit went far beyond a typical assistant manager and was more like director of football/operations. Suggestion was that he was in charge of recruitment and was involved in coaching. Kenny Miller’s shot spell seemed to end over tensions around who was picking the team. Martindale’s bubble seems to be bursting already so who knows what the split of responsibility was. Cynical view is that they weren’t sure he could pass the fit and proper test and therefore needed a front man that Miller in particular wasn’t willing to accept. Hopkins subsequent failure at Bradford and Morton doesn’t make him an obvious choice for us. Get the Bradford thing but plenty of Scottish managers have went down there failed and came back to rebuild their reputation look at Jack Ross at Hibs. No offense to Morton fans but reading Hopkins account of the basket case the club was when he left you have to give him the benefit of the doubt, I don't like the style of football he plays but he doesn't really have the players to play hoofball at the moment. We just need to trust Smith and hope he's got this correct. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayrunitedfw Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 Will be interesting to see how many Morton Jobbers we sign in the summer. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roxanne's man Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 Anything is better than Mark Roberts, let's be honest 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 5 minutes ago, grazza said: Get the feeling he had to scrape the barrel with budget Morton had. £300 a week average wage would arguably get better squad going part time on that budget. Then he was asked to make further cuts. He was asked to get rid of five to six players before he could strengthen the squad because he had assembled a squad with ten attacking midfielders and five defenders and most of the former have barely kicked a ball. Hopkin had a tight budget (though significantly boosted by the fans' group) and squandered it on utter shite. He was at least 50% responsible for the disastrous summer transfer window, and I'm no fan of our board. 20 minutes ago, Jamie_M said: We only had one other coach in addition to Hopkin and McElhone, Dave Timmins the GK coach/super scout (ROFL) who Hopkin brought up from England and who walked at the same time as him. Diamond Dave and his big mate Sam Ramsbottom incoming please. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnydun Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 Swapped the Hot Potato for someone who resembles a Hot Potato... A Hot Potato. David Hopkin. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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