Tom Hopper In The Groove
Hopper is a player I’ve been critical of, rightly so I feel. He’s been a long way short of what we should expect from a signing believed to be the highest we’ve ever made.
However, he isn’t a bad footballer. If he was, he wouldn’t have been at Southend, nor played regularly for Scunthorpe at this level. To call him ‘crap’ is short-sighted and reactionary. Granted, we’ve not seen anything from him yet but we surely will.
He did talk to me a while back about being played in the right way when he went to Southend, something that saw him scoring regularly at the beginning of last season. If our gameplan aligns with his strengths, then we do have a League One quality striker here. I’d love the time on the training field to give him the confidence and belief he needs to at least form part of an effective attack, even if he isn’t amongst the goals.
Yes it would be very nice to benefit from this break like we did last time.
Also to see some sort of improvent from Hopper and ,,Zack attack”… I won’t be holding my breath though after seeing them play. Not even a glimpse of anything so far….
In my eyes Scully is our biggest hope for improvement. Hopefully after these two weeks on the training ground he will be able to make something happening for us up front. But MA needs to play him on one position though. Preferably as a striker. You can’t change his position every 5mins like MA does at the moment and expect him to do well ….
As for Bridcutt I’m sure he will be fine. Good and experienced player.
Looking forward to see Morrell back too. Great player. When he plays well we play well as a team….
I know also what I would love to NOT see after this break. Hesketh in the team again … Playing him is sabotage……