Fans call for Hope return

Last updated : 14 December 2005 By Luke Thornhill

The experienced defender is out-of-contract at Gillingham in the summer, and has voiced fears over his inability to impress current caretaker Gills boss Ronnie Jepson because of a calf injury.

Last week Gillingham striker Steve Hislop revealed that the entire first-team at Priestfield are free to leave on a free transfer in January if they can find a club, prompting us to ask in a site poll whether United should try to lure him back to Glanford Park.

Perhaps unsurprisingly more than 80 per cent of voters reckoned that he could help ease the current defensive problems at Glanford Park.

Though, that meant one fifth of voters didn't want to see him return to his old stomping ground.