MICHAEL Collins has been urged to think hard about whether he wants to be a boss again after his swift sacking by City.

Collins was axed on Monday after just six league games following City’s stuttering start to the season.

Replacement David Hopkin will be formally unveiled to the media at Valley Parade today as he prepares to take his new side to Blackpool this weekend.

He arrives at the club after winning successive promotions with Livingston in Scotland.

In contrast, Collins was fast-tracked into the hot-seat from the role of under-18 coach.

Former City skipper David Wetherall believes the 32-year-old now needs to take his time about what he looks to do next.

Wetherall stepped away from management after a difficult spell in caretaker charge when the Bantams were relegated to the bottom tier in 2007. He is currently the EFL head of youth development.

He said: “Michael probably wants to still be a manager or head coach but that’s the first thing he has to decide.

“Having had this taste of it, the reality can be very different to the perception.

“Does he want to be a first-team manager or someone in football charged with developing players rather than getting results? They are two extremely different approaches.

“Because of his age and the fact he had been playing, he had very little experience as a coach, never mind leading the first team.

“Most people will have a level of grounding as a coach they can fall back on in the first few weeks of the job. Looking from the outside, I’m sure that would have been a real challenge for Michael.

“He was obviously highly-thought of within the club as a coach. But in terms of time spent out on the grass learning that trade, he had very little experience to be given such a senior position.”

Collins had not put himself forward for the City job before being handed the chance to end the club’s six-week search for a successor to Simon Grayson in June.

But Wetherall does not blame him for accepting it.

“Michael will have known the challenge and the ideal scenario to take that step into first-team football would be to have more experience as a coach,” he added.

“But if that’s where you want your career to go, you’ve got to take those opportunities because they might not come knocking again.

“Everybody who had ambitions in that area would grab it with both hands and trust that things would work out positively.

“My advice would be to assess the experience and where you want to go now. Is it still as a first-team head coach or something else in football like trying to be the best under-18s or under-23 coach in the country?

“There’s only Michael can decide that. He obviously made a really good impression in his short coaching career before being appointed.

“Or is he going to keep faith in his ability and I’m sure that’s not changed in the circumstances even though he was only in the head coach position for a very short period.

“I’m sure it’s been a bit off a crash course in the role.

“There’s a lot to learn as he assesses what’s happened over the last few months to help propel him forward in his career.”

Hopkin has become City’s fourth different boss in 2018 – a revolving-door policy that underlines the team’s poor record since the turn of the year.

Wetherall said: “It’s a tough industry and can be ruthless, particularly as a head coach/manager.

“There’s a commonly-quoted saying that you are always six games from the sack.

“Things happen very quickly and you don’t typically get time to build.”