After another poor run between mid-October and the end of November, during which the team lost five out of six games and dropped to 19th, the directors appointed Steve Smith as player-manager.

Although the team won their first game following his appointment, their results in the second half of the season remained inconsistent, with another six-game winless run in February and March.

[7] Billy Morgan, a half-back who had last played for Leicester Fosse, joined the club, as did former Crystal Palace player George Walker, who was expected to replace Joe Walton, a full-back who had been transferred to Chelsea.

[7] The Athletic News reviewed the club's new-look squad and wrote that "with such a list of players, the "Hoppers" should be able to hold their own against most comers".

Cunliffe, Lee, Warrington, Smith, Walker and Morgan all made their debuts in a game which ended in a 1–0 defeat for the home team.

[13][14] Cunliffe added two more goals in New Brompton's first victory of the campaign, a 4–3 win at home to Brighton & Hove Albion on 15 September.

[24] New Brompton's first match following Smith's appointment resulted in a 2–0 victory away to Luton Town on 1 December, ending a winless run which stretched back to mid-October.

[25] A week later they lost 3–0 to Brentford; the Athletic News wrote that New Brompton never recovered from the inauspicious start of Bill Floyd scoring an own goal.

[29] New Brompton began 1907 with a third consecutive defeat and a second in a row without scoring a goal, losing 2–0 to Plymouth at Priestfield Road on 5 January; Morgan missed a penalty kick.

[30] A forward named Daws made his debut in the next league game against Brighton and scored a goal, but New Brompton lost 4–1.

[31] The team's first league win of 1907 came at the fourth attempt on 9 February as goals from Hartley, Bill Godley and Smith gave them a 3–1 victory over fellow strugglers Northampton.

[34] The game, which was originally scheduled to be played on Boxing Day but was postponed due to snow,[35] drew an attendance of only 1,000, the lowest of the season at Priestfield Road.

[12] On 16 February, New Brompton lost 3–0 away to Queens Park Rangers and the team's winless run was extended to four games with 1–1 draws against both Fulham and Southampton.

[39][40] Following a goalless draw with Luton,[41] New Brompton beat Crystal Palace 3–1; Hartley scored all three goals in the victory, the team's only hat-trick of the season.

[45] The match at Burton's ground, Peel Croft, ended in a 0–0 draw,[46] necessitating a replay at Priestfield Road, which took place four days later.

The second match was also goalless at the end of the regulation ninety minutes; New Brompton's Morgan had an apparent goal disallowed for offside.

[48][49] In the second round, New Brompton played Bury of the Football League First Division, who had won the competition twice in the previous seven seasons.

[51] Although the correspondent for the Daily Mirror wrote that New Brompton "played cleverer football" and had repeated shots on goal, the match at Bury's Gigg Lane ground remained goalless until the final minute; with what proved to be the last kick of the game, Peter Gildea scored for Bury to secure a 1–0 victory and eliminate New Brompton from the competition.

[12] FW = Forward, HB = Half-back, GK = Goalkeeper, FB = Full-back Cunliffe, the team's top goalscorer, left the club after a single season and joined Millwall.