According to Holley & Chalk's "The Alphabet of the Saints he was "always on the brink of establishing himself in the first eleven".
The following season, Wolves continued to challenge at the top of the table; they would eventually finish in 4th place, but Hoskins surprisingly left Molineux to take up the secretary-manager's post at Gillingham in March 1926.
He spent almost three seasons at Gillingham, with the side always struggling in the lower reaches of Division Three (South) and left in 1929.
Following his departure from Gillingham, Hoskins was announced in the press as the new manager of Torquay United.
[3] He later worked as a trainer, coach and scout for a number of non-league sides up to the start of the war in 1939, at which point he left football.