| Sigh 06:56 - Aug 11 with 539 views | Asa |
People judging a proven manager on last season (when every player had stopped playing for him, were only interested in not getting injured to get a deal elsewhere and the majority have ended up dropping into League Two such is their quality) and two games into this season, with an entirely new squad, where we’ve created 38 chances to the oppositions 14 and played some of the best football we’ve seen for many years.
To be honest I expected two disjointed performances with players who have never even trained together and we’ve played some lovely stuff at times and created chances galore. Last night we looked great with a load of kids thrown in too, who immediately fitted the identity we are creating.
Cook goes to clubs and makes them infinitely better to watch and infinitely better in terms of points. He’s been allowed to build a squad of (mostly) Championship level players to get us out of League One. Anybody questioning the fact we’ve had mixed results so far isn’t cut out for anything but instant success. Perhaps following PSG as well might help pacify a bit?
When Cook’s team has settled a few weeks after August ends and the window shuts and they have 10-15 games then by all means get angry and upset if we aren’t in the mix. At that stage there won’t be any excuses and the CEO and owners will most certainly act. But when Ashton, Cook and everybody else is calling for unity and to get behind the side, the small minority (and it is a very small minority that cannot see what’s truly going on) only harm what we supposedly all want to achieve.
We’ve got a fantastic manager at this level (not a Jewell or Lambert with their mixed bag or a Hurst who has done it for a smaller time in the lower divisions) and a fantastic squad at this level. A guy that immediately saw all the issues we did that previous managers had overlooked or ignored. A guy brave enough to rip out the rotten core of this club with the owners support. The football is immediately better. We are creating chances galore with the new system. For goodness sake give it some time to actually have a chance of success instead of demanding it in the face of some pretty mental extenuating circumstances, namely the majority being with an entirely want-away squad.
If this minority cannot see the difference between the opening two games and the last few months of last season, it’s almost impossible to point out. We’d all like to win instantly. But I, for one, am really encouraged by how much we’ve improved so quickly and hugely excited by the coming months.
As for anybody blaming Cook for us not scoring in a match where we had 25 shots and the team he selected and the tactics he selected would win us that game by a mile on most occasions, where to even begin!
COYB. [Post edited 11 Aug 2021 7:08]
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| Sigh on 08:04 - Aug 11 with 414 views | HighgateBlue |
It is too early to draw any conclusions on Cook's tenure, even counting last season (which does count by the way, one cannot simply ignore it). I agree entirely with that, of course.
Two matches this season in which we have achieved awful results is too few from which to draw any conclusions about this version of the Town team. It is silly to write Cook off based on two results, but it is equally silly to conclude positively in his favour after those two results.
It remains a fact that we did fail to score last night, that Cook has had a blank canvas to draw on, financial support in bringing players in, and that he alone has chosen to have only one up front. Let's focus on what happens, and not desperately conclude in Cook's favour that what he did last night "would win us that game by a mile on most occasions". There will be no open top bus parade in May to celebrate that we would have won the league on most occasions if we had scored more goals. We didn't score at home against Newport, we didn't beat Morecambe at home. Nobody is expecting PSG, and the needless hyperbole on both sides of the argument does not help.
The Morecambe result was down to poor defending. It is impossible to conclude on the basis of 2 games that we have improved in that area. Quite impossible. We've had two home games against teams that are not as good as many that we will face this season. Cook got rid of our captain CB and our player of the year CB. Big risks. They may pay off, they may not. Let's judge him on facts. If it's too soon to write him off (which it is), then it's too soon to conclude there's been a massive improvement. I am hopeful that there will in time be a massive improvement, however. |  | | |
| Sigh on 08:27 - Aug 11 with 361 views | Fixed_It |
Those 'fans' are the only thing likely to endanger our progress. We've had our fill of negativity. Time to get behind the project and embrace the the future. |  |
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