| I am not a “Cook out†yet. 17:47 - Sep 11 with 665 views | DombeyBlue |
I am seriously concerned he does not have a plan B!
5-2 down half an hour to go, he still does not change things!
Surely we should have gone 4/4/2 and brought on another striker with Bonne!
Worrying times! |  | | |  |
| I am not a “Cook out” yet. on 17:49 - Sep 11 with 637 views | chrismakin |
TBF he did make a change
Carroll for Chaplin as he knew the game was gone and wanted to stop it being 6/7/8 to Bolton. |  |
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| I am not a “Cook out” yet. on 17:49 - Sep 11 with 641 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
If you listened to the early podcasts when we signed cook, the Pompey and Wigan fans said there was no plan B and no chance of a change in formation.
Don't expect to see a change to 442. |  |
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| I am not a “Cook out” yet. on 17:51 - Sep 11 with 594 views | J2BLUE |
I always found it a little odd that an incoming manager had one preferred formation.
Surely the point is to change and adapt? |  |
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| I am not a “Cook out” yet. on 17:54 - Sep 11 with 563 views | chrismakin |
| I am not a “Cook out” yet. on 17:51 - Sep 11 by J2BLUE |
I always found it a little odd that an incoming manager had one preferred formation.
Surely the point is to change and adapt? |
Who ever ends up coming in and what ever point. Imagine they do like a proper 2 or 3 uptop with Piggot, Bonne etc available. Having 1 of them sat on the bench is crazy really | |
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| I am not a “Cook out” yet. on 17:57 - Sep 11 with 514 views | billlm |
You should be, cook out |  | | |
| I am not a “Cook out” yet. on 17:58 - Sep 11 with 513 views | J2BLUE |
| I am not a “Cook out” yet. on 17:54 - Sep 11 by chrismakin |
Who ever ends up coming in and what ever point. Imagine they do like a proper 2 or 3 uptop with Piggot, Bonne etc available. Having 1 of them sat on the bench is crazy really |
Quite possibly.
I looked at our team today pre kick off and thought wow that defence! Wow that midfield pairing! Wow that attack!
I would we would have 15-19 points by this stake. | |
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| I am not a “Cook out” yet. on 18:05 - Sep 11 with 464 views | Swansea_Blue |
Sod plan B. It’s plan A that’s the problem. |  |
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| I am not a “Cook out” yet. on 18:30 - Sep 11 with 351 views | jayessess |
Sadly, although we should and have to play out the string with Cook, I'm not seeing how the systemic problems we've got are going to be solved. Evans and Harper don't hurt the opposition, don't control play, don't press well, don't cover the full backs, don't pick up 2nd balls. They make last season's midfield look like Makelele and Kante. They were amongst our earliest recruits and if they don't know what they're supposed to be doing off the ball at the moment, they aren't suddenly going to learn. There's no adaptation to these obvious fact, no attempts to use our shape to adapt to it.
I keep ticking off things Cook seemingly can't do.
- improving players he inherited X
- get adequate team performances from inadequate players X
- motivating/managing players on a bad run X
- react and adapt to opposition superiority X
- balance a team with missing players X
Maybe Morsy is a cure all. Maybe Cook just slow burns his way to a team that works. Maybe one win turns it round.
But at the moment, I've seen this movie and the ending is very predictable. |  |
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