| Desperate managers talk b*llocks part 488488929 09:52 - Oct 15 with 3395 views | Bluefish |
Paul Cook - “And like we tell the players all the time, “It’s your shirt to give up. When we give you the shirt, we don’t want to take it off you’.
Also Paul Cook - Quizzed on that selection dilemma, Cook said: “We’ll just keep our cards close to our chest. We’ve got an extremely strong squad, I think competition for places is there for everyone to see.
“Personally, as a manager, I’ve always felt competition should always drive performance up. I think that’s a real key ingredient to what good clubs have, that you fear for your place.
“If Bersant wasn’t to start tomorrow, that’s obviously tough after you’ve been away playing international football, of course. But obviously Conor’s come in and taken that chance.
“I think one of the big things with the three games coming up this week, three very tough fixtures starting off at Cambridge, I think we’ve going to have to utilise the squad in certain areas to get the best level of performance we can and the most points we can accumulate.”
Fans don’t always agree with managers rotating their squads, preferring bosses to stick with a winning XI even when games are coming thick and fast and Cook has sympathy with that view.
“I’d probably be in the fans’ way of thinking, if I’m being brutally truthful,” he said. “But if you look at the performance at Accrington after we’d won against Doncaster, then that probably goes against the grain.
“As a manager, you’re probably damned if you do and damned if you don’t, aren’t you, because the result becomes paramount.
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| Desperate managers talk b*llocks part 488488929 on 14:50 - Oct 15 with 362 views | Herbivore |
| Desperate managers talk b*llocks part 488488929 on 12:34 - Oct 15 by Darth_Koont |
People were right to be concerned about the poor start this season. Since then we’ve become one of the form sides in the division and without really playing that well with the ball except in flashes.
But strange to see the biggest critics dig their heels in even more now. Almost as if it’s about holding on to their opinion regardless. |
We're yet to win back to back league games under Cook. We've beaten the two worst sides in the division at home. We all want it to be a genuine change of form for the better but let's wait and see. The Donny win looked every inch a false dawn post-Accrington. We need to go on a sustained run and show we can pick up points consistently away from PR. We've achieved nothing yet. |  |
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| Desperate managers talk b*llocks part 488488929 on 15:23 - Oct 15 with 324 views | wkj |
| Desperate managers talk b*llocks part 488488929 on 10:17 - Oct 15 by BlueBadger |
People said that about Paul Lambert and Paul Jewell as well. Fact is, right now, he's failing with a worse win ration than our worst-ever manager.
That *might* change. It might not.
Pretending that he's been anything other than disappointing, right now, is wishful thinking. |
Unlike Lambert and Jewell, he is starting to show an upward trend - that doesn't exactly absolve his starting form, but if we're building to better things from here - then happy days. |  |
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| Desperate managers talk b*llocks part 488488929 on 15:37 - Oct 15 with 298 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| Desperate managers talk b*llocks part 488488929 on 14:42 - Oct 15 by Bluefish |
Up there with you and DK? |
Awwwww cute! |  |
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