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Cook - Positives and Negatives 15:09 - Dec 2 with 620 viewsRobTheMonk

Since Cook has come over this is what I think are both positives and negatives of his tenure so far (and some ugly thrown in):

Positives

- Pretty good track record at this level.
- Was given carte blanche to do what he wanted with the squad during the summer and on paper has brought in some decent players.
- A lot of the games we've drawn this season could quite have easily been wins if not for individual errors.
- We can put in a performance as shown against Pompey and Wymcombe (the caveat being that Pompey were utterly awful).

Negatives

- Awful, awful start and arguably went backwards with Lambert's mess which were challenging for playoffs and not scoring against bottom 8 teams in the process.
- Comments like "The reality is we're not good enough" does nothing for team morale or fan morale. Also, saying that Morsy is basically a footballing messiah and we won't have lacklusture perfomances with him in the team. Massive pressure on Morsy, not a good message to other players.
- What do we do if we're stuggling in the game gaffa? We'll do what we always do lads, we'll play 4-2-3-1. I like 4-2-3-1 but sometimes you need a plan B.
- We buy Fraser who had decent stats with MK Dons and then proceed to play him in every position but the position he played when his numbers were good as he doesn't fit into the 4-2-3-1.
- Fragile mentality. Even when 2-0, we never look comfortable.

There's some things that can't be helped like Coulson being injured and Hladky going from being League 2 goalkeeper of the season, to being a literal doughnut with shots going through his middle.

Ipswich midtable in League 1 at the start of December is a massive failure whichever way you look at it. The vast majority of our squad have years of Championship experience between them and we're languishing in mid table rolling over to Rotherham, having them tickle our tummy.

We're reaching a tipping point. There's still a lot of people who want Cook to stay but we have to be taking at least 4 points in the next two games and put in a half decent performance.

It's just frustrating as we all thought we'd be flying this season but it's just been tough to watch at times.
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Cook - Positives and Negatives on 15:12 - Dec 2 with 593 viewsitfcjoe

Positives
Seems a good guy, and passionate

Negatives
Can't win football matches

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Cook - Positives and Negatives on 15:14 - Dec 2 with 573 viewsCrockerITFC

- Positives -

- Likes tea/coffee

- Negatives -

- Is not performing to the minimum level of expectancy
- Can't seem to coach the team
- No consistency in performances
- Doesn't know his best 11
- Tactically inept
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Cook - Positives and Negatives on 15:30 - Dec 2 with 531 viewsFixed_It

Cook - Positives and Negatives on 15:12 - Dec 2 by itfcjoe

Positives
Seems a good guy, and passionate

Negatives
Can't win football matches


Although your negatives should read 'can't win football matches at the moment, but has a very good record previously that suggests he can and will'.

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Cook - Positives and Negatives on 15:33 - Dec 2 with 520 viewsitfcjoe

Cook - Positives and Negatives on 15:30 - Dec 2 by Fixed_It

Although your negatives should read 'can't win football matches at the moment, but has a very good record previously that suggests he can and will'.


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Cook - Positives and Negatives on 15:36 - Dec 2 with 496 viewshype313

Cook - Positives and Negatives on 15:30 - Dec 2 by Fixed_It

Although your negatives should read 'can't win football matches at the moment, but has a very good record previously that suggests he can and will'.


The thing is, like in any walk of life, you are only as good as your last game, last month etc.

He has all the attributes and experience to be successful, but so far he hasn't shown that by a long shot.

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Cook - Positives and Negatives on 15:47 - Dec 2 with 462 viewsIllinoisblue

As Joe said, the negative is he can’t win football matches. Everything else is largely irrelevant. I would still love for him to turn it around - when he talks about having a few beers on away days you know he gets what football means to a lot of people. Problem is he sounds more like a fan than a manager at the moment.

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Cook - Positives and Negatives on 15:55 - Dec 2 with 427 viewsSharkey

Positives: First halves
Negatives: Second halves
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