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Paul Cook 15:15 - Dec 3 with 5501 viewscleggo

the stick that Cook is getting from the numbskulls on Twitter and here really does beggar belief.

He inherited a team that had no style, couldn’t score and may as well have not bothered turning up against any top of the table sides.

Ok, he’s been backed financially and results haven’t been great.. but we’re half way through a season and up there with the top scorers in the league and had a couple of massive results against good sides. The biggest issues have been solved, now we just need to tighten up at the other end and we’ll be flying. Get a grip and get behind the team!
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Paul Cook on 17:10 - Dec 3 with 1656 viewsIllinoisblue

Paul Cook on 17:00 - Dec 3 by Illinoisblue

He’s been in charge 9 months, still doesn’t know his best team, and we’re still struggling to compete in division three.


ANd we’re still overly reliant on loan players. It wasn’t supposed to be like this

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Paul Cook on 17:13 - Dec 3 with 1651 viewspositivity

Paul Cook on 17:10 - Dec 3 by Illinoisblue

ANd we’re still overly reliant on loan players. It wasn’t supposed to be like this


how many decades since we weren't reliant on loan players though? i think it's something we'll be stuck with for a while longer.

at least some of ours have potential to be bought *if* we go up!

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Paul Cook on 17:21 - Dec 3 with 1632 viewsNthQldITFC

Paul Cook on 16:31 - Dec 3 by cleggo

“Cook has not yet delivered” - we are not even at Christmas yet. What exactly has he not delivered?!


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Paul Cook on 17:24 - Dec 3 with 1625 viewsFixed_It

Paul Cook on 15:41 - Dec 3 by homer_123

"Past performance is no guarantee of future results."

Sometimes change is needed.


Sometimes change makes things worse. I am not a gambling man. I'll stick!

Ready! Steady! Cook!
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Paul Cook on 17:24 - Dec 3 with 1624 viewsitfcjoe

Paul Cook on 17:13 - Dec 3 by positivity

how many decades since we weren't reliant on loan players though? i think it's something we'll be stuck with for a while longer.

at least some of ours have potential to be bought *if* we go up!


We say that every season

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Paul Cook on 17:25 - Dec 3 with 1625 viewshappybeingblue

spot on cleggo,drama queens was a great line as well loads on here and all have a big voice now via youtube etc thinking they speak for everyone, abusing cooky for being scouse and from liverpool which is a great city by the way is pathetic and disrespectful. i have watched a couple of those online shows and turned off very quickly not for me all the bashing of players and the manager,most of them have probably never kicked a ball :)
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Paul Cook on 18:09 - Dec 3 with 1574 viewspositivity

Paul Cook on 17:24 - Dec 3 by itfcjoe

We say that every season


we were never going to get the chalobahs, frasers, gios, lawrences, even if we'd gone up

we might have a chance with walton, celina & bonne (you can't argue that we're over-reliant on barry!)

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Paul Cook on 18:16 - Dec 3 with 1566 viewsHerbivore

Paul Cook on 16:31 - Dec 3 by cleggo

“Cook has not yet delivered” - we are not even at Christmas yet. What exactly has he not delivered?!


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Paul Cook on 18:17 - Dec 3 with 1563 viewsMullet

Paul Cook on 18:09 - Dec 3 by positivity

we were never going to get the chalobahs, frasers, gios, lawrences, even if we'd gone up

we might have a chance with walton, celina & bonne (you can't argue that we're over-reliant on barry!)


You can argue that Barry was part of a chaotic and unnecessary recruitment plan though. Cook gambled massively on this Demolition Man tag and has done more damage to his reputation than anything else.

We've got a keeper who was quickly replaced as 1st choice, a young starlet who can't get a kick, at least 2 midfielders who no longer have any sense of identity or a place in the team. A handful of players in a bomb squad who have no future here.

Woolfenden and KVY seem to have gone backwards massively, the left back situation has unravelled and his own trusted CB in Burgess looks completely off the pace too.

All whilst he can't find a three that fits behind a striker that stopped firing once we lost Burns. To talk about culture etc. as he has when he's ultimately responsible for it, strikes me as a man setting up an exit route.

Really we need to see a bit of fight from him, then maybe that will translate into the players too.

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Paul Cook on 18:20 - Dec 3 with 1553 viewsHerbivore

Paul Cook on 17:25 - Dec 3 by happybeingblue

spot on cleggo,drama queens was a great line as well loads on here and all have a big voice now via youtube etc thinking they speak for everyone, abusing cooky for being scouse and from liverpool which is a great city by the way is pathetic and disrespectful. i have watched a couple of those online shows and turned off very quickly not for me all the bashing of players and the manager,most of them have probably never kicked a ball :)


Paul, you should really be busy preparing for the game tomorrow mate.

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Paul Cook on 18:22 - Dec 3 with 1552 viewsHerbivore

Paul Cook on 18:09 - Dec 3 by positivity

we were never going to get the chalobahs, frasers, gios, lawrences, even if we'd gone up

we might have a chance with walton, celina & bonne (you can't argue that we're over-reliant on barry!)


Lawrence joined Championship side Derby after his loan with us, had we gone up and wanted to why would we not have been able to sign him?

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Paul Cook on 18:25 - Dec 3 with 1533 viewspositivity

Paul Cook on 18:17 - Dec 3 by Mullet

You can argue that Barry was part of a chaotic and unnecessary recruitment plan though. Cook gambled massively on this Demolition Man tag and has done more damage to his reputation than anything else.

We've got a keeper who was quickly replaced as 1st choice, a young starlet who can't get a kick, at least 2 midfielders who no longer have any sense of identity or a place in the team. A handful of players in a bomb squad who have no future here.

Woolfenden and KVY seem to have gone backwards massively, the left back situation has unravelled and his own trusted CB in Burgess looks completely off the pace too.

All whilst he can't find a three that fits behind a striker that stopped firing once we lost Burns. To talk about culture etc. as he has when he's ultimately responsible for it, strikes me as a man setting up an exit route.

Really we need to see a bit of fight from him, then maybe that will translate into the players too.


i think recruitment was essential. look at the players who we let go, large portion of them are lower in the table than us (in league two!)

i agree barry wasn't needed once celina became available

don't write kvy/woolfenden off just yet, the injuries/mcguinness-experience would take a while for anyone to get over

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Paul Cook on 18:28 - Dec 3 with 1521 viewspositivity

Paul Cook on 18:22 - Dec 3 by Herbivore

Lawrence joined Championship side Derby after his loan with us, had we gone up and wanted to why would we not have been able to sign him?


yep, fair point on lawrence, not sure we knew he'd be available at the time, but could be wrong

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Paul Cook on 18:30 - Dec 3 with 1511 viewsMullet

Paul Cook on 18:25 - Dec 3 by positivity

i think recruitment was essential. look at the players who we let go, large portion of them are lower in the table than us (in league two!)

i agree barry wasn't needed once celina became available

don't write kvy/woolfenden off just yet, the injuries/mcguinness-experience would take a while for anyone to get over


It's not me that seems to have written them off.

I don't think anyone can argue that new players weren't, that isn't what I've said. But the level of churn and precedent of it being successful was a choice and one that didn't need to be made.

It's not binary, despite the efforts of a few on here. Squad building is fine, the options aren't no new players or all new players. No one does that do they?

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Paul Cook on 18:33 - Dec 3 with 1506 viewsjeera

Paul Cook on 18:09 - Dec 3 by positivity

we were never going to get the chalobahs, frasers, gios, lawrences, even if we'd gone up

we might have a chance with walton, celina & bonne (you can't argue that we're over-reliant on barry!)


Gio, what a player.

Seems like eons ago.

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Paul Cook on 18:41 - Dec 3 with 1483 viewspositivity

Paul Cook on 18:30 - Dec 3 by Mullet

It's not me that seems to have written them off.

I don't think anyone can argue that new players weren't, that isn't what I've said. But the level of churn and precedent of it being successful was a choice and one that didn't need to be made.

It's not binary, despite the efforts of a few on here. Squad building is fine, the options aren't no new players or all new players. No one does that do they?


i don't think anyone else has written them off have they?

the level of churn is a factor that means we need patience, but i think it was fairly unavoidable. whether it was the owner's plan to be patient or they expected immediate success may be seen soon.

who'd you have kept (who was amenable to staying)? bish was the only one for me, but i'm not sure he's better than what we've bought.

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Paul Cook on 18:51 - Dec 3 with 1462 viewsMullet

Paul Cook on 18:41 - Dec 3 by positivity

i don't think anyone else has written them off have they?

the level of churn is a factor that means we need patience, but i think it was fairly unavoidable. whether it was the owner's plan to be patient or they expected immediate success may be seen soon.

who'd you have kept (who was amenable to staying)? bish was the only one for me, but i'm not sure he's better than what we've bought.


I totally disagree it's yet another reason we need to go up. Why have Celina, Morsy, Evans et al here for a year to finish 11th and replace them again?

As for your question I posted on here the other day, dunno why Rommy didn't answer or questioning this squad overhaul is also met with such a challenge.

A positive twist on the stats by SomethingBlue 29 Nov 2021 14:34
(Buried a version of this deep in an earlier thread although I was actually one off with one of the figures)

If we carry on our PPG rate since Bolton — 14 games so a reasonable sample size — over the next 26 games we will get 45 more points, meaning we end up on 72. That won't be enough for the play-offs but something between one and two wins on top of that should be, we're looking at 75-78 points for that. Put like this it looks more reasonable to suggest that a pretty small improvement on top of what we are showing now, over a significantly longer run of games, would see us competing in May.

And yes, this is not where any of us wanted to be or thought we'd be ...


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Paul Cook on 18:57 - Dec 3 with 1435 viewsTheBlueGnu

Paul Cook on 15:26 - Dec 3 by Vaughan8

I understand some of the stick he's getting. We wanted instant success, along with some people making out like our players would walk this league - "we have a championship team" blah blah.

It seems no-one can wait for anything. If these new investors wanted to go up this season, I think he'd be gone by now.

So it suggests to me, rightly or wrongly, they are willing to wait?


We've been waiting for 16 f-cking years for something even half good to happen - isn't that being patient enough?

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Paul Cook on 19:02 - Dec 3 with 1419 viewspositivity

Paul Cook on 18:51 - Dec 3 by Mullet

I totally disagree it's yet another reason we need to go up. Why have Celina, Morsy, Evans et al here for a year to finish 11th and replace them again?

As for your question I posted on here the other day, dunno why Rommy didn't answer or questioning this squad overhaul is also met with such a challenge.

A positive twist on the stats by SomethingBlue 29 Nov 2021 14:34
(Buried a version of this deep in an earlier thread although I was actually one off with one of the figures)

If we carry on our PPG rate since Bolton — 14 games so a reasonable sample size — over the next 26 games we will get 45 more points, meaning we end up on 72. That won't be enough for the play-offs but something between one and two wins on top of that should be, we're looking at 75-78 points for that. Put like this it looks more reasonable to suggest that a pretty small improvement on top of what we are showing now, over a significantly longer run of games, would see us competing in May.

And yes, this is not where any of us wanted to be or thought we'd be ...



that's a fair point about celina, but morsy & evans are our players, so will stay (though morsy may lose faith in the project if we jettison cook i suppose)

not quite sure what the relevance of somethingblue's post was, but i agree with him and hope for that small improvement to get in the playoffs

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Paul Cook on 19:22 - Dec 3 with 1407 viewsMullet

Paul Cook on 19:02 - Dec 3 by positivity

that's a fair point about celina, but morsy & evans are our players, so will stay (though morsy may lose faith in the project if we jettison cook i suppose)

not quite sure what the relevance of somethingblue's post was, but i agree with him and hope for that small improvement to get in the playoffs


My cursory retained list is on that page hopefully.

The idea we can retain all of these high earning champ players without selling off Edmundson, Edwards or some combination of either is odd too. Likewise the only squads doing well without significant churn would be more akin to a happy medium in retention and demolition wouldn’t it? People are now quibbling over Wigan et al. Which seems utterly futile.

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Paul Cook on 19:37 - Dec 3 with 1390 viewsSwansea_Blue

Paul Cook on 19:02 - Dec 3 by positivity

that's a fair point about celina, but morsy & evans are our players, so will stay (though morsy may lose faith in the project if we jettison cook i suppose)

not quite sure what the relevance of somethingblue's post was, but i agree with him and hope for that small improvement to get in the playoffs


We’d need a large improvement over what we’re doing now. The small improvement was over our best run, but we couldn’t sustain that for very long. Or in other words we need to consistently do better than we’ve ever managed under PC. Possible, but highly unlikely. Still, it is what it is.

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Paul Cook on 19:58 - Dec 3 with 1360 viewsmidastouch

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Paul Cook on 20:23 - Dec 3 with 1322 viewsChurchman

Paul Cook on 18:57 - Dec 3 by TheBlueGnu

We've been waiting for 16 f-cking years for something even half good to happen - isn't that being patient enough?


It did. The day Evans lost control of the club - unless you are one of the many ‘Marcus saved us’, ‘thank you Marcus’ brigade.

One day there will be a decent team here with or without Cook.
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Paul Cook on 21:00 - Dec 3 with 1295 viewsBondiBlue

Paul Cook on 16:12 - Dec 3 by jayessess

Heck of a lot of naivety and blind faith on this thread. Cook might come good but it's odds very much against at this point.


Not sure i agree that it's odds against. He has history. As he pointed out in the pre-match:

“I think if you want to look back on some stats, my last season at Wigan up until Christmas, we gave more winning leads away than any team in the division. Post-Christmas, we lost one in 18 I think, it was in the Championship."

"“My job here, like when I’ve been at other jobs, Portsmouth my first year, loads of pain, got in the play-offs. Second year, won the league."

We may be frustrated at how slow progress is but i think the guy has been and still is a good manager at this level and the level above. Very happy to see mcgreal join the staff.

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Paul Cook on 21:07 - Dec 3 with 1286 viewsmidastouch

Paul Cook on 17:24 - Dec 3 by Fixed_It

Sometimes change makes things worse. I am not a gambling man. I'll stick!


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Yeaaah, let's twist again,
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Yeaaaah, let's twist again,
Twistin' time is here!

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