| As we’re all talking about Cook 15:31 - Jan 5 with 3994 views | Illinoisblue |
What are your most depressing memories from his time in charge. Lots to choose from, obviously, but I’d go for:
Ipswich 2 Bolton 5 for sheer mind-numbing collective incompetence
Cambridge 2 Ipswich 2 for what seemed at the time to be the 37th time under Cook we were unable to hold on to a lead.
Rochdale 0 Ipswich 0. Watched this on IFollow and question my existence every five minutes. Don’t think we had a shot on goal against a team destined for L2
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| As we’re all talking about Cook on 15:34 - Jan 5 with 2545 views | Dubtractor |
Christ, I'd forgotten that Rochdale game. |  |
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| As we’re all talking about Cook on 15:35 - Jan 5 with 2544 views | Metal_Hacker |
This season has to be Burton,Cheltenham and Bolton games for me
Not even going to mention last season's games
The Bolton game was like me playing on FIFA against my teenage Stepson |  |
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| As we’re all talking about Cook on 15:35 - Jan 5 with 2546 views | jayessess |
gonna buck the likely trend here and say the way he gleefully fed all the antipathy towards the players in Spring 2021, in order to save his own reputation. |  |
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| As we’re all talking about Cook on 15:36 - Jan 5 with 2537 views | Steve_M |
The realisation, listening to his post-match interviews last season, that he didn't have any answers but to blame the players. I think that might have been after that Rochdale match but it was on more than one occasion.
Burton away this season, and the way we had managed to concede twice out of absolutely nothing whilst not ever looking threatened. Then repeated that at Cheltenham from actually being ahead on 60 mins.
Cambridge was so annoying, incredibly comfortable for 40 minutes. And then we weren't.
Rotherham at home. Every bit as poor as those matches against the better sides under Lambert a year earlier, or indeed Middlesbrough under Hurst, just marking time to a defeat. |  |
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| As we’re all talking about Cook on 15:36 - Jan 5 with 2527 views | tractordownsouth |
I didn't even watch the Rotherham game but I knew it was going to be a drab defeat like the 2019 match. It felt like the Lambert era when we would go into matches against top six clubs knowing we had no hope. |  |
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| As we’re all talking about Cook on 15:37 - Jan 5 with 2503 views | Ftnfwest |
wimbledon and northampton, absolutely shocking. This season of course didn't go as well as hoped and there were some poor moments but nothing gets close to displays last season, we've by and large been in games since the summer at least for some portion of them. |  | | |
| As we’re all talking about Cook on 15:39 - Jan 5 with 2450 views | benrhyddingblue |
Has to be Bolton, although Cheltenham is a close second for me as my eldest son also caught Covid at this game [Post edited 5 Jan 2022 15:40]
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| As we’re all talking about Cook on 15:40 - Jan 5 with 2446 views | Illinoisblue |
| As we’re all talking about Cook on 15:34 - Jan 5 by Dubtractor |
Christ, I'd forgotten that Rochdale game. |
For some reason it stuck with me. Just the sheer awfulness of it. An empty stadium didn’t help but it was horrible and painful. | |
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| As we’re all talking about Cook on 15:40 - Jan 5 with 2417 views | Herbivore |
Circa 50% of the matches he was in charge for. |  |
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| As we’re all talking about Cook on 15:53 - Jan 5 with 2330 views | Oldsmoker |
I remember a time when I thought I understood what he was saying.
There was a sentence where I managed to grasp at least 3 words but he quickly started another sentence and I lost my place and..... oh well.
Even the subtitler gave up as no subtitles were available on most interviews. |  |
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| As we’re all talking about Cook on 15:54 - Jan 5 with 2328 views | RobTheMonk |
Towards the end of last season, Madge and I would go on a long walk every Saturday. We'd go early morning so we could get back so I could watch the game.
Well, we'd not scored for about 5 games running and Madge said are you going to watch the game to which I said "What's the point, it will just be 0-0 and it will be a rubbish game". Low and behold... |  | | |
| As we’re all talking about Cook on 15:54 - Jan 5 with 2326 views | IpswichKnight |
| As we’re all talking about Cook on 15:40 - Jan 5 by Illinoisblue |
For some reason it stuck with me. Just the sheer awfulness of it. An empty stadium didn’t help but it was horrible and painful. |
Didn’t we then repeat that trick against Northampton and lost! We were total Fisons finest manure that day.
Crewe this season was one of the worst, comfortably ahead at 2-0 should go on and win 3/4-0 but no they make a couple of subtle changes and we look lost, what do we do bring on 2 subs and move 4 players around and get even worse. | | | |
| As we’re all talking about Cook on 15:56 - Jan 5 with 2291 views | Kropotkin123 |
Throwing away the lead at Cambridge was the worst. By that time he had had enough time to coach the team and make the correct subs to see out a game. |  |
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| As we’re all talking about Cook on 16:02 - Jan 5 with 2240 views | Swansea_Blue |
Yet we also had some rather excellent performances and goals of the like we haven't seen for years. What a strange tenure Cook's was. On the pitch it was one step forwards, one backwards and then there was the whole shouty/key change interview idiosyncrasies. It would be unfair to portray it as all bad times, yet ultimately he didn't deliver what was needed. |  |
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| As we’re all talking about Cook on 16:20 - Jan 5 with 2157 views | homer_123 |
For me, it was not being able to work out how he was wanting us to play. We had no identity or way of playing and absolutely nothing if anything didn't go our way. [Post edited 5 Jan 2022 16:21]
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| As we’re all talking about Cook on 16:22 - Jan 5 with 2129 views | homer_123 |
| As we’re all talking about Cook on 16:02 - Jan 5 by Swansea_Blue |
Yet we also had some rather excellent performances and goals of the like we haven't seen for years. What a strange tenure Cook's was. On the pitch it was one step forwards, one backwards and then there was the whole shouty/key change interview idiosyncrasies. It would be unfair to portray it as all bad times, yet ultimately he didn't deliver what was needed. |
Did we take a step forward under Cook? | |
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| As we’re all talking about Cook on 16:28 - Jan 5 with 2070 views | ArnieM |
His very sudden and inexplicable sacking by Mark Ashton ! |  |
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| As we’re all talking about Cook on 16:30 - Jan 5 with 2065 views | Swansea_Blue |
| As we’re all talking about Cook on 16:22 - Jan 5 by homer_123 |
Did we take a step forward under Cook? |
At times, I'd say so. We were so painfully slow going forward previously under Lambert, which made some of the games this year feel like a breath of fresh air. And we've scored some crackers this season. The step (or 2) backwards ultimately cancelled out the brief good times though, granted. Ultimately we went nowhere under him, but there were some highlights. | |
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| As we’re all talking about Cook on 16:31 - Jan 5 with 2056 views | Mullet |
People slating Chambers and Skuse et al. with great joy and swallowing his BS |  |
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| As we’re all talking about Cook on 16:34 - Jan 5 with 2025 views | Illinoisblue |
| As we’re all talking about Cook on 15:56 - Jan 5 by Kropotkin123 |
Throwing away the lead at Cambridge was the worst. By that time he had had enough time to coach the team and make the correct subs to see out a game. |
Yeah that was bad. Started well, got sloppy and then inevitably caved in. Another large away following let down badly. | |
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| As we’re all talking about Cook on 16:37 - Jan 5 with 1998 views | markchips |
| As we’re all talking about Cook on 16:28 - Jan 5 by ArnieM |
His very sudden and inexplicable sacking by Mark Ashton ! |
I cannot know why as do not have the facts but he was clearly lost without Richardson and did not to seem to know what to do when opposing teams changed their tactics. If you step back and look at hi season in charge it was an abject failure. We are mid table with little chance of reaching even sixth place. The only way forward is to firstly rid the club of all hangers on like Kenlock , Nolan and Jackson. Only Ipswich would keep theses players, anyone else would get them out on loan . | | | |
| As we’re all talking about Cook on 16:38 - Jan 5 with 2003 views | textbackup |
Cambridge 2 Ipswich 2 for what seemed at the time to be the 37th time under Cook we were unable to hold on to a lead.
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was after this game that i started to go off PC a bit.... |  |
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| As we’re all talking about Cook on 16:39 - Jan 5 with 1986 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
Every time a new coach was announced. |  |
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| As we’re all talking about Cook on 16:40 - Jan 5 with 1981 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
| As we’re all talking about Cook on 16:28 - Jan 5 by ArnieM |
His very sudden and inexplicable sacking by Mark Ashton ! |
You know what they say about sarcasm... | |
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| As we’re all talking about Cook on 16:43 - Jan 5 with 1952 views | Herbivore |
| As we’re all talking about Cook on 16:28 - Jan 5 by ArnieM |
His very sudden and inexplicable sacking by Mark Ashton ! |
It was hardly inexplicable. And I'd say his sacking was one of the better memories I have of his time here. | |
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