| In defence of the Paul Cook "was sacked too early" argument. 13:31 - Apr 19 with 2245 views | BonneNIL |
First of all, I agree that Paul Cook was a disaster at Ipswich Town, right from taking a team on the verge of the Playoffs to a demoralised mess he finished the season with, to the 20 something players he signed to replace them with and his frankly laughable coaching team, however...
I do think the people making the argument he was sacked too early may have a point. Generally speaking, people thought that we were a work in progress before he got the chop and that ultimately he would put it right and get the team moving in the right direction. The Crewe game was a big step forward in getting more right but it seems Ashton had other ideas and the decision was made some weeks prior that he was out, which was more or less confirmed when out of nowhere John McGreal was on the staff.
The reason I feel they have a point is, if you look at both managers over the 20 games, while McKenna has done marginally better., the difference in overall results is pretty negligible. There could be some argument that Cook, having recruited these players, and having his own aims with these players in mind could have achieved the same results as that at the very least. Do we honestly think we would have finished any lower than 11th with Cook in post?
Also had Cook failed, as I suspect he would have, at this point, it may have made more sense to have waited until the season was finished to sack him and bring in a new face for the new season. The argument could be that at least McKenna has time to assess the squad before the new season, but on the other hand from the clubs perspective, there are going to be more managers to choose from at the end of the season potentially giving us better options than we had at the time of Cooks sacking.
Sacking Cook during the season has both its advantages and disadvantages and I am not sure jumping on people for suggesting it may have been a mistake is helpful because it could have been. There is always a chance he could have turned us around and we could have finished in the top 6 as well. I personally do not think he would have, but you can't rule it out either.
What I will say though is Gamechanger/Ashton does have to take some share of the responsibility for the disaster that was this season, they signed off on the radical change, the 20 plus new players, and the hiring of the coaching team and to try and lay all of the blame on a manager, who had previously done exceptionally well, is not fair. Maybe they did jump the gun? We will never know.
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| In defence of the Paul Cook "was sacked too early" argument. on 17:18 - Apr 19 with 268 views | ArnieM |
| In defence of the Paul Cook "was sacked too early" argument. on 13:41 - Apr 19 by BlueBadger |
He could have recruited some more experienced backroom staff. He didn't.
He had the budget, reputation and draw of a 'big' club.
He chose to recruit his drinking buddies.
Mind you, the kits all looked top notch. [Post edited 19 Apr 2022 13:50]
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I think the problem was he was clearly convinced his staff would be following him. Problem was the6 didn’t , and that didn’t become evident until into the summer break and early season start…It probably isn’t easy when you’ve been with the same backroom team for years, to suddenly conjure up staff contractually available. He was perhaps left with the less experienced people. There’s not always a downer to attach to PC you know. He gets a lot of slating on here , and and I can think of a few worse managers. To “ grace” this Club who don’t get nearly as much flack. This doesn’t make me a Cook supporter, but I do hate the vitriol he gets . I honestly don’t think he deserves it. He tried his best at a very pivotal point in this Club’s history. Be thankful he get shot of the dead wood squad , because someone would have needed to have done it and they may have taken a couple of seasons or more to have moved them all on. |  |
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| In defence of the Paul Cook "was sacked too early" argument. on 17:33 - Apr 19 with 238 views | timothyeo |
Cook was awful and should have been sacked long before he was. Had he gone when I called for him to go, there's a slim chance McKenna might have made the play-offs.
That's McKenna, a rookie manager who has his own clear faults, yet comfortably out-performed Cook.
I think Ashton should take some responsibility for not getting rid of Cook earlier - it was pretty clear even before this season started that he wasn't cut out for it - he'd performed worse than Lambert which should have had all fans' alarm bells ringing. For some reason it was completely irrelevant to some on here. |  | | |
| In defence of the Paul Cook "was sacked too early" argument. on 17:38 - Apr 19 with 227 views | pointofblue |
| In defence of the Paul Cook "was sacked too early" argument. on 17:18 - Apr 19 by ArnieM |
I think the problem was he was clearly convinced his staff would be following him. Problem was the6 didn’t , and that didn’t become evident until into the summer break and early season start…It probably isn’t easy when you’ve been with the same backroom team for years, to suddenly conjure up staff contractually available. He was perhaps left with the less experienced people. There’s not always a downer to attach to PC you know. He gets a lot of slating on here , and and I can think of a few worse managers. To “ grace” this Club who don’t get nearly as much flack. This doesn’t make me a Cook supporter, but I do hate the vitriol he gets . I honestly don’t think he deserves it. He tried his best at a very pivotal point in this Club’s history. Be thankful he get shot of the dead wood squad , because someone would have needed to have done it and they may have taken a couple of seasons or more to have moved them all on. |
Another reason I want to beat Wigan tonight - they arguably helped to screw over our season by offering Richardson the job full time! | |
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