| So not only does Paul Cook hide from difficult press conferences, 18:33 - May 13 with 10427 views | NeedhamChris |
He hides from penalty shootouts too. Talk about showing confidence in your players. For a supposedly professional football manager that's absurd and embarrassing - if I was a Chesterfield fan I'd be livid at that.
Feel sorry for the Chesterfield fans today - but PC has well and truly found his level. |  |
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| So not only does Paul Cook hide from difficult press conferences, on 20:04 - May 13 with 2417 views | PhilTWTD |
| So not only does Paul Cook hide from difficult press conferences, on 19:50 - May 13 by RobTheMonk |
I didn’t like the constant contradictions of saying always backing the players to then lambasting them the week after. The demolition was probably a necessary evil though and out of the fire the phoenix shall rise. |
I think he wears his heart on his sleeve too much. He'll say things backing players but then after a defeat in the emotion of the situation would say what he really thought of them, which wasn't a whole lot in most cases.
I do agree re the demolition man thing, whether the players individually were good players, as a squad failure was too ingrained and needed to be broken up.
I was actually thinking the Sheffield Wednesday squad is similar to ours in the first couple of years in League One last night. All is fine until there are setbacks, then everything falls apart. |  | | |
| So not only does Paul Cook hide from difficult press conferences, on 20:13 - May 13 with 2351 views | TalkingBlues |
| So not only does Paul Cook hide from difficult press conferences, on 19:30 - May 13 by PhilTWTD |
Not sure why there's this need to have a pop at ex-managers just because they're ex-managers and didn't bring success here. Can understand those who went out of their way to fall out with fans - Mick - or the media - Paul Lambert, cough - but Paul Cook was a nice enough bloke, it wasn't for a lack of trying that it didn't work out for him. Wish him well and his CV shows he's a better manager than National League level. |
And as I’ve pointed out previously, he’s responsible for bringing in most of the current ITFC squad that just got promoted and he got them cheap too, on the whole, I liked him. |  |
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| So not only does Paul Cook hide from difficult press conferences, on 20:15 - May 13 with 2344 views | Swansea_Blue |
| So not only does Paul Cook hide from difficult press conferences, on 20:04 - May 13 by PhilTWTD |
I think he wears his heart on his sleeve too much. He'll say things backing players but then after a defeat in the emotion of the situation would say what he really thought of them, which wasn't a whole lot in most cases.
I do agree re the demolition man thing, whether the players individually were good players, as a squad failure was too ingrained and needed to be broken up.
I was actually thinking the Sheffield Wednesday squad is similar to ours in the first couple of years in League One last night. All is fine until there are setbacks, then everything falls apart. |
You’re probably right, and that explains his kicking off on the touch line to officials as well. Personally I thought he lacked the emotional maturity to be our manager, but that’s not to say he wasn’t a good person. I’ve never met him, but he seemed genuine enough. Kieran’s ice cool temperament suits us more imo (irrespective of results - obviously his results REALLY suit us lol). |  |
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| So not only does Paul Cook hide from difficult press conferences, on 20:35 - May 13 with 2328 views | N2_Blue |
Absurd behaviour from a manager. I wouldn’t want a man leading my team that can’t view the shootout himself.
Does he expect the players that aren’t taking pens to go hide in the changing room with him. He may be a nice fella but his management style isn’t for me and he was fairly disastrous in his short time here. Anyone coming in at the time he did would have ripped up the squad. It was the most obvious thing that needed doing.
Good luck to him next season but not that bothered about him |  |
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| So not only does Paul Cook hide from difficult press conferences, on 20:47 - May 13 with 2317 views | NeedhamChris |
| So not only does Paul Cook hide from difficult press conferences, on 19:30 - May 13 by PhilTWTD |
Not sure why there's this need to have a pop at ex-managers just because they're ex-managers and didn't bring success here. Can understand those who went out of their way to fall out with fans - Mick - or the media - Paul Lambert, cough - but Paul Cook was a nice enough bloke, it wasn't for a lack of trying that it didn't work out for him. Wish him well and his CV shows he's a better manager than National League level. |
I haven't posted a pop about any of our previous managers previously. However the NL playoff final was a big event day and he did something I've never seen and wouldn't expect to see. For that reason I think it's not unjustified to have a bit of a pop at that.
His CV shows he used to be a better manager than NL level - I'm not sure it does now. | |
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| So not only does Paul Cook hide from difficult press conferences, on 21:06 - May 13 with 2270 views | PhilTWTD |
| So not only does Paul Cook hide from difficult press conferences, on 20:47 - May 13 by NeedhamChris |
I haven't posted a pop about any of our previous managers previously. However the NL playoff final was a big event day and he did something I've never seen and wouldn't expect to see. For that reason I think it's not unjustified to have a bit of a pop at that.
His CV shows he used to be a better manager than NL level - I'm not sure it does now. |
Wasn't really a pop at you, was more a few other posts wishing PC ill, which seemed unnecessary. | | | |
| So not only does Paul Cook hide from difficult press conferences, on 21:30 - May 13 with 2213 views | ibbleobble |
| So not only does Paul Cook hide from difficult press conferences, on 20:02 - May 13 by Swansea_Blue |
I’m not sure he did enough to deserve any special treatment. Our shortest serving manager after Hurst and just as useless. Klug managed more than a third as much time as manager, and that was as a caretaker. It’s not Cook’s fault he was appointed of course, but he could have helped himself by not hanging his players out to dry. Or ranting and raving like a loon on the sidelines when he was representing our club. |
I remember that ranting and raving being picked up on the mic for one of his first matches and people heralding it post lambert as, “a proper man manager with passion”. All this chat about how bad he was is largely nonsense as are the patronising pokes at not getting promoted today.
A good manager who’s ambition here exceeded his talent in the time he had. No argument from me about trying to achieve success too quickly. He laid great foundations for KM and the rest is history.
With strong Town connections throughout that Chesterfield setup, it’s a surprise to see so many on here jump on their defeat today. | | | |
| So not only does Paul Cook hide from difficult press conferences, on 22:14 - May 13 with 2167 views | bazza |
All this talk about previous managers and owls talk, makes us look a bitter old bunch of fans . [Post edited 13 May 2023 22:19]
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| So not only does Paul Cook hide from difficult press conferences, on 22:29 - May 13 with 2140 views | ArnieM |
| So not only does Paul Cook hide from difficult press conferences, on 19:30 - May 13 by PhilTWTD |
Not sure why there's this need to have a pop at ex-managers just because they're ex-managers and didn't bring success here. Can understand those who went out of their way to fall out with fans - Mick - or the media - Paul Lambert, cough - but Paul Cook was a nice enough bloke, it wasn't for a lack of trying that it didn't work out for him. Wish him well and his CV shows he's a better manager than National League level. |
Exactly Phil. So that’s why I wasn’t sure what the original poster was trying to achieve. PC did what he could hear . It wasnt to be, so not sure why the pop at him. That’s all I was alluding too tbh. A lot of dramas queens on here. |  |
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| So not only does Paul Cook hide from difficult press conferences, on 22:40 - May 13 with 2140 views | Herbivore |
| So not only does Paul Cook hide from difficult press conferences, on 21:30 - May 13 by ibbleobble |
I remember that ranting and raving being picked up on the mic for one of his first matches and people heralding it post lambert as, “a proper man manager with passion”. All this chat about how bad he was is largely nonsense as are the patronising pokes at not getting promoted today.
A good manager who’s ambition here exceeded his talent in the time he had. No argument from me about trying to achieve success too quickly. He laid great foundations for KM and the rest is history.
With strong Town connections throughout that Chesterfield setup, it’s a surprise to see so many on here jump on their defeat today. |
"All this chat about how bad he was is largely nonsense" - he inherited a squad from Paul 'Dialling it in' Lambert and proceeded to get them performing worse than Lambert managed. He then acted like a bit of a knob in blaming it all on the players and gleefully labelling himself Demolition Man. He then spent a fortune and couldn't get a tune out of his newly assembled squad, with performances getting worse instead of better and him starting to revert to blaming the players (who he'd signed) once more. He was going to get rid of Woolf and persisted with playing Nsiala. But yeah, it's people calling him out for being a terrible manager at Town that are talking nonsense. |  |
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| So not only does Paul Cook hide from difficult press conferences, on 08:47 - May 14 with 2000 views | leitrimblue |
First manager since Mick to leave the squad in a better position then he found it. |  | | |
| So not only does Paul Cook hide from difficult press conferences, on 09:16 - May 14 with 1958 views | clive_baker |
| So not only does Paul Cook hide from difficult press conferences, on 19:31 - May 13 by itfcjoe |
It’s obviously very strange behaviour - has anyone ever seen a manager do it? And pretty poor from a leadership perspective
But to push a NC side this closely all season is a good a job he possibly could’ve done |
23 points behind isn’t particularly close, they were as close to mid table as they were to Notts County in the end. That’s in part due to the ridiculous form of the top 2 though. 84 points is a decent enough season for Cook & Chesterfield, but the 2 that went up were the right 2 and even the Chesterfield fans were pretty gracious in their defeat. They’ll probably have more chance of promotion next season now they’re both out of the picture.
The penalties thing was odd. Maybe he saw them change their keeper and thought he needs to roll the dice with a bit of psychology. Impossible to know whether it would’ve made any difference, Chesterfield penalties were decent to be fair. The Notts keeper made a couple smart saves. |  |
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| So not only does Paul Cook hide from difficult press conferences, on 10:15 - May 14 with 1904 views | Mach_foreignBlue |
| So not only does Paul Cook hide from difficult press conferences, on 22:40 - May 13 by Herbivore |
"All this chat about how bad he was is largely nonsense" - he inherited a squad from Paul 'Dialling it in' Lambert and proceeded to get them performing worse than Lambert managed. He then acted like a bit of a knob in blaming it all on the players and gleefully labelling himself Demolition Man. He then spent a fortune and couldn't get a tune out of his newly assembled squad, with performances getting worse instead of better and him starting to revert to blaming the players (who he'd signed) once more. He was going to get rid of Woolf and persisted with playing Nsiala. But yeah, it's people calling him out for being a terrible manager at Town that are talking nonsense. |
Oh yeah because the players whom he kicked out of the club deserved the better, eh? After all they did everything for the club, eh? Never their fault , never ! |  | | |
| So not only does Paul Cook hide from difficult press conferences, on 10:34 - May 14 with 1885 views | Mach_foreignBlue |
| So not only does Paul Cook hide from difficult press conferences, on 19:30 - May 13 by PhilTWTD |
Not sure why there's this need to have a pop at ex-managers just because they're ex-managers and didn't bring success here. Can understand those who went out of their way to fall out with fans - Mick - or the media - Paul Lambert, cough - but Paul Cook was a nice enough bloke, it wasn't for a lack of trying that it didn't work out for him. Wish him well and his CV shows he's a better manager than National League level. |
Hilarious innit? Some weirdos take every opportunity to say bad words about him.
The bloke failed with the players whom he signed. He had to go. Simple.
But this level of venom? Why? After all Cook cleared out our dressing room from weasels and parasites hence The Demolition Job.
He could have also gone Mick McCarthy and be a total pr1ck like him. He could have blamed fans, he could have insulted us, he could have been a man without proper manners like mccarthy.
But he didn't. He never said a bad word about our club and fanbase. [Post edited 14 May 2023 10:35]
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| So not only does Paul Cook hide from difficult press conferences, on 10:49 - May 14 with 1850 views | AlanG296 |
| So not only does Paul Cook hide from difficult press conferences, on 10:34 - May 14 by Mach_foreignBlue |
Hilarious innit? Some weirdos take every opportunity to say bad words about him.
The bloke failed with the players whom he signed. He had to go. Simple.
But this level of venom? Why? After all Cook cleared out our dressing room from weasels and parasites hence The Demolition Job.
He could have also gone Mick McCarthy and be a total pr1ck like him. He could have blamed fans, he could have insulted us, he could have been a man without proper manners like mccarthy.
But he didn't. He never said a bad word about our club and fanbase. [Post edited 14 May 2023 10:35]
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Have to wonder where we would be if Cook had got Lambert's team promoted. Captain Fistpump and some others would have been retained, we would have signed a few in the summer, be struggling in a relegation battle come December, Cook gets sacked. Who replaces him? Would McK want to come to a struggling Championship club for his first manager job? Joining us as an underperforming mid table League One club in no danger of relegation with relative (to the competitors) money to burn on players and developing a modern off field personnel and facilities structure would be far more attractive. Cook was on a hiding to nothing, capable old school manager, he was never going to last once Gamechanger with their vision for the future, implemented by MA came in. | | | |
| So not only does Paul Cook hide from difficult press conferences, on 11:04 - May 14 with 1829 views | clive_baker |
| So not only does Paul Cook hide from difficult press conferences, on 10:34 - May 14 by Mach_foreignBlue |
Hilarious innit? Some weirdos take every opportunity to say bad words about him.
The bloke failed with the players whom he signed. He had to go. Simple.
But this level of venom? Why? After all Cook cleared out our dressing room from weasels and parasites hence The Demolition Job.
He could have also gone Mick McCarthy and be a total pr1ck like him. He could have blamed fans, he could have insulted us, he could have been a man without proper manners like mccarthy.
But he didn't. He never said a bad word about our club and fanbase. [Post edited 14 May 2023 10:35]
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It’s not venom is it? I think most people accept he’s a decent and honest bloke, unlike his predecessor, and did the right thing by the club in hitting the reset button and ridding us of a culture of underperformance and stagnation. We needed that clear out and while I don’t necessarily like how it was handled, he didn’t bottle it. He largely bought well too, a number of whom played a huge role in getting us up. Questionable decision making with regards to the support team he built around himself though and ultimately very inconsistent performances that were nowhere near the level we’ve seen since. It was right for him to move on, and he’s probably found something that more closely resembles his level. I’m not sure why anyone would have ill-feeling towards the bloke but equally I don’t feel any particular loyalty to him either. Dyer on the other hand, would’ve liked to see him enjoy a promotion.
All most people appear to be doing is remarking on the fact a manager didn’t watch the shootout, which is reasonable given it’s atypical. Not sure I’ve ever seen it before myself. | |
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| So not only does Paul Cook hide from difficult press conferences, on 11:14 - May 14 with 1797 views | Mach_foreignBlue |
| So not only does Paul Cook hide from difficult press conferences, on 11:04 - May 14 by clive_baker |
It’s not venom is it? I think most people accept he’s a decent and honest bloke, unlike his predecessor, and did the right thing by the club in hitting the reset button and ridding us of a culture of underperformance and stagnation. We needed that clear out and while I don’t necessarily like how it was handled, he didn’t bottle it. He largely bought well too, a number of whom played a huge role in getting us up. Questionable decision making with regards to the support team he built around himself though and ultimately very inconsistent performances that were nowhere near the level we’ve seen since. It was right for him to move on, and he’s probably found something that more closely resembles his level. I’m not sure why anyone would have ill-feeling towards the bloke but equally I don’t feel any particular loyalty to him either. Dyer on the other hand, would’ve liked to see him enjoy a promotion.
All most people appear to be doing is remarking on the fact a manager didn’t watch the shootout, which is reasonable given it’s atypical. Not sure I’ve ever seen it before myself. |
Some people even today still don't get that Demolition Job was very necessary.
An underperformance and stagnation as you say. Bang on ! But the frauds whom he kicked out of the club were some peoples icons. Those weasels who treated Ipswich like an easy payday. | | | |
| So not only does Paul Cook hide from difficult press conferences, on 11:21 - May 14 with 1780 views | wkj |
| So not only does Paul Cook hide from difficult press conferences, on 11:04 - May 14 by clive_baker |
It’s not venom is it? I think most people accept he’s a decent and honest bloke, unlike his predecessor, and did the right thing by the club in hitting the reset button and ridding us of a culture of underperformance and stagnation. We needed that clear out and while I don’t necessarily like how it was handled, he didn’t bottle it. He largely bought well too, a number of whom played a huge role in getting us up. Questionable decision making with regards to the support team he built around himself though and ultimately very inconsistent performances that were nowhere near the level we’ve seen since. It was right for him to move on, and he’s probably found something that more closely resembles his level. I’m not sure why anyone would have ill-feeling towards the bloke but equally I don’t feel any particular loyalty to him either. Dyer on the other hand, would’ve liked to see him enjoy a promotion.
All most people appear to be doing is remarking on the fact a manager didn’t watch the shootout, which is reasonable given it’s atypical. Not sure I’ve ever seen it before myself. |
People don't seem to appreciate how out of date our squad was before Lambert even came in. Chambers was done at that level, Huws was crocked, Sears had lost whatever goal scoring form he had, our RB spot was bodged, etc etc
Mick probably kept us in the Championship with L1 calibre players followed by Hurst's stupid transfer window with Lambert bought in to try to pick up the pieces. Lambert just tread water with Town while Evans looked for a suitor, the contract extension was probably made to give Evans time to focus on finding buyers. The green shoots comment by Evans was just a polite way of saying "We aint signing anyone".
Had Lambert not turned on TWTD I would have even felt a bit sorry for him as he was given a heap of sh*t that no manager could have got promoted with.
Cookie came in with no choice but to shed a team comprised of players who quickly went on to struggle in League 2. For this end, I have no ill will toward Paul Cook. [Post edited 14 May 2023 11:26]
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| So not only does Paul Cook hide from difficult press conferences, on 11:30 - May 14 with 1762 views | Mach_foreignBlue |
| So not only does Paul Cook hide from difficult press conferences, on 10:49 - May 14 by AlanG296 |
Have to wonder where we would be if Cook had got Lambert's team promoted. Captain Fistpump and some others would have been retained, we would have signed a few in the summer, be struggling in a relegation battle come December, Cook gets sacked. Who replaces him? Would McK want to come to a struggling Championship club for his first manager job? Joining us as an underperforming mid table League One club in no danger of relegation with relative (to the competitors) money to burn on players and developing a modern off field personnel and facilities structure would be far more attractive. Cook was on a hiding to nothing, capable old school manager, he was never going to last once Gamechanger with their vision for the future, implemented by MA came in. |
Lets put it this way.
Imagine if Evans had stayed and Gamechanger didn't come. The Demolition Job wouldn't have taken a place. Chambers would have been retained, so would 'nicely speaking' sweet toady Skuse, so would Judge, Dozzell, Sears etc etc
We probably would have been fighting relegation with these frauds. But they still would have been absolutely free of criticism on here. They still would have been labelled as good professionals. So who on here would have been a culprit for that situation? Cook obviously ! [Post edited 14 May 2023 11:33]
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| So not only does Paul Cook hide from difficult press conferences, on 11:45 - May 14 with 1721 views | LankHenners |
| So not only does Paul Cook hide from difficult press conferences, on 10:34 - May 14 by Mach_foreignBlue |
Hilarious innit? Some weirdos take every opportunity to say bad words about him.
The bloke failed with the players whom he signed. He had to go. Simple.
But this level of venom? Why? After all Cook cleared out our dressing room from weasels and parasites hence The Demolition Job.
He could have also gone Mick McCarthy and be a total pr1ck like him. He could have blamed fans, he could have insulted us, he could have been a man without proper manners like mccarthy.
But he didn't. He never said a bad word about our club and fanbase. [Post edited 14 May 2023 10:35]
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Yeah imagine taking any and every opportunity to slam former employees of the club regardless of justification or relevance. |  |
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| So not only does Paul Cook hide from difficult press conferences, on 11:48 - May 14 with 1703 views | AlanG296 |
| So not only does Paul Cook hide from difficult press conferences, on 11:30 - May 14 by Mach_foreignBlue |
Lets put it this way.
Imagine if Evans had stayed and Gamechanger didn't come. The Demolition Job wouldn't have taken a place. Chambers would have been retained, so would 'nicely speaking' sweet toady Skuse, so would Judge, Dozzell, Sears etc etc
We probably would have been fighting relegation with these frauds. But they still would have been absolutely free of criticism on here. They still would have been labelled as good professionals. So who on here would have been a culprit for that situation? Cook obviously ! [Post edited 14 May 2023 11:33]
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That scenario is even worse! When Cook joined I was optimistic, surely Lambert's squad was capable of better, Cook would get us play offs. But he couldn't and I don't hold that against him at all, he took over a squad that was accustomed to and comfortable with just partcipating. Senior players able to stay at a club that's steady decline kept place with their declining ability. If he achieving nothing else Cook eradicated that with his Demolition Man role. In itself that was a real game changer. | | | |
| So not only does Paul Cook hide from difficult press conferences, on 11:56 - May 14 with 1676 views | clive_baker |
| So not only does Paul Cook hide from difficult press conferences, on 11:21 - May 14 by wkj |
People don't seem to appreciate how out of date our squad was before Lambert even came in. Chambers was done at that level, Huws was crocked, Sears had lost whatever goal scoring form he had, our RB spot was bodged, etc etc
Mick probably kept us in the Championship with L1 calibre players followed by Hurst's stupid transfer window with Lambert bought in to try to pick up the pieces. Lambert just tread water with Town while Evans looked for a suitor, the contract extension was probably made to give Evans time to focus on finding buyers. The green shoots comment by Evans was just a polite way of saying "We aint signing anyone".
Had Lambert not turned on TWTD I would have even felt a bit sorry for him as he was given a heap of sh*t that no manager could have got promoted with.
Cookie came in with no choice but to shed a team comprised of players who quickly went on to struggle in League 2. For this end, I have no ill will toward Paul Cook. [Post edited 14 May 2023 11:26]
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Agree with that with regards to the older crop, its also true of the younger ones. Had many conversations on here at the time, the age profile of our squad was so unbalanced. At one point we had an ‘average age of 27’ at the back but it was 35 year old full backs in Chambers and Ward and kids in the middle. So a mean average, but none of the 4 were within about 7 years of it. The squad generally fell into 3 buckets: 1) former championship quality, but past it (Chambers, Ward, Judge) 2) good ages but in reality average at best L1 players (Nsiala, Holy, Hawkins) or 3) young and utterly unproven. Anyone who didn’t fit into those was generally permanently injured.
It was a crap squad and the talk of it being the best in the league was utterly delusional. The biggest question mark for me was the young players we had, I think people completely underestimate how tough it is for kids to step up at this level. It’s hard enough for a Cameron Humphreys when he’s got Morsy next to him and Burns, Chaplin, Ladapo etc around him, in a dominant side and with the management and coaching team we could’ve only dreamt of before. Try putting a few in together a few years ago, it won’t work. The clamours for it at the time used to wind me up so much. And that’s working on the assumption they even have the underlying potential anyway, which many of ours had no evidence of. Clements, McGavin, Dobra. They’ll all find their level below L1 IMO. And that’s now, they were kids then.
Expressing those views was never popular then though. Past it old players (who were largely still our best bet), bang average L1 / L2 mid career players, sick notes or unproven kids, most of which were probably never future L1 players anyway. I would say literally the only exceptions to that were Downes, Dozzell and Norwood. That was literally it, and none of them stayed fit anyway.
Lambert got a lot of stick and for good reason, but the bloke has been around football long enough to know he was working with a crock of sh1t. Absolutely chalk and cheese from where we are today. | |
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| So not only does Paul Cook hide from difficult press conferences, on 12:02 - May 14 with 1632 views | wkj |
| So not only does Paul Cook hide from difficult press conferences, on 11:56 - May 14 by clive_baker |
Agree with that with regards to the older crop, its also true of the younger ones. Had many conversations on here at the time, the age profile of our squad was so unbalanced. At one point we had an ‘average age of 27’ at the back but it was 35 year old full backs in Chambers and Ward and kids in the middle. So a mean average, but none of the 4 were within about 7 years of it. The squad generally fell into 3 buckets: 1) former championship quality, but past it (Chambers, Ward, Judge) 2) good ages but in reality average at best L1 players (Nsiala, Holy, Hawkins) or 3) young and utterly unproven. Anyone who didn’t fit into those was generally permanently injured.
It was a crap squad and the talk of it being the best in the league was utterly delusional. The biggest question mark for me was the young players we had, I think people completely underestimate how tough it is for kids to step up at this level. It’s hard enough for a Cameron Humphreys when he’s got Morsy next to him and Burns, Chaplin, Ladapo etc around him, in a dominant side and with the management and coaching team we could’ve only dreamt of before. Try putting a few in together a few years ago, it won’t work. The clamours for it at the time used to wind me up so much. And that’s working on the assumption they even have the underlying potential anyway, which many of ours had no evidence of. Clements, McGavin, Dobra. They’ll all find their level below L1 IMO. And that’s now, they were kids then.
Expressing those views was never popular then though. Past it old players (who were largely still our best bet), bang average L1 / L2 mid career players, sick notes or unproven kids, most of which were probably never future L1 players anyway. I would say literally the only exceptions to that were Downes, Dozzell and Norwood. That was literally it, and none of them stayed fit anyway.
Lambert got a lot of stick and for good reason, but the bloke has been around football long enough to know he was working with a crock of sh1t. Absolutely chalk and cheese from where we are today. |
I think over Mick's tenure we slowly became conditioned the lower quality players by the end - after all, that was what Mick was brought in to do, to punch above his weight. Glad those times are passed us now and that we're being realistic with our youth and our contract handling. | |
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| So not only does Paul Cook hide from difficult press conferences, on 12:03 - May 14 with 1632 views | GlasgowBlue |
| So not only does Paul Cook hide from difficult press conferences, on 11:21 - May 14 by wkj |
People don't seem to appreciate how out of date our squad was before Lambert even came in. Chambers was done at that level, Huws was crocked, Sears had lost whatever goal scoring form he had, our RB spot was bodged, etc etc
Mick probably kept us in the Championship with L1 calibre players followed by Hurst's stupid transfer window with Lambert bought in to try to pick up the pieces. Lambert just tread water with Town while Evans looked for a suitor, the contract extension was probably made to give Evans time to focus on finding buyers. The green shoots comment by Evans was just a polite way of saying "We aint signing anyone".
Had Lambert not turned on TWTD I would have even felt a bit sorry for him as he was given a heap of sh*t that no manager could have got promoted with.
Cookie came in with no choice but to shed a team comprised of players who quickly went on to struggle in League 2. For this end, I have no ill will toward Paul Cook. [Post edited 14 May 2023 11:26]
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A fair assessment of the task Lambert faced. He was promised funds by Evans in the first January window, which never materialised. What he did with Phil was unforgivable but that aside, he saw the failings of the club infrastructure that the new owners and the board have since put right. |  |
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| So not only does Paul Cook hide from difficult press conferences, on 12:09 - May 14 with 1602 views | Ryorry |
| So not only does Paul Cook hide from difficult press conferences, on 11:48 - May 14 by AlanG296 |
That scenario is even worse! When Cook joined I was optimistic, surely Lambert's squad was capable of better, Cook would get us play offs. But he couldn't and I don't hold that against him at all, he took over a squad that was accustomed to and comfortable with just partcipating. Senior players able to stay at a club that's steady decline kept place with their declining ability. If he achieving nothing else Cook eradicated that with his Demolition Man role. In itself that was a real game changer. |
"Senior players able to stay at a club that's steady decline kept place with their declining ability".
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