| Of the players signed by Cookie "that summer" 16:21 - Jan 11 with 7117 views | Keno |
9 are still with us
Hladky
Walton
Fridge
Burgess
Chappers
Burns
Morsy
Aluko
Evans
12 arent
Edwards
Harper
Carroll
Penney
Pigott
Fraser
Celina
Coulson
Bonne
Bakinson
Thompson
Barry
With thanks for the reminder on Evans
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| Of the players signed by Cookie "that summer" on 18:53 - Jan 11 with 1440 views | SitfcB |
| Of the players signed by Cookie "that summer" on 18:38 - Jan 11 by Vic |
Jacobs? |
Michael. |  |
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| Of the players signed by Cookie "that summer" on 19:00 - Jan 11 with 1423 views | olimar |
| Of the players signed by Cookie "that summer" on 17:50 - Jan 11 by FrimleyBlue |
Sold for a profit. But we'd have spent a fair bit on wages for a player who didn't play... you'd say we basically broke even wouldn't you? |
Not sure Fraser was sold at a profit. I thought we paid about £750k for him, but we sold him for about £300k?
I dont think we got a bargain, given the way he had played for MK the previous season, whilst I dont see any reason why Charlton (of all clubs) would have overpaid for a player who we couldnt fit in and wanted to leave.
Then there are the wages too. |  | | |
| Of the players signed by Cookie "that summer" on 19:14 - Jan 11 with 1379 views | FrimleyBlue |
| Of the players signed by Cookie "that summer" on 18:47 - Jan 11 by WicklowBlue |
Surely signings aren't just a binary between great and bad? Surely Bonne would fit into the ok/good category? |
I dunno.
For me it's either a signing that worked out or didn't. Someone who was good for a few months isn't really a good signing.
Unless however you've signed them as a short term loan in January and they have a massive effect on your season. Ala hirst had he not signed perm anyway. |  |
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| Of the players signed by Cookie "that summer" on 19:14 - Jan 11 with 1389 views | DinnernotTea |
| Of the players signed by Cookie "that summer" on 17:32 - Jan 11 by NedPlimpton |
There's some strange takes on this thread considering the core of our side features here. Let's not forget we were mid table in lg1 when these signings were made
Huge hits
Hladky
Walton
Burgess
Chaplin
Burns
Morsy
Hits
Fridge
Celina
Middling
Aluko
Edwards
Bonne
Coulson until injury
Misses
Harper
Carroll
Penny
Pigott
Fraser
Barry
Doesn't feel too shabby to me |
Let's have it right, some of these deemed hits now are down to McKenna not Ashton. | |
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| Of the players signed by Cookie "that summer" on 19:15 - Jan 11 with 1387 views | DinnernotTea |
| Of the players signed by Cookie "that summer" on 18:38 - Jan 11 by Vic |
Jacobs? |
Michael Jacobs. | |
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| Of the players signed by Cookie "that summer" on 19:16 - Jan 11 with 1382 views | olimar |
I remember thinking at the time that it felt likely that about a third of them would be really good players, a third would be able to do a decent enough job and a third wouldnt be up to it.
Which meant we probably didnt have enough of them to get a decent squad together, given that we were going to get injuries and that we also had several trying to compete for the same position, whilst didnt have enough options in others.
It felt inevitable that first season wasnt going to work too well (despite my optimism that it would). THe realisation that Cook had seemingly no idea how to fit them in and a reluctance to change anything to try and accomodate them, made that even more likely. But to an extent, he was already fighting a bit of an uphill battle- not that that should be any sort of mitigation anyway, since he was the one who decided he wanted to play "demolition man" and blow up the previous squad because he couldnt get anything out of that either.
It wasnt a great strategy for recruitment really, although I suppose it allowed us to spend a year working out which ones were no good and then effectively try and sort it out in the next few windows. | | | |
| Of the players signed by Cookie "that summer" on 19:29 - Jan 11 with 1338 views | NedPlimpton |
| Of the players signed by Cookie "that summer" on 17:54 - Jan 11 by FrimleyBlue |
Absolutely if it were a 6 month loan.
It wasn't. So its bad. |
If we only loaned him for the games he was good in then it would have been one helluva bit of business!
A poor second half to the season probably means it wasn't great. Not bad, not good. Middling, you could.say |  | | |
| Of the players signed by Cookie "that summer" on 19:35 - Jan 11 with 1317 views | FrimleyBlue |
| Of the players signed by Cookie "that summer" on 19:29 - Jan 11 by NedPlimpton |
If we only loaned him for the games he was good in then it would have been one helluva bit of business!
A poor second half to the season probably means it wasn't great. Not bad, not good. Middling, you could.say |
Just ended up a pointless loan in the end which was unfortunate. Would have loved him to have become a club hero. | |
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| Of the players signed by Cookie "that summer" on 19:36 - Jan 11 with 1317 views | BlueandTruesince82 |
| Of the players signed by Cookie "that summer" on 19:35 - Jan 11 by FrimleyBlue |
Just ended up a pointless loan in the end which was unfortunate. Would have loved him to have become a club hero. |
Wouldn't call 12 goals in the beauty of a steal against Weds pointless. [Post edited 11 Jan 2024 19:37]
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| Of the players signed by Cookie "that summer" on 20:17 - Jan 11 with 1246 views | Garv |
| Of the players signed by Cookie "that summer" on 19:14 - Jan 11 by FrimleyBlue |
I dunno.
For me it's either a signing that worked out or didn't. Someone who was good for a few months isn't really a good signing.
Unless however you've signed them as a short term loan in January and they have a massive effect on your season. Ala hirst had he not signed perm anyway. |
If you could turn back time and you had the power would you have stopped us signing Bonne? No control over who we got instead... |  |
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| Of the players signed by Cookie "that summer" on 20:20 - Jan 11 with 1236 views | Garv |
| Of the players signed by Cookie "that summer" on 16:35 - Jan 11 by Steve_M |
You missed Evans, although easy to forget as he's been injured for most of his time here and also on the way out.
It was scattergun as fk that Summer, a pretty poor success rate despite a lot of money spent, Fraser and Piggot are two of the worst signings of the whole banter era. [Post edited 11 Jan 2024 16:36]
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Fraser could have come good in the right set up given time*. Piggot was just totally poor and never looked like he could do it. Harsh to put them in the same bracket in my opinion.
*Completely right call to let him go, however. | |
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| Of the players signed by Cookie "that summer" on 20:38 - Jan 11 with 1210 views | ibbleobble |
| Of the players signed by Cookie "that summer" on 17:32 - Jan 11 by NedPlimpton |
There's some strange takes on this thread considering the core of our side features here. Let's not forget we were mid table in lg1 when these signings were made
Huge hits
Hladky
Walton
Burgess
Chaplin
Burns
Morsy
Hits
Fridge
Celina
Middling
Aluko
Edwards
Bonne
Coulson until injury
Misses
Harper
Carroll
Penny
Pigott
Fraser
Barry
Doesn't feel too shabby to me |
Figured it’d be good to do that for McKenna’s signings too:
Huge Hits
Luongo
Davis
Broadhead
Hits
Hirst
Hutchinson
Tuanzebe
Middling
Scarlett
Ball
Clarke
Williams
Taylor
Ladapo
John-Jules
Harness
Misses
Bakinson
Thompson
Camara
Ahadme
Unknown
Travis
Sarmiento [Post edited 11 Jan 2024 20:55]
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| Of the players signed by Cookie "that summer" on 20:46 - Jan 11 with 1179 views | DinnernotTea |
| Of the players signed by Cookie "that summer" on 20:38 - Jan 11 by ibbleobble |
Figured it’d be good to do that for McKenna’s signings too:
Huge Hits
Luongo
Davis
Broadhead
Hits
Hirst
Hutchinson
Tuanzebe
Middling
Scarlett
Ball
Clarke
Williams
Taylor
Ladapo
John-Jules
Harness
Misses
Bakinson
Thompson
Camara
Ahadme
Unknown
Travis
Sarmiento [Post edited 11 Jan 2024 20:55]
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I'd go Hirst huge hit. Hutchinson & Tuanzebe middling. | |
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| Of the players signed by Cookie "that summer" on 20:51 - Jan 11 with 1155 views | FrimleyBlue |
| Of the players signed by Cookie "that summer" on 20:17 - Jan 11 by Garv |
If you could turn back time and you had the power would you have stopped us signing Bonne? No control over who we got instead... |
Turning back time yes. | |
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| Of the players signed by Cookie "that summer" on 20:54 - Jan 11 with 1156 views | ibbleobble |
| Of the players signed by Cookie "that summer" on 20:46 - Jan 11 by DinnernotTea |
I'd go Hirst huge hit. Hutchinson & Tuanzebe middling. |
I think Ladapo’s 17 goal contribution last season could see him move into hit but other than that and your suggestions, I don’t think this is too far off. | | | |
| Of the players signed by Cookie "that summer" on 21:26 - Jan 11 with 1087 views | NedPlimpton |
| Of the players signed by Cookie "that summer" on 19:14 - Jan 11 by DinnernotTea |
Let's have it right, some of these deemed hits now are down to McKenna not Ashton. |
Huh? | | | |
| Of the players signed by Cookie "that summer" on 21:31 - Jan 11 with 1073 views | Garv |
| Of the players signed by Cookie "that summer" on 20:38 - Jan 11 by ibbleobble |
Figured it’d be good to do that for McKenna’s signings too:
Huge Hits
Luongo
Davis
Broadhead
Hits
Hirst
Hutchinson
Tuanzebe
Middling
Scarlett
Ball
Clarke
Williams
Taylor
Ladapo
John-Jules
Harness
Misses
Bakinson
Thompson
Camara
Ahadme
Unknown
Travis
Sarmiento [Post edited 11 Jan 2024 20:55]
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Hirst belongs in the top bracket without doubt. | |
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| Of the players signed by Cookie "that summer" on 21:31 - Jan 11 with 1075 views | J2BLUE |
Fraser? Genuinely getting a complete blank here...
Edit: never mind, googled Cook Ipswich Fraser [Post edited 11 Jan 2024 21:34]
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| Of the players signed by Cookie "that summer" on 21:44 - Jan 11 with 1049 views | ArnoldMoorhen |
A Left Wing Back and a Centre Forward and you could make a reasonable team to play Maidstone out of those that remain.
(Hladky as the Franz Beckenbauer memorial sweeper, obviously). | | | |
| Of the players signed by Cookie "that summer" on 22:10 - Jan 11 with 1017 views | backwaywhen |
| Of the players signed by Cookie "that summer" on 16:34 - Jan 11 by Mach_foreignBlue |
Morsey?
Piggott? |
Nit picker …… bet your 3 worst subjects at school were spilling and moths ? | | | |
| Of the players signed by Cookie "that summer" on 22:22 - Jan 11 with 987 views | Garv |
| Of the players signed by Cookie "that summer" on 20:51 - Jan 11 by FrimleyBlue |
Turning back time yes. |
Miserable git. | |
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| Of the players signed by Cookie "that summer" on 22:48 - Jan 11 with 934 views | Mach_foreignBlue |
| Of the players signed by Cookie "that summer" on 22:10 - Jan 11 by backwaywhen |
Nit picker …… bet your 3 worst subjects at school were spilling and moths ? |
Moths? |  | | |
| Of the players signed by Cookie "that summer" on 22:56 - Jan 11 with 907 views | suffolkpoker |
Cooke has an hell of eye for a player. What are the current values of his signings?
You can’t fault Cookes eye |  |
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| Of the players signed by Cookie "that summer" on 23:07 - Jan 11 with 879 views | FrimleyBlue |
| Of the players signed by Cookie "that summer" on 22:56 - Jan 11 by suffolkpoker |
Cooke has an hell of eye for a player. What are the current values of his signings?
You can’t fault Cookes eye |
Only Chaplin will have a value really.
Morsy would if it wasn't for his age
Walton.. not sure if his stock is higher than it was when he joined us.
Hladky you'd imagine yes but then age might go against him. Altho this isn't fifa so he's not that old.
Burns would be higher value obviously
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| Of the players signed by Cookie "that summer" on 23:08 - Jan 11 with 881 views | Mach_foreignBlue |
| Of the players signed by Cookie "that summer" on 22:56 - Jan 11 by suffolkpoker |
Cooke has an hell of eye for a player. What are the current values of his signings?
You can’t fault Cookes eye |
Paul Cook will always be a special moment in the history of the club.
Those who criticise the Demolition Job are pure ballbags.
Yes he failed. Not the first not the last manager. He had to go.
But.....it is a very big but.
He'd open a new chapter for us. He did purge our changing room. He did clean it by eliminating a changing room from the rotten Skuse/Chambers culture.....very rotten culture....nice and easy payday Ipswich culture.
These days and what we are seeing from our players. A different world. Playing for the wages they get. [Post edited 11 Jan 2024 23:09]
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