| Willing on Paul Cook to go up too! 08:47 - May 1 with 3305 views | wkj |
Love him or hate him, his Chesterfield side are eyeing up a spot EFL pyramid too. I did like Paul Cook but have to admit he tried to change too much at once and never gave himself a chance. He clearly has an eye for a player though as many of our heroes were singings under his stewardship.
I do wish him well though and will be chuffed to bits to see him achieve promotion with the Spireites [Post edited 1 May 2023 8:53]
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| Congratulations to Paul Cook on 08:49 - May 1 with 2502 views | Funge |
Pretty sure they're not - still got to go through the playoffs |  | | |
| Congratulations to Paul Cook on 08:49 - May 1 with 2498 views | J2BLUE |
They are in play offs. |  |
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| Congratulations to Paul Cook on 08:49 - May 1 with 2473 views | Wickets |
Yup well done to him but myself i think he is now at the right level . |  | | |
| Congratulations to Paul Cook on 08:50 - May 1 with 2466 views | SheffordBlue |
They're only in the playoffs aren't they? |  |
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| Congratulations to Paul Cook on 08:50 - May 1 with 2469 views | Herbivore |
Genuinely couldn't care less how he does. He did a really poor job here and rightly didn't last long. I have no ill will towards him but not arsed about him doing well anywhere else either. |  |
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| Congratulations to Paul Cook on 08:50 - May 1 with 2447 views | wkj |
| Congratulations to Paul Cook on 08:50 - May 1 by SheffordBlue |
They're only in the playoffs aren't they? |
I thought 1st 2nd and 3rd went up from the National League | |
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| Congratulations to Paul Cook on 08:51 - May 1 with 2429 views | Fixed_It |
| Congratulations to Paul Cook on 08:50 - May 1 by wkj |
I thought 1st 2nd and 3rd went up from the National League |
No. Play-offs. Only one team goes up automatically. |  |
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| Congratulations to Paul Cook on 08:53 - May 1 with 2395 views | wkj |
| Congratulations to Paul Cook on 08:51 - May 1 by Fixed_It |
No. Play-offs. Only one team goes up automatically. |
Perfect, fixed :'D | |
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| Congratulations to Paul Cook on 09:02 - May 1 with 2307 views | BlueBadger |
| Congratulations to Paul Cook on 08:50 - May 1 by Herbivore |
Genuinely couldn't care less how he does. He did a really poor job here and rightly didn't last long. I have no ill will towards him but not arsed about him doing well anywhere else either. |
It's nice to hear that he's found his level |  |
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| Congratulations to Paul Cook on 09:10 - May 1 with 2255 views | N2_Blue |
| Congratulations to Paul Cook on 08:50 - May 1 by Herbivore |
Genuinely couldn't care less how he does. He did a really poor job here and rightly didn't last long. I have no ill will towards him but not arsed about him doing well anywhere else either. |
Agree. No ill will to the guy but he’s pretty irrelevant to me. He seems a nice guy but too much of a ‘one of the lads’ type manager for me and don’t give a joy what he does now.
Probably works when everyone is pulling in the right direction but when it’s not working and something needs changing it unravels and I feel he was out of his depth coaching wise.
McKenna and Cook are like night and day in their management styles and I know which one I prefer irrespective of results. |  |
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| Willing on Paul Cook to go up too! on 09:11 - May 1 with 2244 views | Metal_Hacker |
Would be a travesty if Notts County don’t do it |  |
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| Willing on Paul Cook to go up too! on 09:13 - May 1 with 2222 views | SlippinJimmyJuan |
I'd like him to succeed because he took a big gamble dropping down the divisions like that to help his former club. He probably could have got another job further down L1 if he had hung about a bit longer so fair play to him. Hopefully it works out for him otherwise I think he'll struggle to ever get EFL work again. | |
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| Congratulations to Paul Cook on 09:14 - May 1 with 2205 views | wkj |
| Congratulations to Paul Cook on 09:10 - May 1 by N2_Blue |
Agree. No ill will to the guy but he’s pretty irrelevant to me. He seems a nice guy but too much of a ‘one of the lads’ type manager for me and don’t give a joy what he does now.
Probably works when everyone is pulling in the right direction but when it’s not working and something needs changing it unravels and I feel he was out of his depth coaching wise.
McKenna and Cook are like night and day in their management styles and I know which one I prefer irrespective of results. |
I think Cook would have eventually got us up, but not this season just gone. McKenna's game management is vastly superior to Cooks without a doubt. I remember many a game when we would be in front an looking fairly comfortable and then he'd make subs around the 70th that just killed the balance of the squad and inevitably throw leads away.
I can't take away the fact he had an eye for a player though. [Post edited 1 May 2023 9:15]
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| Congratulations to Paul Cook on 09:19 - May 1 with 2160 views | Herbivore |
| Congratulations to Paul Cook on 09:14 - May 1 by wkj |
I think Cook would have eventually got us up, but not this season just gone. McKenna's game management is vastly superior to Cooks without a doubt. I remember many a game when we would be in front an looking fairly comfortable and then he'd make subs around the 70th that just killed the balance of the squad and inevitably throw leads away.
I can't take away the fact he had an eye for a player though. [Post edited 1 May 2023 9:15]
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Think that last point gets overstated. Think everyone knew that Morsy, Chaplin and Walton would be absolute quality at this level, it's not like he was unearthing unknown gems. | |
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| Congratulations to Paul Cook on 09:21 - May 1 with 2139 views | wkj |
| Congratulations to Paul Cook on 09:19 - May 1 by Herbivore |
Think that last point gets overstated. Think everyone knew that Morsy, Chaplin and Walton would be absolute quality at this level, it's not like he was unearthing unknown gems. |
Maybe not, but given the hole we were in for players when he took over, we were punching way above our weight to land them. | |
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| Congratulations to Paul Cook on 09:26 - May 1 with 2107 views | Funge |
| Congratulations to Paul Cook on 09:19 - May 1 by Herbivore |
Think that last point gets overstated. Think everyone knew that Morsy, Chaplin and Walton would be absolute quality at this level, it's not like he was unearthing unknown gems. |
I suppose, if I'm being harsh, you could say that Harper, Fraser and Pigott all came here with good reputations; all regressed to some degree.
Cook was a bit of a lemon, all told. | | | |
| Congratulations to Paul Cook on 09:34 - May 1 with 2061 views | LankHenners |
| Congratulations to Paul Cook on 09:21 - May 1 by wkj |
Maybe not, but given the hole we were in for players when he took over, we were punching way above our weight to land them. |
Not sure about that either really. The first window after the takeover was always going to see us well backed and we'd have been going for ambitious targets regardless of who was in charge.
Cook probably played a part in convincing some of them to join but it's not as if we'd have been stuck signing the likes of, with the greatest respect to them, Old Hawkins and Stephen Ward if someone else was manager. |  |
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| Willing on Paul Cook to go up too! on 09:39 - May 1 with 2017 views | jasondozzell |
Agree. It didn't work out here but I thought he did some good things and a necessary job in refreshing the squad and bringing in some excellent players. Always honest in interviews. Had to cope with the death of his father too. Wish him well. |  | | |
| Willing on Paul Cook to go up too! on 09:51 - May 1 with 1967 views | Darth_Koont |
Agreed. Good luck to him.
He came to us at a frankly awful time as we were beginning to look more and more like a League One side. Then when Gamechanger came in, the massive squad overhaul wasn’t likely to translate into a promotion team immediately either.
McKenna certainly feels like an upgrade given his ceiling and our trajectory into next season. But let’s not minimize the achievement of promotion that still required a run of 40 out of 42 points at the end. Cook doesn’t deserve harsh criticism for not getting the team to a level which has taken skill, time, patience and a little good luck even with the best funded squad. |  |
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| Congratulations to Paul Cook on 10:47 - May 1 with 1869 views | Herbivore |
| Congratulations to Paul Cook on 09:21 - May 1 by wkj |
Maybe not, but given the hole we were in for players when he took over, we were punching way above our weight to land them. |
A big part of that is down to the financial backing, they aren't coming for free. We've similarly punched above our weight since he left. And he was the one who created a massive great hole in the squad in the first place. | |
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| Congratulations to Paul Cook on 10:51 - May 1 with 1835 views | clive_baker |
| Congratulations to Paul Cook on 08:50 - May 1 by Herbivore |
Genuinely couldn't care less how he does. He did a really poor job here and rightly didn't last long. I have no ill will towards him but not arsed about him doing well anywhere else either. |
This. |  |
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| Congratulations to Paul Cook on 11:06 - May 1 with 1780 views | pointofblue |
| Congratulations to Paul Cook on 09:26 - May 1 by Funge |
I suppose, if I'm being harsh, you could say that Harper, Fraser and Pigott all came here with good reputations; all regressed to some degree.
Cook was a bit of a lemon, all told. |
Though none of them improved under McKenna either.
Notts County deserve to go up this season and I hope they do. Cook’s management meant we had to unnecessarily suffer another season in the third tier. | |
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| Willing on Paul Cook to go up too! on 11:12 - May 1 with 1749 views | clive_baker |
I’m not overly critical of Cook, he was part of the rebuild in some respects. I was musing on here a few days ago saying he deserved a bit of credit for the recruitment 2 summers ago. Only a bit though. The damage was done by Evans, Hirst & Lambert to different degrees, they’re where the fault lies.
But Cook didn’t kick us on as much as he should’ve done, don’t think he took the opportunity that presented itself to him and we never showed a level of consistency. It’s night and day between that set up and what we’ve witnessed under KM and his team.
I’m ambivalent towards Cook tbh. No hard feelings at all, but time to look forward with excitement under this regime. We’re back. | |
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| Willing on Paul Cook to go up too! on 11:40 - May 1 with 1694 views | Pendejo |
Bromley for me
But if life was fair it'd be Notts County |  |
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| Willing on Paul Cook to go up too! on 12:22 - May 1 with 1619 views | BigCommon |
I like him as a genuinely nice bloke, and wasn't on his case when it got sticky.
But its night and day since KM arrived. And it would appear, with hindsight, that PC was in over his depth, during his time here. Albeit, with some pretty horrible off field issues to deal with.
Be nice to see him get promoted. |  | | |
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