| Anyone starting to get slightly annoyed with Cook's comments? 14:45 - Apr 23 with 5580 views | ITFC_96 |
I don't think throwing the players under the bus is helping anything at this point.
If he thinks all the players are crap or have no motivation then why does he keep picking them? He has been mentioning it for a month now and the virtually the same players are starting every game. |  | | |  |
| Anyone starting to get slightly annoyed with Cook's comments? on 14:47 - Apr 23 with 2963 views | Metal_Hacker |
I guess because we have an obligation to see out the season with the FA otherwise like many others , I'd end the season right now anyway
As for his comment , I think he's spot on and it's all well deserved |  |
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| Anyone starting to get slightly annoyed with Cook's comments? on 14:49 - Apr 23 with 2946 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
Who are we going to play instead, your mum? |  |
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| Anyone starting to get slightly annoyed with Cook's comments? on 14:50 - Apr 23 with 2932 views | portmanking |
Do you not think that this is simply a sign of how exasperated he is at this crop of players? | | | |
| Anyone starting to get slightly annoyed with Cook's comments? on 14:50 - Apr 23 with 2917 views | wkj |
He's playing the best squads he sees we have. It is fairly apparent that our best ranks less than Northampton's best right now. So he's trying to light fires - its all he can do. |  |
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| Anyone starting to get slightly annoyed with Cook's comments? on 14:54 - Apr 23 with 2890 views | crossyitfc |
No. He's telling it straight.
Much better than Lambert coming out saying everything's absolutely brilliant, can't ask for any more etc. |  | | |
| Anyone starting to get slightly annoyed with Cook's comments? on 14:55 - Apr 23 with 2880 views | gordon |
Yes, all I see is a manager trying to pass the responsibility for the poor performances of his team onto others. Not unusual for a football manager, but given his reputation I thought he'd be better, and surprised at how well received his comments have been on here. |  | | |
| Anyone starting to get slightly annoyed with Cook's comments? on 14:56 - Apr 23 with 2874 views | TractorCam |
Read the articles and he explains why it's not a good time to play kids right now. Also you're right, Lambert saying how great they are every week worked really well didn't it? |  |
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| Anyone starting to get slightly annoyed with Cook's comments? on 15:02 - Apr 23 with 2838 views | jayessess |
| Anyone starting to get slightly annoyed with Cook's comments? on 14:55 - Apr 23 by gordon |
Yes, all I see is a manager trying to pass the responsibility for the poor performances of his team onto others. Not unusual for a football manager, but given his reputation I thought he'd be better, and surprised at how well received his comments have been on here. |
I don't know why it surprises you, it's fairly obvious there's a big (occasionally sadistic) appetite for punishing these players. |  |
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| Anyone starting to get slightly annoyed with Cook's comments? on 15:17 - Apr 23 with 2771 views | BlueForYou |
It doesn't concern me at all that Paul Cook calls out the players as a bunch of useless tosspots! It's about time. They can all go, as far as I'm concerned. |  | | |
| Anyone starting to get slightly annoyed with Cook's comments? on 15:26 - Apr 23 with 2720 views | WD19 |
When he stopped making comments people had a fit about that too. |  | | |
| Anyone starting to get slightly annoyed with Cook's comments? on 15:31 - Apr 23 with 2686 views | AlanG296 |
| Anyone starting to get slightly annoyed with Cook's comments? on 15:02 - Apr 23 by jayessess |
I don't know why it surprises you, it's fairly obvious there's a big (occasionally sadistic) appetite for punishing these players. |
Punishing? What are you going on about? Getting left out of the team isn't punishment. Getting honest feedback isn't punishment. They're still getting paid. And through covid they've avoided customer feedback completely. It's been an easy life for them being mediocre at ITFC and now it has to end. | | | |
| Anyone starting to get slightly annoyed with Cook's comments? on 15:37 - Apr 23 with 2643 views | jayessess |
| Anyone starting to get slightly annoyed with Cook's comments? on 15:31 - Apr 23 by AlanG296 |
Punishing? What are you going on about? Getting left out of the team isn't punishment. Getting honest feedback isn't punishment. They're still getting paid. And through covid they've avoided customer feedback completely. It's been an easy life for them being mediocre at ITFC and now it has to end. |
At this point, with the season essentially over and all of these players gone by next season, the obvious delight some people are taking in all the "honest feedback" is about a desire to see the players get their comeuppance. | |
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| Anyone starting to get slightly annoyed with Cook's comments? on 15:43 - Apr 23 with 2613 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
Someone else who thinks our players are wonderful.
I'm glad he's throwing them under the bus, in fact I'm glad that after doing it, he climbed into the drivers seat and backed the bus up over them too.
They've had an easy ride for far too long, they by and large, are a shame on this club. [Post edited 23 Apr 2021 15:44]
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| Anyone starting to get slightly annoyed with Cook's comments? on 15:49 - Apr 23 with 2553 views | SamWhiteUK |
You'd rather he lied and said all was well? You just want him to say what you want to hear? What would be the point of that? |  | | |
| Anyone starting to get slightly annoyed with Cook's comments? on 15:50 - Apr 23 with 2549 views | pointofblue |
| Anyone starting to get slightly annoyed with Cook's comments? on 15:26 - Apr 23 by WD19 |
When he stopped making comments people had a fit about that too. |
That doesn’t mean we should just accept everything which comes out of his mouth at face value. He won’t throw players under the bus... he turns around and does just that. He says the players are trying and tiredness is the only issue... he then says they don’t care. He says that the blame stops at him... and then spends further interviews deflecting it towards the players at a rate of knots.
He’s a man full of contradictions and confusion; from a personal point of view I’m not surprised the players have downed tools as, if I worked for him, I’d hardly feel motivated either. Admittedly the same could be said for Hurst and Lambert!
He has an opportunity to rebuild the squad in the summer and we’ll start again from August. Despite the above I am still looking forward it as a clear out is exactly what the club needs. But today’s interview has just confirmed for me that Cook has checked out for this season as much as the players have, otherwise he wouldn’t be speaking about them in this manner. | |
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| Anyone starting to get slightly annoyed with Cook's comments? on 15:52 - Apr 23 with 2527 views | BlueWorldOrder |
Yes, I am amazed so many fans are just eating up after what we've had happen before. The logic was that Paul Lambert failed to deliver because he had the best squad in the league and failed to be promoted. They forget to mention the drastic under-funding by Evans, despite the lack of restrictions in League One, and the under funding of the medical aspect of the club leading to injury issues and the under funding of the overall fitness aspect. These issues are now all the players fault according to the supporters who had up until just a few months ago had blamed the manager for all these problems and repeated the same thing, that we had the best squad in the league. Now Cook has arrived they have all become mercenaries and terrible apparently yet nobody is connecting the dots. We also keep hearing that it's Lambert's squad but if you look who signed most of it, it was Mick McCarthy and a fair few had played in the Championship at a decent level for years like Ward, Chambers, Skuse, Bishop, Sears and Huws yet now these players are all suddenly terrible over night. |  |
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| Anyone starting to get slightly annoyed with Cook's comments? on 15:55 - Apr 23 with 2510 views | Swailsey |
Because if he didn't pick them, we wouldn't have a team.
He is blunter than I expected. But, given that we're so close to the end of the season, given that the new owners clearly agree with him and given that most of these players have been total cr*p for two years, I say crack on.
The time to judge him is next April. |  |
| Who said: "Colin Healy made Cesc Fabregas look like Colin Healy"? | We miss you TLA |
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| Anyone starting to get slightly annoyed with Cook's comments? on 15:56 - Apr 23 with 2506 views | jayessess |
| Anyone starting to get slightly annoyed with Cook's comments? on 15:55 - Apr 23 by Swailsey |
Because if he didn't pick them, we wouldn't have a team.
He is blunter than I expected. But, given that we're so close to the end of the season, given that the new owners clearly agree with him and given that most of these players have been total cr*p for two years, I say crack on.
The time to judge him is next April. |
What, to your mind, is the purpose of a weekly update about how rubbish this group of players is? | |
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| Anyone starting to get slightly annoyed with Cook's comments? on 16:03 - Apr 23 with 2455 views | StokieBlue |
| Anyone starting to get slightly annoyed with Cook's comments? on 15:52 - Apr 23 by BlueWorldOrder |
Yes, I am amazed so many fans are just eating up after what we've had happen before. The logic was that Paul Lambert failed to deliver because he had the best squad in the league and failed to be promoted. They forget to mention the drastic under-funding by Evans, despite the lack of restrictions in League One, and the under funding of the medical aspect of the club leading to injury issues and the under funding of the overall fitness aspect. These issues are now all the players fault according to the supporters who had up until just a few months ago had blamed the manager for all these problems and repeated the same thing, that we had the best squad in the league. Now Cook has arrived they have all become mercenaries and terrible apparently yet nobody is connecting the dots. We also keep hearing that it's Lambert's squad but if you look who signed most of it, it was Mick McCarthy and a fair few had played in the Championship at a decent level for years like Ward, Chambers, Skuse, Bishop, Sears and Huws yet now these players are all suddenly terrible over night. |
Unfortunately I don't understand what point you are trying to make.
Is it?
1). That the players have always been rubbish so it wasn't Lambert's fault.
2). That the players are good and both Lambert and Cook are rubbish.
3). That we have been underfunded and that is the reason we are rubbish.
4). Something else.
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| Anyone starting to get slightly annoyed with Cook's comments? on 16:03 - Apr 23 with 2460 views | pointofblue |
It depends if he’s still calling out the playing squad for being crap this time next year. | |
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| Anyone starting to get slightly annoyed with Cook's comments? on 16:04 - Apr 23 with 2451 views | Swailsey |
| Anyone starting to get slightly annoyed with Cook's comments? on 15:52 - Apr 23 by BlueWorldOrder |
Yes, I am amazed so many fans are just eating up after what we've had happen before. The logic was that Paul Lambert failed to deliver because he had the best squad in the league and failed to be promoted. They forget to mention the drastic under-funding by Evans, despite the lack of restrictions in League One, and the under funding of the medical aspect of the club leading to injury issues and the under funding of the overall fitness aspect. These issues are now all the players fault according to the supporters who had up until just a few months ago had blamed the manager for all these problems and repeated the same thing, that we had the best squad in the league. Now Cook has arrived they have all become mercenaries and terrible apparently yet nobody is connecting the dots. We also keep hearing that it's Lambert's squad but if you look who signed most of it, it was Mick McCarthy and a fair few had played in the Championship at a decent level for years like Ward, Chambers, Skuse, Bishop, Sears and Huws yet now these players are all suddenly terrible over night. |
Point of order, PL's squad was most certainly not MM's.
It was PL and PH's, with a few exceptions. | |
| Who said: "Colin Healy made Cesc Fabregas look like Colin Healy"? | We miss you TLA |
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| Anyone starting to get slightly annoyed with Cook's comments? on 16:04 - Apr 23 with 2444 views | BlueWorldOrder |
| Anyone starting to get slightly annoyed with Cook's comments? on 15:55 - Apr 23 by Swailsey |
Because if he didn't pick them, we wouldn't have a team.
He is blunter than I expected. But, given that we're so close to the end of the season, given that the new owners clearly agree with him and given that most of these players have been total cr*p for two years, I say crack on.
The time to judge him is next April. |
I think eh will be our most divisive manager yet. Many fans have adopted him as religiously as they did Lambert, he was the one everyone wanted to so to be wrong on Cook is impossible in some supporters minds already. | |
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| Anyone starting to get slightly annoyed with Cook's comments? on 16:09 - Apr 23 with 2415 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
| Anyone starting to get slightly annoyed with Cook's comments? on 16:03 - Apr 23 by pointofblue |
It depends if he’s still calling out the playing squad for being crap this time next year. |
He won't be here this time next year if that's necessary.
These American's aren't here to fk about. | |
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| Anyone starting to get slightly annoyed with Cook's comments? on 16:18 - Apr 23 with 2388 views | SouperJim |
| Anyone starting to get slightly annoyed with Cook's comments? on 15:52 - Apr 23 by BlueWorldOrder |
Yes, I am amazed so many fans are just eating up after what we've had happen before. The logic was that Paul Lambert failed to deliver because he had the best squad in the league and failed to be promoted. They forget to mention the drastic under-funding by Evans, despite the lack of restrictions in League One, and the under funding of the medical aspect of the club leading to injury issues and the under funding of the overall fitness aspect. These issues are now all the players fault according to the supporters who had up until just a few months ago had blamed the manager for all these problems and repeated the same thing, that we had the best squad in the league. Now Cook has arrived they have all become mercenaries and terrible apparently yet nobody is connecting the dots. We also keep hearing that it's Lambert's squad but if you look who signed most of it, it was Mick McCarthy and a fair few had played in the Championship at a decent level for years like Ward, Chambers, Skuse, Bishop, Sears and Huws yet now these players are all suddenly terrible over night. |
The only players of note in our squad to have played for McCarthy are Chambers, Skuse and Sears, so to say he "signed most of it" is complete nonsense of the highest order.
You state you think the cause of our malaise is Evans and/or lack of sports science, yet are now happy to blame Cook after just 6 weeks at the club?
These are the ramblings of a lunatic. |  |
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