[Wooden Spoon]

Everton manager.


Tough job, inherited some decent players but no team and a squad of misfits


Let’s hope his dunanesque approach can get enough points to see him safe and through to the summer and he can actually start building a squad that’s competitive and he can show what he can do

[Holmesc1]

No signings i think. Its going to be a hoot though seen him on farley tv

[calvin plummers socks]

First day training. Outdoor bleep test for the squad - on grass middle of winter!
Old school!

[calvin plummers socks]

What a guy!

[spireitetoo]

Instant Everton legend.. Frank would have got beat 5 or 6

[jack bauer]

listened to his interview earlier in the week, he spoke lots about achieving alignment across the club from board room to fans through him and the team, interesting then that his board were absent from the game today.

on a second line, i know posters on here get annoyed with cook's lack of interview output, doesn't bother me too much but i do wonder if he doesn't do himself any favours with this, many people want that connect with their manager so when weeks and weeks go by without hearing from him he isn't getting his message across, he did today and it was good to hear him. thoughts???

[spireitetoo]

jack bauer, on 04 February 2023 - 09:51 PM, said:

listened to his interview earlier in the week, he spoke lots about achieving alignment across the club from board room to fans through him and the team, interesting then that his board were absent from the game today.

on a second line, i know posters on here get annoyed with cook's lack of interview output, doesn't bother me too much but i do wonder if he doesn't do himself any favours with this, many people want that connect with their manager so when weeks and weeks go by without hearing from him he isn't getting his message across, he did today and it was good to hear him. thoughts???

He only does interviews when we lose,sorta so he can come out and take some blame? Whereas when we win webb does the interview, so we win as a team?

This post has been edited by spireitetoo: 04 February 2023 - 10:59 PM

[Wooden Spoon]

Sacked by Everton

[Arthur Cox’s Boots]

Hope he comes back and rams it up their aris. Dealt a crap hand, he?s top class. Once a spireite always a spireite.
If we ever lost Cookie he is perhaps the only man who could have a bigger impact here. Dream on!!!

This post has been edited by Arthur Cox’s Boots: 09 January 2025 - 08:18 PM

[Blue5]

Arthur Cox’s Boots, on 09 January 2025 - 08:18 PM, said:

Hope he comes back and rams it up their aris. Dealt a crap hand, he?s top class. Once a spireite always a spireite.
If we ever lost Cookie he is perhaps the only man who could have a bigger impact here. Dream on!!!

Well said.

From the little I've seen and heard, I would suggest they've done him a favour because he's better than the situation at Everton.

[Holmesc1]

Club been rotten for years, without him they would have been down last season. Ex player leignton baines in temp charge

[Osborne again]

Holmesc1, on 09 January 2025 - 10:04 PM, said:

Club been rotten for years, without him they would have been down last season. Ex player leignton baines in temp charge

Exactly, awful club for many years now,in fact since around the time Moyes left. Dyche has had no real money to play with. They were a decent side for many a year, but now I'm struggling to name more than three or four players who are worth going to watch.
As you rightly say, without Dyche at the helm they would be playing Championship football now or maybe even lower, because he saved their bacon twice,last season and the one before.

[Zigsuk]

Am I mistaken but didn?t he initially struggle for a time when he first came to us as a midfielder before converting into one of our best defenders? We have had some very fine central defenders but I think Dyche and Breckin would just about be my two in my all time town team.

[Bankrobber]

Zigsuk, on 10 January 2025 - 11:57 AM, said:

Am I mistaken but didn?t he initially struggle for a time when he first came to us as a midfielder before converting into one of our best defenders? We have had some very fine central defenders but I think Dyche and Breckin would just about be my two in my all time town team.

As I recall Sean did reasonably well to begin with in midfield. Chris Mac tried him at wing back but he was really in danger of falling into injured obscurity. When JD arrived he was fantastic for us as a centre half. He really responded to JD's influence and basically turned his career around.

Like you say we've had some really good centre halves in my time watching Town. Blathers, Cooper, Darren Carr, Evatt, Lawrie Madden, Williams, Payne, Law...we really have been lucky in that area.

[Holmesc1]

Osborne again, on 10 January 2025 - 10:27 AM, said:

Exactly, awful club for many years now,in fact since around the time Moyes left. Dyche has had no real money to play with. They were a decent side for many a year, but now I'm struggling to name more than three or four players who are worth going to watch.
As you rightly say, without Dyche at the helm they would be playing Championship football now or maybe even lower, because he saved their bacon twice,last season and the one before.

Sadly in football now even dyches efforts in pulling off miracle escapes aint going to save his job. They have a ageing squad and been some duff appointments, ancelotti seemed ok but i believe he quit and i dont blame him. Would not suprise me if everton did a sunderland and kicked off in the championship in the new ground

[Zigsuk]

Bankrobber, on 10 January 2025 - 02:40 PM, said:

As I recall Sean did reasonably well to begin with in midfield. Chris Mac tried him at wing back but he was really in danger of falling into injured obscurity. When JD arrived he was fantastic for us as a centre half. He really responded to JD's influence and basically turned his career around.

Like you say we've had some really good centre halves in my time watching Town. Blathers, Cooper, Darren Carr, Evatt, Lawrie Madden, Williams, Payne, Law...we really have been lucky in that area.

Yes, would agree on all those, but you would definitely have to include Green and Ridley, who would be my second best pair just behind Breckin and Dyche but maybe they were before your time? Not forgetting Tony Brien and further back Bell and Phelan.
Regarding Evatt he was obviously a good player as he went onto a career in the Premier League but I never saw him at his peak with us as I'd stopped going at the time. When I saw him regualrly in Cook's first spell I thought he was probably past his best, so I was never in a position to judge him fairly, but would take on board other's opinions and his subsequent career that he was one of the best we've had in that position.

[Holmesc1]

Good closing interview from dyche
https://youtu.be/Umv...uYBsS207O6SGOEP

[Wooden Spoon]

They sack Dyche for being negative and defensive (never mind the lack of money to sign anyone half decent) and replace him with a negative and defensive manager?

[Westbars Spireite]

Holmesc1, on 11 January 2025 - 09:09 AM, said:

Good closing interview from dyche
https://youtu.be/Umv...uYBsS207O6SGOEP

Obsessed.

[Wooden Spoon]

Zigsuk, on 10 January 2025 - 05:27 PM, said:

Yes, would agree on all those, but you would definitely have to include Green and Ridley, who would be my second best pair just behind Breckin and Dyche but maybe they were before your time? Not forgetting Tony Brien and further back Bell and Phelan.
Regarding Evatt he was obviously a good player as he went onto a career in the Premier League but I never saw him at his peak with us as I'd stopped going at the time. When I saw him regualrly in Cook's first spell I thought he was probably past his best, so I was never in a position to judge him fairly, but would take on board other's opinions and his subsequent career that he was one of the best we've had in that position.

Personally I thought he was better second time around.


He never had pace and that stopped him from having a career at the very top. Played for years in the championship and one season in the top flight. Had he been half a yard faster he?d have been a bottom 6 premiership defender most of his career IMO. He had talent, strength etc but was a bit raw first time around. Second time around he had experience and could read a game so much better that his positioning meant he didn?t need the pace. Holloway said at QPR he needs to come to terms with his lack of pace to become a better player - Evo left QPR for Blackpool but then had his best spell of his career under Holloway at Blackpool a few years later.