[Bluekent]

warfey is a spireite, on 01 March 2025 - 06:10 PM, said:

Keep bum licking ,happy with that are u?

Mate , I take your opinion with a pinch of salt. So knee jerk and thick , I always remember you and the usual suspects after the away performance at Morcambe when we lost 4-3 calling for changes and being overly critical?what happened that season in the end?

[Dougspireite78]

I don't get why he's so untouchable. 2 wins in 11 games but everything is ok. When it was Sheridan or pemberton people were on their backs straight away.

[gordon_brittas]

Dougspireite78, on 01 March 2025 - 06:17 PM, said:

I don't get why he's so untouchable. 2 wins in 11 games but everything is ok. When it was Sheridan or pemberton people were on their backs straight away.

I think he has a lot of credit in the bank for last season, and his promotions and season previously, rightly so. It?s a results business, and if we?re are not up there next season, questions need asking.

[Bluekent]

Dougspireite78, on 01 March 2025 - 06:17 PM, said:

I don't get why he's so untouchable. 2 wins in 11 games but everything is ok. When it was Sheridan or pemberton people were on their backs straight away.

Get them back then, that?ll sort us out.

[warfey is a spireite]

Bluekent, on 01 March 2025 - 06:16 PM, said:

Mate , I take your opinion with a pinch of salt. So knee jerk and thick , I always remember you and the usual suspects after the away performance at Morcambe when we lost 4-3 calling for changes and being overly critical?what happened that season in the end?

You were there were you ,I called for changes in 1970 odd do you remember that one too?

[Search & Destroy]

Search & Destroy, on 22 February 2025 - 07:36 PM, said:

Season 1 I?d give 4 out of 10
Season 2 I?d give 6.5 out of 10
Season 3 I?d give 8.5 out of 10
Season 4 I?d give 6 out of 10

Average 6.25 out of 10

Fair?


I?m dropping season 4 to a 4.5

Average 5.87

[Bluekent]

warfey is a spireite, on 01 March 2025 - 06:22 PM, said:

You were there were you ,I called for changes in 1970 odd do you remember that one too?

You call for changes after every defeat, doesn?t matter if we are top , mid table or bottom. Proper thick.

[plannerj]

warfey is a spireite, on 01 March 2025 - 06:22 PM, said:

You were there were you ,I called for changes in 1970 odd do you remember that one too?

Where did you post in those days? No Bobs Board! Oh, thinking about it, I guess it was written with a 2B pencil on loo paper stuck on the wall of the bogs behind the Saltergate Kop.

[Spireiteranger]

Good job nobody who matters cares about your biased anti-cook , still crying over rowe,ridiculous biased agenda then eh?..absolute bell end.

[Goku]

Dougspireite78, on 01 March 2025 - 06:17 PM, said:

I don't get why he's so untouchable. 2 wins in 11 games but everything is ok. When it was Sheridan or pemberton people were on their backs straight away.

Can you not see why it?s different

[warfey is a spireite]

plannerj, on 01 March 2025 - 06:30 PM, said:

Where did you post in those days? No Bobs Board! Oh, thinking about it, I guess it was written with a 2B pencil on loo paper stuck on the wall of the bogs behind the Saltergate Kop.

What bog paper ,? Was there any,? Always taken as a streamer lol

[calvin plummers socks]

Who do you (the guys wanting a change in manager) think would do a better job than Cookie?

He?s the most proven guy we?ve had at the helm for decades

[Siberian Spireite]

I?m still 100% behind Cook. We?ve been scuppered by injuries and no manager could have done much better given that hand.
If anyone will get us promoted, Paul Cook will. Best Town manager in my 35-odd years of being a fan.
I never referred to him as a ?snake? either, unlike some.
We are worth watching, as the attendances show.

This post has been edited by Siberian Spireite: 01 March 2025 - 09:55 PM

[dart in the crossbar]

On recruitment. As far as I can see, Cook's 1st team for our first season in L2 for a while was to be something like this:

Tyrer

Tanton Dunkley Arajo Gordon

Naylor ?

Dobra ? ?

Grigg

Subs Madden, Mandeville, Berry ? ? ?

Tie Dobra down to a longer contract.

As we know, the club missed out on Tyrer but sorted a new back four and then sorted McFadzean when Dunkley got injured. Dobra has been tied to a longer deal. Fleck was worth a punt too.

With the level of injuries, staying in L2 will be a decent achievement this year. We'll have the platform for doing better next year.

There's no need to name names IMHO but we have a bulk of players in the final year of their contracts who got us out of non-league. Some of those players didn't always do consistently well for us in non-league and didn't always start for us when we were there. They'll be gone come the summer IMHO.

[dazcarrlegend]

Dougspireite78, on 01 March 2025 - 06:17 PM, said:

I don't get why he's so untouchable. 2 wins in 11 games but everything is ok. When it was Sheridan or pemberton people were on their backs straight away.

It is called loyalty. Tell me a club who has had sustained success by chopping and changing managers? I think the Kirks aspire to be above a 'hire and fire' club and I, for one, agree with that long-term strategy. Back the right person over the long-term and accept there will be blips along the way.

[Search & Destroy]

dazcarrlegend, on 02 March 2025 - 09:55 AM, said:

It is called loyalty. Tell me a club who has had sustained success by chopping and changing managers? I think the Kirks aspire to be above a 'hire and fire' club and I, for one, agree with that long-term strategy. Back the right person over the long-term and accept there will be blips along the way.

I agree, he shouldn?t be sacked but I do feel that some level of criticism and
scrutiny should be applied and it feels that just won?t be tolerated by a large basis of the fan base, the club and certainly not by Cook himself

It feels as though Cook shouldn’t be spoken about in anything but glowing terms in case he walks

The 2nd stint has been ok but by no means sensational

This post has been edited by Search & Destroy: 02 March 2025 - 10:07 AM

[dim view]

Search & Destroy, on 02 March 2025 - 10:05 AM, said:

I agree, he shouldn?t be sacked but I do feel that some level of criticism and
scrutiny should be applied ....

.. go on then. Start a debate. Or are you washing your hair?

[clarevoyant.]

dim view, on 02 March 2025 - 10:19 AM, said:

.. go on then. Start a debate. Or are you washing your hair?

Of on a vast tangent, have you managed to get to Tiout?

[dim view]

clarevoyant., on 02 March 2025 - 10:36 AM, said:

Of on a vast tangent, have you managed to get to Tiout?

Not till next week. Can't wait. In Beckenham this weekend child minding.

[Snowflake McBedwetter]

Football is changing.

The era of Pep-ball is over. PC needs to adapt. Hopefully that will happen in terms of recruitment and an adoption of a more fluid tactical approach over the summer.