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Why? Because he scores goals in Scotland? My Gran could do that and she’s been dead 12 years.
If he played as often as this Birmingham lad apparently has and is as good as people say then what do you think would happen? He’d leave. I’m not saying we shouldn’t play him so we keep him, but to highlight Birmingham selling a player as a reason to play him seems a bit daft to me and i’m pretty sure there would be as much uproar if he was sold
Defence always looked better with him in the side. One of those risk signings we have to make. If he was fully fit he’d be at a club bigger than ours.
Wouldn’t be the first striker to do that.
Then theres the Northern Ireland striker who started out as a keeper
I disagree nunny. Half our players are utter tripe.
Fair enough comment so why are they in the team? Which dickhead thinks they are not tripe?. Still down to one person.[/quote]
Well there isn’t really anyone else we can play is there? Well, aside from the kids.
If you listen to Cook, i’m guessing you don’t as nobody else in the Cook out camp seems to, he admits we have a lack of quality but again, who else does he play?
Our budget, something else that people seem to struggle with, means we have to sign these types of players. It has always been the same. Unfortunately must of the players are failing to step up to this level added to the fact we’ve lost our best 2 players and haven’t replaced them.
Cook has made plenty of mistakes but the constant goings on that this squad would suddenly turn into a top side are laughable.
I’m seeing plenty of teams playing young lads. Some of these are far younger than those I watched beat Liverpool Friday. Some of those at Wigan are young men 20+ not straight from school. So please explain how tf they get experience if their not weaned in ??.Those fcukin Royles Chuckle Brothers must be on space cakes watching us then move over to crystal meth when they report back to Hong Kong or there sending them Liverpool video’s saying “Yep! That’s us!!”
Most of the team were actually under the age of 20. Three were 21.
Two weeks in a row now Cook has said in public that we lack quality and yet there are no incomings and no genuine discussion about incomings. Worrying?
I certainly agree with his mistakes, he’s made several, but I feel as though some of our players almost mentally believe they aren’t good enough to be here. That is also possibly down to Cook and some of his comments to the press but I think the players would listen more to what he says in training than what he says to the Evening Post, but we look like a lower league team against a PL side in a cup tie.
Plenty of ball, get ourselves a goal and then try to hold on for dear life. As soon as we concede we fall apart as if to say “well we did well to get here”
Watching us make the same mistakes again week after week is getting beyond a joke.
We already have players out their depth. Byrne being one.
So no reason whatsoever for not using some of our future stars.[/quote]
No. I can 100% see why people are asking for these players to play (I feel some should too but I am a bigger Jensen Weir fan than I am a Joffy fan) and I can 100% see why Paul Cook doesn’t want to risk any of them.
As I’ve said before I’ve seen plenty of young lads in the egg chasing academy that looked like the next big thing. Played for England, won awards, related to legends etc etc and they never got close to the first team. I commented for years that the youngest Tomkins brother was the best of the three and he has had the lesser career of the three. Again, different sport but the principle is the same. It is easy for Joffy to stand out against players his own age if he is better than they are. It’s another thing for him to do it against those older, more experienced and in a contact sport….bigger.
The kid clearly has talent and having spoken to Paul Cook about him he knows full well that he has but I honestly believe that Cook is overthinking things at times which is leading to our downfall and his comments after the game today come across basically as though he is accepting relegation and with over a third of the season to go that is pretty worrying.
I’ve always been a big Cook fan and have tried to defend him where I can, but whilst the players need to take some responsibility as Nathan Byrne said….so does Paul Cook. So do we sell 5 or 6 players, sack Cook or go all in that something changes? Already Middlesbrough have started to climb out, I fully believe that Stoke will and so we are left hoping that someone like Charlton or Sheffield Wednesday continue to lose and get sucked in.
If we go down with Cook in charge because the owners want him to oversee the next stage of their plan (in other words the introduction of the acadamy players) then they need to say so and set things straight with fans. None of us want to get relegated but if we know there are plans in place for a bright future then it might just make things that little bit easier to swallow.
