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Just bite the bullet and sack him, pay him off and cut all ties.
A clean slate with a new manager is what this club needs.I agree, but the club won’t do this until they have a man in place. If they make the same mistakes as they did with Joyce and Mackay then relegation on top of paying off two managers and possible backroom teams etc would cripple us. We can survive a relegation but not that and two payoffs as well.
You may not agree with the idea but that is the basics of it.
Sorry egg meant no offence, was disappointed but not surprised to see us bottom!No offence at all pal. I was shocked to see us where we were but didn’t even click until you said. I presume I deleted a column when removing the 6 sides I needed to
I did post league table earlier that dnr quite rightly spotted had gone wrong of the last 18 months. It seems we are the worst of the 18 sides this season and last but I’ll do it again later
Back to the point. Egg, you seem very reasonable. But I have to agree with nuneaton. Our defence was rock solid all afternoon. I strongly believe that had Cook left things the way they were or perhaps put as has been mentioned eleswhere – Roberts for Jacobs, we would have won that game.Unless my theory on Paul Cook is correct!
We’ll never know. I think we probably would have, but the whole last 10 minutes mirrored previous games with poor clearances and head in hands moments. Cook is overyhinking that and making bad decisions. IMO. As I say, we didn’t do it last year so not like it’s in his DNA.
And that is where opinion comes in, yes he was wrong to make the sub at the time he did but the panic defending had already set in which is probably why he did it
If it ain’t broke don’t fix it but Cook likes to change it over and over again when it’s not broke and all this shit is his fault and no-one else’s hes not learning from his mistakes and we are sleep walking into relegation but I cant see anyone we can afford who’s better than him.Thats the point. It is broken and we are trying too hard to fix it.
I’ve seen a few people slagging Kipre off but he had to for the ball. It was a crowded goalmouth and there opposing players all around. He couldn’t risk letting the ball run out of play and his panic was result of what’s happened so much recently. Unfortunately it’s in the players minds now and until we have a few games without it happening again it’ll be there in the closing stages of all our gamesI’m not blaming Kipre as such I just think he deals with it differently if we not having the run we are.
To solely blame Cook when players are making cock ups is ridiculous.
Paul Cook has made some mistakes there is no doubt about that and his subs seem to come via an iPad as opposed to him watching what is going on, but this thing about him fucking up in the last 5 minutes isn’t entirely at his feet. The same back 4 (once we moved James to midfield) didn’t do it last season but have done it recently at an alarming rate.
My personal opinion is that it started as a slice of bad luck that has snowballed into a complete lack of confidence and changing things for changing sake to try and find a solution.
Waghorns shot is going wide the other day but Kipre decides to throw himself at it. The sense of panic was ridiculous. Yes part of that comes from making a sub at the wrong time but it also comes from our position. If Klopp makes a similar change in a similar environment, Liverpool don’t concede. They’re playing with nothing but confidence and make the right call 99.9% of the time. City on the otherhand have had a rough time at the back and are conceding soft sloppy goals. Mendy last night makes a schoolboy error for the equaliser that he probably doesn’t usually make. That isn’t Pep’s fault,nor is it Cook’s that Chey Dunkley opted to go for a walk on Monday night despite being told to sit on the penalty spot. Thankfully it didn’ cost us.
I think it’s clear to see, especially away, that in the last 10 minutes we start to panic. Passes start to go astray, we start to make poor decisions in every aspect of the game and look as though we become 11 individuals all of a sudden. 3 or 4 players go for the same ball. It’s like watching kids play where you can throw a blanket over them all. Our confidence is non existent and that is massive in sport. Even the best golfers miss simple putts or O’Sullivan an easy pot when things aren’t going well. We need to get that back and the only way we will is to see a game out.
Where I think Cook is to blame for this, is he seems to be trying too hard to find a fix. It’s almost as if he thinks we need to make a sub to see it out and in turn it just disrupts us. He’s panicing on the sidelines and making daft calls trying to run the clock down and the players are making daft calls on the pitch. The blame isn’t solely at Cook’s door. In my opinion of course.
And we will never know what a new manager will be able to do. See Malky Mackay and Warren Joyce. Chris Hutchings had a better squad than Paul Jewell did but you wouldn’t have known it.
