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Originally Posted by DAV007
Agree SamF, real Stanley fans know the truth.
\some of them still think Beattie was a good manager  |
Beattie had a higher win % ratio than the snake during his managerial tenure....
Beattie also dipped into his own personal funds to help sign Kal Naismith....
He stuck around for twice as long as the snake.....left in what will probably always be "mysterious" and probably never to be disclosed circumstances.....and when he left the club.....he left it in a better state than what he found it in.....
Compare that...... to a guy who exited the Crown without hanging around as much even to bid farewell to the staff when Chesterfield pushed reddies under his nose.....after 4 or was it five straight defeats???
Leam Richardson actually fared better during his short managerial stint than Snakey....but the lure of the Lira ( or whatever currency the crooked spirites were paying !!! ) obviously persuaded him to follow the snake along the snake pass over the pennines.
When Beattie left on 12th Sept 2014 he had laid the foundations to help put the club on a more even footing....for the first time in our newly acquired football league history, the club were retaining players on contracts longer than 12 months...
Six days later......Coleman ( & Bell ) returned.
With the budget Cook has had since he joined Pompey in May 2015, I can't understand why some folk put the guy on some sort of pedestal. He's been lucky that their board gave him the time to deliver their sought after exit from League 2.
Personally, Pompey's hunger to climb back to the heights from which they have fallen in the last decade or so, will mean that the pressure to keep going forward .....may lead to both Snakey & Richardson being cast aside for somebody else to deliver them to the next level.
Should that day arise......don't expect me to feel any sympathy for Cook.