Paul Cook at Portsmouth
 

nice to see he got portsmouth promoted

Cook has already said he has been discussing new player contracts and potential new transfers with the board as they prepare to step up to League Two.

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Why were they non league?:D

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Nice? Nothing about that man is nice! I'm just surprised Portsmouth gave him three seasons to get the job done but you never know, if & when they do get taken over by Disney's ex CEO they'll bring their own team in & he'll be shown the door - can only hope!
Happy for their fans that they've achieved promotion as on the whole they're a decent lot but I can't join in congratulating Cook (he wouldn't have got anywhere without Leam but I bet I know who'll be taking all the plaudits)

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Give it till November and he'll be sacked, he's found his level at league 2 he struggles to manage any higher up

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That wouldn't upset me at all.

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Never really understood the hate for Cook on here.

He was our best manager in the "between Coley" era.

Happy for him to be doing well - reckon he's at a club that will take him as far as his ability allows.

Plus will never forget him scoring for us from near the half way line.

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Agree SamF, real Stanley fans know the truth.

\some of them still think Beattie was a good manager :)

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They were both good managers but one left for unexplained reasons (Dav claims to know but won't let on :rolleyes:) and the other deserted us after promising the world :(, then poached the man who got us out of the crap he left behind :mad:.

But to be fair :eek: to Cook, he has never shown anything but max respect when talking about Stanley to the local media down here. Pompey fans deserve a Championship side and he did take Chesterfield to the playoffs - the fan-run club stuck by him through a promising but ultimately disappointing season last year, if the Mickey Mouse buyout goes through (don't bank on it, it's down to the fans who've endured too many false promises) he probably won't get so much slack in League 1.

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Beattie had a higher win % ratio than the snake during his managerial tenure....:rolleyes:

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.....:o

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???:confused:

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.:rolleyes:

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.:o

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.:confused:

Should that day arise......don't expect me to feel any sympathy for Cook.:rolleyes:

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lucky the snake went to portsmouth as they,ve shown patiance with him in their quest to climb back through the leagues. some clubs would have sacked him after the first seasons failure and appointed russell slade.

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Beattie also dipped into his own personal funds to help sign Kal Naismith....

which was refunded !

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

21st place with 4 points from 6 games, playing more and more hoof ball
:D:D:D:D:D:D:D


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...

rubbish players who later left for free!

btw it had nothing to do with the manager, but the club owners, coleman always stated he would have liked to have given certain players longer but wasnt able to


Thankfully real stanley fans know the truth and facts.

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This saga is better than an Agatha Christie 'who-dunnit?'

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Didn't Coley sign 5 players with the money that was used to pay Kayodes wage who was a Beattie signing?

Don't see why people hate Cooky so much, but opinions eh!

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I have wiped better off the sole of my shoe than Cook!! just my opinion.:D

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Be careful Baldy.

You will get put on the block list and be shouted down for having such an honest fact based opinion.

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Best post ive read for a while Carpon .

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Should that day arise......don't expect me to feel any sympathy for Cook.:rolleyes:[/QUOTE]

once a snake always a snake. a viper in our midth.

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From a football point of view I have always been a fan .
He encourages lads to play without fear and at most clubs he's had success.
Don't know him as a person,but from the outside he seems to have great believe in his football views.
He always speaks highly of Acci,and never once put them down,so I wish him every success,except when they play us.

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Football19 - a true gent.

And don't forget, it takes one to know one!

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Don't know about never putting Accy down F19, his behaviour when we signed Rommy after Portsmouth released him was like a child who'd had their toys taken off them - sulking & refusing to acknowledge Coley or Jimmy who he was supposedly great friends with.
In my mind he's not a genuine person, he spouts the same old cliches he always has in interviews - basically he barged his way into the Stanley job, dropping Sligo at the drop of a hat on the way - only to scarper at the first opportunity when the going got a bit rocky then did the same at Chesterfield, I know managers & players move on but there are ways to do it, behave with decorum & show some respect for the club which gave the opportunity to work in English league football - Cook did none of this & as a result I have zero respect for him

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Chesterfield was a big step up from Accy.

New stadium, money to spend, league 1.

It made perfect sense

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But less stable, Chesterfield can't afford a pot to p**s in currently

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St06nc2
With due respect to your post, Paul cook is a football manager, not mystic meg

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Dav with due respect to you Cook is a Snake.

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I know everyone has their opinions, and I love The way Coleys teams play,but I don't think him and Jimmy aren't on Liam and Cookys xmas card list !!! And there lies the issue,it's not with Accy lol

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Cook chose to build a team based on youth and energy. After the transfer window closed he bogged off and left us with an inexperienced team and an inexperienced manager - its surprising we didnt go down that year.



Worse record than Leighton James

Speaks in 3 different accents and inaudibler (not a word but making an exception for him) than Coleman

Thats enough reasons

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I was there that day. It should have been 10-0 if my memory is correct! One of bav's best performances in a stanley shirt along with Morecambe away.

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Mrs Exile and I were also at that Oxford game; first and only time we walked out early so embarrassing was Stanley's performance. And it came a few days after an equally appalling display at Torquay.
What stuck in our memory was that we sat just behind a gaggle of Scousers, some of the youths fully decked out in Stanley training kit, who we presumed may have had some family relationship with the then manager. They seemed to think the whole match and Stanley's abysmal performance was something of a joke. Believe me, they were the only people sitting with the Stanley fans who found anything to laugh about that day. Perhaps they knew something at the time that the rest of us didn't but which we discovered a few days later.

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I too was there !!,awful performance,but upto that game didn't we have the second best defensive record in the league ?
Think Cooky realised he didn't have the players to play the expansive game he loves !!!
RR can't complain,I am sure I gave him a feeble ticket so he never paid !

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folks in my neck of the woods are proudly telling me about Pompey's elevation. I simply reply "oh, d'ya mean Stanley reserves" - kills the conversation stone dead !

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Why are people still dwelling onPaul Cook? he has gone, Move on, we may have to face him again next season if we can go up via the play offs.

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Snake is in talks with Wigan, guess he still likes to follow the money

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Fair play to him

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Paul is the new manager of Wigan Athletic.

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Good he wont last a season yon imho.

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What? Even after saying he'd never leave Pompey 😳😳😳😳😳😳

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Surely yeh know? A Snake is a Snake.

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Great, we can look forward to a friendly against them now so he can run the rule over who to steal next :rolleyes:

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Now it all comes out...cook will be the highest paid manager in LG1,doubling his wages of the nearest manager....but he didn't go for the money

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He didn't go for the money, sorry to disappoint the haters but he has ambition

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So he left Pompey who have a new owner who wants to pump money into the club and get the club back to the premier league to join Wigan a club in the decline where managers don't last longer than a year because he has ambition? Oh do shut up Dav

Re: Paul Cook at Portsmouth
 

He's decided to move back to the north west for personal reasons.

To be closer to his wallet !! :D

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I didn't know st06nc2 had personally spoken with Paul Cook to find out his reasons.

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We'll have you? When a guy says he's not leaving as he loves the club just 2 week ago what other reason would he have, he isn't stepping up a league or anything just morning to club that's on the decline for more money

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Speak personally to a lying snake!! yeh would really find out.:rolleyes:

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may become a politician(for the party that pays him most** when he leaves football.

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All hail King Cookie !!! --- Well i have to say that :)

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Yeh dont, yeh can tell the truth.:D

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Cashy,all logic and reasoning goes out the window following your hometown team.
Blind loyalty ensures:) !!!

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Can't blame anybody moving on if he'll get more money AND be nearer to his family.

Surely we'd do the same as a manager's life is too short to have any loyalty.

Good luck to him....

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Well hopefully he falls flat on his face

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Usually I'd agree but doubt you'd be saying the same if you had the history with him that Stanley have . . . . .

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You're not on your own there but somehow that particular sewer rat usually comes up smelling of roses

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I've been thinking about this today and you could say every Club he's been moved onto has been a bigger move!

Just finished listening to Portsmouth CEO interview and he he says loyalty is very fluid in football these days, If the manager has 2 bad games he's the worst manager ever but a manager does well and thinks he deserves a move the fans hold it against him!

If it was a manager job in any other profession nobody would bat an eyelid, Not to mention that the Disney guy is talking about bringing in some kind of Director of Football. Who's to say Cooky would be comfortable or the new owner would even want Cooky as manager...

On the flip side when he won the league a few weeks ago he said he would be at Portsmouth unless Portsmouth didn't want him anymore!

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To be honest i wouldn't say Wigan is a bigger club than Portsmouth? They probably offered more brass possibly.

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They've doubled his wage, he's highest paid manager in league 1

Re: Paul Cook at Portsmouth
 

Out of interest whats happened to Leam?

Re: Paul Cook at Portsmouth
 

Not sure but isn't proccy there aswell

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Leams gone too!

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To Wigan?

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Yes

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might find his new owners will have less patiance than his previous ones. if wigan are not in the play off positions by christmas he.ll be gone.

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Home

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Yeh i know, only wish Leam well though.;)

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.....with a nice big cheque as a settlement.

Only profession I know where failure is so financially rewarding...

Little wonder that som many ex footballers want a crack at management realising that one day they'll be in the money as a reward for failure...

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Should this topic not be under the heading of Snakes N Ladders.