Paul Cook .... going? staying? gone?

[marinobohs]

Fair enough, no silverware, but how much of that was down to the likes of Drogs and Bohs at the time having even bigger budgets?

Someone like Rico wouldn't have the drive / desire to win a league title now, and none of the other names I've heard would have enough experience of the LOI.

Pats budget the year they finished second to Bohs was higher than Bohs or Drogs (and possibly highest ever LOI budget) at close to 3 million (FAI published budgets). They finished 19 points behind Bohs (4th highest budget listed).

To be fair, that was an awesome Bohs team that lost once (Fahey rocket home V Pats) before clinching the League title so no real reflection on Johnny Mac, good football man and (on what I heard from players) decent coach.

[Dodge]

Oh and John McDonnell is a very poor manager

[Nah Nah Nah Nah]

http://sligorovers.com/latest-news-news-menu-inside-246/1466-statement-from-paul-cook

[CrowdedHouse]

http://sligorovers.com/latest-news-n...from-paul-cook

So Sligo are on the verge of imploding.....???

[Royal rover]

I hope rovers appoint soneone with serious ambition - if rumours are to be believed then someone like Little would be a disaster for the club and would jump ship at the first opportunity to go back to England , someone like brian Kerr would be ideal on that basis - at the same time it's great to see this job has attracted so much interest

[Spudulika]

http://sligorovers.com/latest-news-n...from-paul-cook

Jesus, when are the FAI going to give our clubs proper media training. This is one of the reasons the LOI is in the mess it's in. The content of this should never be made public. Let alone on the club website.

[hoops1]

Sligo are comedy gold, havent laughed as much in a very long time.

[Sonny]

Jesus, when are the FAI going to give our clubs proper media training. This is one of the reasons the LOI is in the mess it's in. The content of this should never be made public. Let alone on the club website.

At the very least they shouldn't have allowed an 11 year old child pen the statement!

[redobit]

Sligo are comedy gold, havent laughed as much in a very long time.

Only a generation of laughing to go before youre record is beat so.

[Sonny]

Only a generation of laughing to go before youre record is beat so.

How do you work that one out? I assume the "whole generation of laughing" you are referring to is the period between 1987 and 2009, which is comical, as even during Rovers' darkest years we still won more league titles than Sligo!

[marinobohs]

True about Bohs and Drogs but we never even game them a good challenge, Although that Bohs team was probably the best LOI team in maybe the last 20 years (maybe level with the Shels team from the early/mid 00's) but still not even a poxy league cup with. Nothing

P Stu, over to you.

[askmehoop]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17149243

Former Preston caretaker manager David Unsworth has turned down the chance to manage League of Ireland side Sligo Rovers, BBC Sport understands.
Rovers are without a manager following the departure of Paul Cook to League Two side Accrington Stanley. The 38-year-old was recentlyNorth End's joint caretaker boss alongside veteran midfielder Graham Alexander. Unsworth was also believed to be among the front-runners for the Accrington job prior to Cook's appointment. The former defender had a successful playing career, mainly at Everton where he made over 300 league appearances in two spells, winning his one and only full England cap in a 2-1 win against Japan in 1995. He spent the 1997-98 season at West Ham, then famously signed for Aston Villa before re-signing for Everton in the same month in 1998, remaining there until 2004. Spells at Portsmouth, Ipswich, Sheffield United, Wigan, Burnley and Huddersfield followed before he retired from playing to concentrate on coaching.
Unsworth's last game in joint charge of Preston, following the appointment of former Stevenage boss Graham Westley, ended in victory with a 3-2 win at home against Wycombe, and he has since left the club.

[dong]

Class.

[askmehoop]

Class.

He might have been worth a punt, plenty of experience at the top level. surely has plenty of contacts in England. wonder why he turned you down?!

[dong]

I heard he's highly thought of in Sweden from my Swedish girlfriend's Dad. Heading there apparently.