Time to say goodbye to Paul Cook?

**roverandout** · 21/12/2009, 10:02 AM

I think that the club have reached a crossroads in respect of the current manager. To be perfectly honest we escaped relegation last season by good luck rather than good guidance. We lost the FAI Cup Final as a result of a totally crazy substitution (Meenan); and we should have advanced in the Europa Cup had our preparation been better. Take Gerry Carr out of the equation and we simply don't have a decent management team . It's ok the manager being popular around the town, but is he really someone who leads by example and who is a decent role model for young players? The club should have never taken him back when he resigned last season. They will end up having to sack him this time around.

**Boo_Boy** · 21/12/2009, 10:05 AM

**redobit** · 21/12/2009, 10:11 AM

Are you InsideMan?

**roverandout** · 21/12/2009, 10:31 AM

Originally Posted by redobit

Are you InsideMan?

I'm not InsideMan redobit, just someone who has lost faith in Cook.

**gustavo** · 21/12/2009, 10:32 AM

I've edited your thread to include a question mark as I was in a state of alarm when I saw it

**sligofan4ever** · 21/12/2009, 10:39 AM

Originally Posted by roverandout

I think that the club have reached a crossroads in respect of the current manager. To be perfectly honest we escaped relegation last season by good luck rather than good guidance. We lost the FAI Cup Final as a result of a totally crazy substitution (Meenan); and we should have advanced in the Europa Cup had our preparation been better. Take Gerry Carr out of the equation and we simply don't have a decent management team . It's ok the manager being popular around the town, but is he really someone who leads by example and who is a decent role model for young players? The club should have never taken him back when he resigned last season. They will end up having to sack him this time around.

You've lost faith in a man who has already signed Amond,Turner and McCabe ? has brought us players Boco,Blinkhorn,Doyle,Ventre,Almeida,Butler and very promising young winger Dean Marshall ? The man who brought us to our first Cup Final in 15 years ? The man who brought us European football for the first time in 13 years ?

He brought on Meenan for Cretaro, and I tought Meenan had a decent game, would've preferred Marshall upfront though, has proven he can score goals. Cook may have no silverware to his name (yet

) but he's still be a successful manager for us, and given funds to sign players, he's shown he can turn a season around. Fair enough he's signed some woeful players in Camano,Kendrick and Jennings, but put those aside and look at how well he's done here. As Boo Boy said, this thread is a major fail.

**Only1Rovers** · 21/12/2009, 11:10 AM

Originally Posted by gustavo

I've edited your thread to include a question mark as I was in a state of alarm when I saw it

Ah the beauty of grammar....

... and punctuation.

**roverandout** · 21/12/2009, 11:17 AM

So is he the kind of role model that you would want running the club? Just answer me that one sligofan4ever.

In respect of his signings, he led the club and punters to believe that Boco would be a goalscoring sensation, and consequently the player got a contract that he could only have dreamt about. It took Cook a while to work out that Boco is actually a right back.

Thanks for adding the question mark gustavo.

**MMVIII** · 21/12/2009, 11:21 AM

So Boco was a bad signing in your eyes? Would you ever cop on. And let me guess, you know the exact wage Boco was on? I highly doubt that. Do enlighten me though as to your vast knowledge on all things SRFC.

**tiktok** · 21/12/2009, 11:23 AM

Originally Posted by roverandout

So is he the kind of role model that you would want running the club? Just answer me that one sligofan4ever.

Sorry for intruding into a Sligo debate but would you ever grow up and be grateful for what you have. What a load of nonsense.

You have a good young manager who brought you to a Cup Final and European Football in the last 12 months, you'd swear that was a regular occurence for you the way you're acting.

You'd want to have a good hard look around the league at the other 'role model' options available to replace Cook before you go kicking him out the door. I'll gladly swap our dream team of Tom Coughlan, Danny Drew and Roddy Collins for him.

**roverandout** · 21/12/2009, 11:28 AM

Originally Posted by ARooney28

So Boco was a bad signing in your eyes? Would you ever cop on. And let me guess, you know the exact wage Boco was on? I highly doubt that. Do enlighten me though as to your vast knowledge on all things SRFC.

Put it this way ARooney28 you would have been more than happy to earn what Boco was on.

**roverandout** · 21/12/2009, 11:31 AM

Originally Posted by tiktok

Sorry for intruding into a Sligo debate but would you ever grow up and be grateful for what you have. What a load of nonsense.

You have a good young manager who brought you to a Cup Final and European Football in the last 12 months, you'd swear that was a regular occurence for you the way you're acting.

You'd want to have a good hard look around the league at the other 'role model' options available to replace Cook before you go kicking him out the door. I'll gladly swap our dream team of Tom Coughlan, Danny Drew and Roddy Collins for him.

Cook and Coughlan would get along great. However I do think that you have enough pressing matters at your own club which are more worthy of your comments.

**gustavo** · 21/12/2009, 11:36 AM

Originally Posted by roverandout

Put it this way ARooney28 you would have been more than happy to earn what Boco was on.

What Boco earns is of no relevance to the debate.Whatever he's on,He's worth it

**MMVIII** · 21/12/2009, 11:46 AM

Cook and Coughlan would get on great? Are you mad? I can't even believe you would compare them two men. You are laughable

I know how much Boco is on. I would just like to know if you knew the same. Which you obviously don't.

**roverandout** · 21/12/2009, 11:54 AM

Originally Posted by gustavo

What Boco earns is of no relevance to the debate.Whatever he's on,He's worth it

Fair point gustavo (although every player has a value, especially someone who misses large chunks of the season when he's away on international duty). Cook is the subject of my thread and I'm just not convinced by the sincerity of the guy. I do however think that he is quite canny when it comes to enhancing his standing. Not only has he the people on this board eating out of his hand, but those dimwits on MNS have practically canonised him. It has never occurred to the latter that he just might be playing to the cameras. A manager should also be a good ambassador for his club (McStay, Sanchez, Cotterill, O'Riordan etc.) and as yet, no one has answered my question which I will repeat 'Is Cook a good role model or a good professional'?

**sligofan4ever** · 21/12/2009, 12:01 PM

Originally Posted by roverandout

Fair point gustavo (although every player has a value, especially someone who misses large chunks of the season when he's away on international duty). Cook is the subject of my thread and I'm just not convinced by the sincerity of the guy. I do however think that he is quite canny when it comes to enhancing his standing. Not only has he the people on this board eating out of his hand, but those dimwits on MNS have practically canonised him. It has never occurred to the latter that he just might be playing to the cameras. A manager should also be a good ambassador for his club (McStay, Sanchez, Cotterill, O'Riordan etc.) and as yet, no one has answered my question which I will repeat 'Is Cook a good role model or a good professional'?

How has he missed large chunks of the season ? Boco showed his loyalty to the club this summer by returning to Ireland to play against Cork just days after playing for Benin, and returning there to play again. And yes Paul Cook is a good role model for the club, hes a very honest man and never shy's away from what he wants to say in interviews.

**SligoBrewer** · 21/12/2009, 12:02 PM

Originally Posted by roverandout

'Is Cook a good role model or a good professional'?

Yes, without a shadow of a doubt. Shup and stop trolling.
Jim.

**roverandout** · 21/12/2009, 12:03 PM

Originally Posted by ARooney28

Cook and Coughlan would get on great? Are you mad? I can't even believe you would compare them two men. You are laughable

I know how much Boco is on. I would just like to know if you knew the same. Which you obviously don't.

I don't think it's fair to reveal a player's wages open forum ARooney28, but rest assured I know what it is. More importantly, given that clubs are having to curtail their wage bills, do you think that Boco will be back next season? If he's not, might this tell its own story?