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

**Spudulika** · 21/02/2012, 5:44 PM

Originally Posted by Nah Nah Nah Nah

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** · 21/02/2012, 7:36 PM

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

**Sonny** · 21/02/2012, 9:22 PM

Originally Posted by Spudulika

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** · 21/02/2012, 10:08 PM

Originally Posted by hoops1

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** · 21/02/2012, 11:29 PM

Originally Posted by redobit

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** · 22/02/2012, 2:00 PM

Originally Posted by PartySaint

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** · 23/02/2012, 8:19 PM

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** · 23/02/2012, 8:22 PM

Class.

**askmehoop** · 23/02/2012, 8:26 PM

Originally Posted by dong

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** · 23/02/2012, 8:35 PM

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

**askmehoop** · 23/02/2012, 8:43 PM

Originally Posted by dong

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

Or maybe he read Paul Cooks open letter to Sligo fans, or better still he probably had a look at Sligos twitter page the other night. Did your chairman pay him while he was being considered for the job btw?

**nigel-harps1954** · 23/02/2012, 8:45 PM

I think he would have been worth a shot for sure. Played at the highest level for so many years in England. Has a world of experience in dressing rooms with top managers. Was always a leader on the pitch, surely would have been decent as a manager.
I hear Staunton has his name in.

**askmehoop** · 23/02/2012, 8:58 PM

Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954

I think he would have been worth a shot for sure. Played at the highest level for so many years in England. Has a world of experience in dressing rooms with top managers. Was always a leader on the pitch, surely would have been decent as a manager.
Ihear Staunton has his name in.

May God have mercy on us all

**nigel-harps1954** · 23/02/2012, 10:25 PM

Brian Little to be announced next few days supposedly

http://www.sportsnewsireland.com/soccer_irish/87194/

**Sonny** · 23/02/2012, 10:29 PM

Little's recent managerial record is less than impressive.

**bullit** · 23/02/2012, 11:29 PM

This is one crazy roll of a dice for Sligo IMO,good luck to them.

**micls** · 24/02/2012, 1:15 AM

'don’t do our fighting in public there is no winner in this'

Is this for real?

**askmehoop** · 24/02/2012, 6:38 AM

Originally Posted by micls

'don’t do our fighting in public there is no winner in this'

Is this for real?

i think everything thats happened in the last few weeks highlights what a joke of a club sligo really are

**Dave_SRFC** · 24/02/2012, 7:39 AM

Get your house in order Sligo, know your limits...

**dong** · 24/02/2012, 8:22 AM

Originally Posted by askmehoop

Or maybe he read Paul Cooks open letter to Sligo fans, or better still he probably had a look at Sligos twitter page the other night. Did your chairman pay him while he was being considered for the job btw?

No. The Swedish girlfriend thing is better. I loved that story when you first told it.