Paul Cook

Fretters · Post by **Fretters** » Tue May 23, 2017 12:38 pm

Interested in talking to Wigan apparently, despite them being in the same league as Pompey next season. I suppose with the impending Mickey Mouse takeover at Fratton Park, he feels the need to look around.

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He's done pretty well at Chesterfield and Pompey, I wonder if we might see him manage us one day?

Spike · Post by **Spike** » Tue May 23, 2017 1:22 pm

Dyche is here Forever!

claretblue · Post by **claretblue** » Tue May 23, 2017 1:27 pm

Spike wrote:Dyche is here Forever!

that might maybe so Spike....but what about after that!

KRBFC · Post by **KRBFC** » Tue May 23, 2017 1:30 pm

He took Chesterfield up then completely shat on them, left for a team in the league below. Now they have swapped leagues.

Rowls · Post by **Rowls** » Tue May 23, 2017 1:34 pm

He's still based up north.

Owns a pub in the Merseyside area.

ClaretTony · Post by **ClaretTony** » Tue May 23, 2017 2:24 pm

He was favourite for Wigan but Nathan Jones (Luton) is now first choice with the bookies. If he does get it, will Robbie go with him? It's over 12 years since he tried to move to Wigan.

Fretters · Post by **Fretters** » Tue May 23, 2017 2:35 pm

ClaretTony wrote:He was favourite for Wigan but Nathan Jones (Luton) is now first choice with the bookies. If he does get it, will Robbie go with him? It's over 12 years since he tried to move to Wigan.

Yep, I remember the radio interview he did when he was saying the club should let him go.

As for Cook, I remember his bizarre loan move to Wigan. He was pulling the strings for us at the top of the first division and he was suddenly shipped out by Stan. Think we hit relegation form after that.

ClaretTony · Post by **ClaretTony** » Tue May 23, 2017 3:45 pm

Fretters wrote:As for Cook, I remember his bizarre loan move to Wigan. He was pulling the strings for us at the top of the first division and he was suddenly shipped out by Stan. Think we hit relegation form after that.

Couldn't believe it - top of the league and he was in superb form. Suddenly on a Friday afternoon the club announce he's gone to Wigan on a month's loan. He did come back and stayed for another season and a half but was never a regular as he'd been previously. Our record when he started games was phenomenal. I always believe he was Stan's best signing but Stan told me it was Bally.

Funkydrummer · Post by **Funkydrummer** » Tue May 23, 2017 4:01 pm

Won manager of the year I see. One for the future perhaps ?

Walton · Post by **Walton** » Tue May 23, 2017 4:03 pm

Paul Cook remains one of my favourite ever Burnley players.

He'll either have to do spectacularly well, or we do spectacularly badly, for him to ever become Burnley boss though.

7decades · Post by **7decades** » Tue May 23, 2017 4:21 pm

The best left foot since Cinerella...

Hendrickxz · Post by **Hendrickxz** » Tue May 23, 2017 4:39 pm

He seems to have a strange habit of doing well at a club then scarpering. I think he left Stanley for Chesterfield, then left Chesterfield after he'd got them promoted to go to Portsmouth. Strikes me as a tad odd, but he obviously has something to offer at lower league level, be interesting to see what happens next.

ClaretTony · Post by **ClaretTony** » Tue May 23, 2017 4:49 pm

Walton wrote:Paul Cook remains one of my favourite ever Burnley players.

He'll either have to do spectacularly well, or we do spectacularly badly, for him to ever become Burnley boss though.

Certainly one of my favourite players from the Ternent era - but I'd also be amazed if he went on to manage at the level we're at now.

Blackrod · Post by **Blackrod** » Tue May 23, 2017 6:33 pm

Paul Cook was superb for us. One of my favourites from that era.

cblantfanclub · Post by **cblantfanclub** » Tue May 23, 2017 8:17 pm

Stan can bleat all he likes about not having investment at the time but he was responsible for our demise that season by his decision to ship out Cook.
We were never the same again and I've never heard a whiff of an explanation. Stan let us down and in my opinion has got away with it as it's rarely brought up when discussing his record.

Herts Clarets · Post by **Herts Clarets** » Tue May 23, 2017 8:45 pm

Weren't there whispers that Cook was rather too fond of sampling the wares on offer in his pub?

mdd2 · Post by **mdd2** » Tue May 23, 2017 8:46 pm

Was that when we were away at Palace and won 2-1. He didn't play as we had loaned him to Wigan?

timshorts · Post by **timshorts** » Tue May 23, 2017 9:01 pm

KRBFC wrote:He took Chesterfield up then completely shat on them, left for a team in the league below. Now they have swapped leagues.

Exactly right.

And unlike Coyle, who at least did it to us to go and manage a side he played for, this was all for money.

Nathan Jones is a really promising manager. Probably had half the budget of Portsmouth- but then that probably applies to plymouth, Doncaster and all the rest of div 2. Exeter manager has done a sterling job.

minnieclaret · Post by **minnieclaret** » Tue May 23, 2017 9:28 pm

Rowls wrote:He's still based up north.

Owns a pub in the Merseyside area.

I was just going to ask whether he still had business up Norf. I thought it was a restaurant he owned but I bow to your knowledge.

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