02-01-2019, 17:59
Cook is literally way out of our league.
If Wigan want him to create a better team they have to pump in the resources to do it. At the moment they are built for possible survival in the Championship, not a promotion battle. They should keep Cook and let him use the transfer window.
We reached a full stop at Paul Cook. His team was at the point of breaking up and leaving. He would have needed resources to keep some of his best players and to build on them .......... because we were decent under him, but we weren't good enough to go up. He clearly knew the level of investment coming in and Dean Saunders, Danny Wilson and so on went on to demonstrate it was not only insufficient for the club to improve, but it wasn't even enough to cover poor management and avoid relegation.
Of the management decisions made - Caldwell and Saunders were the wrong men anywhere at any time in the universe, Danny Wilson was fine but he was building without bricks, Lester got an almost impossible job and shackled himself to a terrible backroom who were supposed to cover for his inexperience, whilst Martin Allen was a perfectly reasonable choice who didn't work out. BUT it does have to be remembered this is the same club that also recruited Sheridan and Cook - so it hasn't all been failure.
The trouble with Pemberton is that he has said he doesn't want the job - he didn't have to do that - so sitting and seeing how potential relegation pans out doesn't look like a viable option to me. If he hadn't said that I'd have been prepared for a slow process with a view to him taking over permanently, but unless he's doing a Michael Gove, I reckon we need a manager.
If Wigan want him to create a better team they have to pump in the resources to do it. At the moment they are built for possible survival in the Championship, not a promotion battle. They should keep Cook and let him use the transfer window.
We reached a full stop at Paul Cook. His team was at the point of breaking up and leaving. He would have needed resources to keep some of his best players and to build on them .......... because we were decent under him, but we weren't good enough to go up. He clearly knew the level of investment coming in and Dean Saunders, Danny Wilson and so on went on to demonstrate it was not only insufficient for the club to improve, but it wasn't even enough to cover poor management and avoid relegation.
Of the management decisions made - Caldwell and Saunders were the wrong men anywhere at any time in the universe, Danny Wilson was fine but he was building without bricks, Lester got an almost impossible job and shackled himself to a terrible backroom who were supposed to cover for his inexperience, whilst Martin Allen was a perfectly reasonable choice who didn't work out. BUT it does have to be remembered this is the same club that also recruited Sheridan and Cook - so it hasn't all been failure.
The trouble with Pemberton is that he has said he doesn't want the job - he didn't have to do that - so sitting and seeing how potential relegation pans out doesn't look like a viable option to me. If he hadn't said that I'd have been prepared for a slow process with a view to him taking over permanently, but unless he's doing a Michael Gove, I reckon we need a manager.