01-03-2022, 13:56
Are we just a stop-gap in Paul Cook's successful career? I hope tonight I'm proved wrong, but it seems like he's just going through the motions.
Perhaps it is just that he's thinking he'll re-build over the summer and make this his team, playing his way and win the league. Maybe? After all he's no experience of taking over someone else's successful team, playing in a different way from his own and building on it.
Watching us against Yeovil I felt we were completely absent. Asante was trying and Kellerman produced probably the most sublime piece of skill in his career, but we couldn't string three passes together, and when attempting a long ball we were missing by yards. We had no definable strategy, no approach to attacking that made me think we could ever score and we were generally outplayed by a journeyman Yeovil side.
How Adam Virgo could award Kellerman MOM for one piece of skill in a very ordinary performance I don't know. How anyone could not see that Yeovil's Knowles was head and shoulders the best player on the pitch is beyond me at least.
We looked tired and lacking in confidence. We gave every indication of simply waiting to fail. Something bad was going to happen soon.
But we won. Maybe that was our low-point and much better is now on the way. Maybe.
Nevertheless Paul Cook's low-key return worries me. Is he hoping when the end-of-season managerial merry-go-round starts that he might get a proper job? On Saturday it seemed like the team reflected its manager. None of them were really there. What do you think?
Perhaps it is just that he's thinking he'll re-build over the summer and make this his team, playing his way and win the league. Maybe? After all he's no experience of taking over someone else's successful team, playing in a different way from his own and building on it.
Watching us against Yeovil I felt we were completely absent. Asante was trying and Kellerman produced probably the most sublime piece of skill in his career, but we couldn't string three passes together, and when attempting a long ball we were missing by yards. We had no definable strategy, no approach to attacking that made me think we could ever score and we were generally outplayed by a journeyman Yeovil side.
How Adam Virgo could award Kellerman MOM for one piece of skill in a very ordinary performance I don't know. How anyone could not see that Yeovil's Knowles was head and shoulders the best player on the pitch is beyond me at least.
We looked tired and lacking in confidence. We gave every indication of simply waiting to fail. Something bad was going to happen soon.
But we won. Maybe that was our low-point and much better is now on the way. Maybe.
Nevertheless Paul Cook's low-key return worries me. Is he hoping when the end-of-season managerial merry-go-round starts that he might get a proper job? On Saturday it seemed like the team reflected its manager. None of them were really there. What do you think?