04-02-2015, 13:58
Yes Mr Cook's contract is great news, though I hope it doesn't have the same effect as the four-year job had on Sheri.
As a club we are going to have to develop and sell players. Look at the size of the town. We are competing against the likes of Bristol, Sheffield, Swindon, Milton Keynes and Preston, double, triple, eight times our size. We have to find ways of beating them on the field and competing off it financially on crowds that can never match theirs.
It's no secret I'm no fan of Mr Turner. Unlike Paul Cook he doesn't fill me with trust. But he's got it right on the club's website, concerning the direction we are taking. The manager will have to renew, recreate and even increase our success, but his playing staff will and must change. It's good that we only lost The Ginger Costa this time round, but we do need to be up with the game. Though I mistrust the loan market, if it is used with a view to bringing in players on a longer term, it is a lesser evil and I can see some sense behind all the deals we've done.
As fans we have to trust in Mr Cook's ability, but we do have to be realistic. We need the team to keep scoring goals. That doesn't mean we need Mr Cook to keep finding new Eoin Doyles, but it does mean that the club can't afford another Craig Davies interlude, in which the loss of a player equals the end of our attacking threat. It's impossible to know whether we've got it right, but the club has genuinely tried to address the issue.
As a club we are going to have to develop and sell players. Look at the size of the town. We are competing against the likes of Bristol, Sheffield, Swindon, Milton Keynes and Preston, double, triple, eight times our size. We have to find ways of beating them on the field and competing off it financially on crowds that can never match theirs.
It's no secret I'm no fan of Mr Turner. Unlike Paul Cook he doesn't fill me with trust. But he's got it right on the club's website, concerning the direction we are taking. The manager will have to renew, recreate and even increase our success, but his playing staff will and must change. It's good that we only lost The Ginger Costa this time round, but we do need to be up with the game. Though I mistrust the loan market, if it is used with a view to bringing in players on a longer term, it is a lesser evil and I can see some sense behind all the deals we've done.
As fans we have to trust in Mr Cook's ability, but we do have to be realistic. We need the team to keep scoring goals. That doesn't mean we need Mr Cook to keep finding new Eoin Doyles, but it does mean that the club can't afford another Craig Davies interlude, in which the loss of a player equals the end of our attacking threat. It's impossible to know whether we've got it right, but the club has genuinely tried to address the issue.