29-12-2023, 14:24
I cannot imagine a world in which any club would sooner have Dean Holden as manager than Cookie.
If I were Plymouth I too would go for Warnock who doesn't get a mention. He has a home in Cornwall ...... and another in Scotland ...... and he was disappointed Huddersfield let him go. Warnock, or Colin as he is known, would keep them up for certain and if they were sensible they would do what Huddersfield should have done, discuss succession with a young manager eventually coming through and Warnock remaining in an influential position in the club as long as he liked. Football's obsession with a new face and a fresh start every two years at the outside is simply nonsense.
Salts is right, David Webb's lad looks an ideal replacement if Cookie goes, despite his dad's often crazed performances on-field. BUT if Cookie had followed the maxim that there is no i in team he could and would have strangled the nascent rumours at birth. The results of that failure were seen at Solihull in the result and our idiot captain getting himself sent off.
Though Salts is right that with Pompey Cookie was doing a Bob Dylan -"you don't need to be a weatherman to know which way the wind's blowing" - he certainly wasn't blameless in football's most open secret clouding our ignominious end to that season. Though it was Dave Allen's doing, it was the start of the process of decline which saw us exit the football league and the manner of Cookie's departure wasn't much help.
If I were Mr Cook I'd stay and try to fulfil the boast about our getting back to Division One. But Plymouth is a good club with an owner determined to finance it prudently. They have a few very good players in their ranks, but whether they are anywhere near being able to mount a challenge to get to the Premiership, which would be appropriate for a city of Plymouth's size with a catchment area for potential support encompassing two counties which are semi-deserts as regards pro' football, remains a moot point. Potential is a young man's game and Cookie is no spring chicken.
If I were Plymouth I too would go for Warnock who doesn't get a mention. He has a home in Cornwall ...... and another in Scotland ...... and he was disappointed Huddersfield let him go. Warnock, or Colin as he is known, would keep them up for certain and if they were sensible they would do what Huddersfield should have done, discuss succession with a young manager eventually coming through and Warnock remaining in an influential position in the club as long as he liked. Football's obsession with a new face and a fresh start every two years at the outside is simply nonsense.
Salts is right, David Webb's lad looks an ideal replacement if Cookie goes, despite his dad's often crazed performances on-field. BUT if Cookie had followed the maxim that there is no i in team he could and would have strangled the nascent rumours at birth. The results of that failure were seen at Solihull in the result and our idiot captain getting himself sent off.
Though Salts is right that with Pompey Cookie was doing a Bob Dylan -"you don't need to be a weatherman to know which way the wind's blowing" - he certainly wasn't blameless in football's most open secret clouding our ignominious end to that season. Though it was Dave Allen's doing, it was the start of the process of decline which saw us exit the football league and the manner of Cookie's departure wasn't much help.
If I were Mr Cook I'd stay and try to fulfil the boast about our getting back to Division One. But Plymouth is a good club with an owner determined to finance it prudently. They have a few very good players in their ranks, but whether they are anywhere near being able to mount a challenge to get to the Premiership, which would be appropriate for a city of Plymouth's size with a catchment area for potential support encompassing two counties which are semi-deserts as regards pro' football, remains a moot point. Potential is a young man's game and Cookie is no spring chicken.