[Devongone]

I'd take Hasselbaink at centre forward ....... but look where the Burton team came from ...... and look where Birmingham finished. They were leaking eight a game and were dispirited by all their ownership issues when Ramage arrived from Burton. Jimmy Floyd was clever enough to know a good management deal when he saw it. And Warburton I wonder whether his magic is transferrable. I'm more for finding our own magician than pulling someone else's out of a hat. But then I don't think Cookie is a good idea for Portsmouth. The Hump knows what's there on Whitt Moor. He can build where necessary, keep the good stuff and demolish the useless. And he has to be bright enough to recognise he's unlikely ever to get a better or more familiar hand to play ............

But if I were Portsmouth I'd leave us alone and stop looking round for ways to get lightning to strike twice. You get a Ronnie Moore and you might save your life in Division 2 like Hartlepool, but come up with an Eddie Howe like Bournemouth and Sky TV is calling.

I'd get wise if I were Mr Cook and wait for a good offer, not some idiot child in the front row shouting I like that trick do it again mister ....