Paul Cook

[Phileas Fogg]

11 minutes ago, Dastardly and Muttley said:

Supposedly TalkSport tweeted that we are about to announce Cook, then deleted. Probably a fake. Someone else posted this screenshot:

Hmm, doesn't look real. The triangular TS logo in the middle is off-centre. Good try though whoever made it.

[steviestevieneville]

6 hours ago, Leveller said:

It could go-  Neil to Bristol, Cook to Preston.

I thought that. Then watch Preston get promoted , beat us twice and we finish 8th 

[citywest30]

36 minutes ago, Dastardly and Muttley said:

Supposedly TalkSport tweeted that we are about to announce Cook, then deleted. Probably a fake. Someone else posted this screenshot:

And the first sentence doesn't even make sense!

[sludge]

1 minute ago, citywest30 said:

And the first sentence doesn't even make sense!

And that made you think that it wasn't talk sport?

[Rocky]

4 minutes ago, steviestevieneville said:

I thought that. Then watch Preston get promoted , beat us twice and we finish 8th 

Guaranteed! 

[CodeRed]

7 hours ago, Roger Red Hat said:

Was he our number one target? I would suggest he was a person of interest, but there are others that can be interviewed and eliminated. CH apparently said he was interested, not the other way round.

Exactly,, why would we be interested in in someone with 2 promotions from the Championship and a play off finish on their CV when we have Dean Holden interested....................

[Northern Red]

1 hour ago, citywest30 said:

And the first sentence doesn't even make sense!

They spelt reins wrong, in the context that would apply here.

[Fordy62]

As someone with £27.78 at 18/1 on Cook being our new manager, somehow in my head it seems more likely we’ll sign Cook if this thread is near the top of the page. 

So here it is... bump. 

[pongo88]

22 minutes ago, Fordy62 said:

As someone with £27.78 at 18/1 on Cook being our new manager, somehow in my head it seems more likely we’ll sign Cook if this thread is near the top of the page. 

So here it is... bump. 

£27.78?  Is that a mystical lucky number? 

[bcfc01]

2 minutes ago, pongo88 said:

£27.78?  Is that a mystical lucky number? 

He went all in.

[Gazred]

Reminds me of the Bottom episode where they are all trying to raise funds for a dead cert in the 3.30 at Kempton named Sad Ken.

Turned out to be a stich up, horse was blind and only had 3 legs. They shot it...and the jockey.

Hopefully none of this is true for Paul Cook 

[Taz]

43 minutes ago, Gazred said:

Reminds me of the Bottom episode where they are all trying to raise funds for a dead cert in the 3.30 at Kempton named Sad Ken.

Turned out to be a stich up, horse was blind and only had 3 legs. They shot it...and the jockey.

Hopefully none of this is true for Paul Cook 

I doubt it. If Paul Cook had 3 legs he'd probably be partaking in some other type of career.

The type of career you may see on the big screens at the Sags patch of land 

[Fordy62]

1 hour ago, pongo88 said:

£27.78?  Is that a mystical lucky number? 

Maximum allowed bet bizarrely. I don’t think they like you winning much over £500. 

[Major Isewater]

57 minutes ago, Taz said:

I doubt it. If Paul Cook had 3 legs he'd probably be partaking in some other type of career.

The type of career you may see on the big screens at the Sags patch of land 

Circus ? 

[Mr Popodopolous]

21 hours ago, Ashtonboy said:

The press is saying the administrators at Wigan consider Cook an asset on the books, so will hold him to his contract until and if compensation is paid.

Could be reason for delay if he is the man the board want.

Makes sense. They have the right, if not a duty to extract and maximise any potential revenue stream for benefit of the business and creditors.

It's a new one though. Can't say I've heard of it before with respect to managers of a club in administration.

[Galway Red]

4 hours ago, Fordy62 said:

As someone with £27.78 at 18/1 on Cook being our new manager, somehow in my head it seems more likely we’ll sign Cook if this thread is near the top of the page. 

So here it is... bump. 

I'm with you as I had £10 on him at 25's

[Wade Wilson]

 

 

*Removes tin foil hat from drawer*

[Roger Red Hat]

Just now, Wade Wilson said:

https://twitter.com/henrywinter/status/1289216586084040711?s=21 *Removes tin foil hat from drawer*

Doesn't work.

[Roger Red Hat]

Just now, Roger Red Hat said:

Doesn't work.

Does now!

[daored]

Confirmed resigned as Wigan boss

[cider hoss rules]

Shown as confirmed now on BBC

 

Paul Cook: Wigan Athletic manager resigns after three years in charge

[wybmadwity]

 i n t e r e s t i n g

[WarksRobin]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/53613205
Expect him to be announced this weekend

[HoldenBall]

Would he resign if he didn't have a job already lined up?

[RedorDead BCFC]

Should of happened yesterday, it was better weather up on the roof then. 

[petehinton]

5 minutes ago, Ron Swanson said:

Would he resign if he didn't have a job already lined up?

I would think so. They won’t have a squad by the end of August the rate they’re selling at. Jumping off a sinking ship there

[Hampshire reds]

if it is  Paul then do it before everyone get wigans best players. 

[daored]

9 minutes ago, petehinton said:

I would think so. They won’t have a squad by the end of August the rate they’re selling at. Jumping off a sinking ship there

He seem a strong favourite for Burnley it Dyche leaves , maybe getting ready for that ?

[MATT BCFC]

Would be happy with Cook. Think he could get us play offs. 

[cider hoss rules]

8 minutes ago, MATT BCFC said:

Would be happy with Cook. Think he could get us play offs. 

Put your tin hat on son, you’re now going to be bombarded with people saying we should get top two places!

[MATT BCFC]

1 minute ago, cider hoss rules said:

Put your tin hat on son, you’re now going to be bombarded with people saying we should get top two places!

We need too many new additions for top 2 but I hope I am proven wrong! Play offs feel like a realistic aim for next season. 

Some of the candidates we have been linked with I would worry we could do down with to be honest. So we could do a lot worse than Cook.

Personally I would take mid table if we were playing good to watch attacking football but think I am very much in the minority there! 

[The hand of RO'D]

How underwhelming. 

[bcfc01]

51 minutes ago, Ron Swanson said:

Would he resign if he didn't have a job already lined up?

Would the administrators allow him to leave with no confirmed compo ?

They would normally try to squeeze every penny from every resource - just seems strange that they appear to be letting him go for nothing while under contract.

 

 

[HomerRed]

50 minutes ago, RedorDead BCFC said:

Should of happened yesterday, it was better weather up on the roof then. 

He would have needed some Factor 50 on his head though. 

[BRISTOL86]

17 minutes ago, The hand of RO'D said:

How underwhelming. 

A manager who has well over achieved with an average squad and played considerably more entertaining football than we have, despite us having a considerably stronger squad?

On that basis I’m more than happy to be underwhelmed.  

[Fordy62]

11 minutes ago, bcfc01 said:

Would the administrators allow him to leave with no confirmed compo ?

They would normally try to squeeze every penny from every resource - just seems strange that they appear to be letting him go for nothing while under contract.

 

 

They won’t have. There’s no way they’d be letting an asset go.

Im hoping that this means he’s incoming. 

[MATT BCFC]

2 minutes ago, BRISTOL86 said:

A manager who has well over achieved with an average squad and played considerably more entertaining football than we have, despite us having a considerably stronger squad?

On that basis I’m more than happy to be underwhelmed.  

This! He only finished what 4 points behind us with a club that went into administration. 

He's done well everywhere he's been and the fact he's managed Portsmouth shows to me he can handle the pressure of our job. 

[RedM]

1 hour ago, Ron Swanson said:

Would he resign if he didn't have a job already lined up?

I haven’t looked into this but someone previously mentioned to me that he tends to resign out of principal rather than be sacked, he has chosen to leave the clubs he has departed from. Someone on here probably can confirm or rubbish my info.

[YGBjammy]

I wouldn't be surprised if Paul Cook leaving is independent of us getting a new manager. Cook has a reputation for knowing when to jump ship to get a move higher up (which I admit could be to us) but I think he just recognises that Wigan is not where he wants to be next season. If you resign then suddenly every club knows you're available and he can have his pick of clubs that approach him. I still think Hughton is our no.1 choice.

[glen humphries]

3 minutes ago, Fordy62 said:

They won’t have. There’s no way they’d be letting an asset go.

Im hoping that this means he’s incoming. 

Think he may of paid up his contract himself 

[Mr Hankey]

The more i think about it, the more happy i would be with this appointment.

If the board want a yes man, then i don’t think they have got one. Seems a very straight talker, but perhaps Ashton wants someone who he can occasionally butt heads with to challenge himself, who knows.

Either way, i certainly don’t feel half as flat as i did about this on Wednesday.

[Lrrr]

He’d have been leaving Wigan whether it’s to come to us or not so no guarantee he’ll be the new gaffer 

[GrahamC]

This saga has dragged on for far too long & predictions have a habit of biting you on the arse but I think today’s events suggest that he will be our next “head coach”.

Those last 2 words are also probably the reason why it won’t be Hughton, because transfers are clearly not within the remit of the man in charge.

[BRISTOL86]

17 minutes ago, Mr Hankey said:

The more i think about it, the more happy i would be with this appointment.

If the board want a yes man, then i don’t think they have got one. Seems a very straight talker, but perhaps Ashton wants someone who he can occasionally butt heads with to challenge himself, who knows.

Either way, i certainly don’t feel half as flat as i did about this on Wednesday.

But but but I read on OTIB that the board will only appoint a cheap 'yes man' (Christ I hate that phrase with a passion), no one on here has any idea of the dynamic between the manager and the board yet everyone talks like they are a fly on the wall!

[JoeAman08]

23 minutes ago, RedM said:

I haven’t looked into this but someone previously mentioned to me that he tends to resign out of principal rather than be sacked, he has chosen to leave the clubs he has departed from. Someone on here probably can confirm or rubbish my info.

He hasn’t been sacked from any club apart from his first job which was non league IIRC. He has always moved to a club in a better position from what I can see. Maybe not super loyal but if he moves on from us in 3 years without being sacked chances are we had a good 3 years. I would take that

[wybmadwity]

54 minutes ago, MATT BCFC said:

We need too many new additions for top 2 but I hope I am proven wrong! Play offs feel like a realistic aim for next season. 

Some of the candidates we have been linked with I would worry we could do down with to be honest. So we could do a lot worse than Cook.

Personally I would take mid table if we were playing good to watch attacking football but think I am very much in the minority there! 

+1

[The hand of RO'D]

35 minutes ago, BRISTOL86 said:

A manager who has well over achieved with an average squad and played considerably more entertaining football than we have, despite us having a considerably stronger squad?

On that basis I’m more than happy to be underwhelmed.  

Fair comment. I was just so geared up for us to finally complete the jigsaw with a big name manager like Hughton that Paul Cook being appointed just feels to me uninspiring. 

[Johnny Musicworks]

Wigan are known to have a huge wage bill, part of their problem. It’s fair to assume that Cook would have been on a nice wedge so the administrators struggling to pay the wages will probably be glad to have him off that. They probably thought that they could collect some compo initially but letting him leave now suggests that there is nothing imminent for him in alternative employment 

[Mr Hankey]

11 minutes ago, BRISTOL86 said:

But but but I read on OTIB that the board will only appoint a cheap 'yes man' (Christ I hate that phrase with a passion), no one on here has any idea of the dynamic between the manager and the board yet everyone talks like they are a fly on the wall!

All part of having a forum mate, would be a boring place without people having their own thoughts & opinions (right or wrong) but no one has any ideas as to what actually happens behind closed doors apart from hearsay & rumours.

[BRISTOL86]

4 minutes ago, The hand of RO'D said:

Fair comment. I was just so geared up for us to finally complete the jigsaw with a big name manager like Hughton that Paul Cook being appointed just feels to me uninspiring. 

Don't get me wrong, Hughton is and remains my first pick, and I'm clinging on to the fact that we might still get him. 

But as time goes on, and it seems increasingly unlikely, I think we could do a lot worse than Cook. I'm not sure there's anyone else after Hughton I'd prefer, perhaps Neil, in terms of getting a team to punch above their weight, but I think the football would be a lot better under Cook.

[downendcity]

1 hour ago, Ron Swanson said:

Would he resign if he didn't have a job already lined up?

He does

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Watford!

[BRISTOL86]

1 minute ago, Mr Hankey said:

All part of having a forum mate, would be a boring place without people having their own thoughts & opinions (right or wrong) but no one has any ideas as to what actually happens behind closed doors apart from hearsay & rumours.

Indeed, that's fair. What I really hate is people making sweeping 'opinions' that are stated as fact, i.e. 'he's a yes man', 'he's a cheap option', when the reality is they haven't got the faintest idea about their relationship with the board or the finances involved etc. 

[Packman]

The next Chris Wilder, would be a great appointment.

[Taz]

1 hour ago, bcfc01 said:

Would the administrators allow him to leave with no confirmed compo ?

They would normally try to squeeze every penny from every resource - just seems strange that they appear to be letting him go for nothing while under contract.

 

 

45 minutes ago, glen humphries said:

Think he may of paid up his contract himself 

Possibly advised to do so by his new club (presuming he's heading somewhere), and that he would get that plus a nice signing on bonus to hurry things along.

Administrators wouldn't let an asset walk away for nothing when they're out to get as much as they can to clear debts.

He could be on £3m a year, but if he's in demand, then no way would they say "oh do you know what, we'll let you go for nothing so we can write your wage off". They will be out for every penny they get, as everybody contracted to the club is an asset. They may as well just be a very expensive piece of furniture for all that it matters.

[Tin Soldier]

Very happy if it is Cook.  

[WarksRobin]

 

[Southport Red]

Really surprised no one has spotted him taking a leak at Michaelwood yet. 

[BrizzleRed]

1 hour ago, MATT BCFC said:

We need too many new additions for top 2 but I hope I am proven wrong! Play offs feel like a realistic aim for next season. 

Some of the candidates we have been linked with I would worry we could do down with to be honest. So we could do a lot worse than Cook.

Personally I would take mid table if we were playing good to watch attacking football but think I am very much in the minority there! 

I can never understand this comment when it comes up.  

What would be your ambition for next season actually be then?  

Surely the play-off’s aren’t the ultimate aim, they are a means to try and get a shot at the Prem.  You’re at a massive disadvantage if you scrape into the Premier League through possibly finishing 6th in the Championship, as the chances are, you’ll struggle massively in the Prem, if you could only manage 6th in the Championship the previous year.

I’d rather we had a positive mindset and aimed for top 2, with the play-off’s being a fall back, not the ultimate aim.

I also think we could be surprised at how much better we could perform under the right head coach.  Paul Cook isn’t my first choice, but as many on here like to keep talking about progression.  Well, he seems to have managed that in pretty much every management job he’s had, so he could well have it in him to take us to where we want to go.

Wigan looked good when we played them at the Gate this year and if that’s the type of football we could expect under him, then bring it on!  I’m with you in that minority too Matt and I’d go for mid-table entertainment, over the mid-table yawn fest we suffered this year, any day

[BCFC Grim]

It took till January the 1st for them to win 5 games all season. Their fans were absolutely sick of their dull football. No doubt he has turned things round but is the last 4 months of football  enough to give him the job. 

[Hampshire reds]

if it is Paul Cook who are his coaches at wigan does anyone know.

[Major Isewater]

6 minutes ago, BCFC Grim said:

It took till January the 1st for them to win 5 games all season. Their fans were absolutely sick of their dull football. No doubt he has turned things round but is the last 4 months of football  enough to give him the job. 

I thought they signed some very good players in the summer and was a bit surprised that it took them so long to get going . 
 

[RedM]

15 minutes ago, Southport Red said:

Really surprised no one has spotted him taking a leak at Michaelwood yet. 

Unless he has a bladder and an economic car like Domonic Cummings

[slartibartfast]

31 minutes ago, WarksRobin said:

 

I don't understand, I thought he resigned a week or so ago, why the "big" news?

[BrizzleRed]

2 minutes ago, slartibartfast said:

I don't understand, I thought he resigned a week or so ago, why the "big" news?

Apparently the administrators refused, saying he was an asset.

[mozo]

Just now, slartibartfast said:

I don't understand, I thought he resigned a week or so ago, why the "big" news?

Last week news broke of his intention to resign. Now it is official. 

[bcfc01]

18 minutes ago, slartibartfast said:

I don't understand, I thought he resigned a week or so ago, why the "big" news?

Last week the administrators wanted compensation for him leaving - so they must now have it from somewhere I assume, hence the announcement of his resignation.

 

 

[daored]

Wigan will probably have a new manager in place before us

[downendcity]

5 minutes ago, daored said:

Wigan will probably have a new manager in place before us

If ( a bit if I know) Cook is our new manager then it would explain the delay in appointing him.

 

 

[E.G.Red]

1 hour ago, BrizzleRed said:

I can never understand this comment when it comes up.  

What would be your ambition for next season actually be then?  

Surely the play-off’s aren’t the ultimate aim, they are a means to try and get a shot at the Prem.  You’re at a massive disadvantage if you scrape into the Premier League through possibly finishing 6th in the Championship, as the chances are, you’ll struggle massively in the Prem, if you could only manage 6th in the Championship the previous year.

I’d rather we had a positive mindset and aimed for top 2, with the play-off’s being a fall back, not the ultimate aim.

I also think we could be surprised at how much better we could perform under the right head coach.  Paul Cook isn’t my first choice, but as many on here like to keep talking about progression.  Well, he seems to have managed that in pretty much every management job he’s had, so he could well have it in him to take us to where we want to go.

Wigan looked good when we played them at the Gate this year and if that’s the type of football we could expect under him, then bring it on!  I’m with you in that minority too Matt and I’d go for mid-table entertainment, over the mid-table yawn fest we suffered this year, any day

As the famous quote goes you should ‘Shoot for the Moon, even if you miss you will land amongst the stars’.

[Judda]

2 hours ago, BrizzleRed said:

I can never understand this comment when it comes up.  

What would be your ambition for next season actually be then?  

Surely the play-off’s aren’t the ultimate aim, they are a means to try and get a shot at the Prem.  You’re at a massive disadvantage if you scrape into the Premier League through possibly finishing 6th in the Championship, as the chances are, you’ll struggle massively in the Prem, if you could only manage 6th in the Championship the previous year.

I’d rather we had a positive mindset and aimed for top 2, with the play-off’s being a fall back, not the ultimate aim.

I also think we could be surprised at how much better we could perform under the right head coach.  Paul Cook isn’t my first choice, but as many on here like to keep talking about progression.  Well, he seems to have managed that in pretty much every management job he’s had, so he could well have it in him to take us to where we want to go.

Wigan looked good when we played them at the Gate this year and if that’s the type of football we could expect under him, then bring it on!  I’m with you in that minority too Matt and I’d go for mid-table entertainment, over the mid-table yawn fest we suffered this year, any day

Don't be so negative. Champions or nothing else will do!