Cook

Signed for Tranmere, I would have liked to have seen him back here

What, in L2?

Really?

Never a League player for me, and not easy on the eye after Bogle and Podge if I'm totally honest.

Quoted from Garth

Signed for Tranmere, I would have liked to have seen him back here

Do you own the Tilted Barrel? It's the only explanation I can think of for wanting him back here.

I sincerely hope we can do better than Cook.

We don't need a cook we need a chef!😉

Unfit target man who thrives in a team with no expectation.

How long before someone suggests Liam Hearn?

I liked Cook, I felt he simply reacted badly to being dropped. He should've handled it better granted but some of it was undeserved in the first instance.

Clearly a good player and I hope he does well there and continues to prove people wrong.

Ultimately didn't produce the goods for us but showed he had potential.

I wish him well but expect Hurst will find better for our L2 campaign.

Good player but needs a big arm around him

A pay rise with a club that should do well next season ,  thought he was good but our team was still being built , had the potential   but how old is he now ?

He was only about 22 when he signed for us
He definitely isn't a target man and isn't going to finish top scorer, so baring in mind Tranmere want to win the league, whats the point?! Hardly see him as a super sub
Fan of Cook but he'll be a dud at Tranmere you would think. He needs to play every game

Missed out on Cook and Hannah already this pre-season, pull your finger out Hirsts.

I liked Cook but he clearly liked a pie and a pint too much. He looked pregnant at one stage and Hurst didn't think he worked hard enough. Don't think his ability is in question.

Can't see him being a league 2 standard player in the foreseeable future.

Quoted from ginnywings

I liked Cook but he clearly liked a pie and a pint too much. He looked pregnant at one stage and Hurst didn't think he worked hard enough. Don't think his ability is in question.

Haha He actually did look pregnant, for 2 years.

Jesus wept.

Quoted from Bovine

Ultimately didn't produce the goods for us but showed he had potential.

I wish him well but expect Hurst will find better for our L2 campaign.

Many on here didn't think he was National League standard but he has just scored 24 league goals this past season nearly 10 more than Omar Bogle so he cannot have been that bad.  

Only really produced for Barrow,I don't think he settled here.

Some players thrive at some smaller club with lower expectations, less pressure and where opposing teams don't set up so cautiously.

I think Cook will end up fitting this category. See Brett Williams also, loads of goals at Aldershot but barely any at FGR. You face different challenges when teams are deeper against you and you're marked tighter.

I don't believe Cook had the technical ability or intelligence to play regularly at a team fighting for promotion. He may prove me wrong but I'd see his level at mid-conference level teams.

Quoted from Tommy

He may prove me wrong but I'd see his level at mid-conference level teams.

Should do well at Tranmere then.

I know I am getting on in years but I don't believe in looking back (only in the odd nostalgic discussion about former highlights). Too many on here and some town fans generally live in the past. My advice is let it go and look to the future. New opportunities, new players, new opposition and new higher standards. That is where we are now. A big challenge but one we have to grasp and recruiting ex players and has beens will only take us backwards.

I could understand it to the back end of our Championship years, you know chasing Jack Lester etc but how could anyone seriously want any of the freeloading failures from the worst ten or so years in our history!?! Absolutely unbelievable!

Quoted from Rik e B

I could understand it to the back end of our Championship years, you know chasing Jack Lester etc but how could anyone seriously want any of the freeloading failures from the worst ten or so years in our history!?! Absolutely unbelievable!

Calm down, it was only the thread starter that suggested he would have liked him back.

If someone can get the mental side of his game right they'll have an absolute beast of a striker on their hands.

There were spells in his first season here where he was almost unplayable, one game sticks out in my memory on a Tuesday night at home.  Town were losing 1-0, can't remember who it was against, but Cook came on with about 20 to go and just destroyed their defence, grabbing two goals along the way.  The Huddersfield cup game was another game where he was on fire, think that was his second season though.

Problem is that his head was never quite right here.  He was more often than not carrying far too much timber and by all accounts was incredibly homesick.  

Darren mansaran still around? or Alan pouton?

#cdajatl

Quoted from arryarryarry

Calm down, it was only the thread starter that suggested he would have liked him back.

Counting to ten  

Quoted from lukeo

Darren mansaran still around? or Alan pouton?

#cdajatl

Pouton might not be around but god how we could do with a him or cunnington type in the middle of the park. Box to box, great engine, excellent tackler and an eye for a goal as well. That was pretty much dizza up until the last 12/18 months but not now he has had to change his game.

UTFM

Cook's problem with us (other than laziness and consequent lack of fitness) was that he was generally played as a target man and just wasn't up to the job. He wasn't much cop at holding up the ball and laying it off, didn't win too many headers with his back to goal and generally didn't look strong enough to cope with big defenders. Would have been a better player if he'd put some work in at the gym as I always thought half a stone of muscle around his upper body would have made him a different prospect to deal with.

However, if he couldn't even be bothered to train hard enough to get match fit, he was never going to put the extra graft in elsewhere. From what we saw of him last season, it didn't appear much had changed since he left us though he's again got a good goal return so obviously has some ability. I suppose a lot depends on how much effort he is willing to put into training.

No better than non league
Poor touch IMO - there is much much better out there

Quoted from Posh Harry

Pouton might not be around but god how we could do with a him or cunnington type in the middle of the park. Box to box, great engine, excellent tackler and an eye for a goal as well. That was pretty much dizza up until the last 12/18 months but not now he has had to change his game.

UTFM

Agree with this, Alan is one of my favourite Town players alongside Paul Groves (2 legends!)

Quoted from arryarryarry

Calm down, it was only the thread starter that suggested he would have liked him back.

Head over the parapet--------------------------still do

Did well to bang in so many goals playing for Barrow. If Tranmere play to his strengths he may well do well for them.

But we need to be looking at far higher quality players.

Quoted from Garth

Signed for Tranmere, I would have liked to have seen him back here

We're league 2 now mate and have moved on......................