Quote Originally Posted by chiblu View Post
I honestly do not believe that we will get anywhere with Mr. Smalltime (Chesterfield, small Irishclubs etc.).
For all the keep Cook brigade I would ask a serious and honest question - after a season and a quarter of inconsistency,
inept substitutes, strange team selection and lame excuses - what and when do they think is going to happen to make things better? The pattern is there for all to see.
Please don't come the old soldier about best manager for years etc. The others did not have the resources and budget that this guy's had. I have been watching Pompey for over 60 years. The teams have not always been world beaters but I always felt the teams (with a few exceptons) have given their all and rolled up their sleeves and fought. I don't think this present lot "get" Pompey at all.
Totally agree, the trouble is he's wasted so much money on:

Forde (Pretty ordinary at best).
Davies
Talbot (Rarely fit)
Buxton
Lalkovic (Hardly ever picked by Cook for reasons unknown),
Baker (flits in and out of the game but does score the odd goal)
Smith (Next to useless)
Main (Never fit)

An AWFUL summer of recruitment. We are saddled with their high wages now.

Words fail me at Cook's continued use of Smith. Not helped by a pretty crap keeper and a makeshift right back preferred to the 2 he signed in the summer. Doyle and Roberts best days have been and gone. I so nearly booked a seat with Lucketts and went. Bloody glad I didn't now. Play offs at the best as I've been saying for ages. If we stick with Cook (as financial reasons will insist we do) and he keeps picking the Hapless Smith and Foorde we may not even make those.