Yes, very picky - and I celebrated the tie results not the FT scores myself 
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Some good advice would be to put a couple of pies and a couple of pints on the half way line to distract his attention and to keep him out of our penalty area …
Seriously though, I know Cook is hated by some of our faithful because of how it ended with him here, and he has proved at other clubs since us to be a bit of a bellend and has been shipped out, but he is most definitely a goal threat and a deadly striker.
I still think if he hadn’t of lost his head here what we could of achieved with him leading the line.
I like most love DJ because he’s scored us a fair few goals, and I wish he could get back in this team more regularly, but if I was to choose one striker we’ve had in the last few years I would pick Andy Cook.
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Cook is still better than our strikers and with 3 at the back we should stick our player on him like glue and that’s his job nothing else
Cook is to good at this level and needs to be treated as the match winner he is
It’s. For my mind one of the great bits off business we have done in the transfer market in recent years we identified Cook as a major signing I think that season he was a very early signing and not the usual late season loans for striker goal scorers that’s become mostly the norm .
Fook him. A gobshite and a bit of a bully behind the scenes wasnt he?
Yeh, Mansfield soon saw the light and got rid and look what they’ve gone onto achieve since. No reason we can’t do the same, all while Cook is still hovering around in League 2 with mossiv Bradfud.
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Cook scores goals but it comes at a cost I’d say.
He’s a bleeding nuisance to us but since Tranmere, no team he has played for has achieved anything while he has been there have they?
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If you score 31 goals in a season, it’s not your fault the team didn’t achieve anything. There’s a thread on their message board right now talking about how good he has been for the club, and how his record is astonishing considering the lack of chances he receives.
I get it, I know he’s unpopular because he bit back at the fans (after being labelled a fat c**t in a season he scored 18 goals for us in the level above) and has since (quite understandably) given it the big un whenever he has played against us, but you have to give credit where it is due.
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The fans who have stayed away so far this season have missed some very good performances. In all the matches before MK Dons we exceeded expectations.
In football there are a lot of random elements and sometimes good sides have off days. I am hoping that MK Dons was just a blip and we will return to form against Bradford, but there is also a chance that our good start will prove to have been the exception, and we will slip back to last season’s mediocrity.
Earlier this year we had a run of five wins, when we were playing well enough to deserve promotion. The optimists thought that Sadler had found the formula of success. Unfortunately, with hindsight we now know that run was the outlier, when we were over-performing. Our play reverted to the mean for last season when we had an average fourth division team that was not good enough.
My point is that it is wrong to be pessimistic because of one bad match; and even a run of five good or bad matches is not enough to predict how a season will unfold.
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Eh?
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Now edited. Senior moment.
How about the past 5yrs of soulless mind numbing football?
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Well said that man.
I agree with this. Cook is a natural goal scorer, excellent at finding space and being in the right place at the right time. We could have built our team around him, and been back in League 1 by now. The best striker we’ve had since Bradshaw.
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That’s not really relevant now though is it. That was all pre Trivela.
all the evidence is Walsall have a squad this season that will give 100% in each game (I’m actually surprised at this, I thought they’d give the league a good go, but not the cups) and they deserve our support.
Mk dons was a bit disappointing but forgiveable because of injuries and Mk dons are one of the stronger teams
If you can’t enjoy supporting Walsall at the moment there’s really no point following them.
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Well, not really. The entirety of last season, and were apparently behind the scenes the season before according to what they said at fan forums, including being involved in the Flynn appointment.
Bizarre assumption.
I mean, we haven’t quite walked the league just yet, so I would calm the horses on that one. We are still at one of the lowest ebbs in our recent to medium term history.
There is no doubt that Andy Cook has a good scoring record so from a pessimistic point of view he does seem to score in around half of the games he plays.
However, from an Optimistic point of view he doesn’t score in around half of his games and he scored in his last two so who knows what will happen.
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Do you not think we’re on an upward trajectory since Trivela?
It hasn’t all been soulless mind numbing football in the last 5 years if we’re going into fine detail either
Not really. Giving the carabao cup and BSM trophy a go has cost us injuries which I think cost us points at MK Dons.
Teams prioritizing competitions over others isn’t a new concept,
If you can’t appreciate a side putting the effort the current one does, it’s your loss. If you are supporting Walsall for the gratification of winning a trophy don’t hold your breath.
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4 places and 10 points is a big assumption if we are going to call it “an upward trajectory”, but things seem more positive at this very very early stage this season. Doesn’t change my point however, that saying “all” of the last few years have been pre Trivela is false.
I’ll have to agree to disagree on that one.
You must be furious with Sadler then …
That still doesn’t mean the team, in those games, doesn’t give 100 percent. We have also made a ton of personnel changes when we haven’t had a bunch of injuries and playing players out of necessity this season too.
That’s just wishy washy nonsense. We put effort in under previous managers too, it was still wank. However, as I say, this season has looked more positive so far.
Weren’t most of the injuries picked up in league games?
I’m glad we have given it a go in the cups. Swindon away was great but the 3 cup nights have been the highlight of the season so far. Great nights.
We have a stronger squad I’d say and so far it has been good. A long winter ahead yet though, we’ll see.
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Couldnt care less if you disagree. To say the entire last 5 years has been mind numbing is wrong.
Not at all, it’s refreshing to see us giving the cups a go, but it does come at a price.
Utter nonsense. One example the rochdale away game 21-22 when we lost 2-0 and fans had a go at Osadebe.
Things did pick up in terms of effort after Flynn…which coincided with Trivela taking over and part of the upward trajectory.
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