Mr Cook

[halpo123]

So let me get this straight?

Garry Cook says we will be the greatest and biggest club in the world?

Garry Cook says not if but when we get to Wembley.

Garry Cook says not if but when we beat the rags.

All those who are calling him allsorts and want him out of the club you might as well follow him because if you don't think or beleive any of the above then what are you doing supporting us.

Garry Cook makes me laugh, he is so right for this club, it wouldn't be right for our CEO to not go around and make a few mistakes, he is doing a good job and it's no suprise that theres a 27 page thread on him, we've got fuck all to moan about at the minute, city fans always need something to moan about.

Well I don't believe we will ever be the biggest club in the world.

Are you banishing me from the club?

I am sick to the back teeth of Cook making us look stupid. Sick of it.

Has he got no inkling as to how the media works? The shocking thing is not even that he said this stuff. You could just put it down to some daft tubthumping and rabble rousing to get a round of applause.

The shocking thing is I am led to believe that City released this footage to the media.

What did he expect their angle to be?

Idiot.

where do you get off calling people idiots just because their opinion differs from yours?

you talk a lot (well some) sense on here ,yet your one of my least favourite posters

i wish you could be banished from the club

awaits smart arsed remark

 

[Pam]

The Americans seemed to believe him and lap it all up.

It was a shocking clip all round.

Just like the Americans, I believe him too. Open your minds.

USA!

 

[halpo123]

Come on. The opposition are left feeling belittled and angry by comments like that. I

So what? We went years and years without a derby win (often without a derby at all, unless you counted Macclesfield) and everyone feeling bittered. Bugger all we could do about it, though, because we have angry players and they had good ones. And anyway, I highly doubt the players give a stuff what Cook says.

I know the oscars are coming up and everything, but the drama queenery on here is getting to Laurence Olivier proportions. Shut up, you daft hams.

back on form i see pam ,i thought we had an imposter for a while

 

[Corky]

The Americans seemed to believe him and lap it all up.

It was a shocking clip all round.

Just like the Americans, I believe him too. Open your minds.

USA!

Can we do it?

Yes we can!

4 More years!

Read my lips, no new taxes!

 

[Pam]

This is getting stupid now. Two City fans on Talk Sport in quick succession talking shite. Why does anyone care about what a chief exec in a suit says. And what is so new about us talking about becoming the biggest and the best. Get a grip.

 

[JohnMaddocksAxe]

- Someone has suggested that Cook knew exactly what he was doing in the Mancini press conference and intentionally made himself look silly in order to take the pressure off Mancini.

That's me.

I stand by it.

I know it to be true.

I am quite willing to accept that he went in there with the intention to draw any attention abbout Hughes' sacking to him and sheild Mancini from questions about that. He said as much in there.

He also said that he would answer no questions about the subject following his statement. However, he then returned to the subject afterwards after being goaded into it.

If you are suggesting that he intentionally went out claiming that he wouldn't answer loads of questions around Hughes' sacking but always intended for that to be untrue and to be later drawn into answering loads, I am suggesting that that is false.

He also got rattled during the press conference. I'll say again, I don't have an issue with him in this press conference, but if you are suggesting that he always intended to go into that press conference and get rattled and start banging the desk (the actions that led to him being mocked) then I am again suggesting that is false.

The club were then forced to issue a clarification statement the following day because the press conference had been reported all over the media in a disingeuous and mocking manner. Was this his intention? Because that is what his performance produced in the press.

So if you are suggestng that he deliberately put in that performance in order for it to be reported in a disingenuous manner and for him to be painted as a buffoon then I am also suggesting that that is false. If it isn't why were the club so quick to issue a statement the following day to address and attack those matters.

He correctly went in there in order to avoid Mancini having to deal with loads of Hughes questions. I agree with those motives and I'm happy to agree that this was his plan.

However, thanks to his bumbling personality he was goaded into going back on his 'no questions' plan of action and then started banging the desk and getting flustered. There is no way that was planned, no matter what he or anyone says. I don't really have a problem with it as I lay the blame with that day's events and the subsequent reporting at the feet of the press. I do have trouble beliving someone saying that the press conference followed Gary Cook's detailed masterplan to the letter as (I had better put IMO) it just didn't.

There is absolutely no way any CEO, especially one already being painted as a buffoon by many quarters in the press, intentionally goes into a press conference aiming to conduct himself in a mannner that results in him being painted as even more of a buffoon in the following days reports. If he or anyone else has told you that was his aim then they are lying or someone along the line has confused his sensible intention to have all questions on sacking directed at him with an intention to deliberately look silly.

FFS, I don't even have an issue with this press conference but I'm not accepting it, and the reporting that followed it, followed his masterplan.

 

[Pam]

If you would all just shut up about it for five minutes, perhaps the media will get bored and move on to their next none story. Sheesh. And now they're dredging up the press conference again. Stop bitching and playing into their hands.

 

[stony]

Cook should learn to shut the fuck up and let us do our talking on the pitch. He is as much as an embarrassment to us as that twat who ended up at Pompey.

 

[bluwes]

So let me get this straight?

Garry Cook says we will be the greatest and biggest club in the world?

Garry Cook says not if but when we get to Wembley.

Garry Cook says not if but when we beat the rags.

All those who are calling him allsorts and want him out of the club you might as well follow him because if you don't think or beleive any of the above then what are you doing supporting us.

Garry Cook makes me laugh, he is so right for this club, it wouldn't be right for our CEO to not go around and make a few mistakes, he is doing a good job and it's no suprise that theres a 27 page thread on him, we've got fuck all to moan about at the minute, city fans always need something to moan about.

Well I don't believe we will ever be the biggest club in the world.

Are you banishing me from the club?

I am sick to the back teeth of Cook making us look stupid. Sick of it.

Has he got no inkling as to how the media works? The shocking thing is not even that he said this stuff. You could just put it down to some daft tubthumping and rabble rousing to get a round of applause.

The shocking thing is I am led to believe that City released this footage to the media.

What did he expect their angle to be?

Idiot.

Thats a tad hypercritical of you David, if you don't mind me saying, after the other day :)

 

[JohnMaddocksAxe]

Come on. The opposition are left feeling belittled and angry by comments like that. I

So what? We went years and years without a derby win (often without a derby at all, unless you counted Macclesfield) and everyone feeling bittered. Bugger all we could do about it, though, because we have angry players and they had good ones. And anyway, I highly doubt the players give a stuff what Cook says.

I know the oscars are coming up and everything, but the drama queenery on here is getting to Laurence Olivier proportions. Shut up, you daft hams.

With respect, if there is anyone on this site who is a drama queen - making mountains out of molehills about the slightest comment about City that could be interpreted as not 100$ in support of every single thing they do, then that would be you.

So it's a bit rich to be accusing others of that when you are starting expletive filled threads that read like a nervous brakdown every time someone prints something that isn't "City are the best ever."

As for 'so what' about inspiring other team's players. Why do it? Would you rather play an inspired, angry and desperate for revenge team or one that is feeling fragile and unsure of themselves? If you are suggesting that there are not numerous examples throughout football history of teams being fired up to better performances by comments made by the opposition then I am suggesting that you are being disingenuous.