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Andy Cook was harshly treated by Hurst, because Hurst had a John-Lewis obsession.

Quoted from fiveallive

Andy Cook was harshly treated by Hurst, because Hurst had a John-Lewis obsession.

A number on here did and sadly some still do.

Quoted from diehardmariner

Who knows.  Does seem funny that we're in for players who I would normally expect us to be priced out for...

maybe we aren't.....maybe the club is trying to raise interest and give the effect of upping their game for this season....say you are interested in a couple of higher profile/ quality players and then when they sign for someone else you say..."we tried really hard to get them "  give the impression of ambition for once..
find it strange that so far under Jolley very little has escaped regards the identity of potential signings and usually they come as a suprise....to have 2 supposed named targets "released" in the same week seems a little odd to me.

I don't know if time dulls people's memories on here or maybe those that used to slag off Cook as being over weight and one paced have stopped posting but his previous spell here wasn't without detractors. Personally I'd get behind any signing until their performances showed that support was misplaced.
As for LJL we've spent the last two seasons bemoaning the lack of someone with a presence in the box and the ability to hold the ball up for team mates. His previous spell showed both of those abilities in his locker albeit in a lower standard of football. I've no idea whether we are looking at him but on balance I'd probably rather be moaning at him for missing chances than what we've had recently when we haven't conjured up the chances in the first place.

I'm pretty sure radio humberside catch  wind of a lot of our signings before hand.

We've got no chance of signing Andy Cook or Jamie Devitt, no chance at all.

You’ve got to ask yourself why Walsall don’t want him after he’s scored 15 goals . He didn’t look like he could be arsed and enjoyed life in Waltham a bit too much by all accounts . I’d rather look elsewhere.

I remember seeing him play at Welling and thinking how is he a professional footballer.

We wont be able to afford Cook or Devitt- they'll both want best part of £100K. As for The Shop [who I really liked ] he hasn't played since January due to anteria cruciate ligament injury and in any case signed a 6 month contract last week at the Shrews to prove his fitness.

Quoted from Davec

We've got no chance of signing Andy Cook or Jamie Devitt, no chance at all.

I agree, no chance. Just about sums us up as a club now. We can’t sign players on the way up and we can’t sign them on the way down either. We either sign them before they even start to go up or we just have to wait until they hit rock bottom.

Quoted from TheRonRaffertyFanClub

I agree, no chance. Just about sums us up as a club now. We can’t sign players on the way up and we can’t sign them on the way down either. We either sign them before they even start to go up or we just have to wait until they hit rock bottom.

So Matt green looks like a nailed on signing then? 32, released by div 2 club mid sesson, drops into non league, can't even get into Salford city's  eleven on a regular basis, not wanted by them as they've now reached our level ,and so becomes a number 1 target.a Salford city reject ffs.