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....wait a minute, no he isnt?!?

He played very well today I thought. Looked a completely different player to last season.

I do worry that a midfield partnership of Pook & Weston is very lightweight and young but both had really good games today and we didnt look the same side once Weston was taken out and replaced by fatman.

Certainly wouldnt be against Pook being in the starting line up next week against Hartlepool

To be fair Pook did play well,much prefer Ince Weston tho, or even Wise Weston, Weston is fucking immense

i was just thinking the same thing today actually, played very well. put in a lot of good tackles and his passig was accurate....looked a different player as you said.

Wise has opening admitted in his interview he has spoken to Ince, fingers crossed he will decide to come here. Heard West Brom are hot on his heels though....

Pooks major weakness is speed of thought once he gets the ball.

Fair play though, he did well today.

Yep i agree, was quite surprised by Pook today, but he has two great players to learn from in Wise and Gus, and they can hopefully help him become a better player, he certainly looks better compared to last season.

I told you so.

still don't rate him and one decent performance isn't going to change my mind.

he could learn a huge amount from wise and poyet, i hope he pays attention.

Yes but hes so handsome :D

He was okay. That isn't 'good' though. Just ok. Which is an improvement

I thought he did well today.  Clean slate for everyone as far as I'm concerned, and on that note I thought Nico and Cherry Trifle had good games as well.

OK I give up. Cherry trifle?

Presumably Ifil it's on rhyming slang; although I get confused too!

Aaaaaaah, I see now.



Genius 8)

Pook is absolute crap. He is the weakest link in the centre by far and if he does not shape up by the New Year i can see Wise shipping him out

Best thing we can hope for is that he learns from Wise and Poyet- he needs to improve quick

He is damn good looking though....

Pook would be good if and it's a big if, he concentrates on winning the ball and giving the ball, short, to another midfielder who can then do something with it.  He's major downfall is when he gets the ball and looks long and ends up hoofing it.  Just win it and give it,  keep it simple as every midfield terrier should do.

Pook again wandered around not having a clue on saturday, he is the weak link without a doubt

How the adver can give him 7 out of 10 is beyond me

hence the corner peacock scored from yeah?

One half decent kick doesn't mean he wasn't positionally inept in his central midfield role...

yeah pook wasnt too impressive Saturday...

However it was certainly better than anything he managed after November last season

maybe we should swap him for his twin frank quedrue.

like we swapped Ifil for Rio  8)

:evil:  :evil:  :evil:
       NO

Don't be blinded by his beauty, Sade...

Have to say I couldn't believe it when I saw it was Michael Pook who played our first decent corner in years into the box.

However having not been there I cannot make a judgement on his performance. All I can say is taht he does have the ability and occasionally proves it. To keep his place and his job he will have to show this MUCH more regularly though.

shakes is the liability not pook from what i saw shakes tries playing to central and leaves jack smith exposed everytime

 :oops: I can't help it. Those eyes..........arrrgh.

I used to play cricket with the boy Pook. He's much better at football! Always was a hit with the ladies even back then.

Paul Evans must start on Saturday....

 :nod:

Only if he's fit to, otherwise we'll merely delay him becoming fully fit.

was not impressed at all by pook today. Seemed crap at winning the ball back and went missing in the middle too often. Lets hope evans is up to it, he seemed to link the passing and played it simple which helped us in the second half.

he's had 45 mins against reading and 90 mins against supermarine in pre-season and a full 90 (nearly) over the course of the last two league games.

don't think he'd be too far away from full fitness, i think it's worth the risk after that first half :|

ince might slot straight in :wink:

agreed. he sould start v rochdale.

Pook put a tackle in after 25 mins and even though I knew he was on the pitch, that was honestly the first thing of note he did. I'm not one at all to have a scapegoat, but he needs to up it to keep Evans out...

Evans just sprayed the ball about and put a harness on the game for us...and Weson looked tidy enough - should start Saturday

i'm not too concerned about pook and weston in midfield, they came up against two experienced and solid midfielders tonight in hessenthaler and warhurst who literally ran the game in the first half, two youngsters are always likely to struggle in that situation i think.

Wise words mate :nod:

And how true is this thread after last nights piss poor display from the joke that is Pook.

Evans MUST start on Saturday.

Pook is too lightweight,i think we should send Sade round to his house with a gimp suit,she can keep him entertained for a few days :wink:

Our mid-field looked pretty innocuous most of the game tbh,not all Pooks fault i guess, but we need a bit more steel in the middle of the park,its not right that the Cock has to keep on going back and winning the ball.

I'm glad this thread has been resumed.

Pook was bloody useless tonight. He's not really a centre-midfielder. I don't know what position he could play, but I guess he'll end up at Supermarine or Chippenham like the rest of the STFC players who fail to cut the mustard.

Evans must start on Saturday.

I'd also like to point out how pleasing it is that Wise spotted where we were going wrong and didn't waste any time in bringing Evans on.

He is one of them players you forget is on the ptch...happened every time he played last season, me and my mate would see pook make a tackle in the 2nd half and go 'where did he come from?'

Last night was a classic example. Pook was totally out of his depth, and bear in mind he was playing against one of the divisions probably lower teams. This does not bode well.

He cannot tackle, goes missing all the time, never wins the ball back when he has lost it and his set pieces were bloody awful.

I agree a spell on loan is needed

Good shout on the Hessenthaler/Warhurst front, but our aim must be to be stronger than other sides where it matters - you look through the division and very few teams (if any) have two inexperienced players in the middle - so the same scenario could repeat itself over and over with obvious consequences

Pook needs to learn to take a game by the scrff of the neck (cliche use, I apologise) and stamp his authority (yep, again) -

Or shoot like Royce Brownlie...

Wait a minute, he actually is! He was absolute garbage for 45 mins last night. Too light wait, and every pass was a pinpoint pass to a barnet player. Cant tackel and gets knocked off the ball far to easily.

I'm afraid I am inclined to agree with the above.  Pook is just not good enough.  He is so hesitant on the ball, and his positional sense is poor.  I'm not doubting his work rate for a second, but sometimes that isn't enough.  Mind you, the guy is still very young, so hopefully he can learn from the older heads in the squad.  Has to be Evans on Saturday for me though.

fair point but neither wise nor evans were match fit whereas pook and weston were - that's why they've started both games.

Me and my mate have now decided to christen Pooky .. THE ROCK!! ... hes almost gained cult status amongst us two now ... even tho hes only appeared once since we came up with the name ....

I suggest EVERYONE refer to Pook as THE ROCK .. from now on ...  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

he will be going out on loan soon

Am I missing something there or is that just not funny? :shrug:

Your not missing anything, fatbury always laughs at his unfunny posts.

part of me wants to put up a picture of tumble weed here...the other bit of me wants to get my gun n put someone out of his misery

ah well as long as its my mate and not me !! ... funny thing is .. i laugh at my own jokes in real life too  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Is that because nobody else does?

Cant see him starting another game-'cept maybe the Dulux Cup.No,wait a minute,Holgate's above him now in the pooking order.

Hahaha I've no idea why but that made me laugh much more than it should have....

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  :|

I would rather have had Pook playing today than Ince... cue the abuse...

I would have rather Miglioranzi  :D

Pook had a good game last night, his best performance I've seen for some time.

He didn't do bad, harrassed them well and played a couple of nice balls.

Still unsure as to why Holgate's not been given another chance after his performance against Brentford though....

Possible his best performance ever?

However, Wycombe fans seem to think he should have been sent off for endless horrible challenges....

Pook....challenges....pull the other one.

If Pook could play like that every week, he'd be a decent player FACT!

It still takes him about half an hour to turn though.

True

I also had to laugh at the old men pissheads stood behind me because they kept going on about how well 'Evans' was playing, I didn't have the heart to tell them he went off at half time and they were praising Pook.

Their Celery song was ace wasn't it DV85  :D

Was it.....
Celery, Celery, if she dont cum i'll tickle her bum with a lump of Celery......
by any chance???

no, not quite

ha.....cant be that great then.....that songs just class but wrong in so many ways! :soapy tit wank:

I was trying not to go too far, but that was the best I've ever seen him play. To be fai others will have seen him play more often than me though.

Thought he was going to go off for the tackle he got yellow for.

THE ROCK REIGNS SUPREME!