Facts are he did well for our club and plenty fancied us to have a go at promotion last year had his team not been cruelly dismantled. Sure in time some of you will suggest that Richardson bought the League One title like Cook and wasn't quite up to it when we are in the bottom half of the championship. I mean what a joke Cook was getting a club with 9000 fans midtable in the second tier.
Well, I'm sorry to tell you but, you are factually incorrect on that statement.
Cook never bought the League 1 title, as the majority of his star players were already here before he signed.
As for Cook... and I have said this on here before, he suffered a managerial "crisis of confidence" after the Stoke City game in August 2018.
Our first 2 away games of the 18/19 season was an unlucky last minute defeat at Aston Villa, in which we were the better team... And a thumping 3-0 win at Stoke City, then we went to QPR, and it all changed...
We went from playing the way we did away from home in 2017/18, to playing the way we did under Warren Joyce.
Every away game after Stoke City followed pretty much the same pattern (minimal attacking, a lot of defending, eventually leading to the inevitable defeat), and despite the win at Elland Road in 2019, it continued right up until just before lockdown last year.
It seems to me Cook has a major problem with his own self belief, and that's a crying shame, because his go to "play it safe" mode, is stifling his own creativity.