The Gaffer

Flynn would have had a worse impact than buckle

Listen to the duck he is as intelligent as any other duck even if he isn't green

Ask the duck

What??? The bloke that's just masterminded a stupendous cup upset?
(I jest.)

When i noticed that john sheridan had resigned at carlisle i was hoping we were going to appoint him as our new manager,but it seems hes had a fantastic package to take over at struggling chesterfield.

Graham coughlan has done very well during his caretaker stint and i think once the club decided to appoint him they were right to give him a decent contract as opposed to a short deal.
In the 2 home games hes been in charge i didnt notice much difference in our style of play from before.
That said its very noticeable that bennett,lines,payne,leadbitter and matthews have been largely ignored so far and we have been playing with traditional style wide players[ie left footed left winger].
Staying up this season will be a massive achievement but with yet more backing in january from our owners it can be done .

So what are we calling him? Cocko?

Lets road test it.

Ee aye ee aye ee aye oh
Up the football we will go
And when we get promotion, this is what we’ll sing
Cocko cocko, cocko cocko, our cocky cocko’s king

Any alternatives to Cocko?    

Before someone here recently said he's known as 'Cocko', I remember someone from the club on interview (can't recall who it was), referring to him as 'Cogs'.

Phil Brown former Southend Utd manager referred to him as Cocko in an article that came out when the new gaffer took temporary charge. He also sang his praises for being rock solid at Southend.
Cocko the rock, rock cock, Rocko cocko’s blue and white army sounds spot on to me.

Jurys out for me too.   I haven’t taken to Cocko at all as yet.   He’s clearly kissed the Blarney Stone and talked his way into this job.  The little up spike in form should count for nothing at all in the deliberation, that often happens when manager leaves and whoever’s stuck in charge.  It’s Fools gold to fans and owners.  

Even if he keeps us up, which I am not too sure about with this squad, its still jury out.  When Ward returned we perked up big time after Christmas look where we were 12 months later.  What happened is clear, Ward went to board reporting the window just shut and I failed to do any business. The clubs below us fighting for their lives done fantastic business, Coulthirst for Torquay turned us over single handed. I fear twelve month from now we will look back realising needed proper manager with a proper vision thing, a man who can hold a dressing room through a slump, has the contacts, can build and galvanise a squad.    
 
I enjoyed the win over Fleetwood, didn’t we all, but it wasn’t a convincing performance, perfect storm to get man advantage and score with last kick. 
If the whistle wasn’t blown on the Burton game they would still be out there now trying to score, in part due to Cocko liking to play about 9 defenders in each team. Whilst Martin in front of Kelly is going on someone like Mathews who can open Burton and their tactics up didn’t get a start.       
 
Anyone saying his advantage is he is internal knows the club?   He only joined in the summer.  As defensive coach.  Now the crummy goals we have conceded, silly deflections etc, since Cocko joined club have been defence sitting too deep without their mf closing down quickly enough in front of them.        
 
I’m not simply against everything. I think we could have gone down the DoF route, like Brentford.   Someone with proper contacts, proven for vision in the DoF and someone like Cocko on probation in the Head Coach gives me better feeling the bases are covered. Someone like Holloway as DoF, Cocko as head coach till end of season, I would have been happy with that approach.  Cocko would have bitten their hand off if offered that wouldn’t he? I think top priority is squad needs major wheeling and dealing, I would rather have an olly than a Cocko doing that wheeling and dealing. Also that crucial interface between manager and owners, between what squad needs versus those holding purse strings.  Us fans needs someone knows how to is prepared to cut the board without bleeding, rather than feeling in debt to them.      

I don’t like invisible owners at all, taking us backwards.  Don’t like the Chairman, the CEO.   Don’t think much of the squad, strikers who start games and don’t score (Nichols), defensive midfielders who have given defence no cover(Upson).  And now I don’t like the gaffer, what he says, how he says it. I don’t trust any of these people to have the club and fans at heart.  Feel quite flat about all this.  Kind of feels like a club going backwards in everything its doing.  Not a good time to be a passionate gas head.