Garry Cook's Replacement?

[dazby]

Sending my application in tonight. Fingers crossed.

[DoomMerchant]

whoever the replacement is i can pretty much guarantee that he won't ever share a pint with me, or bum a fag off me....FACT.

cheers

[mcfc1632]

whoever the replacement is i can pretty much guarantee that he won't ever share a pint with me, or bum a fag off me....FACT.

cheers

I met (bumped into) him in the stadium car park before an home match last season - he took time out (while his family and friends were shuffling about in the cold) to have a brief conversation which just showed his personal enthusiasm commitment to the club - I doubt we will again get someone with has such a fan foccussed attitude - and commercial skills.

[irblinx]

whoever the replacement is i can pretty much guarantee that he won't ever share a pint with me, or bum a fag off me....FACT.

cheers

I met (bumped into) him in the stadium car park before an home match last season - he took time out (while his family and friends were shuffling about in the cold) to have a brief conversation which just showed his personal enthusiasm commitment to the club - I doubt we will again get someone with has such a fan foccussed attitude - and commercial skills.

Unless it is David Potts who has greater commercial experience and is actually a City fan? Whoever is appointed I'm sure Khaldoon will have made damn sure he is up to the job and understands the customer facing part of the role or else employs someone in a meet in car parks and buy drinks capacity ;-)

Whilst the shear number of people praising Cook's common touch shows that it isn't just a one off I think a large part of his determination to be that way will have been the fact that it was within the remit given to him by the Sheikh. When Cook arrived under Thaksin he was very vocal about growing our fan base in Asia and the US, once the Sheikh arrived the agenda changed slightly in that whilst growth was necessary the existing fans were to be respected and cherished. I'm not saying he wasn't genuine in his meetings with fans, merely that with a remit and the financial backing that he was afforded that it will have made any such meetings a lot more comfortable for him.

[King Kev]

Personally, I couldn't give a flying fucl whether the new guy has a pint with the fans before games or not.

[john@staustell]

Cook's job is more related to the marketing & pr side than the traditional football club management thing. We need someone as high powered as him in the international marketing world, to promote the club abroad & bring in more revenue etc. Someone like Williams can do the day to day stuff at home.

this.

It wont be an old football duffer. Could be quite sensational who they get.

[Rag_hater]

I think the stuff Garry did with the fans although cool was somewhat easy because I reckon he would have had a very generous expense account and what to me was expected of him.

[Niall Quinns Discopants]

There's a guy who is Blue, isn't afraid of risks, has experience of international business and especially Asian markets.


























Nick Leeson.

[Alioune DVToure]

Slightly tangential open question:

Does anybody know the specifics of David Miliband's role at Sunderland?

[john@staustell]

Slightly tangential open question:

Does anybody know the specifics of David Miliband's role at Sunderland?

No, but if I was him I'd fuck off quick.

[Alex Sapphire]

There's a guy who is Blue, isn't afraid of risks, has experience of international business and especially Asian markets.


























Nick Leeson.

he's bald too

[Dameerto]

Slightly tangential open question:

Does anybody know the specifics of David Miliband's role at Sunderland?

Ham, with ketchup.