Toast Welcome to Carlton Brian Cook

[Tony Lynn 15]

Great appointment but the part we don’t need is the self proclaimed “we are a destination club” rhetoric. Let’s just quietly but surely achieve some things with our actions first rather than words. We have a long way to go, this is an awesome first step but please stop the the noise that currently cannot be backed up.

 

[thylacine60]

guessen has cook news first item on crunch-time, whateley couldn't be more complimentary - extraordinary considering his anti-carlton stance.......go figure

 

[GatesOfHell]

Said it from early on, Clarkson will end up coaching you blokes. Deceptively shrewd operator who projects selflessness and loyalty (to Hawthorn) but is expertly following the playbook to jack his own fee up. The “the Mrs and I might travel overseas for a year” was a classic red herring.

Cook coming on board just confirms it for me. He and Clarko will already have come to a private agreement, a key plank of which will be too allow some more weeks space until the Blues’ big “surprise announcement”.

The tea leaves are pretty obvious on this one.

 

[Gethelred]

guessen has cook news first item on crunch-time, whateley couldn't be more complimentary - extraordinary considering his anti-carlton stance.......go figure

You're saying Gerard Whateley isn't a Carlton hating, puppy kicking, "And your little dog, too!"-ing villain to be compared with Sauron?

I'm shocked to be sitting here.

 

[thylacine60]

You're saying Gerard Whateley isn't a Carlton hating, puppy kicking, "And your little dog, too!"-ing villain to be compared with Sauron?

I'm shocked to be sitting here.

just a hunch

 

[Triniboy]

The best recruit since David Parkin.

 

[BlueAbroad]

 

[Gointocarlton]

guessen has cook news first item on crunch-time, whateley couldn't be more complimentary - extraordinary considering his anti-carlton stance.......go figure

Hutch and Pickering had a crack this morning (surprise surprise) saying "as if Cook is going to walk around training an assistant for 3 years" or something like that.
You hire substandard people people, they have a crack. You hire the best, they have a crack.
When we come out the other side of this, it will be be so much sweeter.

 

[thylacine60]

I certainly won't be celebrating our 17th flag any harder as a result of past negative media analysis - the media is part of the game and always has been - when you consider how insignificant the sport actually is with regard to real world issues, the media is merely playing it's role in a bizarrely lucrative sham........

 

[dirk pitt]

I certainly won't be celebrating our 17th flag any harder as a result of past negative media analysis - the media is part of the game and always has been - when you consider how insignificant the sport actually is with regard to real world issues, the media is merely playing it's role in a bizarrely lucrative sham........

The media was pretty good to us for 17 consecutive weeks in 2000. Buying the papers was a treat. When it turns around on field, they'll say different things and our attitudes will change.

 

[passmark]

He’s a figure that may, finally, have the necessary credentials to tell the various power brokers to * off. There will be nowhere for the board to hide if he walks out.

Kick em in the nuts Cookie!

 

[thylacine60]

The media was pretty good to us for 17 consecutive weeks in 2000. Buying the papers was a treat. When it turns around on field, they'll say different things and our attitudes will change.

exactly, what is it people can't see? continually bagging those who have jobs that include reporting on your club doesn't somehow make you a better supporter

 

[thylacine60]

He’s a figure that may, finally, have the necessary credentials to tell the various power brokers to fu** off. There will be nowhere for the board to hide if he walks out.

Kick em in the nuts Cookie!

yep

 

[passmark]

yep

And stickler for good groundskeeping so expect no muddy surfaces.

 

[dirk pitt]

exactly, what is it people can't see? continually bagging those who have jobs that include reporting on your club doesn't somehow make you a better supporter

But I'm still going to bag them a little. I'm just slowly coming to the view that maybe I should be more internally consistent and keep that up as we improve. If I defend s**t clubs from the media while we're winning I would feel even more superior!

 

[thylacine60]

And stickler for good groundskeeping so expect no muddy surfaces.

Bloke has 5 flags but nothing for a decade. Standards slipping like Preston City oval in July.

 

[Blue and Blue]

You're saying Gerard Whateley isn't a Carlton hating, puppy kicking, "And your little dog, too!"-ing villain to be compared with Sauron?

I'm shocked to be sitting here.

Sauron...thats priceless...I laughed aloud......

 

[Aphrodite]

He’s a figure that may, finally, have the necessary credentials to tell the various power brokers to fu** off. There will be nowhere for the board to hide if he walks out.

Kick em in the nuts Cookie!

Starting with the pokies King sitting in his ivory tower on the Gold Coast.

 

[footyfan1978]

The best recruit from Geelong since Hicky

EFA

 

[gbatman]

Get the best people, great stuff!

 

[Monkey King]

First piece in place. Great appointment. Keep going Luke.

 

[RPCB]

I know that video has been posted recently. Brian Cook is so well spoken and if you are worried about age slowing him down, I don’t think we need to be. He sounds like such a driven person who wants success in any roll he is involved in.

There is a great bit here about Matthew Scarlett

Matthew Scarlett

Age

44

Ht

192cm

Wt

94kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

14.8

4star

K

9.5

4star

HB

5.3

4star

M

5.0

5star

T

1.5

3star

No current season stats available

D

3.8

1star

K

3.2

2star

HB

0.6

1star

M

2.0

3star

T

0.8

3star

. Would be exciting if we could get him to Carlton.

 

[Michael Jezz]

Great appointment but the part we don’t need is the self proclaimed “we are a destination club” rhetoric. Let’s just quietly but surely achieve some things with our actions first rather than words. We have a long way to go, this is an awesome first step but please stop the the noise that currently cannot be backed up.

Agree Whately will keep the tweet in his back pocket for the future

 

[myblueroan]

just a hunch

He’s a figure that may, finally, have the necessary credentials to tell the various power brokers to fu** off. There will be nowhere for the board to hide if he walks out.

Kick em in the nuts Cookie!

yep. they've revved me up and thus no probs with Sayers coming out loud and strong.

 

[gbatman]

He's a great get but gee if Cook and Sayers can get the people rumoured then that would be huge! Clarkson, Scarlet and Wells are massive names. It's this sort of thing that leads to premierships.

Over the last 15 years in terms of off field people we have probably brought in just 2 who would have been considered elite, Malthouse and Russell. Cook is someone who would be considered elite and could lead others who would be considered elite to come as well. Very very exciting times which may not lead to immediate success but if we do build an off field team which is elite then all we need is stability and if we achieve that then I would be very surprised if we did not win at least one premiership in the next 10 years.