Turfcast interview with Andy Cooke

[Vegas Claret]

Joe and Andy having a chat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMhg8PLQ00c

[Vegas Claret]

some quality Stan stories

[Vegas Claret]

can one of the mods edit the title to Cooke with an e on his name please !

[Guller Bull]

Don’t normally watch things like that (or manage to stick with it) but that was excellent. Looking forward to part two.

[jedi_master]

I saw Andy outside the corporates before the Arsenal game and could not resist a quick rendition of his song and a shake of his hand. He had a beaming smile and I had a brief chat with him, what a lovely bloke he is.

[beeholeclaret]

I saw Andy outside the corporates before the Arsenal game and could not resist a quick rendition of his song and a shake of his hand. He had a beaming smile and I had a brief chat with him, what a lovely bloke he is.

His headers in the cup win at Derby and the relegation survival game at home to Plymouth!

[MDWat]

can one of the mods edit the title to Cooke with an e on his name please !

There you go, Vegas

[beeholeclaret]

I saw Andy outside the corporates before the Arsenal game and could not resist a quick rendition of his song and a shake of his hand. He had a beaming smile and I had a brief chat with him, what a lovely bloke he is.

His headers in the cup win at Derby and the relegation survival game at home to Plymouth!

[Vegas Claret]

There you go, Vegas

thanks MD, schoolboy error on my part !!

[beddie]

Really enjoyed that. Can you put part two on when it becomes available. Thanks.

[4:20]

Really good interview that and am looking forward to part 2. Nearly 30 years since Andy Cooke signed for us. Where does it go? A similar amount of time from the Orient game to Stan sacking those players as Sean Dyche being appointed manager to now. Mind bending.

[Fretters]

Just got to the "Gerry Creaney scored a goal here and there" bit.. wasn't it something like 8 in 10?

[Vegas Claret]

Part two
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziPu7BWAjwo

[Murger]

Enjoyed both parts.

[burnmark]

Nice bloke. Spoke to him in the Hard Rock in Manchester the other year. More than happy to chat about his time with us for a good twenty minutes.

[helmclaret]

Just got to the "Gerry Creaney scored a goal here and there" bit.. wasn't it something like 8 in 10?

I remember Creaney as Andy did and would never said he scored 8 in 10!

[Quicknick]

Just listened to part one. Cooke is an interesting bloke. Articulate. The interviewer is really professional.

[Fretters]

I remember Creaney as Andy did and would never said he scored 8 in 10!

Just checked, it was 8 in 10. I thought he was playing alongside Cooke too as we didn't have Payton then, but Cookey says Creaney was keeping him out of the team. Did we go with one up top under Waddle for a bit?

[mdd2]

Some hilarious moments. Peyts scored goals I was just a f***ing pain in the arse for 90 mins
Stan gave a rollicking to me and Branchy at half time. Brancy said he was feeling unwell. Stan told Sam to get the whisky, made Branchy have part tumbler and he went out second half and played a blinder.
Roeder and Waddle year sounded hopeless too.
Top honest bloke Cookey

[beddie]

Very good that. I enjoyed both of those.

[CoolClaret]

Doing well is Joe with Turfcast. All the best to him.

[jedi_master]

Just checked, it was 8 in 10. I thought he was playing alongside Cooke too as we didn't have Payton then, but Cookey says Creaney was keeping him out of the team. Did we go with one up top under Waddle for a bit?

Maybe alongside Paul Barnes? He was in the side until we swapped him for Payton in January 98.

On that subject - I used to always think of Barnes as something of a goal hanger who offered very little/nothing else to the side but I recently watched the highlights of the 96/97 season under Heath and I feel I was grossly wrong in my assessment. Lots of fantastic play for him - a lot better than I recall.

[Fretters]

Maybe alongside Paul Barnes? He was in the side until we swapped him for Payton in January 98.

On that subject - I used to always think of Barnes as something of a goal hanger who offered very little/nothing else to the side but I recently watched the highlights of the 96/97 season under Heath and I feel I was grossly wrong in my assessment. Lots of fantastic play for him - a lot better than I recall.

Of course, I forgot about Barnes! I don't remember much about him except that he was a 20-goal-a-season striker, but those 20 goals would come in about four games

[Steve-Harpers-perm]

Remember Creaney scoring at home to Carlisle (our first win of season) and away at Blackpool. A decent player.

[Fretters]

Remember Creaney scoring at home to Carlisle (our first win of season) and away at Blackpool. A decent player.

He got two in the Carlisle game.

[Vegas Claret]

Interesting that he was offered a deal to return to us

[Murger]

I think I vaguely remember him training with us.

[Steve-Harpers-perm]

He got two in the Carlisle game.

I remember him celebrating in in back of the net for one of them down the Bee Hole end!

[Quicknick]

Just checked, it was 8 in 10. I thought he was playing alongside Cooke too as we didn't have Payton then, but Cookey says Creaney was keeping him out of the team. Did we go with one up top under Waddle for a bit?

Creaney partnered the free-scoring Paul Barnes.

[agreenwood]

Can’t believe Creaney was only 27 when he played for us. My memory had him in his mid 30s until I checked.

[Bordeauxclaret]

Not the first player to comment on how uninterested Waddle was.
We got really lucky that season.

[Quicknick]

The worst manager we've ever had?