Rovers Sign Striker Andy Cook

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We've signed Andy Cook from Barrow - confirmed tonight as an exclusive by Palios at the meeting!

Great signing, gets goals lets get 2 upfront next season!

A fantastic signing in my opinion. 27 goals last season for Barrow. 2 year deal from what I hear. A good piece of business for the club. He's 25, an eye for goal and i'm sure he'll get plenty when Brabin plays him on the wing. Cynicism aside, let's hope he's the first of many!!

Be interesting to see how Norwood and Cook play together. Be good to have a Clayton/Clarke type partnership. I wish.

This is amazing news. He had told Barrow that he would only leave for a league club and Carlisle looked like a nailed on move.If this is confirmed then it shows the wisdom of doing business without shouting it from the rooftops. A massive signing. If we had him last season we would certainly have made the play offs

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This is amazing news. He had told Barrow that he would only leave for a league club and Carlisle looked like a nailed on move.If this is confirmed then it shows the wisdom of doing business without shouting it from the rooftops. A massive signing. If we had him last season we would certainly have made the play offs

Excellent news at last[as long as we play 2 up front]. The Barrow fans,who assumed he was going to Carlisle,are distinctly unimpressed.

Very positive news

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I posted above before I saw your fishing attempt.

Clearly the lull has been down to sitting it out for the right players to make their mind up. There isn't a club in the NL who wouldn't have taken him.

Looks like a beg, steal and barrow signing

Great news - so for the doubters er perhaps Brabin does know what he's doing.

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Great news - so for the doubters er perhaps Brabin does know what he's doing.

Yes great news. We need however to play 2 up front and give them good service unlike last season.


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Brabin has signed him yes, however, it's how we line up that counts.

Don't forget, Brabin signed Mangan and look how that turned out?

The proof of the pudding will be how he sets the team up and how they play.

Credit to him for signing quality, but please stop the one dimensional tactics next season and play to the players strengths.

Great signing let's hope he can get the goals for us

Every ball is a white ball............TRFC

Very interesting, exciting prospect!!

Depends which andy cook we get, awesome at barrow awful at grimsby. Lets hope its the former . Based on last season its a top signing

I thought he scored 1 in 3 at Grimsby? That isn't bad...

14 goals in 73 games apparently, which is approximately 1 every 5.2 matches.

However a decent assist total could make that look credible, but I don't assist figures to hand.

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Weird, this seems to say 43 not 73

I'd love to see a set of wingers join! My last game last season before I emigrated was away at Torquay! Their wingers weren't great but they got down the flanks and kept floating ball after ball in! I wonder if we had some good wingers feeding Norwood and Cook whether we would get more goals! I hope after this signing we don't get carried away and think we'll walk it like we did last season.

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Clearly the lull has been down to sitting it out for the right players to make their mind up. There isn't a club in the NL who wouldn't have taken him.

of course. The very suggestion that other clubs were doing business while our powers that be were sitting on their backsides doing f all was frankly laughable. Looks a positive signing and certainly starts the excitment ball rolling.

Buzzing with this signing. Knows the league and the back of the net. Let's crack on with some more positive signings 🙂

seems like a very good signing and surprising too considering the fact that cook had categorically stated that he wanted a move to a league club.

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seems like a very good signing and surprising too considering the fact that cook had categorically stated that he wanted a move to a league club.

Well, only one year to being with a league club lol

[quote MoanerLesser][quote hong kong rover]seems like a very good signing and surprising too considering the fact that cook had categorically stated that he wanted a move to a league club.[/quote]


Well, only one year to being with a league club lol[/quote

lol.. lets really hope so

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I thought he scored 1 in 3 at Grimsby? That isn't bad...

14 goals in 73 app for the mariners, but its not the goals per game thats the issue its the fact he became homesick and stopped trying in training then when benched he threw a massive strop and allowed his weight to balloon .

with cooks signing, plus the fact he could have easily found a league club for the new season, it goes to show we have the pulling power and the potential.

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I thought he scored 1 in 3 at Grimsby? That isn't bad...

14 goals in 73 app for the mariners, but its not the goals per game thats the issue its the fact he became homesick and stopped trying in training then when benched he threw a massive strop and allowed his weight to balloon .

wish I hadn't seen this. Hope he settles in and doesn't get a shed load of stick after three games and stsrts comfort eating lol


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They're very upset about it at the Barrow fans forum. Thus he must be a decent player. By contrast I remember when we paid money for George Donnelly from Rochdale and they were actually happy to see him go. Donnelly is still unemployed, apparently.

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They're very upset about it at the Barrow fans forum. Thus he must be a decent player. By contrast I remember when we paid money for George Donnelly from Rochdale and they were actually happy to see him go. Donnelly is still unemployed, apparently.

That was a period were we would sign a striker and after looking at his stats I would be like "he's not a striker". Hopefully those days are gone.

Cook had one good season at Grimsby followed by one indifferent season.That is not uncommon with young strikers but his stats from 21 on make him worthy of the term striker.As for attitude Cox obviously thinks highly of him and a year ago Cox would have been my first pick as manager at Rovers

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I thought he scored 1 in 3 at Grimsby? That isn't bad...

14 goals in 73 app for the mariners, but its not the goals per game thats the issue its the fact he became homesick and stopped trying in training then when benched he threw a massive strop and allowed his weight to balloon .

wish I hadn't seen this. Hope he settles in and doesn't get a shed load of stick after three games and stsrts comfort eating lol

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Please look at the Grimsby stats on here

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I thought he scored 1 in 3 at Grimsby? That isn't bad...

14 goals in 73 app for the mariners, but its not the goals per game thats the issue its the fact he became homesick and stopped trying in training then when benched he threw a massive strop and allowed his weight to balloon .

wish I hadn't seen this. Hope he settles in and doesn't get a shed load of stick after three games and stsrts comfort eating lol

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Please look at the Grimsby stats on here

Am i missing something? It reads 44 starts plus 29 sub apperances which equals 73 with 14 goals, am i reading it wrong ml? Ive been known to be dopey at the best of times

Very good signing with a few more should have a good side ,but thought that last year with Mangan and Norwood .it will all depend on how Brabin sets up the side will probably play cook at left back and Norwood in goal

Another bonus, he that he and Norwood appear to already know each other.

Welcome Andy, looks a better signing than mangan to me, onwards and upwards.

According to Brabin he has consistently been scoring 20+ goals per season. I think I'm right in saying he's only scored 20+ once.

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I thought he scored 1 in 3 at Grimsby? That isn't bad...

14 goals in 73 app for the mariners, but its not the goals per game thats the issue its the fact he became homesick and stopped trying in training then when benched he threw a massive strop and allowed his weight to balloon .

wish I hadn't seen this. Hope he settles in and doesn't get a shed load of stick after three games and stsrts comfort eating lol

[www.soccerbase.com]

Please look at the Grimsby stats on here

Am i missing something? It reads 44 starts plus 29 sub apperances which equals 73 with 14 goals, am i reading it wrong ml? Ive been known to be dopey at the best of times

Maybe I misread. I assumed 29 of 44 were him coming on as substitute because I couldn't see how they could have played so many games.

I never really look at games as a sub as if they come on for 2 minutes to waste a bit of time it distorts the stats. So good return in 44 starts

Good points moanerlesser and andymase.... When arsenal won the league wenger put martin keown on for the last 5 mins of each of the last 4 games to get him up to the requisit 10 appearences tomqualify for a medal, although there is a really funny story ray parlour tells about this

Well,"the kav", are you going to tell us the "really funny story" or what?

Just seen the video on the club site of Cook scoring against us last season, dare I say this but he looks to be another large character either that or he was smuggling a beachball.

Who cares if he can score 24 goals in a season

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Well,"the kav", are you going to tell us the "really funny story" or what?

Ok..

Its last game of the invincibles season and keown has only played 9 games requiring 10 to secure a championship medal, arsenal have already made 2 of their 3 substitutions and keown ( a notorious hothead) is getting more and more riled and animated on the bench as the clock ticks down with arsenal about four nil up.

Eventually parlour suggests that keown goes and warms up in front of wenger to remind him... Wenger promptly tells him to move as he couldnt see the match, parlour then recommends keown warms up in front of the north bank who will undoubtedly sing his name and jolt wengers memory and pop him onto the park.

This of course happened and whilst keown was milking the applause snd wenger was engrossed in the match he would wind up keown who was 50 yards away by stripping his tracky off and making as though wenger was sending him on. As you can imagine when keown spotted this he lost it completely he sprinted 50 yards up the touchline and grabbed the totally unsuspecting wenger in a headlock screaming ' what about my f***ing medal, ' poor old arsene was non the wiser as to what was going on whilst parlour, gary lewin and dennis bergkamp fell about laughing on the bench.

I promise its a lot funnier when parlour tells it

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Who cares if he can score 24 goals in a season

Can he though, the consistent 20+ isn't that looking at stats, see how he goes if he gets a run out.

Scoring many for Barrow is one thing and it shows potential, but he has not played for Tranmere yet and although I am enthusiastic about this signing, just as some are quick to write people off after playing 0-90 minutes of football, so it is peverse to act like he will be a smash hit after 0-90 minutes of football.

He has had no chance to prove himself a talisman at this stage, just like past players who proved inadequate couldn't after just being signed.

I'm hoping he comes good however and hopefully he will transition well.

Then I ate his Liver.......... with some baked beans and a can of coke.