Steve Cook

Waz is right, we’ve left players at home before during training camps and 9 times out of 10 that player hasn’t been here at the end of the transfer window.

Danjuma and Begovic you sort of expect, but Cook I’m very surprised by.
 
IF this is a case of Parker wanting to have his own man as captain and potentially looking to move Cook on, then I really hope we do it properly and with grace this time. So many stalwarts and heros seem to have been poorly treated as far as we could see, or left under odd circumstances.

Of course it might be nothing untoward. Lets hope so.
 
..I do hope that Steve Cook is okay and certainly is given the utmost respect that he deserves from AFCB and that includes the new manager treating him with good grace..
 
Parker billed this trip as an important bonding trip for the group to get everyone to gel and create a tight knit bond. Surely you take the club captain on such a trip?

Not if he’s further behind in his rehab and it would be a detriment that.
 
Not if he’s further behind in his rehab and it would be a detriment that.
Yes, that is true, it would be a judgement call based on the individual and where they are at. L Cook is out there though, which is the confusing part.
 
It's a curious state of affairs and we are all speculating. Hopefully in a while we'll get proper answers and wonder what all the fuss was about. Surely Parker can't expect to come in and start ripping a 'moderately successful' team apart before he's even got to know them properly? Perhaps Lewis is out there for a bit of sun to help his recovery, the rain we've had lately can't be great for outdoor training.
 
Clearly, the best thing to do when facts are not easily found is to make things up.

Some sort of End Of The World scenario would probably work best.

eg IT'S A FIRESALE!!!!
Do you think everything a football club ever releases to the media is true? I assume you think it was a genuine minor injury that kept Wilson out of last seasons tour…
 
It’s clearly bs.

Why don’t you just take it at face value until we hear otherwise instead of labelling it ‘clearly bs’

Not so long ago he had a bad groin infection from an injury, nothing to say he isn’t under the care of a specific surgeon or consultant here in the UK, or has been advised to fly or some other reason. It could also be personal reasons
 

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