Dogs give Cooney all clear

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Re: Dogs give Cooney all clear

He's clearly labouring, is nowhere near his best and probably will never get there again, so I'm not exactly sure what benefit there is in making light of his physical fitness in the media. Did we go out of our way to run the story to somehow appease our fans, or were we simply responding to questions from a scribe and not wanting to 'make excuses'? If it is the former, we have treated our fans like they just walked in from the cotton fields.

Presumably the question was asked. I think he answered it reasonably well. He's hardly going to say they're playing him when he's miles off in fitness. As you say in your subsequent post, he's too good a player to not play on and for us to attempt to manage him for maximum output. It's a learning curve, but I think, and as Fantasia suggested, there is still hope of him improving both form and fitness.