anybody read it yet?

is it worth getting?

does it change anyone's opinions of him regarding that decision?

Yup, did mine.

Not read it yet, but from the snippets in the paper it sounds like the board at the time were pi** poor. Ewan Dowes tweeted and asked if he wrote in the book where Hull got their 06 grand final suits from. Asda was the answer!!! The stuff flying around on twitter from Hull fans to Cooke himself seems to be all sorry's and "we understand why you left"

Asda sounds about right for penny pinching kath

Great read and yes i can fully understand why he left.Gives some great insight into former coaches and players well worth the money

Half way through it.

I don't know if the serialisations published have covered the reasons for his leaving but basically he didn't sign his contract because he was waiting on an assurance from the Club that would apply to the RFL for his testimonial. The letter he requested never came and therefore he didn't sign the contract; this was the root cause of the resentment between him and the Club. The testimonial couldn't be written into the contract because then it would be liable for income tax and Cooke and his father (who acted as his agent) were adamant on requiring this 'letter of comfort' I think they called it.

It is interesting what he says about John Kear. Kearney, when he left, wrote an appraisal of the Club and that was pretty damning on the state of the club and player development. According to Cooke, Kearney said that players were pretty much left to get on with it and that he and Horney needed specialist coaching to develop their game which they just didn't receive.

Coming to a Charity Shop bargain bin very soon!

Don't think the fans would have been so annoyed if he had left at the end of the season,and then we had our local championship team owner rubbing our noses in it.But with what's happened at the weekend there is a god after all.

No matter what, that try at Cardiff will always be in my memory. Personally I can`t see the point of carrying on a grudge.

Great player who loved his own hype,i'll always remember the try that Danny Houghton stopped at Wembley.Two great players but Danny has got the respect of all his fellow players hence the man of steel.Cookey could have had so much more but he wasted his career.