Joined: Feb 10 2004 Posts: 16136 Location: Badsville
t.m.t.b.f. wrote:guilty as proved
dont be so boring
tbh I think only Cooke was found guilty of an illegal approach.
Arguably rovers should have reported said illegal approach to the RFL but I'm not sure they were ever charged with anything.
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Joined: Apr 01 2003 Posts: 2155 Location: The Land Of The Sand
Does Rovers style of play actually suit Cooke. At Hull he became The Man through which all our creativity started, whereas with Rovers, it starts with Dobso. Cooke appears to be more of a peripheral player, being played for being played sake than actually adding to your teams dynamic. The other question is where are you going to play Danny Brough if it's true that he's coming to you? He's not a stand off, that'll be I'Anson or Webster? Fisher seems to be playing well at Hooker, so where does that leave him to play?
Diablo1967 said ''A pub-landlord running a professional sporting outfit in the best league in the hemisphere? Laughable''
We all know Cooke was brought to the club by Hudgell and not with Morgan's support as a massive coup over Hull FC. However, he has been on a hiding to nothing since, especially when it came to dealing with the 'aussie mafia' at the club! Don't forget, it wasn't just about the money, Cooke chose his path to Hull KR knowing full well it would be a life long decision to leave Hull FC the way he did. Look at Gary Schofield - 25 years on and he still gets grief when he's in West Hull!
Rugby is fickle, as are some supporters, but he and his family didn't deserve the treatment he got for a while afterwards, it's only a game for God's sake!
Joined: Feb 11 2008 Posts: 1087 Location: east of east hull
fcimp wrote:Somehow all us Hull Fans just knew this day would come. "Welcome home Cookie, the team you've always wanted to play for", does anyone still believe it was this and not the massively over inflated wages you were foolish enough to pay him.
worth every penny for all the grief it caused all of the chimps accross the river (including the board at hull), the super league survival & the derby points
its not worked out for paul as he would have liked, but i can honestly say i'm not bothered about him going unlike hull fans when he departed their club before its demise.
cheers paul and good luck!
east hull fc fan wrote: 1 major trophy in 18 years doesn't make us a big club. On the pitch is were it counts and by that theory were no bigger than Sheffield! tarquin fuego wrote: I wrote this 2 mins before the game finished , you know why Sheldon Maylord ? because I know about RL ! Hoss pot HOW on earth do you get NILLED at Wembley ? When your coach isn't a winner at heart and Gentle is not a winner at heart . We were a pub team I coached for a long time and we won 95% of games because winning is a mental state driven by a desire to CRUSH an opposition. Did FC look as though they wanted to Crush Wigan and strangle them until they screamed ? NO RL is a tough tough game and Maylord She-dong you have no clue In fact don't ever ever reply to any of my posts again
Joined: Jul 15 2005 Posts: 29811 Location: West Yorkshire
chico's nose wrote:Is the slary cap still live and teams have to submit figures each month?
If so, then rovers would have known that they had a short space of time to off load someone.
Clubs have to maintain monthly records, but don't need to submit them unless asked for by the RFL (on a "by exception" basis). They only need to make 2 formal reports each salary cap year on 30th June and 30th December.
The Goroka Gene-ius wrote:Yes it is (I assume you mean "salary"?), and no they wouldn't cos it doesn't work like that. I could try to explain it but I would have to use a couple of long-ish words so I'm not going to even try.
Oh dear I missed a key whilst typing. Hope it makes you feel big and clever to point out my mistake.
Just wondering why you had to edit your post, spelling mistake perhaps? If that was the case I'm sure you would feel a little
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Joined: Mar 24 2003 Posts: 857 Location: Yorkshire
JohnSmith2602 wrote:We all know Cooke was brought to the club by Hudgell and not with Morgan's support as a massive coup over Hull FC. However, he has been on a hiding to nothing since, especially when it came to dealing with the 'aussie mafia' at the club! Don't forget, it wasn't just about the money, Cooke chose his path to Hull KR knowing full well it would be a life long decision to leave Hull FC the way he did. Look at Gary Schofield - 25 years on and he still gets grief when he's in West Hull!
Rugby is fickle, as are some supporters, but he and his family didn't deserve the treatment he got for a while afterwards, it's only a game for God's sake!
Good luck to Cookie, wherever he plays.
This is a lot less deserved then Cookie to be fair, he didn't want to go he had to because the club couldn't afford to pay him, he was never the Judas Cookie has been to Hull I can assure you!!
Ian P wrote:He did FC more damage leaving then he did helping KR and I think it is time for many to reflect on the wisdom of that move. He has cost KR a lot of money since his move over and I understand he is still costing you a bit even after his departure.
The damage relasionships between the two clubs management and fans will run on and that is his lasting legacy.
Has it been worth it ?
Could not agree more Ian - The Cooke saga created a Hate-fest like I have never seen before - players have always crossed over between Hull and Rovers but this one - I hope we never see again. By the way I totally blame the young man in question and hope that he can finish his career now in the West Riding.
Joined: Nov 13 2005 Posts: 1328 Location: west hull
fcimp wrote:Somehow all us Hull Fans just knew this day would come. "Welcome home Cookie, the team you've always wanted to play for", does anyone still believe it was this and not the massively over inflated wages you were foolish enough to pay him.
nail on head, and anyone who still believes that Cooke went for the love of HKR, are deluded, he went for the money, not the honour of wearing the shirt of your boyhood team!! If he'd have signed for HKR at the end of his contract with Hull, then noone would have begrudged him the move, but the way him and his father conducted themselves was the problem, and where did it get them?? and i would imagine hes on a lot less at Wakey than he was on at FC or KR! your better off without him
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"Welcome home Cookie, the team you've always wanted to play for", does anyone still believe it was this and not the massively over inflated wages you were foolish enough to pay him. 
