That was an image I thought I'd be able to turn up pretty quickly via the YEP but it's not in there that I can see. As well as the shotgun I'm seeing a flat cap?

While I don't think this is the image you have in mind I'll post it anyway.



While we're on Harvey it's always good to remind the Bradford media guru of his Headingley roots:

Your forgetting kff picked the team, and told agar not to beat you because gary wouldn't speak to her, things will be different from now on trust me

Interesting read in hull daily mail today what paul cooke has to say regards the luke briscoe verdict, guess its just you numptys inside of leeds that can't say what really went on

never mind keep them blinkered glasses on

Seriously, you're quoting Paul "glug glug" Cooke as a reliable source?

Of empties, maybe.

Ignoring the Leeds v Hull d!ck measuring that's going on here (I like Hull very much, so I'm not getting involved in that), but you have yet to produce (on request) a single scrap of evidence for your claims. All we have is Gary Hethrington telling it one way, Adam Pearson telling it another. The Hull Daily Mail, while better than the YEP (equivalent mouthpiece for Leeds sports teams), is in no more impartial, and Paul Cooke is not exactly unbiased either. I'm sure the YEP reports it from a pro-Leeds perspective too. Should I then take whoever (probably Peter Smith) wrote the piece in there as gospeller, or is it just Paul Cooke?

The only impartial opinion available is that of the tribunal.

Unless you can point to some actual evidence behind what otherwise sound like wild conspiracy theories, then I'd venture to suggest that it's you who is wearing the blinkers here.

I'm prepared to change my view when that evidence is forthcoming.....

So not only are you all believing a clueless mouth piece like Pearson but now yer offering up paul Cooke as some sort of proof or credibility to back up your turd conspriacy theories!!

Not been funny, as a fc fan you know our feelings on paul cooke, but the one thing about him in his rugby column he tells it as it is and doesn't pull no punches, and id take his opinon on the saga over any of yours on here, but like i say you look at it through your leeds tinted glasses

No, he tells it as he sees it. Fair play for being honest and consistent in his opinions, but why is he in a position to know more about what actually happened than anyone else? Was he at the tribunal? Did he receive all the supporting evidence from both sides?

I read Paul Cooke's column from time to time when I'm up in Hull, and it's nowt to get excited about in all fairness.

After a heavy night on the sauce he rarely knows his ar-se from his elbow.

Paul Cooke is honestly the best person to judge at what went down at the tribunal. Honest.

You can tell a story many ways. You have your truth, others have theirs. But the decision and outcome seperates winners from losers and I mean that on a few levels.

so he does pull his punches then? Your double negatives are twisting my melon

Is Paul Cooke the reincarnation of Garry Schofield?
There do seem to be many simlarities.

Apart from the fact that Schoie was one of the best players of his generation.

Its arguable that Cooke could have been in another era when most players were big drinkers. In the modern era where he was up against much more professional players he was never going to hit the heights

If you cut Stuart in half he would have irregular blue and amber stripes right down the middle.

His mental recollection of Loiners/Rhinos history is second to none IMHO

Shame he didn't have a Good Night Sweetheart type port-hole in his back room.

Are you using euphemisms again?

Does a pigeon walk funny?

Depends on what you've been doing to it.

That's the sort of place that bullies in the Beano and Dandy end up getting their just deserts at the end of the story each week.

That show on Radio Headingley was quite possibly the greatest thing to hit the airwaves of Leeds (or the airwaves within a couple of streets of the stadium at least).

Whilst I always hear he is highly regarded as a press man I've never had that much time for Duffy and his rather reactionary viewpoints - it always stunned me that Bradford hired him as his radio persona at least came across as instinctively negative and willing to lay blame and place unfounded accusations rather than the progressivism that the early Bulls era was noted for (and, one could argue, which has been horribly lost in the past decade or so).

Now how are young Briscoe's radio skills?

If you're not careful me and my 39 mates will come round and give you a good imaginary shoeing again in two weeks mate.

and here is paul cookes interpretation

=#FF0000I've asked for a link to the original article but you haven't provided one so the copyrighted material is gone - McFld

as i say i have no problems with luke leaving it was the underhand way it was done, with the help of kath,rule,agar and the rfl burying there heads in the sand, and there is no way it was a fair hearing,im just amazed thgat not a single leeds fan can hold there hands up and say it was wrong

at least when we wrong the majority of us have the decency to hold our hands up,unlike you

if only you had 39 mates, and fine like i said earlier have no reason to lie it happened but you bury your heads in the sand, if you think its clever to mock someone who took a hiding off your fans thats your problem, to me it just makes you all the more arrogant and hope that you never have to suffer the same at the hands of a large group setting about you and 3 mates, tough lads them

We need a link to that article please, not because we don't believe you but because its the copyright of a publisher somewhere and the only thing that usually stops them slapping writs on sites like this is if you at the least give them some acknowledgement.




I couldn't cope with Paul Cooke ringing up to complain in the early hours of tomorrow morning after he's got home from visiting every pub in Hull.