the guy needs to get out of wakey and never come back the guy is long past it. the guy has never been a play maker and never will be. everyone may say he was the one pulling the strings at hull when they won the cc 2005 but he didnt he did what he was good at playing his little part with a good pass or kick every so often not been the out and out play maker which he is trying to be for us and not doing it well at all. because hull had
Richard Swain Richard Horne Danny Brough Stephen Kearney pulling all the strings which let cooke play what he was good at the little things with a good pass. no its been said and we carnt have him but only way cooke would of turned out a good player for us, we we still had brough which we have not but to me we are still crying out for new scrum half to go with bj.

I was surprised by Cookes performance, when he was with us he generally turned up in the games that mattered to him where he saw it as the big stage. Generally against FC, but the effective relegation decider against Salford springs to mind. There being a focus on him in this game made me think he'd grab the bull by the horns.

The performance yesterday was very reminiscent of a lot his average performances for us, the ones where fans bemoaned Morgan for dictating it all goes through Dobson. Cooke stood out on his own, not in position to recieve the first ball and be able to dictate play and leaving all the pressure on Jeffiries. It smacks to me of a player who for all the talk doesn;t want to take on the game unless it suits, wanting to drift in and out of a game and when the going gets tough just disappear.

I'm afraid Mr Cookes salary is about to take a turn southwards as I unless Wakey give him a contract he could be staring NL1 in the face. I would say teh bottom 2 would want him, but both Crusaders and Salford seem to have options at 6 and 13, no one higher would take a punt on him so maybe it'll be quins or the slippery slope to Thursday nights on Sky.

I'll always be eternally greatful to all our 2007 squad for the effort they put in to stay up but Cookie has really let himself down since then and unless he knuckles down and works hard (which I can't see) his top league presence could be coming to an end.

Maybe all those old "Cooke" shirts in my wardrobe has made me a bit bias.

He might really step it up this week

Not all of us did

He never gave his all at Rovers so your arguement falls down there I'm afraid.

Won't be at Wakefield next season.
TBH I couldn't see another SL club touching him and he will price himself out of the championship. Sorry Paul I think your drinks are up at the SL's last chance saloon.

Unfortunately for us, we don't have class players around Cooke to carry him and let him do what he's good at, therefore he looks very average.

cooke is a complete waste of a shirt , give one of the youngsters ago i'am sure we would see more effort than what he has given us .

Too true. We really do not have the quality - plenty of triers, but no game changers.

I hope I get to see him play again on sat



in the reserves



time to try someone else for me even if he is out of position

An improvement

Yes its marvelous what a good coach can do

Cookeys a red and white ,and saves his best for when he plays the pondlife from the West of Hull .

Cant argue with that

nobody slagging the guy off this week then .should be better getting behind him n the team rather than slagging off everyweek.

Agree Mopsey Lad,

i just shake my head

yeah a bit quiet on here today...but no doubt if we lose our next game the cooke haters will be out in force...

I don't hate him but i sure as hell won't ever support him, just because he pulls on a Wakey shirt does not alter my opinion of him.

He slowed a few chances down in the 1st half but 2nd half he was growing with the team in stature. Every week he's starting to look more and more illusive when he decides to take the line on.

I hope he can come good as I see a lot of myself in the 'worlds against me' cooke character.

Goodness me Al - I really don't understand how you can be so 'black and white' about people.

Cooke has baggage and we know that he has had some poor games, but give the lad some credit when it's due. He chased everything last night; kicked well; scored a try; made a try (and could have made another) and he was making the tackles.

People are mostly just 'shades of grey' you know!

Simple i don't like what he's done in the past on and off the field and don't want him in Wakey shirt, he may have played well yesterday and thats fine, thats what he's paid to do and he'll do it when he feels like it.

Anyway each to ther own

Roll up, roll up BIG AL.

I believe I require a pint my kind sir.





Admittedly didn't catch the second half, but judging on that first halfs performance, it was 100x better than last week!