Tweet quoted in League Weekly from 'Cooke the repenter' @pcooke06:

"If Peter Gentle has full faith in all his squad, like he says he has, why bring back Lee Radford from retirement? Youngsters must be gutted!"

Because he is a coach who understands that you can play so many youngsters but once you go too far your on a hiding to nothing and the kids gain nothing from it at all. Much better to get to old heads (Lynch/Radders) to steady the ship and guide them along.

Murdoch agreed with him too. It took Clarkey to remind them that the only props we had available were part-time youngsters, even younger than the young forwards (Bowden, Pitts), we did promote.

Tweeted from a has been, I have more faith in what PG wants to do than someone who p****d his career away down the pub.

bowden been playing,green injured,burnett injured what should we have done? just shoved kent in maybe n told him to play prop n get him killed! How dumb is he?

Oh and he was another one that said KR would be too strong for FC.

To be fair most people said that though and a lot of us thought we would struggle up front (myself included).

Who cares what paul cooke thinks?

He just wanted us to play with 12 men the hole game not the last 2 to 3 minutes as we did.

Which is why the players and gameplan PG put out was proved to be 100% correct, hence the faith in PG.

PG as played more youngsters in the first 9 games of this season than FC under Agar did for 3 years, so I really don't get where Cooke is coming from, and lets face it Radders was superb.

Who cares what a spent force like Cooke thinks - just some bitter old head like Schofield is on twitter now.

When your talking about Radford, your not talking about a player who was a 'never was' you're talking about a former international player who probably had a season left in him but retired to take an opportunity that wouldn't have been available at the end of this season.

Good job the Doncaster management didn't take the same approach to blooding youngsters instead of taking someone out of retirement - Radford played more recently than Cooke did.

It's just the audacity from a now-self-proclaimed 'neutral' that got me.

Why? cooke's knowledge of the game is summarised in one action which saw his career go down the pan. If he were half as knowledgeable as he believes he is he'd probably still be playing for Hull and would be significantly better off that he is now.

My only hope is that these marathons he's running see him disappear for a few months afterwards

Just like fellow marathon runner Paula Radcliffe, Cooke too has p!ssed it all away in public...

Just remind who Paul Cooke plays for again??

Unfortunately, even if he kept running, that only leaves him just over 183.5 miles away.

Still too close

Doc's one of the few still willing to try and defend him over the way he left the club as well. Keeps going on about not all the facts being known.

Dear old Doc is still recoverihg from what he thinks was the disaster of Agar leaving too.

Well, firstly - welcome to last week. Secondly - he said it to get a bite, which he got at the time.
Lastly, his idea of bringing a back in and pushing Turner into the back row allowing tickle to play prop wasn't really that stupid, was it?
As for doc, nobody does know the full facts, do they? I don't trust Cookies word, but I don't trust the other sides either.

Did he? Or is he just using the tried and tested excuse of folk on the internet who make knobs of themselves?


Why move three players around when you can just drop one in?


I don't trust anyone's word. The publicly available facts are enough to demonstrate what a knob Cooke is.

Myself and a few others on here were tweeting with Cookie about this. When I asked him who else he would play instead of Radford, he said 'Crooks, Cunningham or Nicklas'. I don't believe any of them can play prop. Shows what he knows.

But that's not what he meant was it Tom? You know that.

But that one wasn't part of the squad, was he? Which was kind of Cookes point.

Oh well nice to know he's ONLY punching keys nowadays!!! Really though who gives a monkeys chuff what that buffoon thinks about anything in life?

He was available and his inclusion was the least disruptive of the options open.