is he a or back rower?
wouldnt mind ratchford similar to cook but isnt a c?*t

i was quoting the players who he thought we could sign and be better than cooke...long has already been signed since this "rumour" spread..

Way, way off the mark. He didn't nearly single-handedly do anything. He was an important part of a good team. Without that team (as he has shown at Rovers) he wouldn't be half the player.

Can play both.
Have only seen him play centre but most people seem to think he is better at LF.

apologies but with long coming in i think washbrook has to play LF and horne needs to play stand off.

don't see why with long coming in we would need cooke

play the highlights of that season and watch how manty tries were scored through his passes and kicks!!! a staggering amount i'll tell you....
coooke played in yeaman and raynor, briscoe countless times, maybe cooke was the foil for hornes breaks...watch them also...alot of horne breaks etc..

If cusack was non quota i wouldnt be against his new contract (if we got rid of Dowes) but im my opinion hes a good player but we could use the quata spot better with a impact prop, full back or a centre IMO.

good quote but ratchford isnt in the same class as cooke...in my opinion obviuosly!

As posted before, if he did come back I wouldn't attend anything FC related, including games, until he was gone. It wouldn't even be a hard decision.

I'm well aware of his contribution, but the things he did he was able to do because of the contributions of others. To say he 'nearly single-handedly' won us the cup and got us to a GF is just incorrect. He played an important part in what the team were doing, but he couldn't have, and indeed didn't, do it without the rest of them playing well.

each to there own im afraid....

I can't see why this rumour keeps cropping up. This one issue where your board and fans are as one (a few 'heretics' aside).

Also, Cooke gave an interview that was on a Rovers match day DVD recently. While unable to say anything specific about what happened for legal reasons, he did make a a couple of pointed comments about how Hull FC handled the situation. I don't expect you to any sympathy for his point of view, but it seemed pretty clear that he wasn't angling for a return.

You've got Long coming in next year to fill your creative vacuum too... it just doesn't make any sense.

[size=42Though of course, this season isn't over yet, we are, allegedly, skint, Cooke might take a wage cut for the security of a two or three year deal...[/size

i do agree with your comments but i look at the fact that since he left, whichever way right or wrong that he did, we havent been the same and the facts are there for us all to see......
we hardly score points anymore!!!!!!!!!!!!

Our forwards are outplayed on an almost weekly basis. Our attacking structure is virtually non-existent. We have no scrum half. All of these are just as important (if not more so) than the departure of Cooke. If you put him back into this Hull FC side for the next game, he'd be just as crap as he has for Rovers. He needs a dominant pack to be effective - like any playmaker, really.

Long, Horne and Cooke would form an excellent triangle IMO and would take a lot of pressure off Berrigan. Like him or hate him he would improve our team, he’s not my favourite person in the world but nobody can deny his talent.

Jamie Rooney has just signed for Barrow until the end of the season, anyone think we should have tried to sign him? Would of been a handy player for the rest of this season and no worse than what we already have

fair comment..

He's a disruptive influence. We don't want or need him. Long, Horne and Washbrook/Whiting will be just as effective.

same as thorman i beleive, not the way forward ijn my opinion!

we have washbrook who is an out and out loose forward and needs playing there.

we don't need cooke as a triangle of long, horne and washbrook would work very well. don't think cooke is any better than washbrook infact before injury i would have said washbrook was the better player

And arguably less likely to t[iw[/iat some bint in a nightclub.

on form cooke gets the nod for me.....saying that tho i do like washbrook..

Yay, it's the daily Cooke thread.

What's that got to do with paul cooke????

No, no. It's a 'new' rumour. Apparently.