Just remembered, I've still got that 'C is for Cookie' ringtone on my phone, should probably have deleted it by now I guess.

Damn...just reminded me I have that 'Where's your Cookie Gone' ringtone

Reporting for training in his black and white ISC gear very soon I've heard....







(joking!

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Don't wish him any harm personally, we all make mistakes afterall.

Agree with you on this one. Without him FC wouldn't have won the Challenge Cup and Rovers would not be in Super League, it's that simple. Massively pi$$ed off at the time, but just pity him now for his greed and waste of undoubted talent. A sad case.

That's really thought-provoking actually when you put it like that - he was with both clubs at the start their rise again, don't think his contributions should ever be forgotten, no matter how badly he's gone about things. And, for all the argueing, professional RL in Hull is surely in it's best shape for 25 years, and he's been a big part of the growth of both clubs.

Cooke's creativity was pivotal to FC's best period in a generation - in 2005 and 2006 he made 53 assists, excluding cup games. Easy to disregard in the turbulent (and in many's opinion unforgivable) way he left the club, but for all his off the pitch issues he was a big game player that delivered consistently at SL level, and his move to Rovers followed by his unceremonious dethronement in favour of Dobson did for him in the end.

Ultimately the right decision though - no way Cooke would have been in the SL Dream Team two years running IMO.

Nonsense. Hudgell's signing and Morgan never really wanted him. Used properly should have a been a much better combination that Dobson & I'Anson/Murrell.

What's with the new Av Roofs? MissNatalieLouise get to you?



Nah, it's actually pretty good apart from that bit in the top-left.

Was Cooke ever in the Dream Team during his best form for Hull

Be hillarious if his debut is against us in pre season

Yes, in 2005. Lost out to McGuire in 2006 but McGuire scored 21 tries himself that year.

Oh right, fair dues. Pretty clear though that there was only room for one - Dobson or Cooke - to be the creative engine of the Rovers team. Paul Cooke at his best does not come close to Dobson at his best IMO.

Paul Cooke was a pivotal player in winning the Challenge Cup (beating Bradford, Saints and Leeds to do so) and was an ever-present in a team that finished 2nd in SL and got to the Grand Final. Saying that at his best he "did not come close to Dobson" is silly. Morgan never wanted Cooke. A coach with more vision and less petulant self-interest could perhaps have worked these two players into a great partnership.

especially if he scores his usual try and inspires his new team to beat you as he usually does

Spot on Mrs.B

Still got the original saved.

GraftonRed came up with it (class act), thought it would be a nice change for a bit.



Hey not kissing booty but that's a decent one too, surprised they've not marketed that particular Airlie Bird design more tbf.

Makes you wonder why Morgan played him so many times in the survival season (and in huge games like Salford away) then?

Apart from the Murrell bit, obviously. International pivot and all that.

WTF is your beef with Murrell tonight?



Oh and well done on just getting the book thread locked Yorkie.

Jesus H Christ, Roofs. Cooke was signed for £100k+ a year and Dobson didn't even join Rovers until 2008. Cooke was a far more proven option at SL level than Murrell to partner Webster. The beginning of the end for Cooke's career was when Morgan stepped on Webster's face to get to Dobson.

Translated: Morgan made a coaching decision to replace Webster with Dobson (must say if I'd be in charge I'd have kept Webster as a fill-in stand-off, scrum-half or hooker - legend of a player). Dobson however is the best half-back Rovers have had in the last two decades, so ATEOTD Morgan, it cannot be denied, made the correct decision to push Dobson as the main man.

Dobson has undoubtedly been a success at Rovers, that is not the point at all. Cooke was a pivotal player in a top 2, CC-winning, GF side. Morgan chose not to optimise the contribution of Cooke because of his insistence on channelling everything through goldenbollox Dobson, thereby, in conjunction with Cooke's own issues, effectively ending Cooke's career. Morgan's failure to create a top partnership between a rising star and an experienced and creative top 2 HB should go down as a huge missed opportunity, surely?

No, theory and reality are two different things. In theory Cooke and Dobson was a dream pairing, but it didn't work in reality. In any case, Morgan cannot be blamed for Cooke's off-field problems, weight gain (alleged), been in Piper the night before a big away game, etc etc. Don't get me wrong I was a fan of Cooke at Rovers, and on paper he didn't get given enough chances under Morgan, but again, in reality there could have been so many factors that the majority of us will not know about.