Cookie just can do things that other players in our division can't, or don't even see as a possibility. The long pass to Hodson this week, the delicate grubber to set up a first half try are just two examples.

Also, it may or may not be down to him, but Fawcett has come on leaps and bounds this year for me

Just doing the MoM vote...can someone post the team so I can confirm I have it right

Butterfield
Colton
Cowling
Waterman
Hodson
Cooke
Fawcett
Castle
Kesik
O'Loughlin
Spurr
Lawton
Edwards

Emmitt
Powley
Spiers
Welsh

not entirely sure which way round Spurr and Lawton were on teamsheet but they were both second row

Cheers, thats what I had...just in a slightly different order!

I would think that playing with better quality players must rub off on other players - I know Steve Menzies has been inspirational with the younger lads at Perpignan for example - even Trent Robinson is in awe of the guy not only with his skill and experience but his incredible appetite for the game at his age

what's the expression ?

' form is temporary but class is permanent '

To watch cookie during the game. Urging .prompting.advising.praising.even consoling.let alone the individual pieces of brilliance.from the man.is a lesson to other players and worth the entrance fed alone.~ lets have more of it.

I meant fee ! Predictive is yank

Did you see the rollocking he gave someone when he almost played the ball to no-one after the turn over!

Had a good chat with a Dons leading light a few weeks ago about Paul Cooke. He has settled in really well, his attitude his first class and they are really buzzing about what he brings to the club and especially his efforts in bringing about a more professional attitude and responsibilty to the lads who have not played at his level. It does appear the the blokes influence is paying off.

Cookes vision is excellent. He seems to pick out players to pass to that others don't consider as being as part of the play.

And another thing about Sunday.
We lost the ball on about 4 or 5 occasions just taking it in on basic drives.
Now I know there is a lot of ball targeting nowadays, but I thought that was slack.
Apart from that and a tendency to want to fight and get banned, everything, apart from the defence issue, was just great.

Waterman was swinging punches. Did he get put on report?

It all went slightly pear-shaped discipline-wise but I suspect there was some needle in the tackle. I think the Waterman incident may have been as a consequence of his ragging one of the Ornits with a throw

. I seem to recall we got the penalty when Waterman had been throwing punches anyway, so it must have been as retaliation. I didn't see the ref signal on-report, but it was at the other end of the ground from me so....

As regards the ref, he should have yellow-carded players earlier to defuse the situation before it got out of hand. That
was the way I saw it.

I didn't see him signal that anyone was on report

He didn't.

As for the 'drops'.

A lot of the tackles from my point of view were aimed high, whether this was a deliberate ploy, or not, I don't know.

I'll help you out...it was

They came out in the second half to rattle us and it worked, up to a point, things got niggly and some rose to it. They shouldn't have done, but thats easier said than done, i was only watching and not on the recieving end

You got my tweet on the matter then?

Couldn't have put it better myself!

Waterman was throwing punches because a certain Mr crook. Was trying to remove one of his eyes without any form of anesthetic whilst in the tackle.alledgedly. Causing much disgruntlement to Mr Waterman

I could tell something Paul Crook had done had rattled the lads, but didn't realise that it was that.

The same allegation was made about Rochdale when Oldham beat them. They tried the rough house stuff. We don't need that garbage anymore we have too much talent IMO.

We've got talent, then the 'enforcers' so to speak. Our players won't resort to that though.

I said it in a very early post on this thread before the game that they would try the physical stuff. They did exactly the same last week and they also did it in previous seasons.When the game is slipping from their grasp they resort to the cheap stuff.Pathetic.

I normally dont mind Hornets but im getting to dislike them with the recent tactics theyve shown.

I know everyone has been jumping on the left side defence but Hornets targeted that in the second half and they also had extra men down that side a couple of times.When we got to grips with them after that mad 9 minutes we were ok. The big test is a week on Sunday at Worky and I cant wait!!!

sadly i wont make worky game as the wife says i got to go to corfu for a week but my lad will keep me up to date with the scores,