heard hes signing this week.part of a big announcement tomorrow perhaps ?

Not great news IMHO, get some blood and thunder yard making forwards.

IDIOTS!!! (if true) can we never take our medicine...
The worst part is for a couple of months this will come off....
Do these people know how to develop and build a side, buying part time has beens is a backward step long term, although I will now be shot down in peices because we have made 2 grand finals..
Matt wants to play Rugby a certain way, regardless of what Steele and him think of it, the folks of Halifax have just about had enough of it.. Just who exactly would this be a shot in the arm for, this isn't building a side, coaching or development, its wasting time and money..... ARGHHHHHH GRRRRR...
Lowest crowds for years coming at the Shay soon. Prats!

A fit and enthusiastic Paul Cooke should be too good for this league. A p!55ed up half baked Paul Cooke could be a disaster..

Hope we get him in the first instance!!

After seeing him on Boots n All a few weeks back he looked anything but fit.

He also said he has no passion whatsoever for playing the game..... Just what we need someone else who doesnt play with passion....

Yep i saw that too, He was being interviewed outside his house and said he didn't have the love for the game at all anymore.

Great, sign a player that declares on t.v that he doesn't have love for the game. Their really must be a shortage of signings about. why bother if this is the case, we already have a team that doesn't show heart.

Please do not let this rumour be true! I am really lost for words he is precisely the type of player who apart from odd pieces of brillance on the field can only be viewed as a very negative move. Find it hard to understand how the club can seriously view this possible acquisition as a good step in rebuilding the club.

I just find this whole thing incredible, we are struggling like crazy, so the solution is that we are potentially bringing in a bad apple to help us move on... its just a load of old...

get in some young and talented squad players from SL, we must be able to attract some....

Agreed! Depends on which Cooke turns up if its true. On his day he is a quality player but its all about attitude and consistency.

bloody hell, give the lad a chance if the rumour is to be true

Its not about giving him chance really is it, if he comes and does well then great, the fact is we should be looking for young talent we can retain, nurture and train to defend who have things to prove, Not just another player at or near then end of their career looking to put some coffers in the pension fund.

The only exception to the rule of getting older is PNG man Makali Aizue who will still be going forward at 50.

Smith, Holroyd, Frank to name just 3 that are past it now i am affraid.