Antony Mundine Mark II

is he still blind in one eye?

A teetotal non-smoking super fit athlete who does shed loads of charity work for disadvantaged schoolkids and campaigns against alcohol, gambling and drugs?

Yep. Did you run out of space or deliberately miss out 'disruptive'?

Paul Cooke to me always came across as a mood type player, if he was in the mood he would show off his full range of passing skills, if he wasn`t in the mood he would often just dissapear into the background and you would hardly notice him.

He`s obviously had issues in his personal life, a bit of a maverick type personality, a good player when on song that can control games with his passing and short kicking game but very inconsistent, a bit like Lee Briers before Tony Smith arrived.

never liked him as a player but agree with what has been said when he is in the mood can control the game but very inconsistent and i think not at the same standard as lee.

I was very disappointed, i watched Can't cooke, Won't cooke on BBC and it was just two dodgy chefs and some women who frankly i wouldn't smash

two topics in one, awesome

Mundine wasn't disruptive to a team. He never got into trouble off the field and his teammates loved him, so did David Waite who was his coach at the Dragons. The reason Mundine got a reputation as a controversial character was because he was outspoken to the media on a lot of issues:
- where most players leave contract negotiations to their agents, Mundine came up front to the media during the Super League war when he was asked about his future and said he was going where he got the best offer. Having said this, when the British media hinted English clubs were interested in him, he didn't try to use that to bid him up, he said Australia was the land of his people and nobody would drive him out of it
- he was super self confident in his own ability and when he didn't make the Aussie squad he told the media he was better than Daley/Fittler and insinuated racism. This did not endear him to the ARL or a lot of Aussie fans.
- when September 11 happened (he had already left league by this point) he made some comments about US bringing enemies on themselves through their foreign policy.
- he annoys a lot of Aussies today by saying he's Australias greatest ever athlete, ahead of Rod Laver and Don Bradman

Mundine got a lot of peoples backs up but it was people in the media and fans of opposing teams, the Dragons fans still hero worship him. Saying he was disruptive is like saying Roy Keane was disruptive at United.

And in fairness to Mundine, when he was playing RL he could back up his mouth. He put a lot of pressure on himself by saying he was better than Daley and Fittler but it wasn't a ludicrous claim.

he wasn't very good at putting contact lenses in though

that sums him up...should have stayed at fc, NOT just saying that as an fc fan, but the guy shat on his own doorstep and its back-fired BIG TIME

hopefully he made that comment before he got spanked by the winner of a reality boxing show competiton.

And I'm not sure of the timing of his comment that he was the best boxer in the world too, including Floyd Mayweather...!!

a decent living bloke put an absolute top nob end

Nathan Wood's brother.......

Never liked him, average player