Sorry, my Auntie's next door neighbour's brother-in-law's wife's husband's sister's grandmother went to Australia and met him in a pub. He held a door open for her, he was about 6 at the time, it was Christmas 1989. She thanked him for holding the door.

He started laughing and said 'you talk funny'.

'I'm from Warrington in England' she said

'Do they all sound like you there? I'd like to go there one day.' Replied Cooper.

So there you have it it's been nailed on for years.

And I've seen him in Stockton heath buying a house.

I saw him picking out a car at the Halliwell Jones dealership. He's signing on Boxing Day.

This NRL e is starting to do my head in, people are using this as a stick to beat him with, over something 'allegedly' said.

Well, do you really think any NRL team is going to want to sign him if he skulks around, not playing very well for the 4 years of his contract? get real.

he's not Neil Young stalling his contract out with Geffen Records (or Prince, if you want a more contemporary metaphor)

Seriously, he's a kid, who's got a lot of expectation on him, coming into a team that's struggling to find its direction in the halves, and at the moment is undermanned in the forwards and not playing very well. As Terry Newton(i think) said in his book, as a hooker, you wonder, are the forwards not playing well because he's not laying the platform, or are the forwards not laying the platform for him to play well.

Also never understood this nonsense about Clark and the NRL. If he wants to test himself in the NRL then bloody good luck to him. As stated above he's not gonna spend his time here arrising about if he wants a move.....instead he's got to kiss the badge at every opportunity and keep spouting on about how playing for Warrington was his ambition in life all along? If he had already signed an NRL contract (like Burgess) and was ambling about with his hands down his shorts then by all means have a pop...as it is, leave him be as he will come good and we're in for a treat when he does.

Clarke is a very good player. He's suffering from a lack of go forward at the moment. Hill is your only good forward currently, so all teams need to do is put three or four in on him to slow down the play the ball. Clark needs momentum to work properly at the moment as he's not developed the other aspects of his game as much as the world's leading hookers. Has he been doing any kicking at Wire?

Not much kicking saddened perhaps something he's working on, seems to be finding his feet just at the moment, I sense we are slowly trying to vary/add more to his game but it takes time he'll be fine.

is this honeymoon period still over?

Can you spell, agenda?

only if you can spell ridiculous and embarrassment.

It is over and they both stepped up tonight.
Well done fellas.
More of the same please.

Clark should be easy to coach

TS:: Hey Mr Clark, you remember that time you played for Tigers?

DC: Yes boss

TS: Well, can you play like that again?

DC: Sure, do you want me to start at Headingley of Friday?

TS: If you would that would be good.

DC: Done.

i think tonight we got a glimpse of what clark will bring.... he is electric around the ruck and didnt get MOS for nothing..... players need time to bed into the team... and the team needs time to understand the strengths of new players.

he will come good... its only a matter of time before we are holding him in high regard.

to quote someone from somewhere......form is temporary, class is permanent.

It's true that Clark has not been at his best at Wire, but is it all down to him ? I am not so sure. He thrives when we get a quick ptb and / or disruption around the ptb. He also does well when there are dummy runners around the ptb causing confusion and that split second hesitation that gives him the space to make a break. Tonight I would argue that Leeds were half a yard too slow for most of the match. That created space for both Clark and other Wire players to exploit the gaps.

No, form is temporary, class is where you come from. Daz Clark forever Cas.


Well played tonight great game and a well deserved win.

You sir, have the rugby knowledge of a small, yet to be discovered, beetle that spends its days feeding on the rotting fallen vegetation in the amazon rainforest.

As you say the honeymoon period is over, and how do they come out of it?

Probably our best two players tonight.

Is there a yawn (bored by the relentless rubbish of another poster) round yellow face thing I can put on the end of this post? No can't find it.

It seams you can't get banned for being an , or being full of .

harsh on the small, yet to be discovered beetle.

Clarke showed you lot if you have pack who goes forward he wins games and that's what happens after your usual good start I was already for you caving in as normal but fair play your pack kept going and just watched Clarke carved Leeds up..Sims played very well bullied peacock again and the so called Aussie superstar who is average in the NRL was made look average tonight well done.

Sorry beetle. It was not a fair comparison and look forward to your opinion on our rugby game.

Whatever you have to offer it will be q welcome break from some of the rubbish. that gets posted on here.

for the record.... im not the beetle here... despite what some might think.

We need to back up this fantastic result with 2 nice wins against Widnes and FC, play like we did tonight and we can destroy most teams, and you never know where that could take us! A nice little trip to London and a return to Manchester

A nice thought but steady now steady.

I wonder what Ken Kelly and the nodding dogs in the Walton arms or wherever it was thought of that?
Likewise where's tiz lad telling us how Clark doesn't want to be here

He's not even mentioned last nights game, too busy chatting about how football is ripping off the fans.

So when Clark plays crap he gets abused by him, when he plays well he doesn't even mention it. Sounds about right for the guys mentality.

Spot on WO.
This year the opposition knows what to expect from Clark, so he's a marked man and actually I don't think there have been too many occassions where he's had the space to do what he does best.
His defence has been good but he's just not been much of an attacking threat - or at least not at the level we all hoped for / expected.
Strangely our pack has not been so dominant so I do think that has got a lot to do with it.

Pleased for the guy and hope he can kick on from here.


Sims - he played well tonight and if the opposition target him it leaves it open for Hill to make more yards on the next drive. Keep it up!

Clarke just needs quick PTB and an unset defence to run at and he will do the best. This was shown in his break against Leeds.