Thought Cooke showed some real quality in his early career, when he and Horne formed an exciting pairing.

Can't help but feel that the off the pitch stuff has ruined what could have been a fantastic career.

Sorry mate but Graham is class

Paul sykes
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john Wilkin

Graham gives you 80 minutes hard running in every week and never drops his standard doing it. A class player if only for sheer effort he gives.

Paul Cooke by far the most over-rated man during my 8 years doing CherryandWhite.

lol your insane, hes in the top 3 forwards in the league.

over rated

Feka , Leon Price in big games, Wilkin, Mcquire, Crabtree, Gleeson , sykes .

no wonder England are so sh it

sinfield--notice when tries scored against leeds he is the one that misses/takes wrong man or gets there too late---not every try but quite alot

Cooke & Sinfield, agreed. Mentions for Kevin Brown & Paul Wellens.

Oh, and Mathers, of course...

Ade Gardner?

I think the lads been very luckY to have played outside two of the best to of played in super League which have made him look alot better than he is

Danny McGuire - Can this guy actually do anything apart from run quick?
Thomas Bosc - Good kicking game, awful at everything else.
Chris Bridge - Nothing more than average, too crap to play at Stand Off, and average enough to play at centre. Just shows the lack of depth in our game in the backs if this guy is first choice centre for England. Shenton & Bridge against Inglis & Folau... are you joking?
Michael Shenton - Big, fast and nothing short of average. Poor man's Keith Senior.

I quite like Chris Bridge think he has developed into a good player recently and has been unlucky with injuries.

Richie Mathers is not overrated because nobody rates him.

Agree with sinfield. Not sure about shenton though. Good player.

Greg Eastwood, Richie Myler, Paul Wellens, Matt Orford.

Cooke is a wasted talent, one of the best long passers around in his Hull days.

Kevin Sinfield.

Good kicker though.

When he used to play against Saints for FC, he was always a real handful (around the 2005 time), but it doesn't seem like he's done anything since leaving.

Obviously when I hear players from my club mentioned in this light, I want to defend them, but I'll leave them to one side as I'm bound to be a little bias.

From a neutral point of view though, whenever I've seen Bridge (last season mainly) play centre he's looked really classy. He seems to be able to get on the outside of his man very well and has a good step back if needed. He's got the skills and seems robust in the tackle.