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| anybody read it yet?
is it worth getting?
does it change anyone's opinions of him regarding that decision?
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| Yup, did mine.
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73780_1428422013.png [b:3feh2af0]THE HARD TIMES ONLY MAKE THE GOOD ONES BETTER[/b:3feh2af0]
[b:3feh2af0]TO ACCOMPLISH GREAT THINGS, WE MUST NOT ONLY ACT, BUT ALSO DREAM; NOT ONLY PLAN, BUT ALSO BELIEVE[/b:3feh2af0]
[b:3feh2af0]WE DID IT GRANDAD!![/b:3feh2af0]
[b:3feh2af0]MAKE US DREAM[/b:3feh2af0]:d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_73780.png |
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| Not read it yet, but from the snippets in the paper it sounds like the board at the time were pi** poor. Ewan Dowes tweeted and asked if he wrote in the book where Hull got their 06 grand final suits from. Asda was the answer!!! The stuff flying around on twitter from Hull fans to Cooke himself seems to be all sorry's and "we understand why you left"
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| Asda sounds about right for penny pinching kath
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| Great read and yes i can fully understand why he left.Gives some great insight into former coaches and players well worth the money
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| Half way through it.
I don't know if the serialisations published have covered the reasons for his leaving but basically he didn't sign his contract because he was waiting on an assurance from the Club that would apply to the RFL for his testimonial. The letter he requested never came and therefore he didn't sign the contract; this was the root cause of the resentment between him and the Club. The testimonial couldn't be written into the contract because then it would be liable for income tax and Cooke and his father (who acted as his agent) were adamant on requiring this 'letter of comfort' I think they called it.
It is interesting what he says about John Kear. Kearney, when he left, wrote an appraisal of the Club and that was pretty damning on the state of the club and player development. According to Cooke, Kearney said that players were pretty much left to get on with it and that he and Horney needed specialist coaching to develop their game which they just didn't receive.
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53004_1285857299.jpg [i:1o1tqr9v]The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist.[/i:1o1tqr9v]
[b:1o1tqr9v]“When it comes to dreams, one may falter, but the only way to fail is to abandon them".[/b:1o1tqr9v]:d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_53004.jpg |
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| Coming to a Charity Shop bargain bin very soon!
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| Don't think the fans would have been so annoyed if he had left at the end of the season,and then we had our local championship team owner rubbing our noses in it.But with what's happened at the weekend there is a god after all.
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33934.gif BLACK AND WHITES
East is East,West is West,
and never the twain shall meet.
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| No matter what, that try at Cardiff will always be in my memory. Personally I can`t see the point of carrying on a grudge.
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| Great player who loved his own hype,i'll always remember the try that Danny Houghton stopped at Wembley.Two great players but Danny has got the respect of all his fellow players hence the man of steel.Cookey could have had so much more but he wasted his career.
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73680_1515668157.jpg [size=85:3idnpzvq]Cup Winners: 1914, 1982, 2005, 2016, 2017.
Cup Runners-Up: 1908, 1909, 1910, 1922, 1923, 1959, 1960, 1980, 1983, 1985, 2008, 2013.
League Champions: 1920, 1921, 1936, 1956, 1958, 1983.
League Runners-Up: 1957, 1982, 1984, 2006.[/size:3idnpzvq]:d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_73680.jpg |
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| Didn't we pretty much know this anyway (re. his departure from FC)? The relationship between Cooke & the Club collapsed due to issues with the testimonial, and Cooke thought having not signed his contract that he could walk away, and he did.
I don't begrudge his reasons for leaving, he'd lost trust in his employers and felt he was being/had been screwed over regarding a testimonial. I'd also feel a bit mift I think.
But, it's the manner in which he left that hurt us fans; engineering his own move to our arch enemy, doing it mid-season, abruptly, leaving us up sh!1 creek without a playmaker and at the time our best player. The side was built around him, and we as fans & a club had stood by him through various misdemeanours and had invested an awful lot into him over the years.
I don't think Cooke thought about the fans at the time, which I can understand. His priority was to get out of the club, away from the management and not hang about in doing so. May be with hindsight he'd still have made the same decision to leave us, but have done it in a different way, who knows? I don't feel any bitterness towards him now, he's apologised to the fans and I've accepted it.
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| Quote: DGM "Didn't we pretty much know this anyway (re. his departure from FC)? The relationship between Cooke & the Club collapsed due to issues with the testimonial, and Cooke thought having not signed his contract that he could walk away, and he did.
I don't begrudge his reasons for leaving, he'd lost trust in his employers and felt he was being/had been screwed over regarding a testimonial. I'd also feel a bit mift I think.
But, it's the manner in which he left that hurt us fans; engineering his own move to our arch enemy, doing it mid-season, abruptly, leaving us up sh!1 creek without a playmaker and at the time our best player. The side was built around him, and we as fans & a club had stood by him through various misdemeanours and had invested an awful lot into him over the years.
I don't think Cooke thought about the fans at the time, which I can understand. His priority was to get out of the club, away from the management and not hang about in doing so. May be with hindsight he'd still have made the same decision to leave us, but have done it in a different way, who knows? I don't feel any bitterness towards him now, he's apologised to the fans and I've accepted it.'"
Good reply,your probably right,onwards and upwards.
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| Not read the book but wasn't the issue around Paul King's testimonial also, I think it would have clashed with Cookies?
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| Quote: DGM "Didn't we pretty much know this anyway (re. his departure from FC)? The relationship between Cooke & the Club collapsed due to issues with the testimonial, and Cooke thought having not signed his contract that he could walk away, and he did.
I don't begrudge his reasons for leaving, he'd lost trust in his employers and felt he was being/had been screwed over regarding a testimonial. I'd also feel a bit mift I think.
But, it's the manner in which he left that hurt us fans; engineering his own move to our arch enemy, doing it mid-season, abruptly, leaving us up sh!1 creek without a playmaker and at the time our best player. The side was built around him, and we as fans & a club had stood by him through various misdemeanours and had invested an awful lot into him over the years.
I don't think Cooke thought about the fans at the time, which I can understand. His priority was to get out of the club, away from the management and not hang about in doing so. May be with hindsight he'd still have made the same decision to leave us, but have done it in a different way, who knows? I don't feel any bitterness towards him now, he's apologised to the fans and I've accepted it.'"
Pretty much sums up my entire thoughts. Always remember my rovers mate ringing me telling me was going round the crowd lording it up and shaking their hands
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eastul105 wrote lets be fair Mickey Paea is too good for us.: |
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| Quote: DGM "Didn't we pretty much know this anyway (re. his departure from FC)? The relationship between Cooke & the Club collapsed due to issues with the testimonial, and Cooke thought having not signed his contract that he could walk away, and he did.
I don't begrudge his reasons for leaving, he'd lost trust in his employers and felt he was being/had been screwed over regarding a testimonial. I'd also feel a bit mift I think.
But, it's the manner in which he left that hurt us fans; engineering his own move to our arch enemy, doing it mid-season, abruptly, leaving us up sh!1 creek without a playmaker and at the time our best player. The side was built around him, and we as fans & a club had stood by him through various misdemeanours and had invested an awful lot into him over the years.
I don't think Cooke thought about the fans at the time, which I can understand. His priority was to get out of the club, away from the management and not hang about in doing so. May be with hindsight he'd still have made the same decision to leave us, but have done it in a different way, who knows? I don't feel any bitterness towards him now, he's apologised to the fans and I've accepted it.'"
Have you seen the footage of him in Crown singing "Old Faithful,you'll never win at wembley"?
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