www1.skysports.com/rugby-league/ ... l-and-back I know he's not the most popular chap around here but it might be worth a watch. He's a first class **** but I'll never forget that try in Cardiff.

www1.skysports.com/rugby-league/ ... l-and-back I know he's not the most popular chap around here but it might be worth a watch. He's a first class **** but I'll never forget that try in Cardiff.

agree totally, a day never to be forgotten

Absolutely,one of the great moments of being a supporter.

I'll get my tin hat ready, but .... what if the previous board/owners had screwed him over? All the lies that have come to light since the demise of the Etheringtons just makes me wonder whether he was as bad as we were all led to believe. Just a nagging doubt and I will gladly be corrected when the truth eventually emerges.

2013 i believe,will be interesting what does get said.

Interesting. He hadn't signed his contract because there was no reference to a guaranteed testimonial, which he says he was verbally promised. I have no doubts that he left for more money though. Just shows how slack the previous regime was.
He was actually very honest about his contribution to his fall from grace, and his problems with alcohol and depression.
Interesting that he said Peter Sharp was the best coach he'd ever had. Makes him leaving Hull when he did even dafter really.
Hope his charity efforts are successful, Dove House is a great cause.

spot on bigger daddy, think he realises he mucked up,good luck on the marathons great cause

jeez ur right.....I'll go and get a stella and my boxing gloves on.

Criminal I know.

Lets go for the sympathy vote and all's well.

I agree. There is still a lot if ill feeling towards him from FC fans but you have to respect him for this charity work. What he's doing isn't easy and it's for a great cause.

It's a source of regret that we'll never know what could have been had he stayed, for him or us. We were a pretty battle-hardened outfit at the end of 2007, come that extremely close play-off v Wigan, he could have made the difference. As it was he secured Rovers survival instead. Never liked him as a person, but undeniably a pivotal RL figure in the city. Good luck to him in his charity work.

I used to work with a relative of Cooke's and on a work's night out PC came along and told me exactly the same thing.

If he'd killed fewer brain cells over the years he might have realised that it wasn't in the club's gift to promise any such thing. They should never have promised it and he should have spotted the 'mistake' from the start.

That said he still took the club's coin so no excuse in my eyes.


Swain said much the same thing IIRC. We should probably have held onto Sharp for longer, despite his shortcomings when it came to signings. What we've learned since indicates that signings may have been something he had less control over than it appeared.

As for Cooke, I still have zero sympathy. He's been the architect of his own downfall and if even half of what I've been told about his private life is true he's (or at least was) a pretty despicable human being. Good luck to him if he's finally turned a corner but he has a lot of bad karma to make up for.