He was available and his inclusion was the least disruptive of the options open.

I reckon I'll take the opinion of a former Australian national team assistant coach then some p!ss artist who quickly got found out when he didn't have players around him to make him look good.

Everyone with half of brain cell knows you don't just play youngsters for the sake of it, we are coming up against some tough opposition so we don't need a team of youngsters to get through that.

Cookes just using his words to get some attention, how the mighty have fallen etc.

Don't disagree, but I don't see the need to dismiss his idea. It was an option.

This whole thread makes you wonder who actually is the bitter one.

So you would rather we went back to what we had for the last four years and move players all over the park to replace one positon?

Well when I asked him about it, he said why not shift the team about to fit them in. That's not Gentle's way to do things and playing Radders was a way to get round that.

Did [iI[/i say that's what [iI[/i would have done? How hard is it to read posts?

But not a good one - hence it being dismissed.


You're confusing bitterness with contempt.

And like I've said, it's what I would have done. But was it not an option to do what Cookie suggested? Like i've said, sometimes I wonder who the bitter ones are.

I don't think I am, especially from the OP.

pointless debate this really. PG was right. Radders got MOM,Turner got a hatrick from centre,and we won easy and played some good stuff which might not have been so with people out of positions and youngsters all over the park!

It does beg the question as to why these "facts" have not yet come out some 5 years down the line. And why some one in the broadcasting profession is so willing to use that as a get out clause for backing a guy who was rated by Andrew Johns as the most difficult player to play against in 2006 to someone who within 12 months had self crippled his career.

Yet another mystery is why RH, who back in April 2007 wew so willing to go with "a story, which at the moment they were not saying was true" yet some "facts" which are apparently would change people's opinion are kept safer than the official secrets act.

Personally I think some of rovers recruitment has done Hull FC a few favours over the last couple of years, judging by the performances of Hall, Hodgson and Wheeldon.

As for Cooke, I wonder is he still gets the unrine extracted each time he decides to pop into Crown

It was an option, but Gentle thought that using Radders was a better one. Turned out to be an option that worked.