Think that is part of the problem with Cooke in that he has become to predictable with his long cut out pass which we heavily relied on (or yeaman did)

To summarise my top 5 as stands in my head at the minute til i can be convinced otherwise:
1. Swain
2. J Smith
3. Cooke
4. McMenemy
5. R Horne

I'd go along with that , Great attacking runs and bone crunching tackles . Just ashame we didnt see it for longer

Swain
J Smith
Barnett Snr
Kearney
Cooke

Jason Smith. I've watched Hull since '89 and I've never seen another player come close to some of the stuff he did in a Hull shirt!

the main reason i went for smith is that when i started watching FC the main man was knocker norton and smith is the nearest we have had to him

Swainy for me - Just for total commitment and consistency every game. A tackling machine!!

Followed by

Jason Smith ( Class act)
Ritchie Barnett ( the real one)
Kearney (1 season great impact)
Kingy (For his attempted big hits but undoubted black and white through and through)

Has to be Jason Smith. Swain was exceptional, but he didn't have the same class as Smith with ball in hand. Smith is the best player I've ever seen in a Hull shirt in 20-odd years of watching.

We've had some great back row forwards down the years, and Knocker was the best of his generation (Mick Crane came close on occasions). You're right, Jason Smith was the nearest we've had to Knocker - and a 'proper' loose forward. Smith, Maher and Grimaldi were the best back three we've had in years. However my player of the noughties is Richard Swain, for all the reasons previously mentioned.

The players I would have paid a fortune to watch in B&W over the past decade are.

Jason Smith... the nearest we have come to Knocker in a generation.
Richard Swain... simple the best player I have seen in B&W since the glory days of the 80s
Stephen Kearney... Fantastic signing and unapreciated by alot of fans. The work he did both on and off the field for the club was immense.
English lads. Horne, Prescott, Cooke.

Over all when you think of the dross we had in the 90s it has generally been a great decade of progress with some fantastic players on display. Even though the last two years have been awful (Wembley aside) to think of where we were on Jan 1st 2000 to what we have to look forward to next season is amazing really.

If J.Smith had been fully fit, i would agree but it would be intersting to see the % of games he missed for us. For sheer excitment I would say R.Barnett Snr, the greatest centre in SL history I would argue. Without Kearney though I don't think we would have won the cup so for just that one season, it's him for me.

richard swain deffo, although jason smith, comes pretty close

For me Jason Smith, total class, one of the best players in SL era, all around game was fantasic, superb for Hull in the first two years, got moved about positions and suffered with injuries after that.

After him Richard Swain, Steve Prescott, Richie Barnett and Paul Cooke.