I thought Cooke was being very economical with the truth.

There was no mention for example that Hull loaned him money to fund his court battles, and while I beleive Hetherington/Rule are just as guilty of peddling lies and spin, his comments such as 'it wasn't about Rovers, I just wanted to leave Hull' are stuff of complete fantasy...everyone knows he engineered a deal to Rovers, it wasn't like he had 5 SL clubs offers on the table and picked the best one, Rovers was his only offer because only Rovers knew he was 'available' to be signed.

his off the field mis-demenours were also brushed under the carpet, there was a lot lot more going on that just one court case for assault and one for drink driving.

Despite what he did, I still can't deny what a good player he was. I can only imagine where we had gone in 2007 if he had stayed and Swain and Domic haden't retired. The whole club went on a downward spiral after that narrow play-off defeat to Wigan.