...back at Rovers...
Apparently Wakefield have agreed to release Cockayne for an offer believed to be in the region of £30k. and his return will be announced once his terms with Rovers have been agreed and signed.

Great bit of buisness.

Not!!

Can't say I'm impressed

Willie Mason next, please.

At least at £30k we can't be accused of being vultures, taking advantage of Wakefield's predicament.

I wouldn't say anyone is. They can't afford to operate and are over paying their players,they need to get those ones off their books asap and prepare for the championship.

Not sure why you're signing him but he seems to have kept his head down & stayed out of trouble at Wakey, hopefully he's turned a corner in his life. Will certainly add enthusiasm to your squad. Not that you don't already have that btw.

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Waste of 30k in my opinion ok he is east stand favourite but they would cheer Hitler if he was playing in red and white. Charlie no better than what we have how he got in England squad is anyone guess

Backward step. Would have preferred to give Wakey a larger amount for Kirmond or Amor.

Can't see the point of this at all.

And his hair is now an utter bumbaclot.

We can not pay money for a player we are going bust you ask hull fans they keep telling us we are doomed

Perhaps we're selling somebody else? With the development of Salter and Brown, we do seem reasonably well stocked for backs. You can never have too much depth, of course, but there are more obvious priorities. Easier to judge, when we see the whole picture, I guess.

The strange thing for me is that he'd have been a better signing for nearly everybody else, but we were the only ones in for him. His England squad call-up - obviously it was a bit of a PR stunt, to show that McNamara looks beyond the usual suspects (though his form was good at the time, no doubt), but that in itself shows that it was felt that in the wider RL world that his past could now be left in the past. Another club might think 'he's had problems elsewhere, but new leaf, clean sheet etc, he's worth a go'. For us the problems were 'here'. Do we give him a clean sheet, or is it one slip and he's gone? Any embarrassments will be magnified at Rovers, but binning him off quickly after paying £30k would not be a good look either.

It doesn't even make much sense as a 'board buy' - if we wanted a versatile keepsake of 2006/7, why let Murrell go?

Has CS asked for him to come back or is this an NH signing. If so, he doesn't seem to have paid much attention to the negative feedback coming from many of your fans.