cooke was a good player at Hull, certainly above average, however he wasn't "exceptional" as you previously stated and you also discount the fact that he had great quality around him making the job easier.

kear built his whole game plan around hitting the left side so it's hardly surprising cooke was involved in a high % of tries in some shape or form. Doesn't mean it was all about cooke. Yeaman and Raynor were GB centre and winger at the time.

Spot on. Some people look back with rose tinted glasses sometimes IMO. We had actually become too reliant on our left hand side attack and had been sussed by the opposition on this. I remember McNamara saying thesame after they had beaten us at the KC in 2007.

Not since Jason Smith have we asked questions in attack all across the park, we built our success on the back of a great team ethic and workmanlike pack which had under rated skillful players in the likes of Mcmenemy.

Still interested in the definition of it, as it's clearly miles away from tries + assists. If it's touching the ball in a scoring set, then Richard Swain's and for that matter Richard Horne's stats would be interesting. 73% implies that everyone else only contributed 27% collectively. If Richard Swain touched the ball in 73% of scoring sets also, then it puts the stat into context. Not disputing Cooke's importance, but the stat of 73% (or 83%) attributable to him just seems high when he had assists+tries of 21% (or 19%).

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