O/T Cooke and his book : Sun Jul 24, 2016 10:07 pm  

DESCRIPTION If you're from Hull you're either black and white or red and white. No ifs, no buts. Judas is the story of Paul Cooke, a gifted rugby league player who enjoyed glory at Hull FC on the west side of the city's rugby league divide - but caused outrage when he walked out of the club to join bitter rivals Hull Kingston Rovers. Magical on the pitch, Cooke was often in trouble off it. Growing up he loved Hull Kingston Rovers, but joined rivals Hull FC. His career flourished, but in 2007, Cooke walked out over a contract dispute. He made the switch to hated rivals Rovers; and became an instant target for abuse. His time in East Hull was dogged with more controversy, and while there were good times, he moved on to Wakefield before eventually turning his back on the game, to spend his time with his mother who had been diagnosed with cancer. After she sadly passed away, Cooke returned to rugby a changed man, to finish his playing career and embark on a new path in coaching. Brutally honest and self-critical, Cooke tells the painful truth in this book, alongside some glorious memories of sporting brilliance. It's the story of the player called 'Judas', Hull's most-hated rugby league son. will anyone be buying a copy of his book out on 3rd october https://www.waterstones.com/book/judas/ ... 1785312052

DESCRIPTION If you're from Hull you're either black and white or red and white. No ifs, no buts. Judas is the story of Paul Cooke, a gifted rugby league player who enjoyed glory at Hull FC on the west side of the city's rugby league divide - but caused outrage when he walked out of the club to join bitter rivals Hull Kingston Rovers. Magical on the pitch, Cooke was often in trouble off it. Growing up he loved Hull Kingston Rovers, but joined rivals Hull FC. His career flourished, but in 2007, Cooke walked out over a contract dispute. He made the switch to hated rivals Rovers; and became an instant target for abuse. His time in East Hull was dogged with more controversy, and while there were good times, he moved on to Wakefield before eventually turning his back on the game, to spend his time with his mother who had been diagnosed with cancer. After she sadly passed away, Cooke returned to rugby a changed man, to finish his playing career and embark on a new path in coaching. Brutally honest and self-critical, Cooke tells the painful truth in this book, alongside some glorious memories of sporting brilliance. It's the story of the player called 'Judas', Hull's most-hated rugby league son. will anyone be buying a copy of his book out on 3rd october https://www.waterstones.com/book/judas/ ... 1785312052

Re: O/T Cooke and his book : Sun Jul 24, 2016 10:10 pm  

no

Re: O/T Cooke and his book : Sun Jul 24, 2016 10:20 pm  

Yes.

John Kear's book gave an interesting insight on how Uncle Kath liked to run things. Will be interesting to read Mr Cooke's views.

Re: O/T Cooke and his book : Sun Jul 24, 2016 10:42 pm  

shauney wrote:

Yes.

John Kear's book gave an interesting insight on how Uncle Kath liked to run things. Will be interesting to read Mr Cooke's views.

was listening to cooke during salford v hull fc on friday night on hull fc live and he was saying he had to leave hull fc and if you want to know why get my book (well trying to plug it)

Re: O/T Cooke and his book : Sun Jul 24, 2016 10:46 pm  

yes, hopefully it will shed some more light on the events post 2006, when we looked as if we had the keys to the door of the big four building, but subsequently found they didn't fit

Re: O/T Cooke and his book : Mon Jul 25, 2016 5:15 am  

It'll be ironic if he does a signing session for it.

Re: O/T Cooke and his book : Mon Jul 25, 2016 6:44 am  

I'll be buying it, as he was with us for such an exciting period with the KC move, cup final win, sudden departure of Kear, Grand Final then near implosion that it's taken us years to recover from.

Re: O/T Cooke and his book : Mon Jul 25, 2016 7:15 am  

Bits of it will be quite interesting reading, but I certainly won't be buying a copy and lining the blokes pockets.

Re: O/T Cooke and his book : Mon Jul 25, 2016 7:21 am  

ComeOnYouUll wrote:

It'll be ironic if he does a signing session for it.

You have been waiting years to crack that one, but it was worth the wait

[Mild Rover]

Re: O/T Cooke and his book : Mon Jul 25, 2016 7:29 am  

Its interesting, from a marketing perspective, that it seems to be being sold as the story of a Hull FC player gone astray, with little focus on the potential Rovers audience. From the choice of title, picture, co-author and the blurb, it looks much more like one for you than for us.

Tbf, he spent the large majority of his career with Hull, and you are a bigger market, so it does make sense. On the other hand, I guess there's still a few black and whites who might be curious, but won't want to be lining his pockets, on principle - see above.

i dare say I'll pick up a copy and have flick through, all the same, but the eagerness of my anticipation has diminished over the years. From a selfish POV, it is 5 or 6 years late. While time can give better perspective, the Rovers-centric bits won't be as compelling as they might have been back then.