Wakefield sign Paul Cooke after Hull KR give stand-off the cold shoulder

Bystaff and agencies 533PM GMT nineteen March 2010

On the move Paul Cooke has assimilated Wakfield WIldcats on a short-term stipulate Photo GETTY IMAGES

Wakefield eventually got their man on Friday when Paul Cooke, Hull KR"s out-of-favour stand-off, assimilated them on a short-term contract.

The twenty-eight year-old former Hull prime will go true in to the patrol for Sunday"s home diversion opposite Salford.

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Cooke was primarily approaching to move to the Wildcats on loan but instead sealed a understanding to the finish of the deteriorate after Rovers postulated him a release.

"It"s taken a satisfactory bit of removing over the finish line but Paul is right away strictly a Wakefield player until Nov 2010," Wildcats manager John Kear said.

The argumentative Cooke was underneath stipulate at Craven Park to the finish of the deteriorate but he was forsaken for a second time by Rovers manager Justin Morgan last month and faced the awaiting of being solidified out of the game.

"The preference came down to either to fool around rugby joining or not to fool around rugby league," Cooke said.

"I have been a rugby joining player given the age of eight and I wish to go on to do that."

Cooke was relieved to have eventually resolved his short-term destiny and insists he will be ready to proceed the subsequent theatre of his career immediately.

"I"ve outlayed all my hold up in Hull and still have most friends from both sides of the city," he said.

"Of march it"s a unhappy time at your convenience you leave anything on may be not the right conditions but it"s a big event to fool around for a bar I"ve had most a conflict with over the years.

"The last 3 weeks have been utterly eager for me and the people who are close to me since I turn utterly capricious when I"m not personification rugby league.

"It"s formidable to keep as fit as you can with not personification rugby and not removing the bumps and bruises but I"m utterly aerobically fit and physically fit."

Cooke dumbfounded the rugby joining universe with his cross-city move from Hull FC to Rovers in 2007 and was subsequently handed a four-month anathema after being found guilty of creation an bootleg approach.

He incited down a probability to stick on Wrexham-based Crusaders in the close deteriorate since he is penetrating to say close hit with his immature daughter, who lives in Hull, and right away has 6 months in the emporium window to consequence a new contract.

Kear has been a long-time suitor of the ball-handling talents of the former England international, but there is doubtful to be a reunion for Cooke with his old Hull half-back partner Danny Brough, who is staid to finish a move to Huddersfield early subsequent week.

It was Cooke who scored the all-important try with 3 mins to go and Brough landed the acclimatisation to assistance give Kear-coached Hull a 25-24 win over Leeds in the 2005 Challenge Cup last at the Millennium Stadium.

Although Brough is additionally thought to be longed for by Catalans Dragons, the Giants sojourn organisation favourites for his signature, with Wakefield set to embrace at slightest one player and presumably money in exchange.

Brough was declared in Kear"s 19-man patrol to one side Cooke, raising the slim probability of one last compare together.