Colin Cooper
Colin Cooper
Colin Terence Cooperis an English former professional footballer. Cooper spent most of his playing career at Middlesbrough and Nottingham Forest. Prior to his appointment at Hartlepool, Cooper was part of the Middlesbrough coaching staff after leaving his role of assistant manager at Bradford City...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth8 March 1856
absolute bike falling hit last nobody tree worried
It's unbelievably freakish. It's an absolute tragedy. You're always worried about getting into a bike wreck, about getting hit by a car, but nobody would think about a tree falling on you. That's the last thing you would think of.
kid leave tough winning
It's tough on a kid to leave the Crusaders when he was part of them winning the title,
game kick played second special
It's only his second game at first five-eighth . . . so he's got a lot of promise. He played fullback for a while as you saw, and he can kick goals. He's a pretty special player.
boost confidence days early feet firmly good
The good thing was we had a win, which will boost the confidence of the players, and I thought it was a pretty good spectacle. It's early days and we can't take too much out of these games, so we've got our feet firmly on the ground.
issue players
It's disappointing. It was an issue between two players and it's not a big thing.
heard nice
It's not a nice thing. I heard he was pretty crook, I didn't actually see him but I heard he was pretty crook.
I think he is only going to get better and better.
good messages sent team teams
We sent a lot of good messages to the other teams that this team is going to be a threat.
best early grounded left looked ourselves pair pros rags school seems stuff
We had to be down early to get the best stuff for the pros we looked after and then get the rags that we were left ourselves for training. It seems very old school but it grounded me as a person and made me appreciate everything as a footballer, because all we got was a pair of boots.
game jimmy time trust
He had as much pre-season game time as Jimmy had and we have to trust our depth.
believe creates creating enthusiasm environment heading hopefully keeps players
I have to show the players we believe in our depth. It's about creating an environment that creates enthusiasm and hopefully keeps us heading in the right direction.
along self strengthen
He will strengthen our decision-making, along with the team's self belief.
against cats key runners smart strong watch week
The Cats are very strong in the lineout and you've got to watch the one-off runners who come through the middle. We've just got to play smart against them -- that's been our key this week -- to play smart.
both huge
It's a huge loss, both on and off the field.