clicked on 'view new posts' and replied to this thread not realising it was the pie thread [thought it was the VT.

so i don't expect anything other than the usual Partisan response, i'll be on my way sorry to trouble you guys and girls.

You know it might be the several Vodka & Dr Peppers I've had tonight, but I'm finding this thread increasingly hilarious. Couldn't agree more WK, the foresight and ambition we showed in the late eighties and nineties catapulted Rugby League into the modern era and although we've been a shadow of that former self in recent years we're still the No. 1 CLUB in the world. Respected and renowned as a result of that same foresight, ambition and success. Argue all you want about the salary cap, unfair, wages, transfer fees etc etc etc, the trophies are in the cabinet. All the record books tell us is the trophies we won.

I thank you.















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Would he like to be working in Rugby League? - Schofield explains why he's never had a coaching job.





But, he has had a coaching job., and he did a really bad job of it.

It's funny Schofield hasn't been given a job on b'n'a, he would compliment the we hate Wigan crowd on it perfectly

The man offers as much credibility to RL punditry as Gordon Brown has chance of winning the next election.

I call BS on his salary offer from Wigan claims. That was a time when we sold Ellery (and Kevin Iro) and we were actually trying to get wages down - when we signed Offiah shortly afterwards we had to call in pretty much every favour imaginable to raise the cash to buy him (including a big wedge from our sponsors). So at a time when we were strapped for cash (Whitbread stand in full cash draining mode) we supposedly offered Mr Schofield 100k per year? to join a dominant side that players were actually approaching us and wanting to join us (not having to chase anybody, including Offiah).



Remember we shortly afterwards lost Andy Goodway and Andy Gregory against Monie's wishes due to salary constraints, and had to back out of an agreement for Miles to play a 2nd year (again due to lack of money).



So we desperately wanted to sign Gary Schofield when we had Edwards + Gregory at 6&7 and Bell and Miles at centre, all at a time when finances were starting to look really tight???????? yeah right......

This. A thousand times this.



Garry, if you've the balls and you happen to read this (I'd bet my bottom dollar he posts on here under some pseudonym - after all, no-one listens to him otherwise), at least have the decency to admit you're talking crap.

The thing is he's been spouting twaddle for so long he probably believes it. The Golden-boot-that-never-was bit makes me smile the most particularly as he ends the paragraph with 'being crowned the world's best is the highest honour you can receive' to try and give the impression to people that he was the best player in the world which he wasn't. As a Wigan fan you never went to Leeds fearing what Garry Schofield was going to do, he pulled off a disappearing act in a far more convincing manner than Leon Pryce could ever manage. The whole thing just reminds me of those football players whose claim to fame is that they had trials for United.

My my, a lot of selective memory on display here. Just because he talks 100% bollox doesn't mean he wasn't a top class player in his day. I find it strange that a player's legacy is altered so much by his post playing activities and comments. Look at Mike Gregory as an example of the other side of the coin.

As an opportunist striker and support player, there were few better. And his efforts in that capacity were well rewarded with a panful of tries.



But he was never in the Golden Boot category, IMO. His limitations were finally exposed when he tried to move to stand-off. Didn't he play 6 against us at Wembley once, and get badly shown up?

So you missed the quote form Schofield about Leeds signing Hanley for £250,000? Do you think he went there to play for peanuts?



So although the sarcasm is misplaced you are in effect correct - Leeds were in the same boat as us in those years as far as money went. They flung cash at the team to try and compete like they were printing the stuff themselves.







As Leeds of that era show it takes more than money win trophies. The reason we won so much was because we were the most professional and well drilled outfit in the competition and we turned players like McGinty, Hall and Panapa into good players by employing better methods than just about every other team. We had plenty of home gown players as well such as Edwards, Clarke, Betts and many others.



By hey, if you want to show your ignorance of all that and if it makes you feel better to think we only won those trophies because we had more cash than anyone else you feel free.



I might respect your opinion if you simply acknowledged what went on back then was more than down to money instead of the simplistic nonsense that gets trotted out time and again.



Dave

IMO Gary Schofield is a compulsive liar and fantasist who can't stand to see the game & players develop and improve since his retirement because it will over shadow him and his era. A great ex-player ruined by his weird, odd, false and off the mark ramblings.