I see deluded Wigan fans are trying to re-writing history again.

You would have thought it is bad enough that they have named their fan club after an Iron Age tribe governed from Yorkshire (although it is nice that they are accepting the proper way of things).

Shaun Edwards was just a dirty version of Kevin Sinfield today - a good profesional at flat track bully domestic level but only looked ok as an international. Schofield was more of a Sam Tomkins in possessing that individual brilliance that made the Aussies take note.

As for 'fat Gary', he may be a complete tool these days but I'd rather go for a few ales with the likes of him and Lee Crooks than boring old panface and Shaun Edwards who both sold their souls to the darkside





Garry Schofield is the epitomy of what RL stands for - getting tanked up, criticising the game's administration and star players at every opportunity, and standing up for how great he was in the good old days of yore

Schofield for me too. What's been said about Edwards has already been said. Schofield would have shined in any team, Edwards didn't.

come on a big city like leeds doesn't have more fans than a small town like wigan?

next you will be telling me wigan are the most famous rugby league club in the world and this board will be removed by a mass protest!

i am not say all but i am sure many of them still have a sour taste of wigans success and its well known people favour the underdog so maybe their opinions are tainted just as much as leeds and wigans fans opinion? evidence to show the sour feelings are still alive and kicking to this day is the constant reminder that wigan was the only full time team back then even if it is not true.

You appear to have misread my post completely.
It wasn't simply about the number of votes. It was about the number of substantial comments to back up those votes. The most reliable arguments we can trust on here are those of non Leeds/Wigan fans who have posted the reasons why they have voted overwhelmingly for Schofield. (I admit to my bias...It's a shame Wigan fans can't own up to theirs)

Well said AP

no i can own up to my bias on situations on like this, only thing i am not biased on is the england team. but the fact is one was a benji marshal of their time and the other is cooper cronk both great players but one is flashier than the other but it would be hard to argue marshall is better than cronk just like this. people are actually trying to say edwards was a poor player on this thread and its just laughable.

garry schofield is what is wrong with rugby league in this country bitter and never see the bigger picture.

I for one am not arguing that Edwards was a bad player. I think he was one of the best in the domestic game. Schofield however was exceptional in any competition. End of.

The argument is not about attitude, it's about playing ability. Had the poll said 'who came out better and who came out bitter' I and any other sane person would favour Edwards. Having said that to characterise Schofield so definitively as 'what is wrong with rugby league' is in itself to miss 'the bigger picture'

i was replying to an early post with out qouting sorry, anything postive happens in the game and he turns it into negativity thats what i was trying to say.

ability and who is the better player is totally different, tim smith for example has all the ability but paul deacon was a better player. schofield was flashier than edwards no doubt about it could step anybody but edwards made wigan tick and made them very successful. same roles benji and cronk for their teams.

this topic will keep going round in circles as its only peoples opinions and no way for anyway to prove it so i will agree to disagree.

In the dinner i went to with him he kept on saying that his philosophy was 'dont worry about them let them worry about you'! It was something his dad told him when he was 8.

Thats how you could sum the two of them up, Oppositions would be worried about facing Schoey and try and devise plans to stop him. Edwards not so much.

Dont get me wrong I am not saying Edwards was a bad player far from it, if he was Wigan would have replaced just because they could back then.

Had Edwards spent 10 years at Leeds and Schoey 10years at Wigan, Schoey would be probably be known as the greatest player ever. Thats how much winning stuff inflates your ability in the eyes of others. Edwards would be another RL player capped by his country.

quality