That's absolutely crazy logic to apply to a team sport. You could go through lots of team sports and find plenty of examples that would illustrate just how ridiculous it is to use medals won as a yardstick for how good a certain player is/was.

Edwards by an absolute street.

He played for a Wigan side in 1983 that was by no means great. Williams, Ramsdale, stephenson, Julliffe, Gill, Foy, Fairhurst, Shaw,Kiss,Case,Dunn, Wane, Pendlebury. Yet with a 17 year old shaun edwards at full back they got to the 1984 Challenge cup final.

Schofield joined a great Hull side with Kemble, Leului, Sterling, Steve evans, fred ah kuoi, Lee Crooks, Steve Norton, John Muggleton.

Schofield was ok but not in Edwards class as either a player or a leader. Plus Schofield could only pass right to left. V Poor for a stand off.

I see scoffer as a bit of a legend tbh, like Hanley, Gregory, Offiah, Lydon.
Mebbe that's the thing with Edwards, over shadowed by other team members.
A Wigin fan is always gonna hold some affinity for a home team player, but from the outside looking in, as good as he was Edwards didn't grab you like the other stars of the game did back in the day.
As a fan of neither Leeds or Wigin, Scoffer sits right up there, with Edwards not far behind, but definitely behind.

I think you are being a little harsh here. We last won the World Cup in 1972 and have had 9 competitions since. We last won an Ashes series in 1970(I saw the 3 games living here in Sydney) and have lost all 13 since. Hardly a relevant guide to assess a player's ability is it?

Not read the whole thread as 21 pages and this may have been said already, But Schofield was a more talented all round player without doubt imo. Not to say edwards wasn't, he was fantastic but Schoey was a once in a generation type. Edwards was by far the more professional of the two. Would have been interesting to see how Schoey would have gone in that Wigan team had he taken Lindsays money and gone when the offer was there in the early 90s.

Exactly...ian kirke and Ryan Bailey have bucket loads of medals too, doesn't make them better props than say, james graham who has 1 GF win and Adrian Morley who has zero in SL.

Biggest load of rubbish so far, I can accept they were close and people may rate one higher than the other but seriously man that’s just total club bias on show - makes you and some other Wigan fans look really foolish.

Ask any Australians and the answer wouldn't even be close, Schofield by a huge distance. The only advantage Edwards had was better team mates. Both had a spell at Balmain (as did Hanley & Currier). Ask a Balmain fan to to rank those in order and I can guarantee who will be bottom (and for the blinkered Pie fans Currier would be a comfortable 3rd).

I've watched the Schofield doc and there is a 10 minute bit about how Lindsay came in for him in 90/91.leeds had just pushed Wigan down to a title decider though and despite being offered 4 times what he earned at Leeds he felt Leeds were building something under David Ward and he wanted to stick around to be part of it for his hometown team.

Not long after though Ward was ousted for Laughton.Schoey hated Laughton with a passion and holds nothing back on that fact.he says Laughton never said a word to him in his time there.i would wager not moving to Wigan when he had the chance is his biggest regret, although he never actually said it.

Edwards internationally was a disappointment. One half decent series vs NZ in 1989 and one half decent performance versus Australia in the 2nd Test in 1992 and that’s it.

If it’s about who was the most talented and better player, it’s Schofield by a distance. If it’s who was more dedicated and professional, Edwards.

People get lost in the current perception of him (Schoey), but on his day there has been very few better.