I love to come on here and read through the threads as there seems to be much more sense spoken than on most of the other boards. But the comment above about Gary Schofield being overrated completely bemuses me. You must not have seen this guy play the game. I am as anti Leeds as most Cas/Wakey/name your team fan but if Gary Schofield was one thing, It wasn't overrated. There is not a 6 in the world game that could lace his boots.

FWIW I predict you will finish 6/7/8th depending on injuries (like all of us). Good luck for the season and here is to a couple of cracking derby's.

You'd best not prove him wrong then. Unless you want him wobbling about your pitch starkers again.

To Be fair to C65, the quote he responds to states that Schoffield couldn't live with Topliss for agility and speed and I'm afraid to say that I think Schoffield was far faster than Topliss and at least as agile.

As a creative stand off Schoffield crowbarred open the Australian international teams defences to both score and create try's for himself and others so stating that he couldn't have unlocked the Sts defence in 1979 is far fetched.

Schoey v Toppo? Seen them both in the same Hull side, both magical players, my fondest memory of Topliss is his masterclass in the Elland Road replay of the CC Final v Widnes 1982. Both were greats, both had speed, although Schofield slowed down a lot during his mid twenties, both had vision and flair. Hard to choose a winner, really , but from what I saw of them both, for me as a true no6 Toppo just edges Schofield, who was also a brilliant centre. Like comparing Messi and Ronaldo, both brilliant, depends on your own perspective.

At the end of the day Avenger we all have our opinions and that's all they are. I would have been happy to have had both of them in my team but Toppo would have been at No6! I'll leave it at that!