He's an idiot that Millward, I mean, Not putting Leyth in top four. Unbelievable

I have to agree about the Schofield comment. Go back and look at the videos, against Australia and in Australia for Balmain especially.
You may not like him as a pundit but you can't question his playing ability. There are are few that compare to him since his retirement in the British game.

edited: just seen the "not a number 6 comment"........I don't agree with that bit.
Wally Lewis was pretty good at that time.

That's a pretty bold statement to make we had one at Wakey called Topliss not to mention a couple at Cas called Hardisty and Millward who'd give him a good run for his money.
You must have only watched him play at stand off then because Scofield was a far better centre only in my opinion of course.

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On the subject of Schoey, he predicts us 9th.Others on Radio Yorkshire had us 6th/7th/8th.

Yay! Hate it when Dimward predicts us to win stuff!

John Wells also predicting us to finish 12th - although his reasoning is:

"The recent departure of Anthony Tupou leaves a significant hole and I’m loathe to say it but a lot of their new players seem to have “arrived” at Wakefield rather than having been “recruited” by Wakefield"

Sometimes I wonder if any of them actually watch the games!

Well, just my opinion about Schofield and I stand by it. He was a great player yeah, but but he wasn't as creative a SO in the same league as (as another has mentioned) Hardisty or Topliss. He was an ace poacher and reader of the game but at Stand Off, he's by no means at the top of the pile.

Schofield has been very critical of Trinity in the past, but in his recent columns in League Express he has been considerably less so. The way he's talked about young Johnstone in particular has been very encouraging. As for his rating as a No 6, very good, but he'd a long way to go before he could rate along Topliss for speed and agilty.

I think until we put a few more consistemt seasons behind us with back to back top 8 finishes we will always get written off.

I do think it will be tight but think we'll finish 7th.

The injuries picked up by Salford and Widnes lack of depth at 6 and 7 for the start of the season could play into our hands provided we start well

To be fair to him Schoey watches lots of games , and that includes amateur.He gets a lot of stick , but he actually does care about the game. Also involves himself in lots of charity/ rugby league events.

It's OK we will just have to prove them wrong Phil Clarke has tipped us to finish bottom as well

Don't you just love the experts forecast which are invariably wrong. I know if by some miracle one of them got a prediction right they would sing from the rooftops but this has surely got to be the biggest motivational tool Chris Chester has.
We have performed well in the pre season trials and recruited very well and have some of the best young talent in the British game so if that doesn't count for anything what does

If i had £1 for every time a pundit has predicited us to finish bottom of SL and been wrong, I'd be a rich man.

Although this is perhaps the bizzarest year for them to predict it.