You know you've f-kd up when Schoie can rip you to pieces.

Just read his column in this weeks League Express.

Ouch for Sky.

I say scrap the Margin Meter and no one outside of Mr Clarkes own little world understands it or knows how it works.......I say bring back TRY TRACK, or the dodgy thing where they colour the posts in when they're kicking at goal

Has Sky dropped the (IMV) interesting & relevant stats they used to show at half-time, i.e. tackles made, completion rates etc which to my mind are a far more useful indicator than the margin-meter?

Not a fan of the margin meter at all. Just a gimmick. On the schoey article re the huge amount of experts they now employ on game day. Is this a result of losing championship games?

Eddie Hemmings is a fan of the Margin Meter and so is the rest of the Sky team

its magical, nobody knows how it makes its predictions except the rugby gods

For all you heathens out there it was precisely explained on tonight's Boots 'N All.

Perfectly summed up by Hemmings when he asked Clarke 'how the fook did Leeds win Super League last season' ?

To which the answer was that they played better in the play-offs than they did during the regular rounds.

Clearly money well spent.

That made me chuckle Tvoc you can't be scientific fact!!

Try track was sometime interesting, sometimes awful. It could be interesting when someone had scored after several repeat sets, however, when there was a 100m try or the like, it was just a straight line. Also, it took no account of where the ball went, just the points at which the ball was played. Had it have been the former it'd have been better. I'd say have a range of these tools, and bring them out when relevant

Call me old fashioned but I can live without any of this gubbins. Show me the rugby, show me replays, give me articulate and interesting commentators and analysts and I'll be as happy as a pig in Wigan.

So Terry and Barry beind the sticks pointing at stuff after trys are scored doesn't do it for you?

but you sure as hell won't be watching Sky!

I think you malign John Wells & Brian Carney, even, heaven forbid, Phil Clarke on occasions.
FWIW I thought that some of his analysis on BnA last night was interesting.
On a similar tack, how on earth did the Giant's win the Superbowl when you look at thier stats.
Except of course that the NEP's defence was practically the worst in the NFL.
I like the use of stats but they are only an indication never the answer.

Does he not get bored of putting the boot into people who are managing to make a living doing things he failed at - if it's not captaining Leeds to trophies, it's coaching SL teams or working as an analyst in the media?

What's next - Schoey's guide to running a successful boozer, or managing your personal finances?

Marriage counselling?

I try and keep Garry Schofield the legend player and Garry Schofield the person as different people. Just so it doesn't blur the lines.

His League Express columns are slightly more stomachable than his ramblings in The Star.

His "journalistic" output in general is more stomachable if you eat it than read it...

Weight Loss

Nah..tried it once and got really bad verbal diarrhoea.

Clarke's Margin Meter has predicted as 20 point win for Salford!!

25 minutes into the game and I was beginning to think that Sky had finally come to their senses and it had been kicked into touch but no such luck. Clarkey on the mike and the bloody thing was reintroduced.

Salford by 16 at half time. Oh how it's going to make all the pundits and bookies who predicted a saints win look stupid!

Only a 44 point swing in the second half. Impressive!

In fairness to the much maligned margin metre it was almost right after the final whistle.

Having backed Salford with a 26 point start I can't tell you how delighted I was when Danny Williams caught the ball when stood completely outside the field of play only to learn that this season - according to the RFL - he is now deemed to have carried the ball dead.

Try explaining that to a new fan. He carried the ball dead ..... eh no he didn't ..... Yeah I know he didn't but he did, stop being awkward.

I think I missed this rule change in the off season and, although I can kind of understand what they are trying to achieve it goes against every other rule that mentions the receiving of the ball whilst having at least one foot out of the field of play.

A daft rule that slows down the run of play and can potentially prevent the quick 20m restart.

One has to wonder if Williams was even made aware of this rule change or if he was just on autopilot?