I've just read his column in todays Star on Sunday, in which he says, "I think new boys Celtic Crusaders & Salford will struggle.
It wouldn't surprise me if the Reds became the first superleague side not to win a single game in the course of a season."

Whilst I realise we're far from favourites to win the league, surely we're not going to be that bad. Fwiw I think we'll finnish 9th or 10th if we can avoid injuries to our top players.

I just hope we can make him eat his words and beat his beloved Leeds along the way.

The thread lost all credibility in the first 10 words

Really? I thought the title did it to be honest.

Without even going into this thread I knew he'd said something stupid. Imo he was seriously over rated in his day and it's no wonder he was dumped by the BBC. Think Andy Farrell scrubbed this attention seeker from his christmas card list a long time ago.

Regarding where we'll finish. Haven't seen any of the friendly matches yet, but I think we'll know a great deal more after friday nights game, which I do intend on seeing. If Mr controversial is basing his statement on the Leeds/Salford game in Jacksonville, I think he needs to realize that the game would have been an entirely different result had it been played over two halves. If the antics in Florida haven't damaged team spirit too much, it would appear we have a strong squad on paper.

I thought that too!

Have you noticed that in every coloumn he writes he always talks about himself?

He gets asked the question "who will win Super League this year?" and the first 5 minutes of his reply will be about how he did this and how did that and how things were better in his day blah blah blah

Schoey's views mirror his business acumen — morally bankrupt.

schofield is a tool it's about time the rugby league stopped giving him the time of day the guy's just very bitter.because he didn't get the GB job

Doesn't bother me when ex-players/media make these kind of predictions as they always seem to work to your advantage.

If anything he's done us a big favour by giving our players extra motivation to prove him wrong whilst influencing our opponents to think of us as easy beats.

Don't know why the hell he'd ever think he had a chance of the GB job, he's not exactly Shaun Edwards or even qualified. I seem to remember the first episode of last years boots 'n' all where a group of reporters were giving predictions for the coming season. Not a single one tipped us to the win NL1!!! It just so happens we won NL1, the league and the northern rail cup. Shows how much even respected journalists know. So should we pay any attention to Garry 'well overrated' Schoffield?

He said similar about Cas last year and us the year before. Great player, $hite pundit.

To be fair he was a great player.

Post playing. Idiotic.

If you win a few games he will claim he always expected Salford to do well.

Why do they still allow this muppet to comment?

On the same vein, have the MEN rolled out Murphy for an article on Myler ("future GB captain", "good enough, old enough", "reminds me of myself" etc etc) yet?

Had a successful Career as an RL player, less so as a top flight Coach a RU player or even a Pub Landlord ...

As a RL ' pundit ' he tipped us to fall in 2002 ... he was right



Can't remember if he had us for going down in 2007 though,

Some people think he is a ritual self abuser , think he's just being Yorkshire's answer to Murph- the - Mouth in being outspoken.

If I was Mcrae , the comment would be made into wallpaper for the home dressing room,

Think most other RL pundit's that crawl out of the woodwork this week and have either us or Celtic as 13th - 14th.

The Players have just got to go out there and prove them Wrong. Surely that's the best way to answer this sort of attack?

Definitely in Yorkshire dressing rooms, particularly Leeds. I would like us win at Headingley at least once before I die.

How old are you? 28/29?

No chance.

First 10 words?? I'd say it never had any credibility with a title like Garry "idiot" Schofield.

You’ll do for me fella.

Schofield's son was released from our academy a couple of years back, I wonder if this had any slight bearing on his prediction that we might not win a single SL game this year?

how cynical



FWIW i think Salford will go OK, cant see them in the top 8 but cetainly dont see them for the spoon myself

I wonder if Mr Schofield is considering putting his foot in his rather large ugly mouth now ?

Wanted to leave this subject alone, but since you've mentioned it, I think it's crossed all our minds. At least we've already proved that he really is a plonker!!!

Talking seems to be a popular hobby over on the dark side.

cf. Brian Noble on the SLS this morning.

As Ronald McDonald might put it, bah dah dah dah dah I'm loving it!!!

middleman wrote: If I was Mcrae , the comment would be made into wallpaper for the home dressing room



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