Thing is pal, it's his style of how he said it. He doesn't present any evidence for his claims and deliberately puts his views across in a provocative manner to try and stir it up.

Anyone who thinks that we've gone backwards since the days of Agar, Rule and Kath is probably a bit backwards themselves.

You must be getting Schofield confused with Lee Crooks. Easy enough mistake to make I suppose

Spot on then!

I am still excited about the future, I can see a team of young homegrown players if the progress continues as it has this season for the next few years.

The big thing Mr Pearson promised was big investment in the youth system and Mr Gentle promised to give them a chance when injuries happenned, we have now had 3 players this seaosn coming in that didnt look out of place, one in fact that as made is position his own in Lineham.

That alone is so far ahead of where we were.

We all know he dislikes us and always tries to be controversial in everything he does. You are right about the going backwards part, like I said it's too early to judge Gentle but the club has moved forward in lots of areas under AP.

The derby part I agree with him on as does Gentle who said yesterday it was his darkes hour as FC coach.

WEll I'm affraid he has a selective memeory or thousands of us who were around then have had ours whiped!!!

Both He and Crooks left around the same time Crooks Kicking and screaming and openly decrying his move to Leeds and Schofield engineering his move out. On the day Crooks left the Mail quoted him as saying " I never thought this would happen it is the only way the Club can be saved, I've been forced to leave the Club I love"

The very next day the headline on the Front of the Mail read " Schofield Asks for a move" which quoted Schoey as saying that Hull was no longer a good Club for him to play at and he didn't want to play for us again. So, the legend of Judas was born, 'pieces of silver' were thrown on the pitch every time he returned and the THreepennies really got at him! He's been bitter ever since and never misses a chance to have a pop.!

I got the chance to ask Schofield about why he left and he was quite happy to have a good rant about it. So his side of event's goes something like this.

He was in contract talks with Hull. He wanted 15k a season Hull said "we're skint best offer we can do is 10k he shook hands and said fair enough get things sorted and i'll sign. In the meantime he found out Hull had signed another player (Sott Gale I think but could be wrong cause I was a bit pi$$ed too) on 20k a season. So he thought lying barstewards and told them to shove it.

That is a watered down version I got straight from the horses mouth. I'm sure Hull Fc have their version of events too.

Agree with him about the derby display but as for the rest... at times I have wondered whether the players aren't happy with Gentle's game plan but I'd say recent results suggest it's been more of a confidence issue. We're certainly in a far better position as a club than we were two years ago under the old regime and the time to assess our position under this regime is at the end of this season. Far too early for Schofield to be declaring the club is going backwards.

I think the player concerned was Garry Pearce. To be fair, schofield being a GB player and at the time probably the best player we had, he had point. Pearce had never played league and was being paid a premium but that was the trend at that time (taking players from welsh RU)

Unfortunately Schfield went about this in the wrong way. He should never have refused to play as, IMO, that's the sign of a poor professional.

When he played against us, I used to give him both barrels. Now he poses no threat to Hull FC I actually feel I find his comments a little sad. He makes outlandish statements to try and carve out a media career. He is a modern day Alex Murphy (who Used to have a tabloid column called Murphy the Mouth). Unsurprisingly no one took notice of that either.

Read the said article in LE and he gets so many things wrong its unrea...basically he is a bellend.

We shouldn't bother with commenting on him. He's just a sad little person who nobody loves. Ah bless!!

Schoey's toys have come out of the pram big style. Pearson can't handle the pressure, has made a series of disastrous decisions and appointments while his attack on Schofield is, in fact, an attack on every single FC fan. McRae's useless, your recruitment's been a joke and maybe it's time for Pearson to step down. Why, he even spelt Schofield's name wrongly in the programme notes!
I'm sure you get the picture.

In Fairness I have heard his version of it myself plus Len Caseys who was Coach at the time, Lee Crook's and a couple of members of our Boards too and most do vary considerably from Schoeys.

This was all happening in June 87 when GS was playing in Australia we signed Gale in August and he made his debut in October. Straight after Shoey said he wanted to go we signed Hussain M'Baki, and then John Carroll from Batley and a great aquisition was Paul Fletcher from Salford for whom we paid a small fee. Fact remains that he has never done anything to endear himself to the Hull Crowd since and has indeed slagged us off at every opportunity. Now he's trying to take the moral high ground and saying that Thousands of us are having a go at the Club and Pearson and he's one of us. If you look closely at what he says in LE most of it is inacurrate and he calls the present state of the Club a shambles, which believe me if he'd seen what went on back office in Kaths day is a complete fabrication.

"Since pearson took over the Club has made a series of calamitous decisions and appointments. The Pressure has clearly got to you Adam and perhaps its time to step asside, Its time to get yor Finger out Adam and get down to Business"

I guess at the end of the day what gauls me is this when we were doing well a few years ago he was critical of us but now we have hit a bumpy patch he is aligning himself with the fans against the Club, he's no friend of ours and just hops onto any opportunity to bash the Club.

Didn't Schofield go on strike for a couple of months, refusing to play for Hull until he got his own way?

Or is my memory seriously flawed?

I sometimes read the opinion pieces in the HDM from our other Judas and he seems to conduct himself in a professional manner when commenting on the club. Schofield just comes across as bitter.

Absolutely, for all that went on at the time of his departure, he always gives a very considered opinion of both us and KR in his weekly column. I've more respect for him than for Schofield who comes across as a bitter, twisted indiviidual.

Im sure Adam will take advice on how to run a business from Schoey.
Didnt he once run a pub in Leeds and was sacked as a coach twice?

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Gosh, do people actually pay to read that sh[ii[/it?

What you've got to understand is that its just his opinion. All you need to do his give him the same amount of time and credibility as you do rovers supporters who troll these boards looking for a bite.

The ramblings of a lonely, bitter man who wants some attention innit.

He doesn't deserve any time. You're quite welcome to come on here as often as you like. Its called banter, his is called bile!!

Thats no way to talk about your Chairman..

Oh..the irony

lol, think you might have the wrong chairman.