Yes the newspaper piece isn't much good either

Schofield, like the man himself these days, is hit and miss. It's his opinions is all. If anyone expected something fully factual then they're seriously naive.

Some of the statements are based on incomplete background information, so they were going to be wide of the mark. Perhaps Schofield hears the same rumours we, the fans, do, perhaps not (that's a Hull thing).

It's true that in the past few years the FC youth mill hasn't fed through as it should, but I think that's changing now, which is all the good.

It's also true that the squad is ageing, but that's changing too due to the new youth recruitment and retention policy we supposedly now have.

The rest of the bile is probably the result of his move from FC, deep scars and all that.

Having read it, Schofields does make a few good points, but then he ties it in with bunkem. Then he goes and says things like Hull will do nothing in the next couple of season. He seams to court controversial opinion. If he said that Hull are building but this year maybe a year too far for them, it would be a more balanced report. If he noted that Ellis is a quality signing, but that it may have lead to a lack of funds for Manu as well again this would be more balanced.

But he seams to stack the article one way with no accounting for the fact that Manu is of a similar age and every signing is a gamble and that it may payoff for Hull and attract players of equal quality. Lets face it if you have not got Manu then that money that was offered to him will be available for someone else. So tell any player that his 2nd row partner will be Ellis and that should help attract more players.

Just an awful article. Why do people still pay this man to write in newspapers?! There was a thread on TotalRL.com at the start of the week slagging off his disrespect of the work put into Southern RL. He just has a huge agenda and aims at getting a negative reaction. He'll think that the reaction makes him a good journalist, but it's bloody easy to get a negative reaction. Just make a racist or sexist comment and boom.

The Ellis thing, whilst I don't agree in the slightest, he can have his opinion there. It has happened at places in the past that a high earner has upset the dressing room and we can't say otherwise until it's happened or not. I very much doubt it will. His theory about signing aging players but not retaining Manu being a huge loss is very contradictory though!

The rest however is just utter infactual rubbish. Last decent overseas player was Smith? A shocking lack of research there. I hope Richard Swain wasn't reading, as that is very disrespectful to the years he put in here.

Seymour is poor? Has he been watching this season?!

Slagging off the chairman about our overseas signings for this season? They didn't sign them!

Who are all these aging players? There are a handful at the back end of their career admittedly, but that's it. Our youth has suffered due to KH's cost cutting/money grabbing. Now that it's going again, we've had Nicklas, Bowden, Kent, Green, Lyne and Crooks play this year already (as well as Ellis and Russell). Last year, we only played Lyne. Our youth policy has changed. Give it a few seasons and we will hopefully have the depth to match Leeds and Wigan.

All in all, it's Gary Schofield. What did you really expect? Something interesting?!

And its fat garry in the star at that.

If anyone can be bothered to read his book , You get the same bile on every page about how he's been hard done too throughout his career No wonder his wife fecked off.

Wasn't that more to do with the physical violence?

Even i think it is rubbish, despite actaully wanting it to be true.

But it is rubbish that is getting hits on that website and presumably making a small contribution to them being able to sell advertising.

Schofield and The Star, quite a combination - I'd take it as an inverted compliment, tbh.

re the money situation i think schofields been a tad hypocrytical myself i remember when he came back from australia and held fc to ransom demanding more money and when he signed for l££ds he declared it was the club he wanted to play for! pot and kettle spring to mind.

I wasnt aware that turner or manu had signed for saints yet, is he allowed to state rumour as fact in such a quality paper?

Schofield = Tramps scabby penis

What a tosspot.

Scored some great tries for Hull in his early days.......

... but misssed some kickable goals at Wembley for us that could have won us the cup v Wigan.



Isn't in the game any more, so isn't that good at Coaching.



Saw him last season in the bar at Hull completely off his head.









Think I'll stick with the 17 and Peter Gentle who did us proud last night.

gary schofield and the star! says it all doesn't it!

A match made in Heaven!

Ellis was sort after by all clubs for obvious reasons and Schofield fully well knows that Ellis brings a hell of a lot more than work rate, and to claim otherwise is ludicrous.



Any player of Ellis's ability and reputation is always gonna command top dollar, but that is not to say they can never be good value. i am not one bit concerned that his salary will jeopardize our recruitment or retention going forward, nor am i concerned that his skills and qualities are anything other than of the highest order. the only risk i see is with keeping an ageing bloke on the paddock and out off the treatment room, but this is no diffident to any other player at our club or any other club for that matter.

he's a drunken wife beater that couldn't manage a pub, class act in the Andy Gregory mould.

He's deliberately controvesial, it's how he earns a living, it was Huddersfield the other week.

I stopped listening to him a long time ago.