What kind of kebab was it?

Doner.

Sheesh I might have known.

Hats off to gpartin for a mighty rant, I really enjoyed reading that. I can only stand back and admire the chip on your shoulder. You must have a cuttings file on Schofield that's as thick as Gareth Hock.

I would have a chip on my shoulder if I didn't support a team that made him look ordinary at the time. I was perfectly calm whilst writing it and remain calm now so I'd hardly call it a rant. Perhaps I shouldn't bother giving opinions and backing them up with evidence, just do what most people seem to do on forums these days and say "I actually agree with Schofield" without saying why or as you seem to do in most of your posts not bother giving opinions just disagreeing with people for the sake of it. Heaven forbid you should actually come onto a thread about Schofield and actually say something about Schofield. Must be great for people like you on forums with all the threads you can post on without actually having an opinion on the subject you could do it all day long and still have hundreds more to go at.



Oh and by the way I don't have a cuttings file on Schofield but there's this thing on the internet called google. Jog on

It can be verified and was verified a couple of years ago by Harry Edgar, the founder of Open Rugby, the magazine which used to award the Golden Boot.



Harry headed a panel of international journalists who decided that Schofield would win the Golden Boot in early 1991 on account of his performances in 1990, in which he was superb in GB's series win in NZ and played a big part in GB coming closer than ever to the Aussies in that classic Ashes series.



But the sponsors, Adidas (the Aussie arm), refused to sanction another non-Aussie winner following on from Hugh McGahan in 1988 and Ellery in 1989, so they pulled the plug.



Not sure why you'd want to see video evidence of Sterling and Schoey swapping shirts?!? But they were big mates from their Hull days, and remain so.

A lot of people could learn from this post, I gave my opinion and explained why I thought it and here is somebody posting a response with their reasons for believing otherwise. Fair do's on the golden boot, heard something similar before but it just seemed a bit dodgy to me the panel had already decided, Adidas had withdrawn the sponsorship of the award anyway so why the hell didn't they just give him the newly titled Open Rugby golden boot award it wouldn't have been a big deal the prestige would surely have been in the title rather than any financial gain to any of the parties. I just can't help but think that he's talking about this not to convey his disappointment or to get people to feel sorry for him but to say 'hey look at me I was the best player in the world, remember my name'



The point of my last bit is the very same and entirely down to how Schofield decides to tell the story. He knows that Peter Sterling was a legend who is massively well known in Rugby League Circles and the message he is trying to convey again is how much everyone rated him "he sought me out and wanted to swap shirts with me" . Rather than acting with modesty which would have gained him so much more respect.



He just reminds me of Ozymandias a poem by Shelley:



I met a traveller from an antique land

Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,

Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown

And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,

The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.

And on the pedestal these words appear:

`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:

Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,

The lone and level sands stretch far away".



As far as I'm concerned all this detracts from how good a player he was when his intention is clearly to reinforce it. The bloke is worried about being forgotton as a player but by creating the legacy he has he is in danger of being remembered more for his arrogance.

To your first question, I don't know. When Adidas withdrew their backing, Harry decided to scrap the Golden Boot, so there was no winner between 1991 & 1999. When League Publications Ltd bought Open Rugby, they immediately brought the award back.



As for Schoey talking about it - he's known since 1991 that he was the Golden Boot winner that never was, but it was Harry who wrote an article about it in his excellent Rugby League Journal. That's when it first became public knowledge. Schoey mentioned it in the March issue of Rugby League World in response to a reader's question. But from 1991 to Harry writing about it in 2008, Schoey's never publicised it, not even in his book. I think you're doing him a disservice on this one.

Quite possibly so mate, the bloke just makes it so easy to come to the conclusions I'm coming to and although its gone pretty quiet on here I'm sure I'm not alone on this.

You're not alone in it, it's like his need to talk about being allegedly offered vast sums of money (by a club that didn't have any either) but he was a good little Gary and remained loyal.

Oh good, i felt abit like the lone ranger for a bit there lol

no matter what he did in his playing career all hes ever done since is spout garbage.



i reckon hes an attention seeker.