....have given Bitter Schofield a weekly column! That's the last time I've bought that newspaper!

League Express has been sh*te for the past decade or so. All it does is recap the past weeks news. If and when I read it, it's for free in Tesco's.

The fact that Schofield has been given a column shows how desperate the paper has become. He certainly hasn't been brought on board for his objective views now has he.

And well I'm at it, the fact that it's published here in Yorkshire clearly shows. The coverage of the Lancashire clubs pales into insignificance when compared against it's coverage of the white rose county.

League Weekly is a far better read, with 3 or 4 columnists who always offer good value, one in particular isn't afraid of offering criticism, which is rare in the goldfish bowl which is British RL.

I have not read it for ages mainly due to the fact that the only place in Preston that sold it was Wh Smith and they stopped selling it. Does Stevo still write in it?

League Weekly is a miles better publication.

Forty-20 is the best rugby league publication by a country mile.

League Express has been going downhill for a while. That Ian Sadler is started to believe in his own inflated Ego, he now says Lewis is doing an excellent job in promoting international rugby league.

To be fair he is. It's domestically that I'm worried about.

Why do people have this stupid hate for Gary Schofield?

Yes he is opinionated but so what? People read messageboards to read outrageous opinions of anonymous people who have never played the game, what's wrong with reading some strong opinions from one of the greats of the game?

A lot of Schoey's opinions are in tune with the average RL fan. It always amuses me that on these messageboards you get people saying there's too many overseas players in the game, various players in the England team are overrated, we need to have more flair in the game instead of just being mechanical, which is the type of stuff Schoey says...but as soon as Schoey's name is mentioned everybody hates him!

I expect its just a legacy of fans who remember him as a player and didn't like him in his playing days....exactly the same as all those non Wigan fans react with disgust at the mention of Shaun Edwards.

He talks rubbish and loves himself. Never a good combination

Well I pretty young when he played but I can see the bitterness towards Wigan oozes out of that man quite clearly. I don't hate him, I pity him.

My advice on the league express is go asda shopping and read it for free. Send the mrs off with the trolly while you read it for free.

Nowt like a scouser to know how to pull off a good scam.

A mate of mine from Warrington taught me thst scam



Both the league express and league weekly have gone crap so why pay when you can read it for free.

Switched to League Weekly some time ago. Agree with others that you get some good articles in LW. Have to say that Ian Millward has one of the best columns. He comes up with some well thought out stuff. Andy Wilson and Ray French write some decent stuff as well. I have got time for Martyn Sadler at LE but the letters column totally p****d me off. One week someone from one club would slag off somebody from another, the week after there would be a reply and so on and needless to say there was a weekly Sam's a cheat letters. And the same names write in every week! I am not paying good money to read garbage. League Weekly is worth £1.50. The editor Danny Lockwood is a typically biased Yorkshireman but he does have a sense of humour and is not afraid of criticising the RFL etc.

Dunno what you are moaning at, there are only about 7 people in Wigan who can read, and apparently most of them look at the LW for free in the local supermarket

Swear filter?

So by posting on the Wigan forum you are going to interact with who exactly?

Why buy LE to read Schofield's opinions? He appears to log on here under about 30 different aliases.

Because he is a bitter gobe. Just see the Man of steel dinner argument with Sam Tomkins for a prime example.

Sorry, no offence intended. Thought I was still logged onto the VT.

You can buy it at several garages around the town, as well as Sainsbury's and the littole Tesco's in (I believe) Ribbleton.

Further afield, they also stock it in Clayton Green Asda and a few other Spa's