Not sure NRL standards yet!! the numbers they can choose from!

Sia has plenty of NRL experience

When people say any player with ambitions will play in the NRL it's a tad simplistic. Players have families. Wives. Kids. These all bring different factors to bear. Whilst the typical stereotype of a Wag is a talentless airhead. It's not always the case. So a career minded WAG would not be as eager to give it all up for her fellas three or four years in the sun. Add kids to that mix and it's a big barrier to just upping sticks. Of course some WAGs will be up fir a move. But it's not a given. If you want loyalty encourage marriage and sex in your players. Although preferably with the same girl. Otherwise running off to oz to escape the CSA would become quite attractive.

I suspect once Roby joins the World Cup Squad he will be influenced by the english players already in the NRL, Jammer is already advising him to give it a go in Oz.
McManus needs to up his salary otherwise Roby will see the big money in Oz difficult to resist and the challenge to play in the NRL before his career finshes is another factor.
I reckon if he puts in good performances in the World Cup most of the NRL will be in a bidding war for him and we lose our only world class player at the club.

Roby will not go the NRL, that's for sure. He loves playing for saints and loves st Helens.

i believe he was offered as much if not more than Jammer to go before he signed his current deal. Thanks but no thanks came the reply

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And me!

I don't think I'd renew my ST if we lost him what would be the point!

I wish! Glad that Roby wants to stay, losing him would've been a disaster.

If we lost him we could kiss goodbye to any trophy success for the foreseeable future.

We can do that anyway.

In the words of Private Frazer " We're all doomed".

We can build a team around Roby and Lomax that's there's no doubt... Roby will be our captain from 2015 onwards and we will then have a spine off a team in place.

Injured today. Looked like his ankle.

If he's out for any amount of time, i think your playoff aspirations are finished.

I believe its the same injury he did last time to the other ankle which kept him out about 9 weeks I think. So in your opinion we are done

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And yet ... we lost him after 19 minutes but went on to win the match today.

So maybe our play off aspirations will not be finished if Roby is out long term?

Time for Hohaia to make himself useful.

Can anyone tell me who stepped in at hooker when he went off?

If he picks him. We have the great Stuart Howarth

does he know what useful means?....

Could we have been any unluckier with injuries this season? I bet you'd get long odds on your best player picking up two separate but serious ankle injuries in the same season.

Just end our miserable season now.

According to Brown, he thinks it is probably syndesmosis i.e. a bad sprain just above the ankle which is another 10 week lay off. Season looks like to be over for him.

Seems to me it's years of 80min performances in one of the toughest positions on the field that are taking its toll on his body. There was a reason we used to have KC and Robes in the same team. We desperately need a quality understudy to Robes so at least he can be managed better.