lmao, in my opinion would have to agree that roby is up there with the best in the world and on his day is the best but so can anybody on hthere day, think wane might got carried away with the performance against leeds. if mcilorum plays like that week in and week out he might start being able to challenge the top hookers in the league but atm he needs to go to a consistent level of that performance.

It seems the ape is now on twitter. @shaunwane.

ask every SL fan which hooker they would have in there team and i would say 100% of them would say roby

Was really impressed with Roby against Broncos, running from dummy half he was through the line of defence before the defenders noticed, but last week against Salford on Sky, he didn't seem to run as much. If your forwards Get a quick play the ball today we could be in for a long afternoon with Mr Roby about.

You forgot Rogues

I'm going to ask wane on twitter who'd he have out of robes and mcilorum

Seems a bit of a non story. A coach bigging up one of his players, I mean Wane isn't gonna say he'd prefer to have Roby is he, as that wouldn't do McIlorum any good.

Micky Mac is decent but he's nowhere near Roby he's in a different league

Imo Roby is better than Cameron Smith

I thought McIlorum was going to be GB's hooker for years to come?

Apart from agression, he doesnt have anything more to his game than any other generic english hooker, with the exception of Roby

Roby already topping the super league stats for metres and carries, just missed the top spot for tackles as well. When we come to his "equal" McLlorum does,t even register on any of these richter scales , its as though his season hasn,t started unless he's playing in a different league.

their stats are like a (broken) mirror image superleague.co.uk/statistics_pla ... eason=2011 the only area robes is beaten is in missed tackles, 6 - 0 to micky Mc and Penalties, 3-2 to Micky. How has robes not missed a tackle and made 129 in 3 games? 43 a game and not one missed? FREAK!

their stats are like a (broken) mirror image superleague.co.uk/statistics_pla ... eason=2011 the only area robes is beaten is in missed tackles, 6 - 0 to micky Mc and Penalties, 3-2 to Micky. How has robes not missed a tackle and made 129 in 3 games? 43 a game and not one missed? FREAK!

What is good to see is some of the younger hookers across the league looking like good footballers and not just runners from acting halfback.

Yes, you wouldn't believe that a team who ran a record 1208 times from dummy half, with one player a record 778 dummy half runs would score less tries than they have done for ten years.



And that player then get out scooted by a 5'4" dwarf (sorry Rob) in the Grand Final.

You are right Rogues. Roby is hopeless and repeatedly gets shown up by the master Mcilorum.

Show me wherever I have said that Roby is hopeless or McIlorum is better. But if that's your opinion then you are quite entitled to it.

Whilst I'm not suggesting that McIlorum is as good as Roby, the way some of you are going at him it's obvious you've not seen him play this season. He's been outstanding, and twice the player he was last year.

Saying Frano was an 'average' RL player is a bit like saying Jimi Hendrix could knock a tune out.

To be Wigan's first choice stand off in THAT era for so long, you're not going to be just average, are you?

Red Vee tinted glasses, methinks.

Has Tommy L been spending any time at hooker for you?

I'm pretty sure you've stated before McIlorum was better than Roby , and you got slaughtered. Maybe someone with loads of time will dig it out just to show you up.

That's funny, it seemed that there were people foaming at the mouth about him not being good enough for Wigan after the Huddersfield game. How times can change in the space of two weeks

That still doesn't make him fit to lace Roby's boots.

McIlorum is a good player and has the potential to be extremely good. Not as good as Roby yet though as Roby is world class

Cant blame the Ape for bigging up one of his own , but to base the praise on his performance against Leeds is embarrassing , Leeds at the DW couldnt have been less interested if they had tried , it was a woeful performance and we all know it, I would save such comparisons until he has shown up in the really big games that count .

Something Roby has been doing for a while now .

Roby is class and the best english hooker. The only thing that annoys me about him is the fact that he scoots from dummy half so much, too much IMO. That's where I think Smith is better, he just has a bit more class, better passing and kicking.

I do like McIlorum and for me he should be back up to Roby for England. I don't for one minute believe he will ever be as good as Roby, but he'll certainly be good, and play well enough to get into the England team and hopefully start to play well consistently for Wigan.

is it possible to scoot 'too much' when you have the energy levels of Roby? saves the big guys for when they are really needed