He mis tackled Ablett and took a boot to the face by accident on about 22 mins

Massive, massive blow.

Easily the most significant injury of the season. Losing 152 half backs was bad, but losing the Man Of Steel for upwards of 6 weeks is devastating.

Roby's probably fractured an eye socket but we don't know for certain and, even if he has, it may not be serious and so may not mean a long lay off. However, we very much needed him for Wigan so that is going to put a lot of extra pressure on us just when it seemed the pressure might be easing.

Thankfully we have a lot of players on the pitch at present. We would have been seriously screwed if this had happened just a few weeks ago.

Might Wilkin be a good replacement for him while he is missing (assuming he will be)?

terrible news for all concerned.
asi posted t other week re injuries..........................2 steps forward 1 step back.
every ucking game we get at least one major injury.
hope robys isnt as bad as feared...................wont hold my breath though. you could clearly see on telly that his appearance had altered.
time for another youngster to step up?

Hope he heals well... Class act... Will be missed by RL and not just Saints.

I see your idea of moving wilkin to 9. It worked very well for England when we put sinfield at hooker and IMO was the player of the series when moved there.

Could work but i feel Royce will go with Moore.

Royce has confirmed it on sky text.

Big big loss!

How long is he out for? Is there any chance of him being available for the Wigan and Wire games?

Royce says he ain't got clue how long he'll be out for.

I did my eye socket few year back and was told no contact for 8 weeks but I played after 5/6 weeks as it was a final but was told taking huge risk of further damage.

I got thru the game ok but we lost

The idea of Wilkin at hooker is a good one and resist putting Scott Moore back there. Moore is playing well as a back rower who can jump in at dummy half from time to time rather than a full time 9. With us getting more forwards back from injury we could do this and not miss Wilkins running while keeping him in the middle of the park for his defence and organisation.

Eastmond may also be on option as cover for hooker in the short term.

It just depends what sort of fracture it is. I had to have reconstructive surgery after a blowout fracture of my eye-socket when I were a lad and couldn't play for about 12 months. If its a hairline thing then you can potentially be getting on with it after a handful of weeks.

I can't really see Royce not giving Moore a run at hooker while Roby is out,leave Wilkin were he is and let Moore have a run in his real possition.

Royce does seam to prefer players playing in their chosen positions, hence Makinson getting a run last night, over the more experienced Eastmond.

The exception to this is the Prop at loose forward.

He may try Wilkin if we had no option or if the stand in's where not up to scratch, but Moore is an international hooker so should be able to do thejob, although it may change our play slightly as he is a different style of Hooker to Roby.

i see the wire fans think robes getting hurt is funny.
mind you what else can you expect from that lot?

The prop at 13 thing is a common style of play down under,i would personally like Wilkin to play 13 and just play with the starting props and interchange around that.Having said that we are winning and if it aint broke dont fix it.

Everyone seems to say royce likes players playing their proper positions but foster is a centre by trade, meli is a winger, makinson is a centre, lomax a fullback, Moore is a hooker, megennis is a prop.

All are played out postion. IMO you pick players in what postion is best for the team, if that means playing out of postion for the benefit of the team then so be it.

The extra prop at 13 allows Royce his back on the bench. I wasn't hot on the idea at first but now see what a great move Royce has done by copying the aussies by doing this.

Saying that, you need the right player to play the prop/loose role and TP is ideal for it. He's big, mobile, good go forward and good hands. You couldn't play the likes of fielden, lynch style of props there but TP magennis are ideal. I think that's why we've gone for laffranchi for next year. I think he'll take the prop/loose role.

By having laffranchi at loose acting as a 3rd prop then allows us to have LMS and perry in the front row with TP maybe the impact off the bench. So we are getting are 4 props but also a back on the bench to cover the backline.

Paul gallan in oz is the man that's took this prop/loose forward to the next level and shows with the correct players it's a very good move.

What goes around comes around,sooner rather than later hopefully.

Let's hoPe briers don't get hurt for their sake as we've all seen how poor they are without him.

We've had up to 11 players missing thru this season and still kept in touching distance of them, they struggle to win any game without Lee briers.

One man team.

one person, and he didn't say it was funny, but dont worry you carry on stirring.

Not the OP, the joke that's carried on after it. For instance, the poster who said 'nice post'. True spirit of Rugby League isn't it.

yeah but its one post, from someone who's already been identified as a dip poster, but rigsby's stirring by making out we're laughing like s about it, which isn't true.

No need for it, just like there was no need for the comment on our board.

It's alright, sorted with Yed.

I didn't know any of the previous for the poster who came out with the comment.

Gutted for Roby, he's a fantastic player and his stats this season standout from everyone else, a big loss, hope re recovers fully.

In his 1st season with us Morley fractured an eye socket and he didn't play for about 6 weeks.