Ropati was the only player I've seen with a permanent limp. Leon breaks games for fun.

I think tea ropati in that season may well have been the best 6 to play for saints.

In that year he broke tackles for fun and his upper body strength was unreal.

Maybe pryce has done it longer but that year ropati was in another class.

tea ropati was only any good in the last year of his contract i.m.o and comparing him to pryce as a player is laughable....

I assume this is who came 2nd after tommy God?

shane cooper was a better player than ropati at 6 i.m.o

Ropati used to be one of my fave players, but Tommy God and Pryce are way better. No contest.

La la la la Leon Pryce is yer man for this gig.

Tea had the chin, the muscles, the stuble and was a tough gem, but Leon is a killer, he can ruin a team with those long eleastic legs and rubber arms.

Yes I'd agree that pryce overall prob just shades it but that good season ropati had was just unreal.

All of these stupid threads (Why so many btw?) should be won by the more recent player. Our old teams were all pants, amateur pants at that. Like comparing Thatto Heath players to Jamie Lyon.

Pryce, a lot harder to break the line these days but he does it with ease on regular occasions in a game.

CORRECT they should all be merged into one

Heaven forbid we should have discussion on a DISCUSSION board.

You've started 4 battles so if everyone picked there own head to heads threads we won't have room for the New saints top or favorite player threads will we

When people stop replying to them I'll stop posting 'em.

He was rubbish in the first and last years of his contract ... the middle year, in which we came 2nd on points difference, he was absolutely outstanding and got players' player of the year.

Don't think you can compare his long term impact to Pryce's. I'd have Martyn over either of them in any case.

I agree martyn was head and shoulders above both over the time he was at saints.

Ropati did have a top season in which he prob matched martyn but it was only 1-2 years.

Tea Party - 1 good season, others were all tripe
Tommy God - An all time favourite, did some sublime things
Leon - will never get the recognition of someone like Tommy, but as a player he is way better than anything that has gone before. Best Saints no 6 that I have ever seen.

Martyn over Pryce at stand off any day of the week.


Pryce is a better athlete, and could probably play any position - but you wont see a more natural number 6 than Tommy Martyn.

Ropati is an early hero of mine, but not a patch on either of them.

Tommy Martyn, much as I hated him, at least played by the rules 90% of the time.

Leon breaks THEM for fun, not lines.

Think Leon has been great for us but Ropati everytime... The only other 6 who deserves to be above him is Tommy God