Quote Saddened!="Saddened!"James Roby is my vote for the Man of Steel. Look at his performances and his stats throughout the season. A man mountain, a machine. He smashed his face in, still played.
Roby is averaging 195m per game and 40 tackles. He is top metre maker in Super League and only 4 behind Houghton in tackles made in Super League. That workrate is absolute insanity and he's so far ahead of his peers in his position it's untrue.
Tomkins has done well since he started to focus on playing rugby rather than cheating however and deserves whatever accolades he does get.
It's hard to compare a hooker in a side struggling to keep pace at the top with mass injury problems to a fullback for a side at the top winning a lot of games easily. However I don't think it's possible to play any better than Roby is doing. He's been incredible this season.
But the MOS award is a farce now it's being voted for by the players. So instead of being awarded by people who watch a good 50% of the games, it's judged on two performances against you by the players and has become nothing more than a sickly popularity contest.'"
I think the MoS vote is one of those occasions where you can't really use statistics as an argument. Comparing carries/metres/tackles that a hooker makes compared to a fullback just doesn't work.
Instead I normally try and think of instances where a player has produced a brilliant piece of individual skill to turn a match, whether it be in defense or attack. I think consistency also comes into the equation somewhere.
For me Sam Tomkins should win the award this year. Roby is not far behind though, both amazing players.
