Sorry. My bad. I thought you were making reference to his performances for England.

Thought this might be appropriate again

Debate over.

I really don't see why. Monaghan had a decent game, but so did Roby. On another day, with more experienced halves, his 40:20 would have been a game changer. He no doubt made a ton of metres.

It's a classic case of two equally good, but very different, players. Monaghan wouldn't improve Saints as we'd lose a 5th of our metres made. Roby has been truly inspirational for us this season. I wouldn't take Monaghan for him, and I suspect you'd say the same.

I thought Roby was superb on Friday but then, he is most times I see him. Same for Michael Monaghan who is probably already the best no 9 who has ever played for us. I wouldn't swap Monaghan for any other player in the league. That is not to say that there aren't any number of superb players who would improve our squad (albeit, not that many). Saying I prefer Monaghan to Roby says absolutely nothing about Roby - he's great.

That and Monaghan's Mum is on the forum and you want to suck up a bit?

As a neutral fan,Monaghan is a good player,but if I had the choice, it would be Roby,by some distance.

roby has been even more of a stand out player for saints this eyar because lyon pryce is out plus different injuries he roby has been player most games if not every game, monaghan has briers myler and hodgson and sometimes bridge to play along side so he wont stand out as much unless he puts in a performance like he did the other night mainly because he isnt rely'd on as much.

You can say Monaghan has had quite an easy time this season compared to Roby.
If you compare the super league stats between the two players, Roby destroys Monaghan in all the stats compartments, Roby,s offence and defence can never be replicated by Monaghan, mainly because he doesn't,t need to.

They are both class acts with two different types of play.

Each has their own strength but obviously as a Saints fan I would pick Roby everytime,the kid is immense.