Re: McIlorum can challenge Roby as........ : Thu Feb 16, 2012 8:53 pm  

St pete wrote:

I saw frano botica play when I was growing up and IMO pat Richards is twice the player frano botica was.

I rather think Wane was talking about the kicking.

Re: McIlorum can challenge Roby as........ : Thu Feb 16, 2012 8:56 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

I rather think Wane was talking about the kicking.

And what do you think, bearing in mind that Botica left Wigan in 1996.

Re: McIlorum can challenge Roby as........ : Fri Feb 17, 2012 9:11 am  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

And what do you think, bearing in mind that Botica left Wigan in 1996.

Pat Richards is a very good plus a decent kicker, better than Botica in playing ability. I would say that Frano was a fairly average RL player with an exceptionally good kicking ability. Kicking can and does win games and players will secure shirts on the basis of their value with the boot.

Re: McIlorum can challenge Roby as........ : Fri Feb 17, 2012 9:25 am  

Frano Botica was vastly underated as a player. I remember him making Anthony Sullivan look daft on more than one occasion. He wasn't as good as the fella they had on the other wing, but who was?

Any talk of him being a "Sean Day" type is complete nonsense.

Re: McIlorum can challenge Roby as........ : Fri Feb 17, 2012 10:16 am  

jonnythesaint wrote:

Frano Botica was vastly underated as a player. I remember him making Anthony Sullivan look daft on more than one occasion. He wasn't as good as the fella they had on the other wing, but who was?

Any talk of him being a "Sean Day" type is complete nonsense.

spot on, another thing with Frano was that he was very versatile and could play full back, wing, stand off or scrum half would make a difference in any of those positions. He was more than just a good goal kicker.

Re: McIlorum can challenge Roby as........ : Sat Feb 18, 2012 2:06 pm  

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.

Re: McIlorum can challenge Roby as........ : Sat Feb 18, 2012 4:53 pm  

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

Re: McIlorum can challenge Roby as........ : Sun Feb 19, 2012 12:18 am  

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

Re: McIlorum can challenge Roby as........ : Sun Feb 19, 2012 10:48 am  

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.

Re: McIlorum can challenge Roby as........ : Sun Feb 19, 2012 10:55 am  

fun time frankie wrote:

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

You forgot Rogues