The modern game favours the larger players , the 10m rule has seen to that.

Roger often used to play a sweeper role , between the defence line and the full back. He was a good tackler though.

You're the one who seems to think that if anyone disagrees with you they haven't seen Dobson play

No, maybe just just through Webbo loyalty goggles.

Dobson does seem the obvious choice but he has been at your club a season and half only. Admittedly he had a great season for you last year and won the accolades for it. But for me he failed to impress in the two big play off games. Of course there were other factors involved in those games as well.


Webbo was instrumental to you getting into the SL as well as helping you stay there in that tough first season.

Tough choice but if it was my club i think Webbo would get the vote just for sentimental reasons alone.

Size isn't everything, I'll give you, but it was a lot less important in Sir Roger's day than now, as already pointed out with the 10 metre rule and full time professionalism small half back are specifically targeted, that's what happened to Webster, as it does with Dobson.

Joe I'll give you, awful for us, carved himself a decent career in Cumbria but no where SL.
McClarron I'd have been interested to see how he went at SL level with full time training and proper coaching as he had raw pace and wasn't a small lad. Not as good as either of our current wingers or Luke Dyer, who I'd have liked us to keep quota allowing, apart from his irritating little brother posting on here!

I chose Mansson over Cooke, purely because in I thought he was better in a red and white shirt on a consistent basis than Cooke's been, he'd have made a great partner to Dobson. Cooke does have the odd flash of extreme brilliance but they're too few and far between for what we're paying him, also our plays indicate as has been well documented above that Morgan appears to lack faith in him.

Give me the circa 2004-05 version of Cooke and I'd snap your hand off, the one we got is a pale imitation.

Im basing my vote on overall contribution whilst they played in a Rovers shirt. I went for Cockayne over Briscoe, for his contribution to us getting in super league and whilst in super league. Ask me 2 years down the line, Briscoe would probably be my choice. James Webster has contributed more in the last decade then Michael Dobson, therefore he is my choice. Again, ask me in 2/3 years time you may get a different answer.

dobson hands down...........as for webbo he's an above average NL1 player and before anyone starts making a song as dance ask yourself if he was so good parra would have kept him,we would have kept him,dull would have kept him..as a person dont even get me started..............

I think if you add the word Influencial to the title it may be more accurate. Dobson is the best but Webster was certainly more important.

And that argument couldn't be applied to Dobson could it? Oh no!

Care to elucidate?