Yes they are all on the Betfred Superleague Web Site under the stats category, rather than cherry pick an individual stat to suit your own player judge them with Trys - Try Assists - Tackles - Tackle Busts - Metres Made - Clean Breaks as overall impact.

You can only do the last 3 years for Clarke, Houghton and Roby because Clarke wasn't up to the standard of Houghton and Roby before that.

When you judge the stats you can see Houghton is one of the best hookers in the game in defence with Clarke one of the best hookers in attack, I will let you judge the stats on Roby for both attributes.

Stats for a hooker never tell you the whole story though. The most important job for a hooker for example is their distribution and decision making. Where is the stat for that? I'm not saying Roby doesnt do those things well btw, just saying that you can't argue he is better based on tackles and metres made.

Roby is an outstanding player. One of the very best of his generation. If you argue any different then you clearly don't know very much about the game. He is the best hooker we have. Houghton is a close second. People see the number of tackles he makes and dismiss him as a workhorse, but he is so much more than that. Hodgson has done well in the NRL and got England caps because of it. But Roby and Houghton are both far superior players who would tear it up down there.

Lunt the best hooker in the leagu, not even in the top 5, Houghton, Roby, Clarke, McShane and Purcell off the top of my head are better than him.

Roby easily the best hooker in the league, I think most fans would agree even Hull ones. This wouldn't have even been a debate if that Saints fan didn't call Houghton overrated, probably the hardest working player in SL, who has been 8/9 out of 10 for the past 8 seasons, but finally got some recognition the day couple of years, a bit unlucky we have some good hookers.

you have that spot on, Roby is a great player, but Houghton isn't "overrated" by any stretch

I agree, there won't be a stat for that, usually that sometimes gets covered in the Man of the Match game award. On the distribution and decision making this was shown in the world cup with the usage of Hodgson and Roby, Hodgson would take the sting out of the game and then the England game would speed up when Roby came on with his quicker distribution and higher level of decision making.

We had a similar bit of banter with the Warrington fans over Clarke and Roby, Warrington sold Dwyer, which meant Clarke this season has had to try and do 80 mins and his game is suffering from it with missed tackles, errors and penalties. Houghton and Roby don't have that problem stamina wise, but we are seeing our coach resting Roby when the game is won to give him longevity in both defence and attack.

For us this season, with Barba being such an attacking threat the opposition don't try and mark Roby out of the game as much which helps to maintain his own personal standard.

Hope its a good game tonight, by the way.

Had to stop reading after that.

You did well!!
I stopped reading after "mean_machine wrote"

Barba missing tonight?

Yep, hearing Barba is not playing tonight. Roby to Full back, Fages in at 6