Women’s World readers recently voted George Clooney as best looking man in the world...there was uproar in the St Helens Gazette claiming how can he be...he doesn’t play for Saints!!

But if he did he'd be in the top ten half backs in the world despite being 58 years of age

Back to the game in general as there's bigger issues to discuss than Thompson <> Philbin having been dragged slightly off course by our Saints siren, this is a BIG Game IMO and a crowd of circa 5,000 plus on last week's attendance would suggest that others think the same.

We need to put in a performance and grab a win especially after Tony Smith's latest charges have helped our top two aspirations. If we don't win then we need to match Saints across the park and push them to the brink another walloping like the away game simply won't be acceptable

Let's put a marker down and get some kind of form going NTW!!

I can't see anything but a saints win unfortunately but obviously I hope we do beat them. Even if that serves for nothing more than giving AS108 (hole) a week off.

It’s a difficult call, hope it’s an exciting game where generally rugby league is the winner.

Lol...1/10 AS.
Your bait is normally of a higher quality than that.

Top 10 In the world

If that's the case - don't bother

I too hope the game lives up to expectations.

I,m thinking of baking a chunky pie can you tell me where you got your magic mushrooms from!

To be fair I would swap any of our forwards bar Hill for Thompson.

After Clark Hill Cooper Currie...I might swap a forward for Thompson...I'd swap all but Clark for Warmsley though.

You've got the oven on this weather?

There isn’t one Warrington player I would swap for any of ours. Every position we are far superior

Just leaving-2 words-NO ERRORS

Even as a wind up that is laughable

Please don't dissappear if warrington win, we miss you all when you have your holidays. Plus we will need this explaining to us in more detail. Perhaps the man of Steel panel didn't get your memo about none saints players receiving points!

Haha haha.. Arguing exactly the same thing that he's arguing against on the Wigan board. I think we have a winner for the biggest idiot on the Internet!

To be honest though he's fairly accurate when comparing Thompson to Philbin. Looking at the match stats Philbin is not even on the same performance page compared to Thompson. Thompson made 3 times as many metres, 4 times as many tackle busts and his missed tackle count was half of Philbins efforts.

Thompson started and Philbin came off the bench, totally different roles to compare them like for like with stats.
Enjoy the 2 points.

Thompson is quality. I have no issue with that. I'm talking about our troll friend using exactly the same arguments as he's arguing against over on the Wigan board. Have a look and you'll see what I mean. I'd say he loves moving the goalposts but it would be more accurate to say he's completely dismantled them and put them in storage!

Yes I know but Thompson had to do the hard yards at the start when Wire were on top. Philbin came on when defences were tiring but he didnt have much effect at all, when he returned to the fray in the second half he just gave penalties away. On the otherhand Thompson stepped up a gear and supported every half break to eventually get his try.

I wasn't offering an opinion on who was the better player of the two on the night, they did far differing roles. Philbin couldn't do the hard yards at the start, as he was on the bench, it's not possible to compare.

Was it Philbin who gouged jlo?

Yes it is. Thompson was very good, Philbin was rubbish. Philbin’s role may well be different but his stats are still really poor.