James Roby can now do his shopping around St Helens in peace – for the next 12 months anyway. It is rare any piece of news comforts the blow of a derby defeat for Saints supporters but hours before the reigning Super League champions fell to Wigan on Friday, the news Roby had decided to postpone his retirement by one more year took the edge off.
“It has been a relief to get it out there, I won’t lie,” he says. “Every time I’m out and around the town, people are asking me what I’m doing. Am I retiring? Am I going around again? I’ve just had to smile and tell them I wasn’t sure.
