I think the backs are very easy to pick.

Wello is a shoe in at full back.

Lyon/Albert and Newlove/Sullivan were teriffic centre/wing combinations.

Martyn and Long were poetry at their best.

The forwards and bench is a lot trickier, but I'd go:

8 James Graham
9 Keiron Cunningham
10 David Fairleigh
11 Chris Joynt
12 Tony Puletua
13 Paul Sculthorpe

Was very tempted to have McVey in over Puletua, but TP looks the goods.

14 Darren Britt
15 Apollo Perelini
16 Paul Anderson
17 James Roby

The undisputable facts according to ME!!!

How's them apples!

It's obvious you don't know what your talking about then isn't it!

Does anyone not put

1 wello
6 God
9 KC
13 Scully

I would say there is little debate that these 4 are stand out players in their position. Anyone have a different oppinion?

At what point and what would it take for Pryce to overtake Martyn?

Pryce is a very talented player and is probably our X-Factor at the moment but he obviously hasn't done it for long enough - BUT we then could bring into question's Martyn's injury record.

Just a question - don't shout!!!

Notice the fun smiling emoticons!

As for outlandish claims - I would say anybody who has watched the game for any time would have to agree Goulding is a better SCRUM HALF (not player, team man, clubman etc etc) than Long.

So no outlandish claims here!

I think Joynt and Scully are much bigger shoe-ins than Martyn.

Pryce is a close shout to Martyn, and the only thing that edges it for me is the Martyn/Long combo.

I'll give you Scully and will even edit my post accordingly not sure of Joynt personally very very good, but some have been better

in your opinion

and i bet if you conducted a poll, most would go for long as the better scrum half, hence why most people have chosen him in this thread.

IMO Bobby was a more gifted player, but his demons ruined him

There you see!

Bobby was a better pure Scrum Half - Long possibly a better player but that wasn't the question - or was it - I forget now......

I'd agree with that. Goulding was a better all round scrum half than Long IMO but what Long has done in the 7 shirt for Saints dwarfes Gouldings achievements. We can't forget that Bobbie lead us to our first championship in 20 odd years but Long has continued that success and shown far more dedication to the club than Goulding ever did.

I also agree twith the point RE: Martyn/Pryce. It's a gnat's whisker between the pair of them for me and if Pryce stays fit and ends his career at Saints then I would imagine he'll overtake Martyn in years to come.

I went for Prescott at 1. Would I argue he was a better full back? No, although he was an excellant player.

Prescott was, for me, an absolute pleasure to watch. There aren't many guys that made the entry money worth while as easiliy as he did.

As for anyone who doubt tommy Martyn's entry - there's been plenty of times were he's carried a lot of weight on his shoulders (including underperforming half back partners) and when he was fit and firing, we swept all before for us.