Put it this way; Bateman is one of the ever-dwindling number of players in SL who look "NRL class", week in, week out.

I have no affiliation with either Wigan or Hull, ergo how am I biased?

Going by that logic you must have seen little of the Ellis and Minichello outside of your cherry and white bubble.

Let Bateman go to the NRL for a year and I guarantee he'll come back with his tail between his legs, just like Mossop, just like Tomkins, and just like Burgess.

I'd like to see him give it a go. I am still waiting to see him come off second best even though I regularly expect it.

As did yours about Eliis...