It's just the incredibly short time horizon that makes me laugh - 2 games and now he's in a combined Saints/Wigan 17!

Out of interest where do you get the individual game stats from? I can never seem to find those.

Yeah I suppose. The Super League site, go to results, select the game, scroll right the way down.

How many games do you have to have played to qualify for a combined side?

Fab, thank you!

You would have Naiqama over Hardaker? Even as a Saints fan I find that surprising.

Depends who you are. If you are Brad Singleton and are trying to get a place ahead of LMS/Amor, probably about 374 million.

I don't think Hardaker is a particularly good centre (I'm still of the opinion he has landed in the solid rather than special category he once occupied) but Naiqama is also pretty average. I'd go with Hardaker.

The best centre combo would clearly be Percival/Gildart if fit.

He had a career before he came to Wigan would you believe.

And it’s a bit rich questioning our standard of fixtures considering Saints haven’t played a team even close to full strength since Mid September. You’ve basically had 4 byes, which would’ve been 5 had you not rested players against Salford.

I don’t get this combined team malarkey to be honest. Each selection is subjective and biased no matter how you try and spin it. We can introduce stats all day long to suit an argument

I agree and realistically it’s just come about because ‘one of those type of Saints fans’ said we’d get 3 players in.

Each fan will have their favourites, their bias but that’s just a bloke on a wind up. Examples of how difficult it is to judge who you should pick in a combined team comes about in the prop department. You’ve got Saints fans picking Lees, Amor etc but they get to play on the back of a spell where one of the Worlds best props has been smashing defences apart. In comparison you have somebody like Bullock, who is quite inexperienced in superleague and is having to try and set a tone whilst more experienced and highly expensive props sit on the sidelines. He doesn’t have the luxury of having Walmsley batter people about before he comes on.

I think Bullock has been outstanding recently and, in the absence of Walmsley, it wouldn't surprise me if he's comfortably the best prop on the field tonight.

I’ve been really pleased with how he’s come on this year. He looked really raw last year and a bit heavy but he’s fitter now and seems to be getting to grips with things. He’s been put in a tough situation at points as well with him being our most senior prop available some weeks due to the absences of Clubb, Burgess and Flower but he’s handled it pretty well. He along with guys like Partington and Byrne have had the complete opposite conditions to play in compared to somebody like Lees. That lad has had a career of playing on the back of Walmsley, Thompson and lately Graham and also alongside experienced guys like Amor and LMS and still isn’t breaking any pots. It absolutely confirms how it’s so difficult to pick a combined team.

It is impossible really and why I didn't join in as, no matter who you pick, someone will disagree. FTV was laughing at Singleton's inclusion (fair enough based on time at the club) but then mentions Amor and LMS. Let's see how both of those go tonight without Walmsley to play off. Bullock so far this season has been head and shoulders above the pair of them.

Even stranger is that he thinks first choice GB centre, Gildart, wouldn't get in either!