I have to say at this moment in time, I'd take Field over Welsby as my full back. Perhaps important to say that both are learning the position, neither have played consistently at full back until this season. I guess it comes down to what you like to see from a full back and for me, it's X-factor. I commented in the other thread that Welsby showed great speed in chasing back French and it would be great to see him use that speed more with ball in hand. I can only really remember a super try away against Hull FC I think it was, last season when he did. Field has done it several times this year and made a huge difference to Wigan's attack. I'm not sure Welbsy does the same if he was in Wigan's team, from what we've seen so far. I'd want Welsby somewhere in my 17 though!
Thing to say about Field as well, is that he actually has the same number of assists as Lomax, so he does have that in his repertoire, just more often than not, he can just score the try himself. Again, it comes down to what you like to see and I'm consistent in my view if nothing else- I said that I'd still take Ben Barba over Lachlan Coote, when that debate was going on. Barba made it fun to watch Saints again for me. Magical player. If Ben Barba put his hand down a toilet, he'd pull out a gold watch- Phil Gould
I also think Liam Farrell gets in this Saints team and the first choice 13 too. Been a top SL player for a number of years.