It’s one of the hottest debate topics egg-chasing has to offer.
Given we live in something of a green goldfish bowl on these Irish shores, there’s no harm getting input from elsewhere.
And so we have the HarpinOnRugby Lions Selector Panel, made up of one fan from each nation, with even the Irish panellist based abroad.
This week it’s the turn of Welsh panellist Hywel Davies.
Right, its time to reignite this debate.
Over Christmas everybody's mind turns to domestic matters. That's just as true in rugby with the derby season in the RaboDirectPRO12 and the Aviva Premiership. Now with the 6 Nations around the corner the team has a feel of anticipation about it.
If this was the BBC's 6 Nations coverage the music for 'Ones to watch' would be striking up.
However the eagle-eyed amongst you will spot the odd player who is not flavour of the month with National selectors.
The team:
15-8 Goode, Sharples, Tuilagi, Davies, Halfpenny, Sexton, Phillips
1-8 D Jones, Hibbard, A Jones, Gray (c), Evans, Wood, Tipuric, O'Brien
16-23 Sheridan, Youngs, Ross, Launchbury, R Jones, Care, Burns, Liam Williams.
If you're trying to read into that who I think will win the 6 Nations, then don't. It will be England. However as the team suggests I suspect the success of England will come from their backs. Their forwards as an unit are handy, if not as dominant as the packs of the 90s were. In my mind their individuals won't necessarily fit in to the mobile pack needed to play Australia out there.
The front row is the best scrummaging unit in the Northern hemisphere. The second rows are athletic and mobile enough to give aid to the flankers in their crucial quest to nullify the Aussie back row. O'Brien is there to carry. Ryan Jones' intelligence in spoiling later on in matches means he covers the back five.
In the backs, Bowe's injury makes room for Sharples. Sexton keeps his shirt, just. He has a long distance kicker to take the pressure off in the shape of Halfpenny. Davies, Tuilagi, Sharples and Goode should be capable of using any decent ball and Sexton is there to make them tick. I wouldn't have O'Gara touring even to give this lad his space. Burns is an exciting player to bring on if things open up.
I'm still open minded on Henson, but couldn't possibly draft him in whilst he is injured.
Hywel (@HywelV2) is head Rugby writer on the v2 Journal. A bundle of contradictions, he is a Solicitor and Farmer, a Scarlets supporter and a "conservative, forward orientated typical blydi prop".
This latest selection has made some changes to the Composite XV…follow this link to see how it shapes up. Next week it’s the turn of our Scottish panellist Kirsten Bruce.
