Saints' Louie McCarthy-Scarsbrook's 400th Super League game

The St Helens forward is likely to be on the bench for the derby with Wigan at the DW Stadium and he will be as eager to get off it as he was when his career started with Harlequins in 2006.

Between then and 2010 LMS made 91 Super League appearances for the Londoners and since joining the Red Vee brigade in 2011 he has gone on to make a further 308 league, play-off and Super 8s games.

“It is an incredible record and it’s a real credit to him,” said his boss Kristian Woolf.

“It’s an outstanding achievement and it’s a real credit to him as a person and player. I say ‘person’ because you don’t get to play for as long as he has if you’re not an outstanding person. And that’s certainly what he is.

“It’s a credit to him physically in how he looks after himself and how he goes about performing every week because you don’t get selected for that many games if you don’t do those things.

“He deserves a lot of congratulations because it’s a very tough achievement that I don’t thing we’re going to see a hell of a lot of in the future. He deserves all the fanfare he gets.”

Selection of LMS pictures from 2007 to 2022, all taken by SWpix.com

LMS still seems to run round the field like a spring chicken, full of beans in a bid to complete the mission at hand.

“He does play like he’s on younger legs and he’s got the ability to do that because he’s such an athlete,” said Woolf.

“For a big man he can move so quickly and so well, and for a 36-year-old he still does that so well.

“I can also probably say sometimes he doesn’t act his age either, but that’s one of the beauties of him as well - that he’s got such a way of making things fun.

“Even though he has played 400 games, and I’m not sure how many training sessions and weights sessions that comes out at, but he’s been able to do that for so long.

“Yet he’s a bloke that walks in every day with a smile on his face, you can see that he’s got a genuine enjoyment about being here and playing his part here and that’s infectious.

“And that’s one of the strengths of his character. He’s got that infectious kind of mindset that makes it fun and enjoyable for other players and that certainly adds to a great environment.”

Will he be around for the 2023 season though?

“He’s probably a little bit like James Roby that if he’s playing the way he’s playing he doesn’t deserve a tap on the shoulder and that’s certainly the way we look at him at the minute,” said Woolf.

“So he’s got to make a decision himself in terms of what he wants to do and how he’s feeling, and then when he lets us know and if his performances say he deserves to be then we can figure out how we can make that happen.”