SAINTS starlet Gareth Bale is set to come up against club colleague Chris Baird.

Bale was today named in the Welsh squad for the friendly against Baird's Northern Ireland in Belfast on February 6.

Wales squad: P Jones (QPR), Ward (Sunderland), Price (Ipswich), Bale (SAINTS), Duffy (Swansea), Morgan (Peterborough), Nyatanga (Derby), Ricketts (Hull), S Davies (Fulham), Fletcher (Crystal Palace), Koumas (WBA), Ledley (Cardiff), Robinson (Norwich), Vaughan (Crewe), Bellamy (Liverpool), Cotterill (Wigan), C Davies (Wolves), Easter (Wycombe), D Collins (Sunderland), Giggs (Man Utd), Parry (Cardiff), Llewellyn (Wrexham), S Evans (Wrexham), Valentine (Wrexham).

Saints youngster Lloyd James is in the Welsh under-21 squad to play the Irish the same day. Also named is ex-Saints defender Kyle Critchell, who joined Chesterfield last week, and Bournemouth's Southampton-born striker Sam Vokes.

Wales U21 squad to play Northern Ireland at the Oval, Belfast on February 6: Hennessey (Wolves), O Williams (Crewe), Bradley (Walsall), Critchell (Chesterfield), Gunter (Cardiff), Jacobson (Cardiff), M Williams (Wrexham), Blake (Cardiff), M Collins (Fulham), R Davies (WBA), D Edwards (Shrewsbury), Grubb (Bristol City), L James (SAINTS), MacDonald (Swansea), Warlow (Lincoln), C Evans (Man City), C Jones (Swansea), Vokes (Bournemouth).