What about Joe Lydon? He had everything required of a great full back. Good positional sense with a sound football brain, good tackler, fantastic kicker, good under high ball with a great kick return game and pace to burn. His try in the 1986 Old Trafford Test against Australia was a scorcher and the first by a GB full back against Australia for donkeys years.

I'd have taken Radlinski at his best over Minichiello at his. Slater's another class.

Slater is an amazing runner - but not the best full back for me.

Look up "Tony (TREX) Williams using Billy Slater as a speedbump". When did you ever see Radders, Connolly, Wellens, Hampo, Jack or even Webb look so blatantly terrified of the big man coming at them, avoiding making a real tackle? As any half decent RL player knows, tall/big lads should be fairly easy for a good tackler to bring down with a few yards of space.

Personally always felt safest with Connolly at full-back, followed by Radders. Paul was simply an amazingly gifted player and to be fair Wellens has been superb for that lot. It may be sentimentality, but in the back of my mind I always ranked Hampo for his all-round game - I always picture him springing up for the high ball with a textbook leap, and a pair of incredibly safe hands. Plus he had a nasty streak

Billy Slater by an absolutely enormous margin from that list.

It just depends what you want from your fullback. I grew up watching Radlinski, he was defensively fantastic, just watch the 2002 cup final for a masterclass in defensive fullback play. Slater, attacking wise, is absolute quality. The guy is a freak, his footwork, acceleration and positioning is world class without a doubt, but defensively he's no Radlinski. The thing is, he doesn't have to be, he's there as an attacking weapon which makes it very difficult to compare the two, in some ways they are/were playing in different positions.

Chris Ashton he he