Lockyer, Slater and Radlinski are the three best FBs i've evey seen. However the first and last are much better all-round players but Slater does come close to making up for that with his attacking.

How come Mathew Ridge didn't make the list?

Interesting. I never rated Lockyer at fullback. If you remember it was a tactic of GB to pressurise him when he played there as he was susceptible to errors when put under pressure. I have to say his deficiencies at fullback were covered somewhat by playing in awesome sides. Under pressure he was distinctly average. You can see this to a degree with his play at SO where he always plays well behind the line.

EDIT: Thought it best to point out that when I say "didn't rate" I meant in terms of this debate. He was obviously a very good player!

Didn't you make the list?

LMAO

I thought Garry Jack was a better all round fullback. Slater has the same frailties as Lockyer but is a more potent attacking threat than Lockyer was from fullback. Again, for those who didn't get the chance to see much of Lockyer at fullback, you can still see this from his play at SO. He was never blessed with the blistering pace of Slater for example, and the reason he has been so successful from SO over the years has been down to his supreme ability at organising a team; in fact rarely does he ever need to get tackled. He never had that luxury from fullback except, as I say, courtesy of the time afforded him playing in a great team. Pressurise him and he was a different player. I think it's interesting that, despite the number of great 6's Australia have had over his time, Aussie coaches preferred him at SO at International level, even when he was playing FB at club level. Having said all that, he was (and still is) an excellent player whichever position he played. Just a better stand off than fullback IMO.

How you can do a greatest full back poll without Steve Hampson I don't know.

Dave

because i had posted something about Rads and somebody else stated that Webb and Slater where better, therefore i started this poll for those 3 players and added Wellens in for a laugh, now some unscrupulous so and so has added Mathers

For the older generation Graham Eadie in his pomp was a mighty full back

You could say that about every GB player for the last 20 odd years. They'd have received far better coaching at an early age.

This poll is pretty funny though, Radlinski is on par with Wellens in the great scheme of things, club greats and that clubs fans will laud them everyone else wonders what they are going on about.

Neither are on a par with Slater, and even less so with two better full backs in Minichello and Lockyer.

Is Garry Jack the blonde haired lad who played for NSW in the mid/late 80's? Managed to get a video of the 1987 and 1988 State of Origins I think, it was a while back and he was class!

Yes he played a bit for Salford too.

Minichello is a player who's career has been ruined by injury if ever there was one. At his peak he was an immense player and if it hadn't been for the injuries he could have been looking at going down as an alltime great.

It's been a shame not sseeing more of him over the years.

Quote: Coventry Warrior! "Is Garry Jack the blonde haired lad who played for NSW in the mid/late 80's? Managed to get a video of the 1987 and 1988 State of Origins I think, it was a while back and he was class!'" Yeah, that's the one. Golden boot winner and unchallnged as the best fullback in the world for many years. Check this out: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Jack Still the best there's been for mine.

Quote: Coventry Warrior! "Is Garry Jack the blonde haired lad who played for NSW in the mid/late 80's? Managed to get a video of the 1987 and 1988 State of Origins I think, it was a while back and he was class!'" Yeah, that's the one. Golden boot winner and unchallnged as the best fullback in the world for many years. Check this out: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Jack Still the best there's been for mine.