Wish we had a choice like that if our first choice fullback ever got injured and missed a four nations tournament.

He has looked a bit "Michael Platt-esque" in defence at times this year at the back but if he's defending in the line the Aussies are going to throw their big men at him which could be disastrous. At best doing more defence would blunt his attacking abilities.

It's a conundrum.

Australia have plenty of fullback options with Hayne and Inglis and could even look at Brett Stewart or Matt Moylem and they'd still be better than what we have.

Probably thought the same when we had Radlinski and Wellens tbf. And then when Briscoe came onto the scene.

He's been decidedly average in defence this year.

ope, I didn't actually, I never rated Wellens as anything more than solid, and Radlinski is the biggest international failure of the last 40 years IMO. The options we have now are far better.

Its probably not a bad thing for the Kangaroo's, Slater is on the way down.