Just watched the Canberra v Melbourne game and this guy is awsome.most fullbacks in super league when put under pressure you expect them to make a mistake 50% of the time or at least 25% of the time.This guy .you would have no worries when he is under pressure,I get the same safe feeling watching Slater as I did watching Steve Hampson,always dependable and willing to break the line,I know it's never going to happen(or is it) but would love to see this guy in the world famous cherry and white

Best fullback in the world.

Interesting he was playing a stand-off type role at times in that game to.

I take it you didn't watch the World Cup Final? Biggest game in rugby league, well, maybe Origin is bigger, but certainly the biggest game in international rugby league. Australia are losing by 2 with 20 minutes to go, New Zealand put a kick into the corner, Slater fields it 5 metres up, 5 metres in, and tries to go round the outside of the chasers! He gets easily shoved into touch but manages to throw the ball into the field of play for New Zealand to score the easiest try you'll ever see. I don't watch NRL every week so maybe I've missed him maturing but that stunk to me of a player who was more bothered about his own highlights reel than winning the game for his team.

Haha is this for real, did you not see his performances for Australia in 4 nations and over past 3 seasons in NRL, hes an outstanding player, one of his generation I think he'll go down as when hes finished, remember THAT try he scored for the Maroons when he was only a young fella still, one of best origin tries of all time, could tell he was special then.

One screw up, thats all youve got???



Didnt you see him in the 4 nations, particularly against us? This guy is amazing and has been for years. I suggest you try and watch some NRL because he is one those players you love to watch, his ability is unreal at times...

Tell me, you wasnt the gobe sat behind us at the DW when we played australia last season..saying Slater would get found out in SL ??

I really hope not..hes gone down in the history books as the least knowledgable fan ever.

Player in making a mistake shocker?

It's happened to all players (yes Rads and Hampo did feck up sometimes to)

'Show me a player with 0 errors in the stat column and I'll show you a player whose afraid to try the matchwinning play' - Wayne Bennett

Tell me someone didnt say that? I just spat my tea all over my monitor! Found out in superleague. They wouldnt tig him never mind tackle him.

lmao! No he would break try scoring records in the SL for sure, he's the best attacking full back around.

That's a great quote

He's an awesome attacker, the best attacking full back there is, but is he really that dependable in defence? That's the area of his game I've never really seen and I've watched every England Australia game and most of the NZ Australia games too.

there was two of them and both were a complete embaressment to wigan fans..

The only thing that annoyed me about Slater at the DW was the amount of whinging that he did.

He's an awesome player when he just stops whining to the referee constantly and plays.

Sweet child o mine! you get some reall mouth breathers at International games. Remember the game against nz at blackburn where karl pratt got bombed to death, well a chap behind me was blaming faz, when asked why, the reponse i got (swearing removed)

"he's the captain, he should be sorting it, get him off he's useless" (faz not pratt)

had a leigh shirt on though, so explains a lot!

I'd forgotten how much crap Farrell used to get, any time we lost the buck seemed to stop with him the eyes of a lot of fans. It's a good argument for having a leadership team I suppose.

It was unbelievable, i was surrounded by people who couldnt see past their hatred for all things Wigan.

He's always like that, a typical Aussie whinger



He really annoyed me how many times he throw away the ball in that game

I know it's never going to happen(or is it) but would love to see this guy in the world famous cherry and white'"

I think almost every team would love to see Billy Slater as their club

Jesus, they have the internet in Woolston?!

Now you've said it,I think I would rather see Stacey Slater in the famous cherry and white.That would increase the attendance figures.Can we also sign Kelly Brook to play loose forward and maybe redesign the kit for something even tighter with smaller shorts

We could have a kit made of rice paper,

please rain please rain please rain !

I was over in aus last year, managed to catch a few games, and the majority of aussies hated billy slater but f*** me, some of the tries i watched him score, some of the tackles he made, were absolutely above and beyond our super league, an absolute miracle worker, but he's a little rat xD

I thought canberra's josh dugan, is outstanding, that tackle on adam blair (i think) was absolutely world class. Whoever it was, he kept a prop forward out while he was running full pelt at him with only him to run at whilst 1 metre away from the line, awesome.

Then he picks an outstanding ball up should of been a try, left billy slater in no-mans land, but unfairly it was not awarded. He looks a good-un