Ray French

Worst poll ever! Absolutly zero variety, might as well as who is the best prop ever in Rugby League: -

Kelvin Skerrett
Ricky Bibey
Steve Price
Terry O'Connor

Andre Stoop was the best full back EVER.

Paul Wellens!!!!!!









TBF the only way to make it a poll would to also put hampo in. (which I expected tbh).

The only one close on that list to rads is billy slater......webb isnt half as good as hes hyped up to be and as for wello

Disagree. Slater has his flashes of brilliance, but he makes some horrendous cock ups, mainly in defence. He's far from solid.

For defence and general solidity, Rad has him licked. Slater's a more dangerous attacker.

Yeh but he was a lazy ba5tard. Lydon was undoubtedly a great player when the TV cameras were on him, but he went missing a hell of a lot. As someone who was regularly stood on the Central Park terraces when Lydon was playing for us, I can pretty much confirm that he got more abuse from Wigan fans than anyone.

Lydon was a threequarter, really. The above try was magnificent, but it was a winger's try when all's said and done, running in an arc, drawing Garry Jack, then taking him on round the outside. He just happened to be playing fullback that day.

As an out and out fullback, Hampson was much better.

Was going to mention him, could that man jump or what?!!!! Bit of a hot head at times but one of the most entertaining fullbacks to play the game

In terms of relevance to Wigan then it's Radlinski all day.

However, I voted for Billy Slater because he is tremendous.

Its a random selection of players and others have already mentioned other full backs that really should of been included as they were as good as if not better than the players you listed.

In my life time i have not seen a more complete full back than Darren Lockyer and it is very much debatable as to whether he will be remembered more as a great stand-off or a great full back, probably both and deservadley so.

Whilst Slater and Minichello before him are both world class full backs they do have weaknesses, particularly in defence. Slater has the ability to just create something out of nothing in attack but he also has the odd brain explosion from time to time.

Darren Lockyer was and still is simply bullet proof.

He made the error in the world cup final and that could well hang over his head for the rest of his career and beyond but besides that he's pretty reliable.................i wouldn't say no if Melbourne fancy offloading him



As for Rads he was outstanding. As a Wigan player he's simply brilliant and evrybody of this era will remember him until the day they snuff it. The preformence at Murryfield literally brought a tear to my eye and it summed up the lads passion for the club, his mates and the town.

I still reckon Slater is a gem though and has him beat just about.

Slater's defence is fantastic, don't let one or two incidents make you think otherwise.

I won't but from watching him in the four nations (i don't have access to NRL games) he didn't look 100% solid when faced with a one on one situation.

For me, it has always been Radlinski. Not only is he one of the best players of his generation but he is also an absolute top class bloke as well. It was a privilege to watch him play. To come back and play and get us out of the mire was nothing short of absolutely magnificent, especially as he was facing doing serious damage to his health long term. Who can forget that away game at Leeds in the final run in that year!

I take my hat off to Slater, he is a great player but he does have great players around him. I take nothing away from Slater, however Radders is indeed "the last of the Corinthians"!

He's fantastic at one on one tackling and positions his body spot on when it comes to try line tackling making sure he gets under the ball.

Like a lot of the Australian players, he didn't have the best tournament of his life but still found enough to tear us a new one when he needed to. He's the best fullback in the world by a margin (and that includes Jarryd Hayne - who again if you go off the four nations, you'd be thinking he was poor when infact he's a scarily good player) and has been for a couple of years now.

He'd be the standout fullback in the world even if he played for Leigh mate.

Radlinski better all round than that lot put together.

How the hell did Wellens get in there ? My old Mum can run faster than he can.

Wigans greatest full backs are;

Jim Sullivan

Martin Ryan

Steve Hampson

Kris Radlinski

Your right about Jarryd Hayne, he was probably the player i was most looking forward to seeing having only heard about him prior to the four nations and after seeing him i didnt come away thinking he was anything special although im not sure if he was playing in his favoured position?

Correct, he plays fullback for the Eels where the more central role gives him the freedom to show his talents. He had a poor spell at the start of the season playing at stand-off but was devastating and a massive part of the Eels making the grand final for the rest of the season. He played on the wing during the four nations, and outside Justin Hodges for most of it which is a big factor in why he didn't seem to do much. He plays wing for NSW in origin to, but outside Michael Jennings+Joel Monaghan. He did a lot better in the final when he was moved to the left wing outside Inglis.

Lets just face it every team in Australia etc has a full back who must be good.

In my view we do not have a full back who would get a game in the NRL. This is a sad state of affairs.

To be fair they're not all in the same class as Billy Slater, Jarryd Hayne, Matt Bowen, or Karmichael Hunt (before he had his head turned by $$). There are fullbacks who are more like ours have been (defence orientated) like Kurt Gidley

I too would say Lockyer is the best full-back I have seen whilst watching the game. I appreciate there may have been better before him in some people's eyes but in the modern era he is my stand out choice.

And to add to that i think that Shaun Briscoe acquited himself very well in the four nations for England.

Lance Hohaia however is certanly not solid although he remains a quality player for New Zealend. Surely the Kiwi's have better options at full back?

It's not just one error though, is it? His one on one tackling is suspect.

WHAT??!!?!?!

Maybe Kevin Sinfield should be added to the list. He would get more votes than Slater.