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Message: [QUOTE="Professor47, post: 2220129, member: 1831"] Personally, I'm one of the 'anti-Slater in rep' people. I think he is the best club footy fullback in the game right now. However the standard of quality in club footy, particularly in defense of the softer teams sometimes is appalling. Slater gets plenty of space and broken field room to perform his magic. However, this is hardly the case in origin and I do believe he gets exposed to pressure and physical domination particularly in the opening minutes - which are so important. On the other hand, he does things that no other player can do - such as making cover tackles and scoring tries purely by his speed and acceleration. You never know what you get with him - his a mixed bag and I don't think you need this from a fullback at rep level. This is my personal opinion - I just thing a Solid FB can set up a great platform for the opening minutes of origin. Eg. Hunt 2006 game 2 and 07 series and 08 when he started then Slater came off the bench. If we didn't have 18 starts in the first two games we could have been in trouble with Slater IMO. [/QUOTE]

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