Tame Tupou's nomination I raised my eyebrows at though Mogg from Canberra as well! Let me get this right, you want us to nominate the Best Backs in the NRL competition for 2005 yet you have 2 players (one player having little to zero NRL experience) sitting their right amongst greats like Lockyer, Johns, Minichello and Gower? Possible, though unlikely, but who knows, who picked SBW emergin outside Laurie Daley and those close to the Canterbury camp.
Tame has a chance of emerging playing outside established representative players and outside the GREAT Darren Lockyer, though Mogg is part of a team on the slide with a new halves pairing and 2 wingers outside him with little gametime in this competition. It will be a hard task for Mogg to emerge as on the games top backs.
Karmichael Hunt is not one of the best backs in this competition at the moment, yes, he would be one of the best young emerging players with Brett Stewart in the backline though I am not sure he will leap forward as one our best backs in the competition. Like Tupou, he has a chance too in a strong team, though with the likes of Minichello, Bowen, Slater, Wesser and Hodgson in his position, he will find it hard to be mentioned in the same sentence in only his second season. If he can continue to play at the level he showed as a 17 y.o., he will be ready to move to the next level in 2006/07 IMO. Brisbane fans are simply hoping he does not fall to the 'second year syndrome' curse.
My top backs by seasons end:
1 - A. Minichello
2 - A. Roberts
3 - W. Tonga
4 - M. Cooper
5 - L. Rooney
6 - D. Lockyer
7 - M. Orford
Emerging backline:
1 - K. Hunt
2 - L. McDougall
3 - J. Monaghan
4 - M. King
5 - J. Lolesi
6 - K. Gidley
7 - J. Williams
[edit: post edited after re-reading. cheers 
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