Aku is the best 'Club winger in the game by a long way as far as I am concerned. None come close.
With that said though i don't think he is the Best rep winger Necessarily. Origin requires a different skillset to club football. As a winger you don't get any space to work in and (if you play for NSW lately) you rarely even get the ball in a 1 V 1 competition. The key way a winger will score in origin is in the corner after an overrlap or via a kick. The first a monkey can do, and the second takes aerial prowess (not Uates strength). Ultimately Uate's attacking strengths are silenced and he is left to just taking hitups early in the set (he is second to none here).
Other than Aerial prowess the ideal origin winger is strong defencively. Particularly for NSW because wingers are constantly left exposed to overlaps due to the QLD backline's ability. Aku isn't overly weak here but there are plenty better running around. He is too on and off.
I am not saying he shouldn't be playing Origin either. Just that it is a different game for wingers than club games with different attributes being more important.
The knights don't pay him to play rep games, they pay him to play club games and he is comfortably the best in the world at that.
