Will Kalyn Ponga surpass Billy Slater as the greatest fullback ever?

[Knuckle-dragger]

Ryan Cross

Nick Farr-Jones?

 

[typicalfan]

Nick Farr-Jones?

Wendell Sailor

 

[Knuckle-dragger]

Wendell Sailor

Ken Catchpole?

 

[Albert Rosenfeld]

Watch James Tedesco run past Kalyn Ponga next Sunday.

 

[Travitoh]

This the whole problem with the way NRL pumps up its elite players. Too much hype around individual players, just makes them ripe for the picking. RU can sign that player, gain an elite player and the associated hype that RL has created.

Who was the last elite player to go from league to union? Folau/Hunt via VFL?

 

[Rhyno]

Who was the last elite player to go from league to union? Folau/Hunt via VFL?

Sam burgess and Radradra are the most recent elite league players to go union

 

[Travitoh]

Sam burgess and Radradra are the most recent elite league players to go union

Radradra had a bit more going on than simply being poached.

 

[Pedge1971]

There is nothing like the crowd at an NRL Grand Final. That is something that the Sydney Roosters can offer Kalyn Ponga. Plus the Roosters offer the chance for Kalyn Ponga to match himself against the Dutch Billy Slater, Ryan Papenhuyzen, in a Grand Final.

Nope. They mostly win the $100k minor premiership in front of a few seagulls. The 18th man was really behind them at the scg today....

 

[Pedge1971]

This the whole problem with the way NRL pumps up its elite players. Too much hype around individual players, just makes them ripe for the picking. RU can sign that player, gain an elite player and the associated hype that RL has created.

You see this as a problem? f**k they are damned if they do and damned if they dont.....

 

[Pedge1971]

Ken Catchpole?

Courtney Beavis or whoever

 

[ReddFelon]

Minichiello was better than Slater anyway, but Ponga isn't as good as Turbo or Tedesco.

 

[Rhino_NQ]

He's no jarryd sammut

 

[Bowzy]

Tedesco already has.

 

[betcats]

Ponga is amazing but you’d take teddy over him every day of the week right now, it’s not close.

 

[Noname36]

You can’t even really compare Ponga and Tedesco. Their games are very different and so are their strengths.

 

[betcats]

You can’t even really compare Ponga and Tedesco. Their games are very different and so are their strengths.

TheY play the same position, you can compare their impact for sure the kangaroos selectors will be doing that. Notbagging Ponga at all, Teddy is just on another level right now. I wouldn’t just assume Ponga is going to go past Teddy anytime soon.

 

[Pistol_Pete]

Shannon McDonnell shits on all of them

 

[no name]

Ponga’s useless, he can’t even win an Origin series.
Mitch Pearce even has one.

 

[Tommy Smith]

Well going forward I think Qld would be mad not to go with:

1. Munster
6. Ponga
7. DCE

I don't believe Ponga has the size, kick returns or running game from inside his own territory to ever be as good as Teddy at Origin level.

Even Slater never reached Lord Ted's legendary heights of the last two series consistently in Origin.

At Origin level there's Lord Ted and then there's the other blokes.

 

[Captain Apollo]

Well going forward I think Qld would be mad not to go with:

1. Munster
6. Ponga
7. DCE

I don't believe Ponga has the size, kick returns or running game from inside his own territory to ever be as good as Teddy at Origin level.

Even Slater never reached Lord Ted's legendary heights of the last two series consistently in Origin.

At Origin level there's Lord Ted and then there's the other blokes.

Sorry Tommy but you obviously didn't watch Ponga play five eight for the Knights earlier this year. He was terrible in the multiple games he played there. He didn't start showing any real form until he went back to fullback. No way in the wild world he will be playing five eight for Qld anytime soon - not unless Qld want to lose.