WIDDOP SET TO MEET HIS MAKER
He didn’t know it at the time, but the man Billy Slater spent years mentoring as a fullback now shapes as being his and Australia’s biggest threat to winning international league’s greatest prize.
Through the late-2000s, when Widdop was a budding fullback in the Melbourne Storm junior system, Slater taught the England-born livewire almost everything he now knows about playing at the back of the field.
While they are vastly different players now – and Billy Slater is in a class of his own in terms of men who have worn the No.1 jersey – there are telltale signs Widdop honed his craft under the Australian great, from the way he identifies gaps when returning the ball through to how he chimes into the backline as a third playmaker.
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