Bearfax
Grizzly old fart
There has been a strong push in the media to identify Billy Slater as the greatest full back ever and an Immoral.
The thing is several years ago Brett Stewart was considered the best and was at one time the League's pin up boy. It seems a court case (in which he was scurrilously and falsely accused of sexual assault of a minor), and career ending injuries that followed. It reduced his media support and any suggestions that he was the best full back in the game while he played, which was contemporary to Billy Slater's career. News Ltd in particularly, that was responsible for slurring Brett's name, has never come forward and apologised, and seems to have paradoxically refused since to place Stewart's name at the forefront, almost as if they blame him for their mistake.
Has Stewart been unfairly judged even now based on that accusation and those injuries and was he at least Slater's equal if not better when he was playing?
The thing is several years ago Brett Stewart was considered the best and was at one time the League's pin up boy. It seems a court case (in which he was scurrilously and falsely accused of sexual assault of a minor), and career ending injuries that followed. It reduced his media support and any suggestions that he was the best full back in the game while he played, which was contemporary to Billy Slater's career. News Ltd in particularly, that was responsible for slurring Brett's name, has never come forward and apologised, and seems to have paradoxically refused since to place Stewart's name at the forefront, almost as if they blame him for their mistake.
Has Stewart been unfairly judged even now based on that accusation and those injuries and was he at least Slater's equal if not better when he was playing?