Billy Walters jokes that he could be the best player in the competition, and he’d still cop abuse if his Australia coach dad, Kevin Walters, selected him for the national team.

Despite the Brisbane Broncos star hitting career-best form, on-field performances has never seemed to shake nepotism accusations for the son of an NRL great.

“I could be winning the Dally M and if you picked me, there would still be the doubters,” Walters quipped, when asked if a Kangaroos berth for this year’s Ashes tour to England could beckon.

“I just keep telling him I’ll take control of the Emus – the boys who aren’t playing – or I’ll go over as a staff member and try to get on that trip.”

That has been Walters’ life since arriving at Red Hill under the tutelage of his old man.

Thrust into the No.9 jumper,

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