Bradford's Great Britain hard-man Stuart Fielden knows he is being watched - but it's not something that bothers him. In fact, he quite likes it.

If there's one thing an Aussie rugby league club likes, it's a hard-nosed 'Pommy' front rower.

The success of Harvey Howard and Adrian Morley Down Under has shown that British props can not only cut the mustard in the NRL, but can in fact be star attractions.

Of all the players in the British game, the 25-year-old Fielden would be the most likely to succeed in Australia.

Fielden caught of the eye of the NRL scouts in last year's Ashes series and he knows they will be back at the City of Manchester Stadium to run the rule over him once again when Great Britain take their bow in the Gillette Tri-Nations tonight.

"You can't say that you don't think about it," admitted Fielden. "I've obviously made it well known that I am happy at Bradford, but I do want to go to Australia at some point in time. It is something I am looking at, so these matches are even bigger for me. And what better place to impress than on the world stage against the world's best?"

Last year's 3-0 whitewash is still fresh in the mind of Great Britain players, but Fielden insists the Australians won't have a mental edge tonight.

"I don't buy into that at all. Last year we lost all three Tests in the last five minutes. The Aussies scored from 75 per cent of their breaks, we scored from 25 per cent.

"If you look at the stats, it is not some guy sat there with a voodoo doll sticking pins in it to make us lose, it was us that lost the games.

"But the past is the past. With the new faces and the new caps in our side, there will be a lot of enthusiasm going around."