I ended up taking your good fellow advice and trying a Bunnings click and collect order and got 100m of the rubber "protect a deck"
For the price of it, it wasn't worth trying to find a reason not to use it, and it will solve the potential issue I had of seeing the joists through the boards, and may even help cushion the boards a little to reduce squeaking.
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