Favourite rugby players

Who are your favourite rugby players?

My favourites based on real performance are -

Habana, Le Roux, De Villiers, Etzebeth, Bismarck/Strauss and Labuschagne - the latter statistically and factually proven to be by far the best loosie in Super 15 this year of all competing teams.

All Blacks :  Carter, Ben Smith, Cane

British Lions : Halfpenny

Current

Etzebeth

Habana

JDV

Dagg

Read

Nonu

Past

Lomu

Michael Jones

Francois pienaar

James Small

Cullen

Andre Joubert

John Eales

Willie o  

Sasue

Come now - are you favouring Tomas - beca use he signed a contract with the Chiefs?  

Rooi

Amongst your all-time favourites - not also Hugo Porta - definitely one of mine. 

 Yes how can one leave out Danie Gerber...perhaps outside Frank Bunce the greatest ever.

Favourite today are Israel Dagg, Bryan Habana, Jean De Villiers, Patrick Lambie, Willie Le Roux, Eben Etzebeth, Ritchie Mc Caw, Dan Carter, Bismarck Du Plessis, Beast, Halfpenny, Thierry Dusatoir, Read, Rory Kockott, Mamuka Gorgodze (Montepellier/Georgia) and Parrisse.

Past is Philippe Sella, Andre Joubert, Serge Blanco, Gavin Hastings, Danie Gerber, Keith Oxlee, Tommy Bedford, Frik Du Preez, Joost Van Der Westhuizen, Henry Honiball, Thierry Le Croix, Mighty Mouse Mc Laughlin, JPR Williams, Hugo Porta, Gareth Edwards, Gordon Brown, John Eales, Campo, Georgie Gregan, Morne Du Plessis, Boland Coetzee, Rob Louw,Os Du Randt, Wilson Whineray, Sean Fitzpatrick, Uli Schmidt, Colin Meads, Don Clarke, Frank Bunce, Zin zan Brooke, Christian Cullen, Jeff Wilson and Rokocoko.

 Yes how can one leave out Danie Gerber...perhaps outside Frank Bunce the greatest ever.

Favourite today are Israel Dagg, Bryan Habana, Jean De Villiers, Patrick Lambie, Willie Le Roux, Eben Etzebeth, Ritchie Mc Caw, Dan Carter, Bismarck Du Plessis, Beast, Halfpenny, Thierry Dusatoir, Read, Rory Kockott, Mamuka Gorgodze (Montepellier/Georgia) and Parrisse.

Past is Philippe Sella, Andre Joubert, Serge Blanco, Gavin Hastings, Danie Gerber, Keith Oxlee, Tommy Bedford, Frik Du Preez, Joost Van Der Westhuizen, Henry Honiball, Thierry Le Croix, Mighty Mouse Mc Laughlin, JPR Williams, Hugo Porta, Gareth Edwards, Gordon Brown, John Eales, Campo, Georgie Gregan, Morne Du Plessis, Boland Coetzee, Rob Louw,Os Du Randt, Wilson Whineray, Sean Fitzpatrick, Uli Schmidt, Colin Meads, Don Clarke, Frank Bunce, Zin zan Brooke, Christian Cullen, Jeff Wilson and Rokocoko.

These are just players that flash through the grey matter...a good and interesting post by my colleagues...one thing I really love about rugby (or any other sport for that matter) is to dig up the archives...provided we do not suffer from altzhiemers (sic) it's a rather lovely past...I know it  is a sentimentalist subject, but like me and so many others like Ol' Maaik (and so is Mozzie) but rugby archives are interesting today....I always loved rugby...never really good at it but I was priviledged to go to school in my youth that bred great rugby players ( 2 WC winning Flyhalfs) and played rugby at the same school amongst those who became exceptional. I humbly say, what a priviledge...a school that tutored nice people and good citizens...taught us that vanity and pride is a useless pursuit in life unless it has unselfish motives...based on comradeship of the strife...the Boer War...we had boys at this school that were Dutch and English and were friends wayback in the start of 1900...because of political differences their lives were torn apart...the English against the Boers.

When they left to do their duty they agreed to identify each other by wearing a red band around their clothing or uniform...simply because a college boy does not shoot another...makes a mockery of war doesn't it??

Sorry off topic...but it's amazing how one's mind drifts sometimes.

Rooinek

Going back a bit - I think you left out Jannie Engelbrecht.   He was regarded at the time as the greatest wing ever - and in the tour to New Zealand he was so good that a Maori family named a son after him.   When he was Springbok Manager on a visit to New Zealand he spent some time with the family.   

I saw him scoring two tries with a broken collar bone in a CC final in Pretoria that decided the match in favour of the  WP.