World Rugby Team of the Year

As selected by Rugby Pass:

World Rugby Men’s 15s Dream Team of the Year
1. Wyn Jones (Wales)
2. Malcolm Marx (South Africa)
3. Tadhg Furlong (Ireland)
4. Maro Itoje (England)
5. Eben Etzebeth (South Africa)
6. Siya Kolisi (South Africa)
7. Michael Hooper (Australia)
8. Ardie Savea (New Zealand)
9. Antoine Dupont (France)
10. Beauden Barrett (New Zealand)
11. Makazole Mapimpi (South Africa)
12. Samu Kerevi (Australia)
13. Lukhanyo Am (South Africa)
14. Will Jordan (New Zealand)
15. Stuart Hogg (Scotland)

Can’t say I agree with all of it:

Jordie Barrett  for Hogg

Kolbe for Jordan

Kolisi is a political choice….so maybe Boris Johnson imitating Schalk Burger.

Kitshoff for WYN Jones

Kolbe scored the crucial try in the Lions’ series….I’d pick Cheslin to score any try Jordan would score and a bunch he wouldn’t.

Nope Itoje is way better than Lomp. Retallik and Whitelock had poor seasons. Willemse is excessively clumsy….great physical potential with a Wiese brain. Henderson maybe.

Curry over Kolisi.

"Bye the way Where is Augenoffner?"

Indeed...

M Power..."I would like to see Tomas “ Ole” lavanini next to Eben. Both storm troopers."

So would I but unfortunately he cannot control his immature aggression and uses it to the detriment of his team and is destroying his career. He has so much but when you cannot harness your control over your emotions you lose everything. Maybe the penny will eventually drop and he will grow up and become a great player. He is very physically strong and is a good player.

And on reflection I would pick Duhan van der Merwe over Mapimpi at left wing. The same argument I made for Kolbe. Duhan would never have been stopped on those Mapimpi overlap tries…but he did so much more for the Lions taking high balls and busting through traffic.

Mapimpi is the best finisher in the gam...hands down. DvdM is good, but MM is way better...a fit Kolby rules the 14 roost too....and DsA makes it as top 12 in most other world 15's teams. Bokke is at a good place ATM...World no1...and it shows...clearly...

Well the Wallies aren’t very bright….they can’t see all Dud’s errors like giving the Poms the test.

Best finisher in the game….geez Draad you really swallow all these lines. Mapimpi has no step, he is not particularly powerful…he is fast but that’s about it. Duhan may be a step or two slower….but he does have a sidestep and can smash through a goal line defence. 

And Mapimpi is a serial defensive liability 

Dave nobody could say you haven’t put up a vigorous defence of Dud Allende, you are loyalty personified. But no,  he was the barn door that lost the test….if Dud wasn’t supposed to tackle Marchant, who the hell was?

 Kerevi showed us what a centre is supposed to do, take gaps and feed his outside backs.,,..not just ferret around playing the fetcher and crash ball  like a blindside flanker.

If anybody personifies the dull toothless rugby we have played this year it’s Dud Allende, no centre in test rugby has had more ball and fewer attacking contributions.

It's lts clear ou Mozzzzz hasn't taken his meds today. Same old drivel about Allende. He can't help himself. 

Allende had a great season.

Where is the Org. Well the Org took a pounding this year due to a his many absurd posts that showed he doesn't understand the game.

Hope he does some serious reflecting on all the comments posted to put the oak on the right track. 

"Where is the Org. Well the Org took a pounding this year due to a his many absurd posts that showed he doesn't understand the game."

He's still around.

Jantjies tackled the man he was supposed to tackle….if there was a misunderstanding it was all Dud…..lost us the test. A dull plodder. As for Dud token selection Toit, is he still injured after the wing got hold of him?

Waaaaaaahahaha….Dud replacing Jean. You can’t be serious. But he’s in good company Stepfontein, Wynand Olivier and JJ Englebrecht were also better than Jean in your books.

But I ask you for one name…if Dud wasn’t supposed to tackle Marchant, who was? None of your bullshit, just a name please.

They always stop Dud Allende….has any Bok 12 in history beat less tackles per carry.

Remember this one Dave :

And this one Dave:

Hall Of Fame

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He is far better than Jean was aged 21........is able to beat his man on the inside and outside and is bloody powerful.......Jean was good but Jan is better 

You see I never lie Dave, surely you know that by now. So when I say you said something, you said something…being honest just makes life so uncomplicated.

Okay I found an old reference where you put Olivier behind JdV. I think if we could go further back into the 2009 time frame I might be vindicated. But let’s chalk that up as my mistake. But as per the above references you preferred Serfontein to JdV and JJ to Fury. It’s there in black and white……in retrospect, huge blunders.