2016 TSF Team of the Year
-
@mariner4life said in 2016 TSF Team of the Year:
I don't know why we run this. It's going to be a bunch of All Blacks, some Irishmen because they beat us (only if we can't find a stand out AB), and a token English player because they won a bunch.
Kind of coz I enjoy it. And I do like to see who everyone thinks is the best.
And we're the best judges of who is good and who is not
FYI. kind of sad but did you know that not a single Saffa has been nominated (unless they're playing for Ireland ... or Scotland ... )
-
For some reason I can't convert the original threads to polls ... will have to create new ones.
May see if I can consolidate them after that.
Got to this a bit later than I intended. Will keep polls open for 10 days or a couple of weeks or so.
Feel free to vote when set up.
Cheers
-
-
@mariner4life said in 2016 TSF Team of the Year:
@MajorRage said in 2016 TSF Team of the Year:
@mariner4life said in 2016 TSF Team of the Year:
I don't know why we run this. It's going to be a bunch of All Blacks, some Irishmen because they beat us (only if we can't find a stand out AB), and a token English player because they won a bunch.
Go forth, young padawan
Gratuitous upvote for Star Wars reference right there.
-
OK Folks.
I suspect we can all see the results of the polls as I'm not being bombarded to publish the results.
Am not going to go with a full on "press release" this year - as I'm not feeling particularly creative. Teams is as below.
Am a little surprised with some of the selections and there is plenty of fodder for the NZ haters and cultural cringers to whinge about NZers being selected.
Anyway - the 2016 TSF ToTY, consisting 11 All Blacks, 11 Oirish, 1 Argie and coached by a England-resident Japanese-Australian, is:
No. Surname First Name Country % of vote Comment 2015 1 McGRATH Jack IRE 67% 2 COLES Dane NZL 90% 3 FRANKS Owen NZL 61% 4 RETALLICK Brodie NZL 72% 5 WHITELOCK Samuel NZL 88% 6 KAINO Jerome NZL 58% 7 CANE Sam NZL 30% 8 ISA Facundo ARG 60% 9 SMITH Aaron NZL 42% 10 BARRETT Beauden NZL 100% (unopposed) 12 HENSHAW Robbie IRE 40% 13 LIENERT-BROWN Anton NZL 42% 11 ZEBO Simon IRE 47% 14 DAGG Israel NZL 79% 15 SMITH Ben NZL 100% (unopposed) coach JONES Eddie ENG 58% -
-
-
Of more note than no SA players is the lack of any English players bar the coach. Eddie must be some coach to get a bunch of nobodies going through an entire season unbeaten...
-
@Nepia said in 2016 TSF Team of the Year:
Clearly the Irish voting block was more powerful than the Cantab voting block at 12 .... Even I voted for Crotty and it didn't help.
Shit I thought you'd nominate Ian Macrae for the 12 spot. Wasn't he the last Hawkes Bay bred AB midfielder?
-
@No-Quarter are you surprised? This is the Fern, how many England games did everyone watch? The 4 against the Wallabies?
-
@mariner4life said in 2016 TSF Team of the Year:
@No-Quarter are you surprised? This is the Fern, how many England games did everyone watch? The 4 against the Wallabies?
Having paid little attention to the voting here which Poms were in with a shot? Vunipola at number 8? Farrell? Their fullback has had his moments too but he's no '100% Ben Smith'
-
@MN5 said in 2016 TSF Team of the Year:
@mariner4life said in 2016 TSF Team of the Year:
@No-Quarter are you surprised? This is the Fern, how many England games did everyone watch? The 4 against the Wallabies?
Having paid little attention to the voting here which Poms were in with a shot? Vunipola at number 8? Farrell? Their fullback has had his moments too but he's no '100% Ben Smith'
I really don't know how Itoje missed out. Second best player in the world last year.
-
@hydro11 said in 2016 TSF Team of the Year:
@MN5 said in 2016 TSF Team of the Year:
@mariner4life said in 2016 TSF Team of the Year:
@No-Quarter are you surprised? This is the Fern, how many England games did everyone watch? The 4 against the Wallabies?
Having paid little attention to the voting here which Poms were in with a shot? Vunipola at number 8? Farrell? Their fullback has had his moments too but he's no '100% Ben Smith'
I really don't know how Itoje missed out. Second best player in the world last year.
He looked pretty impressive from what I've seen. Etzebeth probably suffered by being in such a shithouse Bok team.
-
@hydro11 said in 2016 TSF Team of the Year:
@MN5 said in 2016 TSF Team of the Year:
@mariner4life said in 2016 TSF Team of the Year:
@No-Quarter are you surprised? This is the Fern, how many England games did everyone watch? The 4 against the Wallabies?
Having paid little attention to the voting here which Poms were in with a shot? Vunipola at number 8? Farrell? Their fullback has had his moments too but he's no '100% Ben Smith'
I really don't know how Itoje missed out. Second best player in the world last year.
NZers watch more ABs games. The ABs locks are always two of the better performers in the ABs.
-
@Nepia also think the Chicago test also highlighted just how good they are as well.
Always amuses me that on a Kiwi based website, for rugby, people are surprised there is a bias toward kiwis in polls like these.
God, I remember when I was in the UK and was about 2001 the BBC ran a greatest team of all time poll, and I think 1 Kiwi made it, more English than anyone else did.
