It's here! ... Team of the Year
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@toddy said in It's here! ... Team of the Year:
@machpants any chance you can also post the players he picks so I don't have to watch it
@delicatessen What's the spoiler code? The help doesn't help!
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@toddy said in It's here! ... Team of the Year:
@machpants any chance you can also post the players he picks so I don't have to watch it
Well Jordie Barrett and Rieko Ioane don't rate a mention in his back three review, so I wouldn't bother.
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@tim said in It's here! ... Team of the Year:
@toddy said in It's here! ... Team of the Year:
@machpants any chance you can also post the players he picks so I don't have to watch it
Well Jordie Barrett and Rieko Ioane don't rate a mention in his back three review, so I wouldn't bother.
Ioane was in the centres one
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@machpants I did, and skipped through some of it. Didn't see either of them discussed in his selections or rated a mention parts. Did see them briefly on screen.
Also, he sounds like a particularly adenoidal teenager, and is about as funny as the average Stuff comments section poster.
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@tim said in It's here! ... Team of the Year:
@machpants I did, and skipped through some of it. Didn't see either of them discussed in his selections or rated a mention parts. Did see them briefly on screen.
Also, he sounds like a particularly adenoidal teenager, and is about as funny as the average Stuff comments section poster.
Jordie is honourably mentioned in the back the, as 'one of the ABs real weapons this year'.
I think he's funny as, and enjoy it. Also was he points out at the start, this is not the best player in that position as much as the ones he enjoys watching the most.
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@machpants said in It's here! ... Team of the Year:
@toddy said in It's here! ... Team of the Year:
@machpants any chance you can also post the players he picks so I don't have to watch it
@delicatessen What's the spoiler code? The help doesn't help!
Yeah sorry I can't help either
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@delicatessen said in It's here! ... Team of the Year:
@machpants said in It's here! ... Team of the Year:
@toddy said in It's here! ... Team of the Year:
@machpants any chance you can also post the players he picks so I don't have to watch it
@delicatessen What's the spoiler code? The help doesn't help!
Yeah sorry I can't help either
just presumed it was doable.I'm sure it is, but ask the ones I've used on different forums don't work here
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@antipodean said in It's here! ... Team of the Year:
Oh
::: no such luck then, @delicatessen ! :::
😎
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Results so far:
15 Jordie Barrett
14 Will Jordan
13 Lukanyo Am
12 Samu Kerevi
11 Rieko Ioane
10 Romaine Ntamack
9 Antoine Dupont
8 Duane Vermuelen/Ardie Savea (tie)
7 Michael Hooper
6 Siya Kolisi
5 Eben Etsebeth
4 Maro Itoje
3 Tahdg Furlong
2 Samisoni Taukei'aho
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@tim said in It's here! ... Team of the Year:
Results so far:
15 Jordie Barrett
14 Will Jordan
13 Lukanyo Am
12 Samu Kerevi
11 Rieko Ioane
10 Romaine Ntamack
9 Antoine Dupont
8 Duane Vermuelen/Ardie Savea (tie)
7 Michael Hooper
6 Siya Kolisi
5 Eben Etsebeth
4 Maro Itoje
3 Tahdg Furlong
2 Samisoni Taukei'aho
1 Steven KitshoffJordie Barrett is Fern World FullBack of the year?
Ferners are fucking morons
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@hooroo who should be there instead? Jordie was one of the best all year, despite the French game.
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@hooroo said in It's here! ... Team of the Year:
@tim said in It's here! ... Team of the Year:
Results so far:
15 Jordie Barrett
14 Will Jordan
13 Lukanyo Am
12 Samu Kerevi
11 Rieko Ioane
10 Romaine Ntamack
9 Antoine Dupont
8 Duane Vermuelen/Ardie Savea (tie)
7 Michael Hooper
6 Siya Kolisi
5 Eben Etsebeth
4 Maro Itoje
3 Tahdg Furlong
2 Samisoni Taukei'aho
1 Steven KitshoffJordie Barrett is Fern World FullBack of the year?
Ferners are fucking morons
I think it's well known I've been no fan of Jordie's over the years, but even I agree with this decision (and voted for him). But, as you note, I'm as much as a moron as anyone else on here.
Maro Itoje being there is more of a ? for me but I only saw him play a few games, so assume he was godlike in the ones I missed.
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@canes4life said in It's here! ... Team of the Year:
@hooroo who should be there instead? Jordie was one of the best all year, despite the French game.
I’d put Stuart Hogg on account of his Scottishness
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@tim said in It's here! ... Team of the Year:
Results so far:
5 Eben Etsebeth
4 Maro Itoje
3 Tahdg Furlong
2 Samisoni Taukei'aho
1 Steven KitshoffWhat does that tell us about our ability to go forward under our current tactics?
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For the first time in the recorded history(1) of The Silver Fern Team of the Year New Zealand do not have the highest number of representatives (New Zealand’s representation has been eclipsed for the first time in TOTY history with World Champions, Lion Tamers and world’s top ranked team South Africa topping the polling this year in the world’s most authoritative determination of the worlds’ best rugby players.
The All Blacks tally of a mere four representatives is their lowest ever total, surpassing(2) their previous low score of five in 2007 when they shared the billing with World Cup winners South Africa.
This time South Africa outstripped the Kiwis providing five representatives, including four in the forwards, reflective of their maintained position at the top of the World Rugby rankings.
The Bok’s represetnatives included two thirds of the loosforwards, with inspirational skipper Siya Kolisi on the blindside (in a well contested poll) and warhorse Duane Vermeulen selected at Number 8.
The selections of Lock Eben Estebeth and loosehead prop Steven Kitshoff give South Africa 40% of the tight forwards.
Lukanyo Am’s great form was rewarded with selection at centre.New Zealand’s strength in this year’s TSF TOTY is the back three, which was exclusively occupied by All Blacks. World Rugby Break Through Player of the Year and try scoring machine Will Jordan makes the right wing, while Rieko Ioane becomes Karl Marx Award recipient as the year’s best left winger (as well as polling noticeably for the centre position) . The ever improving Jordie Barret takes on the custodian role at the back.
Perhaps indicative of New Zealand’s chequered results in 2021 is the fact that their only forward is 2021 debutante and usual bench hooker Samisoni Taukei’aho, with only 48% of the votes. Admittedly his All Blacks team mate Dane Coles also polled at 20% for the same position.
The building feeling that France are developing as potential favourites for their home World Cup in 2023 (crikey, that’s only next year) is reflected in the selection of their young and exciting halves paring of Antoine Dupont and Romaine Ntamack. Dupont gets the nod at halfback with 70% dominating the vote, shouldering out Aaron Smith in what most right thinking people would consider a major surprise. Ntamack’s selection with 48% of the votes was a little closer in a relatively even contest.
Australia are the other team with multiple representatives in 2021. Both open side Michael Hooper and second five-eighth Samu Kerevi dominant selections in their various positions.
England and Ireland provide one player each.
Englishman Maro Itoje joins Etsebeth in the second row, benefiting from unabated media hype and on-field histrionics (and the occasional highlight reel moment), whereas Ireland’s Tahdg Furlong choice at tighthead prop for his all round excellence beat back a very strong field.
The dual coaching team of Faben Galthie (France) and Simon Middleton (England Women) guides 2021’s TSF TOTY in their proposed matches against any Martian invaders.
The organising committee would like to thank the judges for nearly getting it right.
The 2021 TSF Team of the Year is:
No. Surname First Name Country % of vote . 2021 1 KISTHOFF Steven RSA 56% 2 TAUKEI'AHO Samisoni NZL 48% 3 FURLONG Tahdg IRE 68% 4 ITOJE Maro ENG 10% 5 ETSEBETH Eben RSA 41% 6 KOLISI Siya RSA 58% 7 HOOPER Michael AUS 76% 8 VERMEULEN Duane RSA 54% 9 DUPONT Antoine FRA 70% 10 NTAMACK Romaine FRA 45% 12 KEREVI Samu AUS 78% 13 AM Lukanyo RSA 50% 11 IOANE Rieko NZL 60% 14 JORDAN Will NZL 93% 15 BARRET Jordan NZL 67% coach GALTHJIE Fabien FRA 33% . MIDDLETON Simon ENGW 33%
(1) with the possible exception of 2019 when Kirwan ran the competition, and unfortunately I don’t have access to those results … and those years when I messed up the running (2017) or didn’t run it (2018, 2020) or didn’t keep a record (2014) …
(2) what’s the opposite of surpassing?
