Team of the Year!

[bwightman]

Planet Rugby are looking for votes to be cast towards choosing their international team of the year. http://www.planetrugby.com/story/0,2588 ... 80,00.html

I think Young and Cole deserve to be in there ahead of Genia and Jones and this is just the right place to drum up support for that!

My team was:

15. Mils Muliaina
14. Chris Ashton
13. Conrad Smith (forget AA-C - this is the man we'd want post RWC11!)
12. Yannick Jauzion
11. Drew Mitchell
10. Dan Carter
9. Ben Youngs
1. Gurthro Steenkamp
2. William Servat
3. Dan Cole
4. Courtney Lawes
5. Sam Whitelock
6. Jerome Kaino
7. Richie McCaw
8. Imanol Harinordoquy

I'd have loved to put Croft and Moody in the backrow but the Kiwis were just too good this year!

Just a bit of fun - let's see your suggestions. Hope the weather's not too bad where you are. We're about to get snowed in (again) in northern Aberdeenshire again by the looks of it.

[RTS]

Have to agree with the comment on Conrad Smith.
Very impressed by his consistancy and all round play. Unfortunately the sallary cap will probably be a major hurdle.

[big john]

I would put Croft in for Kaino and Read or Spies at No.8 as Croft gave a more all-round game but Kaino is there to Carry.

[big john]

Also the Coaching team to go with would have to be Warren and his Boys as they did such a bang up job in supporting the squad and also as the Welsh are in the Golden Era as they keep telling us to totally screw up all the chances they got shows abillty matched by none.

Also the fact that Mr. Edwards has created hole in the welsh defence that like the Great Wall Of China can be seen from space is credit to the Red Shirt of Wales.

The Tactics seem to be "We have a tighthead a fullback with a big boot and our 10 gets a good few points why do we need a game plan other the kick down field push for a knock-on go for the Penalty and take 3 points and then repeat until full time"

[Bill W (2)]

Also the Coaching team to go with would have to be Warren and his Boys as they did such a bang up job in supporting the squad and also as the Welsh are in the Golden Era as they keep telling us to totally screw up all the chances they got shows abillty matched by none.

Also the fact that Mr. Edwards has created hole in the welsh defence that like the Great Wall Of China can be seen from space is credit to the Red Shirt of Wales.

The Tactics seem to be "We have a tighthead a fullback with a big boot and our 10 gets a good few points why do we need a game plan other the kick down field push for a knock-on go for the Penalty and take 3 points and then repeat until full time"