Name your 23 man world rugby squad

[clewsie]

Here's mine

1. T. Mtawarira
2. D. Coles
3. O. Franks
4. B. Retallick
5. E. Etzebeth
6. M. Hooper
7. R. McCaw
8. K. Reid
9. A. Smith
10. J. Sexton
11. J. Savea
12. W. Fofana
13. C. Smith
14. N Milner Skudder
15. I Folau

16 C. Healy
17 B. Du Plessis
18 M. Ayerza
19 D. Vermeulen
20 S. Warburton
21 K. Fotuali’i
22 A. Cruden
23 A. Ashley Cooper

Pack weight: 899Kgs (approx.)

 

[GoTheNaki]

You left out the best, most dangerous number 12 in the world? For Fofana? Alrighty..

The only differences I'd have on that are:

Coles and Bismarck are very close..
If you play Hooper at 6, I'd rather Pocock.
At 10... I don't feel that Carter will make our tournament, I think it will be how Nonu plays. I think Owen Farrell is going to play well, so I'll pick him.
12. Nonu, best 12 hands down, all season.
14. Waisake

Bench:

Healy
Faumuina
Coles/Bismarck
Skelton
Kaino
Perenara
Cruden (Obviously healthy)
Nehe (Can cover practically all back positions)

 

[Jaguares]

1 Marcos Ayerza
2 Bismarck du Plessis
3 Dan Cole
4 Eben Etzebeth
5 Brodie Retallick
6 Richie McCaw
7 David Pocock
8 Duane Vermeulen
9 Aaron Smith
10 Jonathan Sexton
11 Julian Savea
12 Ma'a Nonu
13 Tevita Kuridrani
14 Nemani Nadolo
15 Israel Folau

16 Agustin Creevy
17 Joe Marler
18 Mike Ross
19 Courtney Lawes
20 Michael Hooper
21 Tomas Cubelli
22 George Ford
23 Ben Smith

 

[ncurd]

You left out the best, most dangerous number 12 in the world? For Fofana? Alrighty..

The only differences I'd have on that are:

Coles and Bismarck are very close..
If you play Hooper at 6, I'd rather Pocock.
At 10... I don't feel that Carter will make our tournament, I think it will be how Nonu plays. I think Owen Farrell is going to play well, so I'll pick him.
12. Nonu, best 12 hands down, all season.
14. Waisake

Bench:

Healy
Faumuina
Coles/Bismarck
Skelton
Kaino
Perenara
Cruden (Obviously healthy)
Nehe (Can cover practically all back positions)

Farrell isn't even England's first choice 10...

 

[Wendigo7]

1. Joe Marler
2. Guillem Guirado
3. Dan Cole
4. Eben Etzebeth
5. Brodie Retallick
6. Yannick Nyanga
7. Richie McCaw
8. Kieran Read
9. Aaron Smith
10. George Ford
11. Waisake Naholo
12. Ma'a Nonu
13. Jonathan Joseph
14. Nahe Milner Skudder
15. Israel Folau

Subs:
16. Vincent Debaty
17. Dane Coles
18. Rabah Slimani
19. Joe Launchbury
20. David Pocock
21. Conor Murray
22. Jonathan Sexton
23. Ben Smith

 

[GoTheNaki]

Farrell isn't even England's first choice 10...

And what? Read topic ***le.

 

[clewsie]

Nonu was a tough one leave out, the only reason I didn't pick him is because sometimes he can be too loose with the ball running with it way out to side. A truly in form Nonu is near unstoppable he can run hard and tackle hard.

 

[Jaguares]

Nonu was a tough one leave out, the only reason I didn't pick him is because sometimes he can be too loose with the ball running with it way out to side. A truly in form Nonu is near unstoppable he can run hard and tackle hard.

Did you see his last Super Rugby season? He's in form ATM

 

[ZeroTwo]

1. The Beast
2. Bismarck du Plessis
3. Dan Cole
4. Brodie Retallick
5. Eben Etzebeth
6. Yannick Nyanga
7. David Pocock
8. Sergio Parisse

9. Aaron Smith
10. Jonathan Sexton
11. Nehe Milner Skudder
12. Wesley Fofana
13. Tevita Kuridrani
14. George North
15. Israel Folau

16. Augustin Creevy
17. Joe Marler
18. Mike Ross
19. Alun Wyn Jones
20. Thierry Dusautoir
21. Kahn Fotuali'i
22. George Ford
23. Ben Smith

Think this squad has a nice even weighted feel. Good variety between set piece and loose, heavy and fast etc. Mr. K. Read very unlucky to miss out but for me Parisse is unstoppable at the moment and Dusautoir can play across the back row.

 

[Jaguares]

16. Augustin Creevy
17. Joe Marler
18. Mike Ross.

You're a thief. You stole my reserve front-row

 

[ZeroTwo]

You're a thief. You stole my reserve front-row

I'll admit I was going to go for Rory Best as reserve hooker but had a wee scan through and remembered Creevy and his heroics in the Rugby Championship. Marler and Ross picked themselves.

 

[Folau Tank]

All time or Current?

If current then

1.Tendai Mtawarira
2. Kevin Mealamu
3.Cian Healy
4.Brodie Rettalick
5. Sam Whitelock
6.Michael Hooper
7.Richie McCaw
8.David Pocock
9.Aaron Smith
10. Morne Steyn
11.Julian Savea
12.Jean De Villiers
13.Adam Ashley Cooper
14.George North
15. Israel Folau

Bench
16. Sekope Kefu
17.Dean Coles
18.Victor Matfield
19.Sam Warburton
20.Ruan Pienaar
21.Dan Carter
22.Ma'a Nonu
23.Ben Smith

Haha half the team is from the allblacks

 

[Scrum Bum]

Here's mine without looking at anyone else's. After years of doing this I find it depends on how well the team plays as a unit and in combinations than the talent that each individual brings to the side. That was the disclaimer now for the fun:

1. Mtawarira
2. Creevy
3. Castrogiovanni
4. Gray
5. Etzebeth
6. Pocock
7. McCaw
8. Read
9. A. Smith
10. Giteau
11. Nadolo
12. Nonu
13. C. Smith
14. B. Smith
15. Folau

Reserves: Coles, Healy, Rettalick, Kaino, Dusautoir, Tanaka, Carter, J. Roberts

I love the old guard like Matfield O'Connell Mealamu Smit etc, but most've them have lost a step or two. I think the ABs pack is rather average and has a lot of pedestrians. Not a lot of good flyhalves out there anymore - not long ago you had a wealth to pick from. I would'nt have AAC Steyn or Kefu anywhere near my team. Same for Sexton and Fofana.

 

[TobesHodges]

1. Zirkazashvili
2. Guirado
3. Cole
4. J.Gray
5. AWJ
6. Dj Ioane
7. J.Burger
8. Vermulean

9. Murray
10. Hiriyama
11. Nadolo
12. Henandez
13. Toomua
14. Scudder
15. Goromura

Bit of a first third WC team

 

[Croket66]

3. Castrogiovanni

 

[GoTheNaki]

Farrell isn't even England's first choice 10...

I don't look so silly now, eh.

 

[ncurd]

I don't look so silly now, eh.

Nope just Lancaster by not playing "his first choice 10" in the Ireland or Fiji matches which makes about as much sense to as substituting Ford on when you have a 10 lead..

 

[GoTheNaki]

Nope just Lancaster by not playing "his first choice 10" in the Ireland or Fiji matches which makes about as much sense to as substituting Ford on when you have a 10 lead..

If I coached England, we would have won everything already.

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Also.... Didn't Ford come on for Burgess though?

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Yeah... Nah... No idea what Lancaster was doing, not going to lie. No reason to change the team.

 

[ncurd]

Ford did come on for Burgess it was a stupid call...

 

[BigSam89]

1 , The Beast
2 , Dane Coles
3 , O Franks
4 , Etzebeth
5 , Broddie Retallick
6 , David Pocock
7 , Richie Mccaw
8 , Kieran Reid
9 , Will Genia - Few years back
10 , Dan Carter - Can still pull big game's out of the bag
11 , Nehe Milner Skudder
12 , Ma Nonu
13 , Wesley Fofana
14 , Julien Savea
15 , Mike Brown/Leigh Halfpenny

Marler , Healy, Kaino, Dusautoir, Tanaka, Pollard , J. Roberts