Not much argument from me. Jenkins form got a bit better throughout the tournament although Lo Cicero, Healy and Domingo were all contenders (I voted the former, maybe for man-love reasons though).
Hibbard was the form hooker throughout the tournament and easily the best, no doubt. Not really any competition.
No massively stand-out tightheads, Mas played well but Jones largely destroyed the England scrum in the finally and gave Wales a great platform to build on.
Two huge line-out presences in Parling and Evans throughout the tournament. Both were very consistent and boosted set-piece play immensely for both sides. Great energy and always solid, no arguments here.
Zanni was an asbsolute monster throughout. Tackling all over the pitch, scrapping around every ruck, carrying all over, offloading like a back. Great tournament and up there with the best players this 6N. Tipuric is perhaps a more controversial choice given he played about half the tournament, but was very solid when he did and exceptional against England in tournaments key game so no arguements. Robshaw was very consistent but so was Tipuric who then bossed England in the finale. Parisse is hard to argue with, Picamoles was exceptional and was my pick, but Parisse was equally as good when he played and just made Italy a different team as ever.
Laidlaw I'm not as sold on as others, but he did kick extremely well and offered a calming presence and a good, solid performance in pretty much every game. Not many other great contenders though, other than Phillips who had a stormer against England and that's purely the reason I voted for him.
Biggar was the best fly-half, no doubt. Shaky in the first half against Ireland but grow in stature after that, kicked away too much but clearly under instruction and did a good job of it, and made the Wales #10 shirt his own for the immediate future.
North was a bit quiet throughout apart from moments here and there. Nothing wrong, but I thought the likes of Venditti or McLean had brighter tournaments.
Fofana was a beast at inside centre. Shame for Matt Scott missing out though. I personally voted Scott at 12 and Fofana at 13 to get them both in, the two best centres in this years 6N by far.
BOD had his moments, but overall had a fairly mediocre tournament by his own standards. Tuilagi too but he missed the Scotland game and was poorly utilized after that and didn't make much of an impact. No standout 13's, which is a shame because Scott - who was excellent throughout - perhaps acceptably loses out the 12 slot to Fofana but gets ommitted for a 13 who was rather average.
Cuthbert has his issues defensively at times but it's not been as bad as say Ashton's throughout the tournament. I think he's getting better. But aside from that, he's here because he was easily the most dangerous winger throughout the tournament for me. Probably the best finisher in the HN and even the NH on the international circuit at the moment.
Halfpenny was immense. Enough said. Rock solid defensively, snapped up every high and loose ball that came his way, played with 100% committment at all times, made very few mistakes, showed a big boot to get Wales out of trouble territorially and kicked everything in sight.
A few contenders for the bench here, but if Picamoles is left out of the line-up, it's him. Probably the player of the tournament. Two tries and just carried like a machine throughout.
