All-time best-ever rugby player? Completely impossible to say. Let`s just take a quick look at scrumhalf, for instance: Joost v.d. Westhuizen is the leading try-scoring scrumhalf of all time in test rugby. Does this make him a better scrumhalf than Gareth Edwards was? Or better than the most-capped test player of all time, George Gregan? Or better than Danie Craven, the man who gave the world the dive-pass and the 3-4-1 scrum formation, a good 70 years before?
Or how do you compare a John Eales, Martin Johnson, W-J McBride, Colin Meads and Frik Du Preez as second rowers?
Based on 2007 form though, at all levels and not just the RWC, this will be my picks: 15- J-M Hernandez, 14- Sivivatu, 13- Mortlock, 12- Giteau/F.Contepomi, 11- Habana, 10- Carter, 9- Du Preez, 8- Leamy, 7(openside)- McCaw, 6 (blindside)- J.Smith, 5- Matfield, 4- Pelous/Grewcock, 3- Hayman, 2- Smit, 1- Sheridan.
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