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Why Are There No World Class Players?
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<blockquote data-quote="Pieter Steph du Teague" data-source="post: 805743" data-attributes="member: 72520"><p>Usually I would agree with that as a rule of thumb, except that at the moment a lot of the top 3 players in each positions aren't that good. For example, going off of the just passed test series, the top 3 OCs in the world are probably JJ, Davies and Kuridrani (Moala was good in that last test but it was against a done Welsh side, he isn't proven yet. Also, you can put the previously mentioned centres into whichever order you want, that's not the point of what I'm saying). But none of those 3, at the moment, are in good enough form that I could comfortably say that they are world class. And that's the point I'm making, last year at OC the 3 best were Smith, Kuridrani and Kriel, and then I would've comfortably called all of them world class. But you can't say that about the top 3 now. The standards of players has dropped so significantly since last year.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pieter Steph du Teague, post: 805743, member: 72520"] Usually I would agree with that as a rule of thumb, except that at the moment a lot of the top 3 players in each positions aren't that good. For example, going off of the just passed test series, the top 3 OCs in the world are probably JJ, Davies and Kuridrani (Moala was good in that last test but it was against a done Welsh side, he isn't proven yet. Also, you can put the previously mentioned centres into whichever order you want, that's not the point of what I'm saying). But none of those 3, at the moment, are in good enough form that I could comfortably say that they are world class. And that's the point I'm making, last year at OC the 3 best were Smith, Kuridrani and Kriel, and then I would've comfortably called all of them world class. But you can't say that about the top 3 now. The standards of players has dropped so significantly since last year. [/QUOTE]
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