World & NZ Rugby Awards 2018

[Rancid Schnitzel]

Just to clarify, who was AB player of the year? Or wasn't there one?

[KiwiMurph]

New Zealand Rugby Players' Association Awards

Men's Player of the Year - Codie Taylor

Women's Player of the Year - Kendra Cocksedge

Men's 7s Player of the Year - Vilimoni Koroi

Women's 7s Player of the Year - Michaela Blyde

Super Rugby Player of the Year - Richie Mo'unga

Mitre 10 Cup Player of the Year - TJ Faiane

Young Player of the Year - Dalton Papali'i

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/rugby/news/article.cfm?c_id=80&objectid=12178596

[Dice]

@kiwimurph Just found this picture, which shows all the nominees as well.

[Bovidae]

More deserving winners than the "official" rugby awards.

[Nepia]

@bovidae said in World, NZ & other Rugby Awards 2018:

More deserving winners than the "official" rugby awards.

Don't they match up in the head to head categories aside from TJ over Romano?

[Bovidae]

@nepia Papalii > Christie.

Curry was the mens sevens player too.

[Nepia]

@bovidae said in World, NZ & other Rugby Awards 2018:

@nepia Papalii > Christie.

Curry was the mens sevens player too.

7s, who cares about 7s. Actually, fair enough on Papali'i.

[KiwiMurph]

In fairness - i'm not sure Papali'i was eligible for the age grade player for the NZR Awards as he was age grade last year (NZ U20s) not this year. However - Plummer would have been a better choice over Christie in those awards anyway.

[Nepia]

@kiwimurph said in World, NZ & other Rugby Awards 2018:

In fairness - i'm not sure Papali'i was eligible for the age grade player for the NZR Awards as he was age grade last year (NZ U20s) not this year. However - Plummer would have been a better choice over Christie in those awards anyway.

After watching the U20s I think any number of players is more deserving of Christie.

[sparky]

The NZ Herald rate Brodie Retallick as their best NZ Rugby player in 2018 and Beauden Barrett as number 2. Spot on IMHO. They rate SBW too highly, but apart from that these seem sane.

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[Crucial]

@sparky said in World, NZ & other Rugby Awards 2018:

The NZ Herald rate Brodie Retallick as their best NZ Rugby player in 2018 and Beauden Barrett as number 2. Spot on IMHO. They rate SBW too highly, but apart from that these seem sane.

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That list must be wrong. It has Akira in the top 50.

[Nepia]

@sparky said in World, NZ & other Rugby Awards 2018:

The NZ Herald rate Brodie Retallick as their best NZ Rugby player in 2018 and Beauden Barrett as number 2. Spot on IMHO. They rate SBW too highly, but apart from that these seem sane.

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Nope, even aside from Akira being there Taylor was clearly the best AB this year.

[Bovidae]

BBBR didn't play enough this year because of injury/personal issues to warrant that honour.

[No Quarter]

Did we do a tally of the polls taken this year? @hydro11 ? That will give us the definitive answer.

[sparky]

I went back over the Man of the Match All Blacks TSF polls for 2018 and discovered:

Man of Match Vs France Test One: Codie Taylor (46 votes)
Man of Match Vs France Test Two: Jodie Barrett (35 votes)
Man of Match Vs France Test Three: Scott Barrett (56 votes)
Man of Match Vs Australia Test One: Brodie Retallick (74 votes)
Man of Match Vs Australia Test Two: Beauden Barrett (70 votes)
Man of Match Vs Argentina Test One: Jack Goodhue (37 votes)
Man of Match Vs South Africa Test One: Ben Smith (33 votes)
Man of Match Vs Argentina Test Two: Ardie Savea (46 votes)
Man of Match Vs South Africa Test Two: Ardie Savea (46 votes)
Man of Match Vs Australia Test Three: Ardie Savea (37 votes)
Man of Match Vs Japan: Richie Mo'unga (49 votes)
Man of Match Vs England: Brodie Retallick (54 votes)
Man of Match Vs Ireland: Ardie Savea (45 votes)
Man of Match Vs Italy: Jordie Barrett (38 votes)

All Blacks who received the most votes across all Tests in 2018:

1. Ardie Savea (221 votes) Player of the Year!!!
2. Brodie Retallick (185 votes)
3. Beauden Barrett (162 votes) Best back!!
4. Jack Goodhue (158 votes) Breakthrough player of the year!!
5. Ben Smith (146 votes)
6. Scott Barrett (132 votes)
7. Codie Taylor (128 votes) Perhaps the most consistent All Black performer in 2018.
8. Damian McKenzie (109 votes)
9. Reiko Ioane (99 votes) Most tries for All Blacks in 2018: 11.
10. Richie Mo'unga (95 votes)
11. Jordie Barrett (87 votes)
12. Karl Tu'inukuafe (84 votes)
13. Sam Cane (66 votes)
14. Keiran Read (63 votes)
15. TJ Perenera (62 votes)

[Nepia]

@sparky It appears that we suck as much as all other awards.

[sparky]

All Blacks who need to do better in 2019:

Ryan Crotty 33 votes. Excellent off the bench against England. Too often injured.
Dane Coles 31 votes. Great to see him back for EOYT. Now stay fit!
Liam Squire 30 votes. Outplayed by Saffa, English and Irish forwards.
SBW 29 votes. All of those for his performance in Third Test Vs France.
Aaron Smith 26 votes. Ok in two Eden Park tests. Out of sorts in other games.
Waisake Naholo 13 votes. 12 for Sydney. Risks falling behind George Bridge.
Owen Franks 11 votes. Played his best Rugby in 2018 for the Crusaders.
Joe Moody 8 votes. See above. Overshadowed by rise of Karl T.

[hydro11]

Ardie deserves player of the year. Not even first choice and four outstanding performances. If you want to go for consistency it should probably go to Reiko.

[sparky]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/46711987

Hooper ahead of Ardie Savea is an unusual call.

[Nepia]

@sparky More unusual than BB at 15?