TSF Team of the Year
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Planet Rugby's version. I had to laugh about 12, the text says Jordie, title Aki
12 Bundee Aki (Ireland): The story of tight calls in the centre berth continues, with New Zealand’s Jordie Barrett, Springboks’ Damian de Allende and France’s Jonathan Danty unlucky to miss out on our selections. But when Jordie played 12, New Zealand fired – he has become absolutely crucial to their go-forward and he takes the shirt by a tight margin.
Planet Rugby Team of the Year: Southern Hemisphere dominates selection
As the year draws to a close, Planet Rugby’s team of writers sat down to select their best XV of players from the past 12 months of action.
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After much excitement and anticipation the 2023 TSF Team of the Year has been finalised and is summarised below.
Although results have been available for … a while, the TSF TOTY Committee has pleasure in announcing the following team:
World Champions South Africa only manage to provide two of the starting lineup, which may have been an indication of their ability to produce at greater than the sum of their parts, but more likely their ability to suck the life out any game of footy they got near.
Ireland’s 18 match winning streak resulted in an equally surprising two representative, although they were rewarded by recognition of the architect of their undefeated run to the RWC knockouts, with coach Farrell getting the nod as mentor.
France and New Zealand both ended with five in the starting XV.
Only England’s Courtney Lawes (somewhat luckily in front of Pieter-Steph du Toit) made the team from outside of World Rugby’s top four ranked teams.
A number of voting anomalies were identified amidst the admittedly low voter turnout:
- Gregory Aldritt’s nomination did not make it to the Poll, however as no-one complained it is judged to be tough shit Greg, better luck next year.
- It is noted that the Committee’s own vote for blindside flanker was cast in error for Courtney Lawes, instead of PSDT, giving him a case of PTSD, but again, as there is no opportunity to amend the vote Lawes sneaks the blindside position.
- A couple of dudes names were spelled wrong
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@booboo said in TSF Team of the Year:
After much excitement and anticipation the 2023 TSF Team of the Year has been finalised and is summarised below.
Although results have been available for … a while, the TSF TOTY Committee has pleasure in announcing the following team:
World Champions South Africa only manage to provide two of the starting lineup, which may have been an indication of their ability to produce at greater than the sum of their parts, but more likely their ability to suck the life out any game of footy they got near.
Ireland’s 18 match winning streak resulted in an equally surprising two representative, although they were rewarded by recognition of the architect of their undefeated run to the RWC knockouts, with coach Farrell getting the nod as mentor.
France and New Zealand both ended with five in the starting XV.
Only England’s Courtney Lawes (somewhat luckily in front of Pieter-Steph du Toit) made the team from outside of World Rugby’s top four ranked teams.
A number of voting anomalies were identified amidst the admittedly low voter turnout:
- Gregory Aldritt’s nomination did not make it to the Poll, however as no-one complained it is judged to be tough shit Greg, better luck next year.
- It is noted that the Committee’s own vote for blindside flanker was cast in error for Courtney Lawes, instead of PSDT, giving him a case of PTSD, but again, as there is no opportunity to amend the vote Lawes sneaks the blindside position.
- A couple of dudes names were spelled wrong
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Thanks for clearing this up. I was about to go postal that one of my favourite Saffas missed out !!
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Excellent job
Cheers 🍻
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The big upset of 2023 was France not winning the RWC. So many class players, at home and yet they froze in the last 20 minutes of the QF against South Africa.
South Africa did one hell of a job winning three World Cup knockouts by a single point, mind you. I don't think we will ever see that again.
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@sparky said in TSF Team of the Year:
The big upset of 2023 was France not winning the RWC. So many class players, at home and yet they froze in the last 20 minutes of the QF against South Africa.
South Africa did one hell of a job winning three World Cup knockouts by a single point, mind you. I don't think we will ever see that again.
Hopefully, we don't see SA winning 3 RWC knock outs in a row full stop! At least for a while
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