Inside Sport Players Poll

[RugbyReg]

Open to Aussie players (145 responses), questions seem to relate to Super Rugby as a whole, but in the end its heavily Oz biased. Some iteresting ones:

MVP - David Pocock (from Carer and Genia)
Best Back - Dan Carter (from Dagg, Quade and JOC (James O'Connor))
Best Forward - Pocock (from McCaw and Thomson)

Team (best by position):

1 - Benn Robinson (from Woodcock)
2 - TPN (from Bismarck)
3 - Owen Franks (from Robinson??????)
4 & 5 - Nathan Sharpe & James Horwill (from Bekker)
6 - Scott Higginbotham (from Kaino)
7 - David Pocock (from McCaw)
8 - Wycliff Palu (from Read)
9 - Will Genia (from Kerr-Barlow)
10 - Dan Carter (from Quade)
11 & 14 - Digby Ioane & Bryan Habana (from Leila Masaga)
12 - Ma'a Nonu (from Sonny-Bill)
13 - Conrad Smith (from Kahui)
15 - Israel Dagg (from Beale)

Biggest Hitter - Palu (from SBW)
Most underrated - Sam Carter (from Lealiifano)
Best Captain - James Horwill (from McCaw)
Most Tactically astute coach - Ewen McKenzie (from Blackadder, then White, then Richard Graham, then Wayne Smith, then Laurie Fisher)
Most Passionate Fans - Bulls (from Reds, Stormers, Force, Sharks, Crusaders)
Best Sledger - Brett Sheehan (from Tom Carter, Nic White, Ed Quirk, Nathan Sharpe)

Some interesting results there.

 

[waratahjesus]

Be interesting to see who they interviewed, anyone over Bizmarck is just a lie

 

[RugbyReg]

yeah, they clearly got the brief wrong. They only surveyed Aussie players (through RUPA) i believe, but most musn't have spent much time looking outside their own conference, let alone team.

 

[Jiggles]

Palu over Read?
TPN over Bismark or Moore?

Is this from just this year?

 

[Antony]

Blackadder's not tactically astute - "I'm going to pick McCaw, Carter, Read, the Franks bros, the Whitelock bros, Donnelly, Guildford, Maitland, Dagg and Fruean... aaaaaaaaaand go."

 

[Braveheart81]

Seemingly Australian rugby players know less about rugby than we do.

 

[Inside Shoulder]

Palu over Read?
TPN over Bismark or Moore?

Is this from just this year?

if it is then they haven't caught up with the fact that QC (Quade Cooper) has played 1.5 games

 

[qwerty51]

that's a pretty good effort by them, it paints clearly where the players believe we have a weakness. TH, centres and a missing winger.

 

[Jiggles]

I dont think we can understand IS, we haven't played at that level....

 

[Inside Shoulder]

I dont think we can understand IS, we haven't played at that level....

I have....I played 1.5 games one year!

 

[liquor box]

Blackadder's not tactically astute - "I'm going to pick McCaw, Carter, Read, the Franks bros, the Whitelock bros, Donnelly, Guildford, Maitland, Dagg and Fruean... aaaaaaaaaand go."

remember he learnt his tactics from Deans. Blackadder added the aaaaaaaaaand go bit at the end.

The full tactic is "look at what is in front of you aaaaaaaaaand go"