2016 TSF Team of the Year

mariner4life

@MajorRage said in 2016 TSF Team of the Year:

@mariner4life said in 2016 TSF Team of the Year:

I don't know why we run this. It's going to be a bunch of All Blacks, some Irishmen because they beat us (only if we can't find a stand out AB), and a token English player because they won a bunch.

Go forth, young padawan

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taniwharugby

@mariner4life cos we can?

Plus it'll give the Irish posters something to moan about when they don't get 15 in the starting 15

booboo

@mariner4life said in 2016 TSF Team of the Year:

I don't know why we run this. It's going to be a bunch of All Blacks, some Irishmen because they beat us (only if we can't find a stand out AB), and a token English player because they won a bunch.

Kind of coz I enjoy it. And I do like to see who everyone thinks is the best.

And we're the best judges of who is good and who is not

FYI. kind of sad but did you know that not a single Saffa has been nominated (unless they're playing for Ireland ... or Scotland ... )

booboo

For some reason I can't convert the original threads to polls ... will have to create new ones.

May see if I can consolidate them after that.

Got to this a bit later than I intended. Will keep polls open for 10 days or a couple of weeks or so.

Feel free to vote when set up.

Cheers

booboo

OK - have eventually put up the polls. Vote away if and as interested.

Nepia

I wonder if the Canterbury voting block will see Crotty selected at 12 and 13?

MN5

@mariner4life said in 2016 TSF Team of the Year:

@MajorRage said in 2016 TSF Team of the Year:

@mariner4life said in 2016 TSF Team of the Year:

I don't know why we run this. It's going to be a bunch of All Blacks, some Irishmen because they beat us (only if we can't find a stand out AB), and a token English player because they won a bunch.

Go forth, young padawan

Gratuitous upvote for Star Wars reference right there.

booboo

OK Folks.

I suspect we can all see the results of the polls as I'm not being bombarded to publish the results.

Am not going to go with a full on "press release" this year - as I'm not feeling particularly creative. Teams is as below.

Am a little surprised with some of the selections and there is plenty of fodder for the NZ haters and cultural cringers to whinge about NZers being selected.

Anyway - the 2016 TSF ToTY, consisting 11 All Blacks, 11 Oirish, 1 Argie and coached by a England-resident Japanese-Australian, is:

No.	Surname	First Name	Country	% of vote	Comment
2015
1	McGRATH	Jack	IRE	67%
2	COLES	Dane	NZL	90%
3	FRANKS	Owen	NZL	61%
4	RETALLICK	Brodie	NZL	72%
5	WHITELOCK	Samuel	NZL	88%
6	KAINO	Jerome	NZL	58%
7	CANE	Sam	NZL	30%
8	ISA	Facundo	ARG	60%
9	SMITH	Aaron	NZL	42%
10	BARRETT	Beauden	NZL	100%	(unopposed)
12	HENSHAW	Robbie	IRE	40%
13	LIENERT-BROWN	Anton	NZL	42%
11	ZEBO	Simon	IRE	47%
14	DAGG	Israel	NZL	79%
15	SMITH	Ben	NZL	100%	(unopposed)
coach	JONES	Eddie	ENG	58%

MN5

Crikey there's a shitload of countries not represented there.

booboo

Of most interest to me was the Bokke not getting even one nomination.

MN5

@booboo said in 2016 TSF Team of the Year:

Of most interest to me was the Bokke not getting even one nomination.

Being shit has that effect

Nepia

Clearly the Irish voting block was more powerful than the Cantab voting block at 12 .... Even I voted for Crotty and it didn't help.

No Quarter

Of more note than no SA players is the lack of any English players bar the coach. Eddie must be some coach to get a bunch of nobodies going through an entire season unbeaten...

MN5

@Nepia said in 2016 TSF Team of the Year:

Clearly the Irish voting block was more powerful than the Cantab voting block at 12 .... Even I voted for Crotty and it didn't help.

Shit I thought you'd nominate Ian Macrae for the 12 spot. Wasn't he the last Hawkes Bay bred AB midfielder?

mariner4life

@No-Quarter are you surprised? This is the Fern, how many England games did everyone watch? The 4 against the Wallabies?

MN5

@mariner4life said in 2016 TSF Team of the Year:

@No-Quarter are you surprised? This is the Fern, how many England games did everyone watch? The 4 against the Wallabies?

Having paid little attention to the voting here which Poms were in with a shot? Vunipola at number 8? Farrell? Their fullback has had his moments too but he's no '100% Ben Smith'

Nepia

@MN5 Grrr ... Bruce Robertson.

hydro11

@MN5 said in 2016 TSF Team of the Year:

@mariner4life said in 2016 TSF Team of the Year:

@No-Quarter are you surprised? This is the Fern, how many England games did everyone watch? The 4 against the Wallabies?

Having paid little attention to the voting here which Poms were in with a shot? Vunipola at number 8? Farrell? Their fullback has had his moments too but he's no '100% Ben Smith'

I really don't know how Itoje missed out. Second best player in the world last year.

MN5

@hydro11 said in 2016 TSF Team of the Year:

@MN5 said in 2016 TSF Team of the Year:

@mariner4life said in 2016 TSF Team of the Year:

@No-Quarter are you surprised? This is the Fern, how many England games did everyone watch? The 4 against the Wallabies?

Having paid little attention to the voting here which Poms were in with a shot? Vunipola at number 8? Farrell? Their fullback has had his moments too but he's no '100% Ben Smith'

I really don't know how Itoje missed out. Second best player in the world last year.

He looked pretty impressive from what I've seen. Etzebeth probably suffered by being in such a shithouse Bok team.

Tim

LOL, Aaron Smith had a lot of bad games this year.

The Silver Fern

2016 TSF Team of the Year