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Battle of the Rugby World Cup players
- Thread starter BoyBrumby
- Start date
headhunter
International Vice-Captain
Lomo
O'Driscoll
O'Driscoll
BoyBrumby
Englishman
Headhunter's vote is crucial as it means big Jonah Lomu edges out the great Campo by th odd point & BoD gets closer than he's any right to (seriously, what has he done in world cups?!?) but common sense prevails and Wilkinson advances.
Final two match ups for Round 2:
Battle 7
Nick Farr-Jones (Australia)
vs
Doug Howlett (New Zealand)
Battle 8
Michael Lynagh (Australia)
vs
Tim Horan (Australia)
Australia's victorious captain from 1991 goes up against the flying All-Black wing who was the top try-scorer in 2003 & his halves partner from that first triumph faces another team-mate who repeated the dose in 1999 for good measure.
Final two match ups for Round 2:
Battle 7
Nick Farr-Jones (Australia)
vs
Doug Howlett (New Zealand)
Battle 8
Michael Lynagh (Australia)
vs
Tim Horan (Australia)
Australia's victorious captain from 1991 goes up against the flying All-Black wing who was the top try-scorer in 2003 & his halves partner from that first triumph faces another team-mate who repeated the dose in 1999 for good measure.
PhoenixFire
International Coach
Farr-Jones
and
Lynagh
and
Lynagh
headhunter
International Vice-Captain
Howlett
Horan
Horan
Mister Wright
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Nick Farr-Jones (Australia)
Tim Horan (Australia)
Tim Horan (Australia)
ohtani's jacket
State Vice-Captain
Farr-Jones
Horan
Horan
BoyBrumby
Englishman
Quarter-Finals
Relatively straightforward wins for Farr-Jones & Horan mean we now have our final 8:
John Eales
Nick Farr-Jones
Tim Horan
Stephen Larkham
Sean Fitzpatrick
Michael Jones
Jonah Lomu
Jonny Wilkinson
Antipodeans very much in the majority, but Jonny is still in there. I'll go to one match-up per day now we'e entering the home straight. The draw is, as ever, random & the first names out of the randomiser are:
1st Quarter
Nick Farr-Jones (Australia)
vs
Jonah Lomu (New Zealand)
In a trans-Tasman clash the quick hands & guile of Australia's captain & scrum-half from their 1991 victory go up against the awesome Rugby battering-ram that was Jonah Lomu.
Relatively straightforward wins for Farr-Jones & Horan mean we now have our final 8:
John Eales
Nick Farr-Jones
Tim Horan
Stephen Larkham
Sean Fitzpatrick
Michael Jones
Jonah Lomu
Jonny Wilkinson
Antipodeans very much in the majority, but Jonny is still in there. I'll go to one match-up per day now we'e entering the home straight. The draw is, as ever, random & the first names out of the randomiser are:
1st Quarter
Nick Farr-Jones (Australia)
vs
Jonah Lomu (New Zealand)
In a trans-Tasman clash the quick hands & guile of Australia's captain & scrum-half from their 1991 victory go up against the awesome Rugby battering-ram that was Jonah Lomu.
chaminda_00
Hall of Fame Member
Nick Farr-Jones (Australia)
If this was just general rugby Lomu. But Farr-Jones did for more then Lomu at World Cups and really stepped up when his country needed him, rather then go missing.
If this was just general rugby Lomu. But Farr-Jones did for more then Lomu at World Cups and really stepped up when his country needed him, rather then go missing.
headhunter
International Vice-Captain
Lomu
Mister Wright
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Lomu
ohtani's jacket
State Vice-Captain
I feel the opposite way, actually. If this was about rugby talent, I'd vote for Farr-Jones, but Lomu became the biggest rugby star ever at the '95 World Cup and repeated the feat four years later. And he didn't go missing, either. People forget what an amazing and crucial job James Small did defending Jonah in the '95 Final and in '99 he was one of the only All Blacks who came out of the WC with his reputation intact.