3 favourite players (past or present) from your biggest international rival and your 3 least favourite.

ME: Wales
RIVAL: England

FAV: Lewsey, Wilko, Funbus.
NOT SO FAV: Austin, Tuilagi (because he's not Welsh), Easter (4 tries).

Me: Scotland
Rival: England

Favourite: Wilkinson, Greenwood, J Robinson
Not favourite: Tuilagi, B Youngs, C Robshaw

Me: England

Rival- France

Favourites: Castaignede, Dusautoir, Ibanez
Least favourites- Dominici, Atoub, Harinordoquy

NZ - SA.

Favourites: Danie Gerber, Joost van der Westhuizen, Heinrich Brussow.

Least favourites: Mark Andrews, Bakkies Botha, James Small.

That is if I can't pick Susie.

Me: Ireland
Rival: England


Favourites- Robinson, Foden, Youngs
Least Favourites- Hartley, Ashton, Johnson

ME: NH Champions
Rival: Ireland

Favs: Bowe, Kearney, POC

Least Favs: OGara, BOD, Darcy

Me - England
Rival - Wales

Favs - Gibbs, Quinell, (Scott), Williams, (martyn)

Not so - Williams (Shane), Jenkins, (Gethin), Phillips

Gethin Jenkins

not sure who that would be in fairness- gonna go with aus asour rival we have had two finals with them and both won away

campeze
nick far jones
tim horan

Me: NZ
Rival - South Africa
Favs - Heinrich Brussow, Chester Williams, Francois Pienaar
Least Favs - Butch James, Percy Montgomery, Johan le Roux

Rival2 - Australia (just in case the West Islanders feel left out EDIT, wrote that before I saw Mystir's post)
Favs - Mark Ella, Nick Farr-Jones, John Eales (+ Peter Fitzsimons for his writing)
Least Favs - Quade Cooper, George Gregan, Matt Dunning

England has a lot of rivals don't they...

Me- SA
Rivals NZ

Fav: Jonah Lomu, Sonny Bill, Sean Fitzpatrick

Least: Hmm, difficult - dont really dislike Piri Weepu,Zac Guildford,Colin Slade - (I still like them, just not as much)

Me - Scotland
Rival - Wales

Fave - Priestland, Scott Quinnell, JD2

Least - PHILLIPS, Cuthbert, Halfpenny

Kiwireddevil wrote:Me: NZ
Rival - South Africa
Favs - Heinrich Brussow, Chester Williams, Francois Pienaar
Least Favs - Butch James, Percy Montgomery, Johan le Roux

Rival2 - Australia (just in case the West Islanders feel left out EDIT, wrote that before I saw Mystir's post)
Favs - Mark Ella, Nick Farr-Jones, John Eales (+ Peter Fitzsimons for his writing)
Least Favs - Quade Cooper, George Gregan, Matt Dunning

Boom! Was gonna do oz and with the same least favs, kinda pick themselves.

Me: NZ
Rival: oz

Favs: Eels, Latham, Larkham
Least: Queeb Cooper, Gregan, Dunning the DG specialist [Campese sub]

me - welsh
rival - England

favs - Duckham, Lewsey, Hill
least favs, Dallaglio, Healey, Hare

Fav: J Robinson, R Hill, W Greenwood Least: M Catt, B Youngs, M Dawson

RubyGuby wrote:Gethin Jenkins

Yes. Not one of my favourite welsh players. Isn't that the point of this post? Annoyingly good at times, especially around the park but also, (only in my opinion), overrated as a 'prop' in the old sense of the word.......Shane Williams because of all the fanboys and the fact that he was so flamin' good and Phillips because I don't really rate him

Favourites - Tana Umaga, Christian Cullen, Chris Latham.

Least favourites - don't know, didn't pay attention to them.

When was Latham a Kiwi?

No that Aussie fullback who's socks were always hanging round his ankles.
Great attacker from deep.

For me:

Favourites:

Martin Johnson (great player, great Lion and as an additional bonus from my perspective, poor coach/manager)

Will Greenwood (smashing centre, great personality and as an additional bonus one of the few Sky pundits who makes sense)

Jason Robinson (one of the most watchable players of all time and always beat his man )

Worst:

Brian Moore (total plonker, self-appointed hardman and custodian of rugby morality - I personally didn't rate him highly as a player)

Matt Dawson (arrogant, cocky and permanently pleased with himself. Completely unfunny on QoS)

Jeremy Guscott (admittedly a world class player, but made smuggness into an art-form and his BBC punditry/journalism is pathetically ill-informed and lazy e.g. Richie Gray is over-hyped and resembles "bambi-on-ice").

biltongbek wrote:No that Aussie fullback who's socks were always hanging round his ankles.
Great attacker from deep.

The one who resembled an articulated lorry when Robinson glided past him

Seriously though, super player. Third best fullback of the professional era, after Christian Cullen and Stuart Hogg.

disneychilly wrote:NZ - SA.

Favourites: Danie Gerber, Joost van der Westhuizen, Heinrich Brussow.

Least favourites: Mark Andrews, Bakkies Botha, James Small.

That is if I can't pick Susie.

Sorry mate, Suzie was the chef, not a player.

funnyExiledScot wrote:

biltongbek wrote:No that Aussie fullback who's socks were always hanging round his ankles.
Great attacker from deep.

The one who resembled an articulated lorry when Robinson glided past him

Seriously though, super player. Third best fullback of the professional era, after Christian Cullen and Stuart Hogg.

Pretty confident, eh mate?

You'll see. You read it here first!

Me -England

Biggest rivals are France.

Like(d) –Blanco, J P Rives, Ibanez

Hate(d) –Moscato, Cholley, Dubroca (note –all front rowers).

Me- Ireland
Rival- Wales

My favourites are Stephen Jones, Adam Jones and Jamie Roberts.

Least favourites are Gavin Henson, Mike Phillips and Dan Biggar.

Me- Wales
Rival- England

Favourites
Fun Bus, Greenwood, Jason Robinson

Least favourites
Chris Ashton, Dylan Hartley, Shontayne Hape.

Need a break from job hunting and dealing with last night's festivities so going to do it for all the Home Nations

Scotland
Favourites
Euan Murray, Nathan Hines (his jokes on Living with the Lions '09), Denton (oh jesus christ)

Least favourites
Dan Parks, and I genuinely can't think of anybody else I don't really like.

Ireland
BOD, Bowe, Cian Healy

ROG (2009 for obvious reasons), Fitzgerald (I just don't get why he's so popular and an international), D'Arcy simply because he's pretty ineffective

Latham was fantastic. Just saying

I would personally class him under brilliant, but hey, each to his own.

Just saying.

Me: Scotland

Biggest rival: Italy (they are)

Favourite players - Castro, Canale, Troncon

Least-favourite players - Dominguez (only because he was so good and tore us a new one in 2000), Pez

Let's do some more-

For SH rivals, SA- liked du Randt, Juan Smith, JP Pieterson
Disliked- Schalk Burger (soooooooooooo much), Pierre Spies, Butch James

For SH rivals, SA- liked du Randt, Juan Smith, JP Pieterson

Very nice selection there CJ.

Latham was the most complete fullback of the late 90s-early 00s. It's a shame he was playing at the same time as the most devastating of all time as he would have been recognised a lot more as the great player he was. You see a lot of him in Rob Kearney.

me. Sa
rivals NZ

favourites : Joe rokocoko, Israel Dagg , Tana Umaga
least favourites : Adam Thomspon , Jimmy Cowan, Brad Thorn (Ever since he speared Smitty)

Funny Bullsbok how you don't like Brad for spearing but you put Tana in the list of those you like!

Tan a didn't spear Johnny.

By the way I also picked Tan a as one of my favourites

Aus:

Lynagh, Eales, Horan

Campese Campese Campese

To be honest he didn't. Technically it was a cleanout. BOD wasn't anywhere near the ball...

For Aussie-our closest rival in everything else I'd take Nick Farr-Jones, Tim Horan and Stephen Larkham as the ones I like, and George Gregan, Stirling Mortlock and Matt "Pillowcase full of cake mix" Dunning as my dislikes.

RubyGuby wrote:Aus:

Lynagh, Eales, Horan

Campese Campese Campese

+ plenty.

Nice to see you Hound, still see you posting on here now and again - Good times for England ahead under Lancaster I think

Fav's ---David (Dai) Duckham
Josh Lewsey
Jonny Wilkinson

Fav's ---David (Dai) Duckham
Josh Lewsey
Jonny Wilkinson

Not fav's
Ben (Shane who)Cohen
Matt (mucked up QofS) Dawson
Austin (twit(ter) genius )Healey

NZ's biggest international rival is SA but Australia is probably fresher in the mind for many Kiwis and France has given us fans our fair share of grief so I think it's fair to give them equal attention:

Favourites: SA Juan Smith, Jacque Fourie, Joost van der Westhuizen
Australia: Tim Horan, Stephen Larkham, Willie O
France: Olivier Magne, Serge Blanco, Emile Ntmack

My least favourites are people if I'm being neutral would be in my favourites but have haunted me at one stage or another so may well be ones in a way I have the most respect for how much they riled me.

SA Matfield and Botha and Joel Stransky (the villains were pretty spot on Disney)
Aus George Gregan (notably the Goldie tackle and four more years), Phil Kearns which continues on to his commentating days, John Eales (even can kick the winning penalty goal!
France Dominici (what a player and what are you doing to my team!), Dusatoir, Saint André

RubyGuby wrote:Nice to see you Hound, still see you posting on here now and again - Good times for England ahead under Lancaster I think

Hiya Ruby (Shrink)

Re the above - not with Farrell at 10.


Aus are also always great rivals for me too.

Eales, Ella and Beale in the plus column.

Campo, Gregan and Sailor for the

disneychilly wrote:Funny Bullsbok how you don't like Brad for spearing but you put Tana in the list of those you like!

i dislike BOD to begin with so im hardly going to hate Tana on his behalf

Ouch!

Great player but it's funny how he seems to be disliked so many. I too must confess to being not a fan of him off the field. Not because of the Lions incident - I think Umaga and Mealamu should've been at least cited - but how he usually searches after a defeat his favourite excuses. It's not so much what the opposition did but what the ref or his own players did so poorly.

Favourite Welsh Players:

Rupert Moon, Tony Copsey, Colin Charvis

LondonTiger wrote:Favourite Welsh Players:

Rupert Moon, Tony Copsey, Colin Charvis

You're leaving yourself wide open with that one LT.

Me: NZ
Rival: engerland

Favs: no comment
Least favs: back, guscott, dayglo, carling, etc....