Gee, I had a day away from the thread for work reasons. This cannot be allowed to happen again! I award myself a BLACK card!
I have to say, I find both those teams- Tri-Nations and World - quite bizarre. Who selected them? I mean to say, for crying out loud - Jonah Lomu??
I'd still rank Ella ahead of Larkham, and I rank Larkham ahead of Wilkinson. That said, I find the whole business of trying to rate players from different eras against each other pretty futile in any sport. There are too many variables. For what it's worth, though, Mark Ella could do everything the incumbents do and more. The tragedy was that he retired early to escape the appalling Allan Jones, Wallaby coach of the time.
I think the bigger problem is that, patently obviously, none of the selectors for the World XV are older than 25. Given that it's a futile exercise anyway.
I have to say, I find both those teams- Tri-Nations and World - quite bizarre. Who selected them? I mean to say, for crying out loud - Jonah Lomu??
Mark Ella? Not a shade on Larkham or Wilkinson surely? Finbar?
You sense the unbalanced hand of mainly SH voting in this all time team I think?
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