Top 10 Rugby Players

Warrior genius. Scores hatfuls of tries in a very limited team. If he'd been an All Black he'd have surely scored over a hundred. I'm a kiwi living in Ireland and have never seen anyone targeted by opposing teams in the way he has been. Defensively amazing and an incredible appetite for hard work too. The complete package.

A giant of the rugby union game quite literally as he weighed in at a staggering 18st 13lb (120kg). The New Zealand winger was like a battering ram to opponents, the smaller guys - still quite some size themselves but tiny in comparison - just bouncing off him. A kidney-related disease halted his career before transplant surgery allowed him to make a comeback. Lomu never won the World Cup but with a record 15 tries in Rugby World Cups, for me he deservedly takes top spot.

Time will show he was the greatest All Black.

La'auli Michael Niko Jones (born 8 April 1965) is a former New Zealand rugby union player and coach. He was nicknamed 'the Iceman' or 'Ice' because of the cool but confident manner in which he played, and the number of icepacks he needed for injuries. He has been voted by Rugby World magazine as the third best All Black of the 20th century after Colin Meads and Sean Fitzpatrick. John Hart, who first selected him for Auckland, called him "almost the perfect rugby player".

Wasps, English and Lions rugby legend. An inspiration on the field who played with his heart on his sleave and won everything going in the game

New Zealand rugby union fly-half Carter has to make the top 10 in my mind, like Wilkinson for his goalkicking abilities which have ended the hopes of many a nation taking on the All Blacks – so much so the All Blacks have lost just eight games when Carter has featured since 2003. Accurate would be the only suitable word to describe Carter’s kicking, whose deadly skills on conversions, penalties and drop goals can only be described as "awesome". His general play in the game itself was world class too.

Broke the mold for loose forwards. A number eight with all the qualities of a first five-eighths

Had a style and poise unmatched to this day. You couldn't take your eyes off him.

The complete player. Scored for fun and defended even better.