Top 10 Rugby Players

Brian O'Driscoll

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.

Richie McCaw

Time will show he was the greatest All Black.

Serge Blanco

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

Michael Jones

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".

Zinzan Brooke

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

Jean Pierre Rives

Hard man Perpetual motion. Personified the toughness and beauty of French rugby.

Mark Ella

Bob Dwyer called him the best game manager of all. Reinvented the roll of first five-eighths with his flat attack.

Gareth Edwards

Gareth Owen Edwards CBE (born 12 July 1947) is a former Welsh rugby union footballer who played scrum-half, who was described by the BBC as "arguably the greatest player ever to don a Welsh jersey".
In 2003, a poll of international rugby players conducted by Rugby World magazine, Edwards was declared the greatest player of all time. In 2007, former England captain Will Carling published his list of the '50 Greatest Rugby players' in The Telegraph, and ranked Edwards the greatest player ever, stating; "He was a supreme athlete with supreme skills, the complete package. He played in the 1970s, but, if he played now, he would still be the best. He was outstanding at running, passing, kicking and reading the game

David Campese

Martin Johnson

Painful but true. The best lock I've seen.