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McCaw named IRB Player of the Year (Again)

  • 01-12-2010 07:57PM
    #1
    Spore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,123 ✭✭✭Spore


    McCaw nabs the top individual accolade in world rugby for the third time He's the first player to win it more than once and also consecutively. Leaves me all the more irked that BOD didn't get it the previous year. But can McCaw be regarded as the best ever?


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  • #2
    twinytwo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,478 ✭✭✭twinytwo


    Spore wrote: »
    McCaw nabs the top individual accolade in world rugby for the third time He's the first player to win it more than once and also consecutively. Leaves me all the more irked that BOD didn't get it the previous year. But can McCaw be regarded as the best ever?

    its completley biased at this stage tbh.


  • #3
    danthefan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,770 ✭✭✭danthefan


    One of the best players ever, well deserved this year.


  • #4
    handsomecake
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,783 ✭✭✭handsomecake


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX3QfKo4HiA




    the guy is a legend and its a privilige to be alive during his tenure


  • #5
    Ian_K
    Closed Accounts Posts: 723 ✭✭✭Ian_K


    handsomecake wrote: »
    Try vs. SA


    Doing a bit of a Spies on it there, just hanging out on the wing avoiding the donkey work wasnt he :pac: and a forward pass on the far side earlier on!
    Ah no, great try, great player


  • #6
    twinytwo
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    Ian_K wrote: »
    Doing a bit of a Spies on it there, just hanging out on the wing avoiding the donkey work wasnt he :pac: and a forward pass on the far side earlier on!
    Ah no, great try, great player

    which the lines man was looking right at


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  • #7
    Reese Jolly Varnish
    Posts: 0 ✭ Reese Jolly Varnish


    Even though he deserved it, the award has become meaningless. A hollow victory I feel.

    He's probably bored getting it too.


  • #8
    JustinDee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,684 ✭✭✭JustinDee


    Ian_K wrote: »
    Doing a bit of a Spies on it there, just hanging out on the wing avoiding the donkey work wasnt he :pac: and a forward pass on the far side earlier on!

    Forward passes?
    Stephen Ferris scored a beaut try off a forward pass against New Zealand two weekends ago.

    McCaw had a phenomenal season. Deserves the plaudits and recognition for it for sure but I'd wager it measures sweet eff all compared to those victories he led his team to.

    Titanic won Best Picture for flips sake and the bloody Klaxons won the Mercury Music Prize. Awards are meaningless.


  • #9
    Risteard
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    Whatever about last year, he definitely deserved it this year.


  • #10
    thomond2006
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    History says it will all go wrong next year. :pac:

    Well done to him this year though! Deserved accolade although personally I would have given it to Muliana or Pocock. The list of nominees was very strong this year.


  • #11
    Spore
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    thomond2006 wrote: »
    The list of nominees was very strong this year.

    Thought it was pretty strong last year also, if not BOD then Fourie du Preez should have got it in 2009.


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  • #12
    siochain
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    twinytwo wrote: »
    which the lines man was looking right at

    yeah but this is NZ, rules are different for them.....


  • #13
    Ciaran-Irl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 910 ✭✭✭Ciaran-Irl


    Robbie Deans or Guy Novès should have won coach of the year. Graham Henry isn't deserving of being a 4 time winner of that accolade. Other coaches would have won multiple world cups with the squad he has available to him.

    No question that Richie McCaw should be player of the year, but Du Preez or Brian O'Driscoll should absolutely have won last year.


  • #14
    Trojan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,415 ✭✭✭✭Trojan


    I believe BOD not getting it last year has devalued the award.

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  • #15
    Mr.Applepie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,079 ✭✭✭Mr.Applepie


    Ciaran-Irl wrote: »
    Robbie Deans or Guy Novès should have won coach of the year. Graham Henry isn't deserving of being a 4 time winner of that accolade. Other coaches would have won multiple world cups with the squad he has available to him.

    No question that Richie McCaw should be player of the year, but Du Preez or Brian O'Driscoll should absolutely have won last year.

    It would take some coach to win multiple world cups in only one attempt.


  • #16
    Ciaran-Irl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 910 ✭✭✭Ciaran-Irl


    Mr.Applepie wrote: »
    It would take some coach to win multiple world cups in only one attempt.

    True...


  • #17
    thebaz
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    danthefan wrote: »
    One of the best players ever, well deserved this year.

    agree - and such a nice guy too (off the pitch anyway !)


  • #18
    [Jackass]
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,193 ✭✭✭[Jackass]


    I'm still too bitter to feel anything other than indifference to this award. Maybe that was BO'Ds last chance to get it, and I think his decade as one of the modern legends of the game and the sensational year he had and everything he achieved, it was a disgrace not to give it to him, but to give it to McCaw for the second time, who had a distinctly average year and already had one....

    Fair play he deserved it this year, but I think Trojan said it best ... last seasons shambles has devalued the award greatly in my eyes..


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