After 20 yrs of European rugby who would line up in best XV?

[kicktee]

Nice piece in today’s Guardian....

The criteria are simple: an individual must have made a significant tournament impact and featured in at least one European Cup final.

Ultimate Euro XV: Geordan Murphy (Leicester); Sitiveni Sivivatu (Clermont Auvergne), Brian O’Driscoll (Leinster), Matt Giteau (Toulon), Vincent Clerc (Toulouse); Jonathan Sexton (Leinster/Racing Métro), Philippe Carbonneau (Toulouse/Brive); Cian Healy (Leinster), Trevor Leota (Wasps), Carl Hayman (Toulon), Martin Johnson (Leicester), Paul O’Connell (Munster), Rocky Elsom (Leinster), David Wallace (Munster), Anthony Foley (Munster).

Replacements Raphaël Ibañez (Wasps), Graham Rowntree (Leicester), John Hayes (Munster), Simon Shaw (Wasps), Juan Martin Fernández-Lobbe (Toulon), Ruan Pienaar (Ulster), Ronan O’Gara (Munster), Wesley Fofana (Clermont Auvergne).


http://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2 ... gne-toulon

Good selection…… What do you think?

[leinster4life13]

No Dallaglio at 8, twice the player foley ever was, Nacewa or Heymans over Sivivatu surely, Sivivatu is very hot and cold, his legs have since he came up north. Juazion over Gits, bizarre call, Juazion was the best 12 in europe for a good while there. Strings/Yachvilli/Ellisalde at 9, three of the best 9's of the past decade . Julian White over Carl Hayman every day of the week, White utterly pulped people in the scrum, something Hayman hasnt done for Toulon in Europe on a regular basis.

Very modern selection.

[Rémy63]

My version :

Horan (Munster) - Ibanez (Wasps) - Hayman (Toulon)
Pelous (Toulouse) - O'Connell (Munster)
Elsom (Leinster) - Foley (Munster) - Back (Leicester)

Carbonneau (Brive/Toulouse) - Sexton (Leinster)

James (Llanelli) - Jauzion (Toulouse) - O'Driscoll (Leinster) - Rougerie (Clermont)

Murphy (Leicester)

[simonokeeffe]

the Kitson selection is half flavour of the month half tweeness

[Logorrhea]

Cedric Heymans has to fit in there somewhere no?

[olaf the fat]

No Pelous?