He should have picked Gerald Davis over David Campese.

Nice selection .Blanco,lomu .Horan , Sella .Gerald Davies. Carter.Gareth Edwards. Graham price .Dintrens, Fran cotton .Eales .Martin Johnson / Willie John .Michael Jones, Zinzaan , Frik de preez

No Brian O Driscoll ???

That's a pretty good team

No chance captain no 8 Buck Shelford.

warrior nah mate, Zinny was the better al round player, better hands, better vision, could drop goals and run & link up in the open like a centre, way ahead of his time. Buck was a great player but one dimensional, just a hard bastard who led from the front. Zinny was a hard bastard too.

Finally someone picks Richard Hill at 6...probably the most underrated English player ever...world cup winner but rarely talked about

Good B team, now what is your A team?

@@greatwhitesharky3261 I’ll give you a B! 1. Fran Cotton 2. Keith Wood 3. Olo Brown 4. Martin Johnson 5. VM/JE 6. Ian Kirkpatrick 7. Michael Jones 8. Zinzan Brooke 9. Joost (soon to be Dupont) 10. Barry John 11. Bryan Habana 12. Philippe Sella 13. Danie Gerber 14. Rupeni Caucau 15. Christian Cullen

@@AlexBrown-xp7mt I was winding you up Dear Chap!

Spies at 8

Only if you've got one eye.

Overrated, phil Bennett way better

King 👑 John.

no way. Gareth Edwards every time

Joost van der Westhuizen (RIP) agreed

George Greegen would be in the best world 15 as 9, but a good player for a world 15 would be August pulu, but because you'd need a Japanese player in their so that's its real world 15 as the focus you'd put Tanaka in at 9_ because you would not put a Japanese player in any other position

Gee, for me it's a coin toss at center between Sella and Danie Gerber.

What about John Fleming from Wellington in the locking department.

Bakkies was a lock not a flank brother

I wish I watched him in his prime as i was still very young. But the amount of comments on different clips that says he was better than McCaw is unreal. I thought no one can top McCaw.

This guy overlooked the fact that Maa Nonu won NZ many close games with his linebreaks and instead names a guy that didn’t play inside center. So disrespectful. Wednesday ngt - May 17, 2023. Kakko prk.

@@theephraimite Wtf is the relevance of that?

@@andrewcavenagh9016 uh.. the relevance is it’s rugby.

I agree jones was by far the greatest

Yebo!

2nd 5... i also got a big confused when he said that and didn't know what position it was lol...

Easy you leave out the greatest rugby player of all time Gareth edwards sounds like sh bias a lot of the 1970 welsh players should be there.

Edwards at 9,Carter at ten and thats halfway decent

@@ryandurkin2958 very biased opinion there. The tabloids this side blew him up and still do to be better than what he was. There have been better players since him.

colonel the III that's a given

Tuigamala?

hes not the greatest 7 lol

well it's not the best team in the world.....

Richie McCaw doesn't even make an All Black XV at 7.... unless you move Michael Jones to 6. Which you could. Note that Zinzan just picked Jones and then thought about the rest of the back row - which is the right thing to do because it's a no-brainer. Just get Jones on the pitch and take the rest of the back row from there.

No Simon Spence from Poverty Bay or Maurice Standish from Wellington very surprised that those two missed out.

If you ever saw mj at 7 before his massive quad tear then you'd get it.

McCaw was shit brah😂

McCaw as a player amazing but Michael Jones was out of this world at 7..just the best thats ever been around...oh and Dan Carter at 10 with respect to beaudy

@@byro4467 u don't know shit about rugby if that's what you think

Considering Michael Jones played at 6... you know nothing

@@alandennis5337 Man u really don't know shit do you? Jones didn't play 6 till late in his career after two knee construction so maybe just let the grownups talk silly boy who doesn't know his rugby 🤐🤐🤐👍

Unless he wants to play Michael Jones on the blindside? Also, France is a bit different because they play left and right so I think he would be ok.

Surprised he didn't pick Lehi Hohaia from Bay of Plenty or Wayne Burleigh from Canterbury for the midfield. Simon Spence from Poverty Bay was a good no7 surprised he wasn't picked.

He picked Edwards as scrum half.

Choice of 3 at 15: JPR; Serge; Cullen. JPR redefined the role.. and while I loved Cullen, if I had to pick a XV I'd go for Serge.

15. Casey Wanoa (Bay of Plenty)

JPR …. what a man …. he wasn't dirty at all but damn did he love a fight.

Great team champ. Disagree with a couple but love the inclusion of Mortlock, underrated IMO. Cheers mate.

That is a mighty team.

Your team would beat his.

Good side. Bunce for mortlock and Richard Hill for jerry Collins otherwise your flying

I agree.Barrett has some way to go to pip Carter

It's his personal XV not yours lol

Brilliant

No way Philippe Sella best ever and then SBW

aren't people entitled to their own opinion?

@@daddybear8849 Of course they are so that’s why I’ve given mine.

I would have gone for Buff Milner in the midfield.

George gre gan hahahahahahahahahahaha

Gregan haha. Lmfao

I can handle Gregan but Halfpenny over Cullen and Blanco, Wilkinson over Carter Seriously

This team doesn’t cut it

3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 12, 14 and especially 15. You must be watching another sport old chap.

Roko and Howlett over Lomu? Get off the drugs bro...

mickser101 This xv is trash lmao

Meeean Azz etzebeth and spies aren’t even the best springboks in their positions

Mean Team cuzzy, Good seeing Finegan in there

@@toiletsmithy3630 chur cuz, just a bit of fun Schalk Burger off the bench maybe?

Keven Mealamu over Fitzpatrick, Mealamu has 2 RWC medals to Fitzpatrick's 1

No no no

I would pick Willie John McBride , Ronan O'Gara and Brian O'Driscoll, Ireland's greatest

Realistically Mike Gibson is the only Irishman in the conversation. For me, he runs Sella close for the 13 jersey. Wouldn't hurt to put him at 12. Smokin Joe isn't a 12.

Brian Odriscoll is my captain and im a kiwi. And i love either Brian Habana or Tony Underwood. So one of them on the right and Jonah on the left. Martin Johnson who played for NZ in junior grades, Brodie Retallic and Lawrence Dellalio at 8. Michael Jones is the only 7, if he played in the days of social media he wouldve been on the same level as Jonah. Sella of course, and Serge and Cullen will have to fight for fullback. Nick Far Jones is at 9. (Joost is so close) Carl Hayman, Oost and Dane Coles. SBW is 12 because he creates so much space and defensively sound but he can box it out with F Steyn. And 10 is Barry John, as mentioned recently the George Best equivalent of rugby. Reserves: Victor Matfield, Chabal, Pienaar vice captain, Schalk and Ritchie. Ben Smith utility back. I'm going to get slammed for this because I havent thought it through and as with any of these teams you cant everyone and i was trying not to be bias.

No no no

Richard Hill, Martin Johnson and Dan Coles. Even as replacements you can't be serious. 🙈

My world 15 has Jonny Wilkinson at 10

And why is that a poor choice bra? 3rd highest scoring super rugby player in history, won a world cup and is the incumbent 10 in the ABs for the past 3 years and if he doesn't take the 10million dollar to play in France after the next world cup, he will be for the next 4 years

Shows how much you know about the game huh

Carter was very good,Barret got everything,

Andrew Mehrtens deserves a mention as well.When the great Colin Meads picked his greatest XV he chose Mehrtens !!.Barrett is still playing, I reckon you have to be retired to make a greatest XV.

Barry john the king

Paul Cockram who are the 4 FBs u rate ahead of Cullen?

Literally, outside of Blanco and possibly JPR Williams, I'm not sure you could objectively rate anyone higher than Cullen. He's the best pro era fullback easily.

No one comes close to Cullen.

Cockram ... I dare you to try name them. Were you smoking something when you put this post up on here perhaps? No fullback comes close to Cullen in history; not Blanco, Joubert, Gallagher, Robinson, Heunis, Williams, Hastings, Montgomery, Pienaar, Dagg. None of them, not even close. Cullen was a super charged version of all of them combined. The only fullback to even closely resemble CMC was HO de Villiers. Many of you on here won’t even know the name - alas, if you don’t know him, don’t bother getting into a discussion on fullback play. The other is Israel Folau. The biggest joke in all these comparisons is Halfpenny and Kearney. I can name you 5 university fullbacks in South Africa alone over the past 25 years who are better fullbacks than these two players easily. As a side note, before professional rugby began in 1996; most northern hemisphere test teams would struggle to beat the teams of the top 4 universities in South Africa alone. Yes I said it. Read and weep. Just a short sobering thought for those insular NH armchair rugby boffs/“experts” to keep you busy. To be frank, nothing has really changed. Just look how South African university players are scattered all over NH professional leagues today. More than any other country on earth outside of the host league. Even NZ players can’t match that level of depth. If you wanna witness firsthand how players are rolled off the production line come to South Africa for 3 months between May and July and watch the top 50 schools in action. You will go back to your home country a changed man. You won’t recognise your origins.

You're silly if you Believe there's 4 Players higher than Cullen

They asked him on the spot and he named a team . It's not arrogance. Arrogance would be naming himself. As for stats how about head to head. NZ vs SA Played 99 NZ won 59 SA won 36 Draws 4 NZ win rate 59.6 %. In the professional era(post 96 and post apartheid when the playing fields are even and refs are neutral) this win ratio has risen to 71.9% What are you talking about?

@@MrAhuapai Point taken partly. Post apartheid playing fields are level? I believe there's certain things about current SA discriminating politics and more specific the quota system incl selection of coaching staff that you are not understanding. Hence, the drastic change in win percentage since late 90's. The playing field is not even my friend but I will not bore you any further with facts as you in any case won't care to consider. But yes, I was a bit hard on ol' Mr Brooke! He should be on the list!

Pretty shortsighted response this.