The Guardian: cei mai buni 50 de jucatori din istoria rugby-ului.

The Guardian, unul din cele mai influente cotidiane englezesti in materie de sport (implicit rugby), s-a hazardat recent in a face un clasament all time cu 50 de entries privind jucatorii internationali de rugby. Juriul a a fost format din 11 evaluatori, din care doar 3 fosti internationali (Will Carling-Anglia, Eddie Butler-Tara Galilor si Jon Smith-Africa de Sud) si 8 gazetari specializati in rugby. Ei au avut de ales pe o lista de peste 100 jucatori, alegeri multiple-3 (40 prima optiune, 39, a doua...1 ultima optiune). Si iata ce a iesit:

			TOTAL
1	Jonah Lomu	New Zealand	424	40	39	40	36	39	39	39	32	40	40	40
2	Martin Johnson	England	393	37	35	39	39	31	27	37	37	34	38	39
3	David Campese	Australia	383	32	40	37	31	32	34	32	29	39	39	38
4	John Eales	Australia	371	33	37	38	34	38	31	14	40	32	37	37
5	Richie McCaw	New Zealand	344	35	36	32	25	40		34	39	38	30	35
6	Jonny Wilkinson	England	341	29	34	35	29	30	40	29	38	36	35	6
7	Michael Jones	New Zealand	304	30	38	19	40	34	26	38		16	36	27
8	Francois Pienaar	South Africa	290	38	31	23	30	9	4	26	36	37	27	29
9	Tim Horan	Australia	265		28	36	21	37	9	35	27	35	7	30
10	Joost van der Westhuizen	South Africa	250	22	23	33		28		17	28	31	34	34
11	John Kirwan	New Zealand	238	19	25	10	35	15		40		30	33	31
12	Richard Hill	England	231	23	21	24	26	36	25	33		10		33
13	Sean Fitzpatrick	New Zealand	228		26	30	22	18	24		21	29	22	36
14	Lawrence Dallaglio	England	218	21	24	1	27	25	28	19	22	23		28
15	Bryan Habana	South Africa	210	15	19		9	19	37	13	26	25	23	24
16	Michael Lynagh	Australia	201	25	32	27		35	12			18	32	20
17	Victor Matfield	South Africa	198	26	8	18	20	24	19	16		17	29	21
18	Thierry Dusautoir	France	188	36		8	15	33	38	30	2		4	22
19	John Smit	South Africa	180	28	14	21	1	14	32	12	35			23
20	Nick Farr-Jones	Australia	179	24	12		24	26	18		31		25	19
21	George Gregan	Australia	169	9		31		22	36		25	28		18
22	Jason Robinson	England	154	17	33	20	32	8		20	8			16
23	Joel Stransky	South Africa	147	5	20	25	14	27	13	28			15
24	Stephen Larkham	Australia	124		10	22	16	17	20	22				17
25	Dan Carter	New Zealand	122		17			10	5	25		33		32
26	Fourie du Preez	South Africa	118		4	28	6		35	36				9
27	David Kirk	New Zealand	112	31			8	20			34		6	13
28	Zinzan Brooke	New Zealand	108		6		5	23	21			26	13	14
29	Serge Blanco	France	107	18	27		12			24			14	12
30	Jason Little	Australia	107	13		29	13	21			23			8
31	Rupeni Caucaunibuca	Fiji	100		30	17				10	7	5	26	5
32	Brian Lima	Samoa	97	3		12			1		16	27	31	7
33	Wayne Shelford	New Zealand	91	14	7	7	38					14	11
34	Will Greenwood	England	90	7	5		37		16					25
35	Christophe Lamaison	France	87							31		21	24	11
36	Grant Fox	New Zealand	84			14	28				20	22
37	Jason Leonard	England	83		22	26	3	1	3		24			4
38	Os du Randt	South Africa	82	1		34			10	7	30
39	Shane Williams	Wales	80		9				7	18	5	7	19	15
40	Philippe Sella	France	76		29		2		8	27				10
41	Gavin Hastings	Scotland	69	4		5					17		16	27
42	Josh Kronfeld	New Zealand	69					13	29			24		3
43	Neil Back	England	66					12	11			13	28	2
44	Keith Wood	Ireland	63									19	18	26
45	Agustin Pichot	Argentina	58	39						1			17	1
46	Raphael Ibanez	France	55		16				6		33
47	Willie Ofahengaue	Australia	54			13	19	11				11
48	Chester Williams	South Africa	54	20	11		23
49	John Gallagher	New Zealand	53			15	33			5

La adresa http://www.theguardian.com/sport/ng-interactive/2015/sep/14/rugby-world-cup-50-greatest-players-interactive veti gasi si pozele acestor jucatori precum si cateva informatii esentiale despre acestia. 

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