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<blockquote data-quote="Darwin" data-source="post: 462100" data-attributes="member: 24910">Hard to argue with most of those selections - the only ones I would really disagree with are the loose-forwards:The obvious omission is Jerome Kaino at 6 - he played every minute for the AB&#039;s and was close to man of the match in every game (I think he won the official Man of Match award vs Canada too).&nbsp; I don&#039;t think any 6 in the tournament has performed close to as well as Kaino did in the pool stages (Kaino has also stood out during the playoffs, but that isn&#039;t even taken into account).&nbsp; I certainly wouldn&#039;t pick McCaw at 7 either - he was very quiet during the pool stage - his only standout match of the tournament so far was in the semi-final versus Australia.&nbsp; The standout 7 for me was Japan&#039;s Michael Leitch (Japan&#039;s best player&nbsp; along with Arlidge in my opinion), though there could be a good argument for Canada&#039;s O&#039;Toole.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Darwin, post: 462100, member: 24910"] Hard to argue with most of those selections - the only ones I would really disagree with are the loose-forwards: The obvious omission is Jerome Kaino at 6 - he played every minute for the AB's and was close to man of the match in every game (I think he won the official Man of Match award vs Canada too). I don't think any 6 in the tournament has performed close to as well as Kaino did in the pool stages (Kaino has also stood out during the playoffs, but that isn't even taken into account). I certainly wouldn't pick McCaw at 7 either - he was very quiet during the pool stage - his only standout match of the tournament so far was in the semi-final versus Australia. The standout 7 for me was Japan's Michael Leitch (Japan's best player along with Arlidge in my opinion), though there could be a good argument for Canada's O'Toole. [/QUOTE]

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