So what do we all think?
To kick off debate and because I'm all fancy, this is the team I'd get just from looking at the stats...
1. Marler - No one that impressive, but 5m from 5c was one of the better scores, the oppo scrum lost 2 and he only missed one tackle.
2. Guirado - Was going to be Ghiraldini until I looked at Italy's lineout lost score. France won 90pc of their lineouts and Guirado carried well with 10 tackles and a turnover. 7 passes too, mildly interesting oddity.
3. Murray - Scrum stats could be better but that Try Assist and one less penalty led me to give it to him ahead of the absurdly active Castrogiovanni and the slightly-less-but-still-credible Lee.
4. J Gray - 19 tackles, 1 turnover, 9 carries for 14m and 2 steals. Banker.
5. Attwood - Both he and POC stole 2, but Attwood tackled more, got a turnover, and carried more metres off nearly a third of the carries.
6. Le Roux - 21m off of 9 carries was one of the more efficient returns from a back row and 17 tackles and a turnover decent showing defence. Only one penalty - TOD and Cowan both disqualified themselves through too many penalties.
7. Robshaw - 26 tackles, 2 turnovers, lets move on.
8. Chouly - Other 8s were busier, he made more than most of them. 2 turnovers and a lineout steal were the clinchers for me.
9. Youngs - An assist, useful sniping, didn't get turned over and 8 tackles
10. Russell - Again, defensive stats swayed me - two turnovers made - plus he made more metres than the others.
11. Thomas - Made the most metres and didn't get turned over
12. Dunbar - Made the most metres (Henshaw equal, but more carries) and 2 turnovers in defence
13. Bennett - Again, metres made... 4 offloads pretty handy too. Joseph might have got the try, but got nothing like the space some of the other OCs did.
14. North - I wanted to go with the guy with the try, but twice the ground, one less turnover committed and one turnover gained persuaded me otherwise.
15. Brown - Difficult call. Spedding had far less turnovers. Hogg had two linebreaks but even more turnovers. In the end, decided to go with the assist.
So there we go. I think we can all agree that my unspecified and unscientific methodology was the right one.
Can think of a couple of changes I'd make picking on the actual games I saw though, but, no one unworthy there imo - think it highlights how many very good Scottish performances there were.
To kick off debate and because I'm all fancy, this is the team I'd get just from looking at the stats...
1. Marler - No one that impressive, but 5m from 5c was one of the better scores, the oppo scrum lost 2 and he only missed one tackle.
2. Guirado - Was going to be Ghiraldini until I looked at Italy's lineout lost score. France won 90pc of their lineouts and Guirado carried well with 10 tackles and a turnover. 7 passes too, mildly interesting oddity.
3. Murray - Scrum stats could be better but that Try Assist and one less penalty led me to give it to him ahead of the absurdly active Castrogiovanni and the slightly-less-but-still-credible Lee.
4. J Gray - 19 tackles, 1 turnover, 9 carries for 14m and 2 steals. Banker.
5. Attwood - Both he and POC stole 2, but Attwood tackled more, got a turnover, and carried more metres off nearly a third of the carries.
6. Le Roux - 21m off of 9 carries was one of the more efficient returns from a back row and 17 tackles and a turnover decent showing defence. Only one penalty - TOD and Cowan both disqualified themselves through too many penalties.
7. Robshaw - 26 tackles, 2 turnovers, lets move on.
8. Chouly - Other 8s were busier, he made more than most of them. 2 turnovers and a lineout steal were the clinchers for me.
9. Youngs - An assist, useful sniping, didn't get turned over and 8 tackles
10. Russell - Again, defensive stats swayed me - two turnovers made - plus he made more metres than the others.
11. Thomas - Made the most metres and didn't get turned over
12. Dunbar - Made the most metres (Henshaw equal, but more carries) and 2 turnovers in defence
13. Bennett - Again, metres made... 4 offloads pretty handy too. Joseph might have got the try, but got nothing like the space some of the other OCs did.
14. North - I wanted to go with the guy with the try, but twice the ground, one less turnover committed and one turnover gained persuaded me otherwise.
15. Brown - Difficult call. Spedding had far less turnovers. Hogg had two linebreaks but even more turnovers. In the end, decided to go with the assist.
So there we go. I think we can all agree that my unspecified and unscientific methodology was the right one.
Can think of a couple of changes I'd make picking on the actual games I saw though, but, no one unworthy there imo - think it highlights how many very good Scottish performances there were.
