Comments on: Top 10 International Rugby Teams

By: truth teller

truth teller — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:42:39 +0000

for yo kind info… Fiji is a better sevens team than wales or france and even aus. educate yourself before making lists please.

By: Rugga Fan

Rugga Fan — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 07:31:00 +0000

if this is a alltime list… it is a joke. NZ an Boks are 1 and 2. Only in NZ and wales are the 15man code the national sport. NZ deserve nr 1 as they are the only tam that has above 50% winning record against all nations. SA 2nd as they have 50% against all countries except NZ. They use to have before Apartheid sanctions came in. After 92 The AB’s had the better of us. Over the last 2 decades the ausies were great but before that they were a average team (4th). Hate England but they deserve 3 rd place. Wales and scotland are not close to the powers they use to be (especially scotland) but they deserve 5th and 6th. France has played some great rugby over the years but they have lost against teams like Romania as well so no more than 7. Ireland 8. Argentina, the success story of rugby union. From losing with more than a 100 points against a SA regional team (WP) in the 80′s to 3rd place in ’07 should be at 9. Fiji- sorry boys. Samoa has people than most of the top countries rugby players yet they have made 3 world cup qauters- so they fill 10.

NZ do use the south islands as a feeding ground but so what, half the english cricket team is from SA, half the USA rugby team is not yanks- it is a professional era. the islands do not have the money to develop them.

Just for record- 1987 and ’91 world cups? did they really count? no bok team…
believe the proper stats shoud show world cup wins:
South Africa: 2 out of 5
Australia: 1 out of 5 (’91)
NZ : 1 out of 5 (’87)
England: 1 out of 5

believe that will get the boys talking…

By: Big Lon

Big Lon — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:36:09 +0000

I love rugby union but the Frenchies and Irish just shot your theory in the foot. Rugby may be for real men but only if it’s nice weather, at least that’s what the French officials determined this past weekend. American Football games are never called off for cold weather and/or ice. I had several friends all excited to watch a 6 Nations match on BBC America and it’s called off because of weather.

By: truth

truth — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:26:49 +0000

The Kiwis have always been the dominant force in rugby, unsure why exactly being such a small country most people have never heard of lol

By: djC

djC — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:24:24 +0000

New Zealand the best!!!

By: Woodchuck Chuck

Woodchuck Chuck — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 21:00:16 +0000

2011.

By: Woodchuck Chuck

Woodchuck Chuck — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 20:59:20 +0000

I think Argentina should be 6th, with Wales and Eng moving up a place each. Being English, it pains e to allow wales above us, but they have so much passion for the game that they deserve it. There’s no question about the top three, nor will there ever be really.

By: megaman

megaman — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:45:26 +0000

I should point out to recent visitors that this list was made in early 2009. By the end of 2009, Brian O’Driscoll was crowned internationally as #1 player in the world by a number of sources. Ireland rose to #3 in the IRB rankings.
Right now: IRB rankings as of December 2011:

1. New Zealand
2. Australia
3. France
4. South Africa
5. England
6. Ireland
7. Argentina
8. Wales
..

These are the most realistic IRB rankings I’ve seen actually. This is pretty much how it is right now. New Zealand, Australia, and France are the best. End Of.

By: clogston90

clogston90 — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:21:16 +0000

New Zealand FTW!!! Heck Ya! Maybe Ireland will step it up a little bit!

By: Gerardo a Puma's Fan from Argentina

Gerardo a Puma's Fan from Argentina — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 15:43:26 +0000

God bless Rugby! I couldn’t agree more with “Blue”! This is a sport of heroes, a brutal war of gentlemen, no rest, no paddings, no helmets, no cheerleaders, no beer adverts, no Janet Jackson, no mercy. Only warriors playing to win or to die trying. 80 minutes of fast brutal and unstopable struggle. And athletic carnage that ends with emotive accolades and handshakes from both rivals.

Regarding some negative coments about the Argentina’s “Pumas”, the most painful one was about us being “lucky”. Believe me, if there’s something that doesn’t come into account in the Pumas achievements, is “luck”. The first rugby match played in Argentina was in 1873, in 1910 we played our first international match against The British and Irish Lions, but till this day Rugby is an amateur’s sport in our country. No local league, no government’s help, no rugby fields, no rugby in schools, no nothing. It’s an elite sport played by amateurs who love rugby more than their own health. That’s why our guys cry when our antenm is played before every match we play in the RWC. They cry because they build their way up to there with their own bare hands and souls, alone. Doing their daily jobs and playing during the weekends, no one choosed them, they choosed themselves and worked hard to be the best of the best. We are at the other side of the world away from the heart of Rugby, that’s no lucky at all. Just recently after our performance in RWC 07′ our players started to be more recognized in europe and to become professional players. In Leistner Irish called Contepomi “Dr. Phil” Because he actually is a doctor who worked in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin. For them that maybe it’s just a funny little pun, but for us means something different. It means all that human struggle and hard work behind every one of our players.
We don’t want anything for free, our guys worked and bleed their souls and hearts out to reach that 5th place in the IRB ranking, and to read that “they were lucky” is like being spit in the face. GO PUMAS GO!