Rugby World UK – July 2019

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100 BEST PLAYERS Leading role Giving directions to his team-mates PICS Gogita Bukhaidze “He’s a different type of player to Mamu ...

Age 21 (21.6.97) Position Wing The diminutive Hawick native’s gone from sevens to starring for Edinburgh and finishing off inter ...

Age 31 (27.4.88) Position Sevens Originally told she was too small, 5ft 4in Landry has been on a hard road. But she is now the W ...

Age 26 (11.4.93) Position Back three “The new breed of player” according to Eddie Jones, who mooted using the Exeter wing as a n ...

Age 29 (6.8.89) Position Flanker The Ospreys and Wales openside might be a shy and retiring character in normal life, but out th ...

63 KEN OWENS 64 100 Best Players Age 32 (3 January 1987) Position Hooker O WENS HAD to bide his time with Wales. He started only ...

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Age 27 (10.2.92) Position Prop The problem facing Kitshoff for so long was: how to get past Tendai Mtawarira? Yet after being wo ...

Age 32 (10.12.86) Position Hooker The World Cup-winning All Black has been plagued by bad luck over the past two years, with con ...

Age 30 (23.3.89) Position Sevens “Every time he gets the ball something magical happens,” wrote Perry Baker of Jerry Tuwai last ...

43 PERRY BAKER 0 100 Best Players Age 32 (29 June 1986) Position Sevens W ELCOME TO wedlock. A broken jaw in Hamilton, just a fe ...

Age 29 (25.5.90) Position Prop Georgia are spoilt for choice when it comes to props and this wily Montpellier loosehead is the b ...

Age 24 (21.4.95) Position Wing He’s enjoyed a stellar trajectory in the past 18 months. Now a Wales regular, he crossed for trie ...

Age 29 (1.4.90) Position Wing He might have had a stressful season with Leicester but the phenomenally quick May had the time of ...

21 MICHAEL HOOPER 91 100 Best Players Age 27 (29 October 1991) Position Back-row S UPER HOOPER likes to get things done fast, wh ...

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100 Best Players “HIS DESIRE TO SUCCEED IS UNBELIEVABLE” He may be at the start of his rugby career but Ireland lock James Ryan ...

100 BEST PLAYERS PICS Getty Images & Inpho towards the end of the game. He spent the next few weeks on crutches. People stil ...