Irish man here. Handre pollard was a key man in South africa winning back to back world cups. South africa won a lot of their games by a single point, and pollards kicking accuracy was the reason they won. He is probably the best kicker ever in world rugby.
Phil Bennett was the greatest of all time. Superb skill and positioning always, admittedly he played in a brilliant Welsh team from the 70s, but in his era he was superb every bit as good as Dan Carter in his era. Hugo Porta was magnificent also, along with the brilliant Barry John.
@@JackN13_ He literally single-handedly fought the All Blacks to a draw back in 1985 - New Zealand 21, Argentina 21 (Hugo Porta, 4 penalty goals, 3 drop goals)
Hugo Porta and the Pumas played against NZ, France, England, Australia, Wales, Ireland, Scotland... You name it. He lead the South American team (14 Argies, 1 Uruguayan) who played against SA, and won, when they were banned from playing international rugby. So I don't understand the "top tier" mention either...
@@priehowell8825Wilkinson doesn’t hold a candle to Carter and is lucky to be anywhere near 2nd on this list. He also had a dominant forward pack. I’m not having this crap. And name me a South African team that hasn’t had a dominant forward pack.
How on earth do you choose Jonathan Davies over Phil Bennett? I'm not Welsh but Davies isn't even in the top three Welsh flyhalves and definitely not in the top 10 of all time.
Dual code international and Dual code British and Irish Lion. Also one of the pioneers of a very small group to go over to what is now the NRL and do his thing. What on Earth are you talking about?
As a Kiwi Spencer was such a disappointment. He was either magical or a dud. You couldn't depend on him and always wondered what kind of game he was going to have.
Wilkinson was a great goal kicker and defensive rock, but woefully lacking in the playmaker department. And Phil Bennet was every bit the Dan Carter of his era. A phenomenal player.
I would agree. A lot is made of Wilkinson (and Farrell as well actually) defense. Now while he sure did tackle hard he still wasn’t exactly Richard Hill and even if he was, that is completely surplus to requirements at 10. Defense (particularly in his day) was just a hygiene thing for 10s - he just had to not be a liability like a ROG or a Mehrts. In this sense, DC was just as good - didn’t hit players hard but didn’t miss any either. His defense should not really be in the argument. As to running and playmaking, outside of flashes in 2001 and 2002 he showed absolutely nothing with the ball (pass or run) at test level. And even kicking, he’s the greatest place kicker of all time but line kicking and kicking from hand he’s well down the list. In terms of contemporaries Mehrts, De Beer, Steyn were all better in this regard
If Dan Carter is not #1, delete your account. Wait, what? BB is #10. Highest try-scoring 10 in history, multiple world player of the year, and he's your number 10? Move to the Southern Hemisphere and learn how to play rugby.
Barrett was the best player for years, but he was never actually the best 10. It is the case he can play any position across the backs, and NZ had better wings/fullbacks/centers then they did number 10s, so why not play him there
Hey Rugby Buzz, totally agree that Dan Carter is the best fly halve of all time without a doubt!! The very best running fly halve and also tactical and goal kicking rugby player of all time‼️ The Goat PS nice to see 3 Kiwis in the top 10 Fly Halves 🏉
I totally agree with that last statement, but let's remember not to be like some toxic Springbok fans who never fail to obnoxiously point out their successes however insignificant - stay humble brother :)
@@ecoetzee5291 explain? - you're clearly a saffas fan that is slightly insulted by my comment about toxicity, but I fully respect most saffas fans, it's just the minority that are a bit annoying, for lack of a better word 🤣
And from an older generation---Cliff Morgan, who excelled in the days when an open-side's primary mission was to destroy or at least intimidate outside halves. And the rules at the time favoured us. Break when the opposition ball was hooked, advance in-line with the ball while the scrum was still bound until you could find yourself standing opposite their outside-half, looking him in the eye! Happy days, especially in wet weather. Cliff Morgan excelled on the dry pitches of South Africa during the 1955 Lions tour. To Van Wyk's discomfort.
Youngsters today, what do they know of real rugby, played in the old days, when you were lucky to get off the pitch with all your teeth. and your studs weren't just for grip. When JPR, captaining Bridgend, nearly lost his face to an All Black boot at the bottom of a ruck in 1978 - NZ prop John Ashworth deliberately stamped on him, twice, an act which today would undoubtedly receive a red card and a long ban - requiring 30 stitches before returning to the field after 15 minutes of treatment, and Haydn Mainwaring saved two tries against the Boks in a rare Welsh win in 1961 by bulldozing the South African captain Avril Malan and then the wing Michael Antelme into touch in tackles described respectively as “like a comet burying itself into earth” and “he felled him like an ox”, tackles that today would have earned him at least a yellow card. Aye, them were the days. But you try an tell the young people of today that, and they won't believe you... More seriously though, it is extremely difficult to compare the amateur era to the professional one, especially as the game is played today. While it is essentially the same game - look at how Bristol Bears are playing it at the moment - and I have no desire to see a return to the legalised thuggery of the past (and no, the players weren't all mates in the bar afterwards, look up what happened after the Bridgend v NZ game), I do think many of the great players from the past are under-rated these days, as in the list in this video.
I think the Mainwaring-Malan game was against the Ba-Baas, the only game South Africa lost. I was at that game and close to the hit on Malan by Mainwaring in front of the South Stand. Mainwaring actually shoulder-hit Malan in the kidneys, a red card offense today. Mainwaring was a very good player at full back or centre, but not quite the best available. He was picked by the Ba Baas for that game because Terry Davies was unavailable. Unfortunately his career coincided with Davies. And I remember Ashworth stamping on JPR very well, a stud pierced JPR's cheek. When Ashworth was picked by NZ for the Ba Baas game he was booed by the crowd as he ran onto the pitch. That was something previously unthinkable for a Ba Baas fixture.@@PeerAdder
Cannot understand this ranking. Beauden Barret rated below Jonathan Davies and Jonny Sexton? Seriously! Until I saw Dan Carter in the top position, I thought the list should be upside down with Barret on top.
@@priehowell8825 I'm a Kiwi and I'm not biased. I rate Jonathan Davies very highly but was never a fan of Sexton. Excellent goalkicker, neat and tidy pivot but I never saw anything from him that made me feel he was a particularly gifted player. Carter, Porta and Barry John would be my top three, in any order.
@OscarOSullivan complete nonsense, he tackles like all 10s are taught to, it's just a media led campaign which unfortunately everyone bought into! He made a few tackle errors which all 10s do and got witch hunted for it.
Classic saffa with a chip on shoulder. You go straight after the Irish man on the list. Not every player who has won a world cup is an all-time great, what a juvenile perception.
I understand Wilkinson making the list, but watching him play was like watching Geoff Boycott bat! The one I enjoyed watching most was Ella - just a magician (and no, I'm neither Australian).
Two things. Hugo Porto not being here is ridiculous. Furthermore, many South Africans themselves say that Naas would not have made it in modern-day rugby, although for his time he was good.
Porta is top ten, no doubt. And you have to name Juan Martín Hernandez, what he did in 07 RWC was from an another world. That year was rugby player of the year, and there was big legends playing at the time.
Yes absolutely ridiculous. Pollard has 2 RWC's to his name and was instrumental to SA winning the 2023 RWC, if he missed a single of his 14 kicks SA would have lost. Morne is statistically the best kicker in rugby history, holding the record for the most consecutive successful kicks in international rugby at 48, and he kicked the winning penalties in the 2009 and 2021 British and Irish Lions series as well as many other accolades. Beauden should also be far higher up the list with a RWC and 2 player of the year awards. In my opinion no flyhalf should be above one who has a RWC to his name. Those Welsh players should be nowhere near this list and Sexton should be at the end.
@@Anonymous-xl9pq You are trying to either claim that the fly half won RWCs single handed, or that they should benefit in this list from playing in a very successful team. Neither makes any sense.
😂 indeed I am aware that rugby was played before it was professional, I'm just not foolish enough to think that the amateur era compares in any way to the professional era @@PeerAdder
Two exceptional players. Ward was a brilliant running fly-half but Campbell was the superior goalkicker and in test rugby it's often a penalty goal that decides the outcome. I was frustrated to see Ward left out of the Irish side so often, though. It felt criminal that such genius was denied. At the time I felt he was the best all-round fly-half in the world. If I'd have been coach I'd have got both into the team somehow. Today, of course, the substitution rules would allow both to figure in every Irish test match. If only those rules had applied then.
Can't believe Johnny Wilkinson even made the top 10. A very brave defender, an excellent kicker. But he was a plodding 10 when it came to attacking play imo. How is he in the list and Phil Bennett not?!
Typically English centric putting Wilkinson in at 2. Even Matt Dawson isn't that complimentary! For his kicking game & defence probably 7 or 8. Barry John, given the title 'King' by the Kiwis, below Davies? .... give me strength
Can't help but think this is really "the top 10 greatest northern hemisphere fly half plus a couple of others we've heard of, and Johnny Sexton" list. Recently the Irish team have had a forward pack that either dominates or competes with the best of the others, talented back line, and yet they can't even make semi finals of a World Cup. That should take Seton out, and I expect if this list was repeated in a couple of years time, he won't even make the honorably mentioned list. And Jonathan Davies, never beat the All Blacks in a Welsh shirt being at number 4? And being called a "legendary commentator" when he spouts biased nonsense that doesn't match what is actually happening on the field? It's a shame you haven't seen Mark Ella, or the Ella brothers together. They could be poetry in motion. I'm not sure how much of them is on UA-cam, but they do live in my memory, even though I'm a NZer. Fully support any South African who thinks this is a poor excuse for a top 10, particularly since SA have won more World Cups than any other team despite not featuring in the first.
As a South African, Beauden should be far higher up on the list, and Naas Botha shouldn't be there. The Welsh players should not be there either, and Sexton should be at the back end, behind Farrell and Pollard, Pollard should at least be top 5 and as much as I sometimes dislike him, Farrell outplayed Pollard in the 2023 Semi-Final and is an excellent player
Sometimes I wonder what they put in the water in SA, ya’ll say such outlandish things sometimes. Both Pollard and Faf were probably not even top 5 in the world in their positions during both WCs, but they slotted into the SA game plan perfectly. And world cups don’t mean as much as you seem to think they do. They are bragging rights, but still a ko competition where anyone can win on their day, SA have managed to do it 4 times, which is impressive, but thankfully it really isn’t the be all and end all of rugby.
Love Jiffy to bits but Bennett was a more complete flyhalf and tough competitor 2 grand slams and 1974 lions tour I would have placed in 4th and given honourable mention to Jiffy tough choices! like the list overall!
Glad to have Andrew Merhtens mentioned. Shouldve included Carlos Spencer, despite that he didnt have the tactical awareness of Fox and Merhts, he was the most mecurial fly half in international footy.
@@bernettmurray Wilkinson could tackle and he could kick. He couldn't score tries or get his team scoring them. Sport is supposed to be entertaining.... watching Wilkinson play was about as entertaining as polishing your cutlery.
I've seen many of the fly halves on this list. The main criterion for me is the impact they were able to make on a game and no one was better than Naas Botha.
He’s above Wilkinson imho. Hes the best kicker of a rugby ball (across all disciplines) the game has seen. It’s only kicking that gets JW high on these lists, and Naas was better - I swear I’ve seen footage of him hit a dropkick over his own head backwards
A mistifying list. Larkham at number 8? That man was a genius and should be no. 2. There are some pretty wooden and stolid players above him in your list. Mehrtens is better than many on your list. Handre Pollard too.
In all these kinds of top something the French are just underrepresented. Even get double spite with argentinians or italians getting credits ! So be it.
I totally agree. And you may have noticed, whenever they have to aknowledge some French preeminence (like, say, Dupont, or Sella, or Blanco …), it hurts those guys so much that behind the smile of their appreciation, they seem to have a stick thrust in their ass. By the way how come Lamaison does not appear in this list ? he simply pulled the best game ever for a fly half at the very highest level. Ask the All Blacks.
This definitely shows the contrast of Rugby. What constitutes a good flyhalf? In the NH and South Africa all #10's are known as just tactical kickers, whereas in Aus and NZ there's a massive emphasis placed on ball playing. Nobody on this list can put their outside men through holes with their passing game like Larkham and Carter.
Sorry guys, but Barry John will be always in the conversation for the GOAT on the same level with DC and Wilkinson AND WILL NEVER BE BEHIND jonathan Davis… Also I believe that the other King, King Carlos Spencer, should at least deserve a nomination
For me its Dan the Man and then Wilko. That was once hard to say. As a Kiwi i wasnt really allowed to like anything English except their football team. But that Wilkinson could play. We heard all the bluster and awaited the reality check when we played England on the end of year tour. One nil Johnny. Then they bulit a team around him. Yes, all the pieces were in place but he still HAD TO deliver or they lose. He delivered. Towards the end of his career we started hearing from ex ABs who went North to play. All of them talking about him as a teammate. As a professional. As a winner, period. Then at the 2011 WC... While everyone was getting stuck into the English side.. all i saw was a legend of the game throwing everything he had into every minute he got. We could say he wouldve been the best ever had he been from NZ. Thats not me being arrogant. Thats reality. At 9, 12 and 13 we just had far better options. Throw in our fullbacks to compliment anything Wilko wanted to try.... Wouldve been unreal imo. But thats hypothetical. Reality tells us it was Carter who had that career. Its there on film, so hes the GOAT. But ssk him whos his fav 10. When the cameras arent rolling. I have. And its Wilko by a mile.
Great list up until 2018 You obviously didn’t get to analyse the only fly half in history of the game to play in 2 RWC finals and win them both. His name is Handré Pollard. Dan Carter didn’t play in 2011 knockouts he only played in 2015. What an opportunity for you to update your list now that we are in 2024.
Beuden needs to be higher. his only weakness is goal kicking BUT he is by far the best defender and by far the best offensive weapon and much better at creating space and opportunities for teammates, his kicking game offensively is better too. he's maxed out every stat but goal kicking. his other kicking game is elite too.
Glad to see Grant Fox there - a totally underrated player who scored a very high points to match ratio - and this was in the days where goal kicking was much harder due to the leather ball sometimes getting wet in rain and other challenges that came with playing back then!
Carlos Spencer was number 2 behind Carter, then Boden Barrett. Then Morunga I dont know about fox, he never scored a try in test rugby, you might think im one eyed but this selection is worse..😅😊😂
Dan Carter 👍 I don't know any better one. There is Lomo, Antoine Dupont, Sexton, Faf de Klerk, Handré Pollard... All excellent Players. For me, as an independent german, Dan Carter ist the best. Since his retirement the All Blacks miss something to be the best Team. With Dan Carter the final of the RWC23 would have had another Champion.
Generally good list but this is a bit harsh on Mark Ella. In terms of how much he has shaped the role of the fly-half, he is a Top 3 player. Yes, we only saw him for a handful of years (the reason given for him not being in the Top 10 in the video) but he had 25 caps. Botha only had 28 and John 30 (25 Wales and 5 Lions).
Anyone we’ve missed?
Can't think of anyone but Pollard, who maybe deserves an honourable mention (this is coming from a diehard ABs fan)
Mark Ella
Handré Pollard
Pollard won 2 World Cups at fly half...
Owen Farrell
Irish man here. Handre pollard was a key man in South africa winning back to back world cups. South africa won a lot of their games by a single point, and pollards kicking accuracy was the reason they won. He is probably the best kicker ever in world rugby.
Bok fan here, his most amazing attribute is his absolute coolness in ultra high stress goal kicking. If he is on the park you just know he can do it.
Phil Bennett was the greatest of all time. Superb skill and positioning always, admittedly he played in a brilliant Welsh team from the 70s, but in his era he was superb every bit as good as Dan Carter in his era. Hugo Porta was magnificent also, along with the brilliant Barry John.
And they put Davies at 4 ? What a joke.
Hugo Porto did not do it against a top tier nation? He beat the Springboks single-handedly in 1982
Who?
@@JackN13_ He literally single-handedly fought the All Blacks to a draw back in 1985 - New Zealand 21, Argentina 21 (Hugo Porta, 4 penalty goals, 3 drop goals)
@@molivera11 as a springbok supporter me I say imo HUGO PORTA WAS THE GREATEST FLYHALF THE GAME HAS EVER SEEN.
Hugo Porta and the Pumas played against NZ, France, England, Australia, Wales, Ireland, Scotland... You name it. He lead the South American team (14 Argies, 1 Uruguayan) who played against SA, and won, when they were banned from playing international rugby. So I don't understand the "top tier" mention either...
@@MooLaa-e1s seconded
TBF Carter is and always will be the GOAT. I'm a saffa by the way.
Carters the best 10 ever and also on short list for greatest player ever.
No he's not
Great 10 on a top forward pack.
Merhtens Botha wilkinsin better
@@priehowell8825Wilkinson doesn’t hold a candle to Carter and is lucky to be anywhere near 2nd on this list. He also had a dominant forward pack. I’m not having this crap. And name me a South African team that hasn’t had a dominant forward pack.
@@priehowell8825tel me you know nothing about rugby without telling me : this comment right here
Agree on Porta - he had so much respect in South Africa, the Argentinians made him Ambassador!
True. And he did a wonderful job at that.
Why not Hugo Porta?
Hugo Porta was something special ... he should be in the top 4 (at least)
Hugo Porta and Phill Bennett are top 3 for sure for me.
As an Englishman this hurts...... two names Barry John / Phil Bennett
Need I say anymore
As Kiwi who saw them play, I would have to agree.
Michael Lynagh was in a good team but the style of play was built by Mark Ella. He was far superior.
Mark Ella was far better than Lynagh
It’s kinda telling that u had to use Campo highlights for Lynagh.
How on earth do you choose Jonathan Davies over Phil Bennett? I'm not Welsh but Davies isn't even in the top three Welsh flyhalves and definitely not in the top 10 of all time.
Jonathan Davies would be 10 in my all time world 15. And I am a passionate England supporter (or as passionate as we can get at the moment).
I'm told Cliff Morgan was handy (before my time but my dad played against him)
Dual code international and Dual code British and Irish Lion.
Also one of the pioneers of a very small group to go over to what is now the NRL and do his thing.
What on Earth are you talking about?
@@garethdavies4540 what does Rugby League have to do with this there is no similar position in Rugby League and the post is about fly haves
@@stephenhodgson3506 eerm, what?
I’m old enough to have seen Hugo Porta play and I’m laughing at this GOAT list
Laugh all you want you guys were amateurs
We on a professional era mate theyl make a amateur era your guy might come 6th lmao
@@LaurenceTarei-qj8ph They were all amateurs between the late 70s and end of the 80s...
Carlos Spencer should've been an honorable mention
Great playmaker... Average everything else
No he really doesn’t - and I say that as a Jafa. One of rugbys great ‘stars’ though that is for sure
As a Kiwi Spencer was such a disappointment. He was either magical or a dud. You couldn't depend on him and always wondered what kind of game he was going to have.
@Mike-iq4kv he was the Brendan McCullum of All Blacks rugby
Wilkinson was a great goal kicker and defensive rock, but woefully lacking in the playmaker department. And Phil Bennet was every bit the Dan Carter of his era. A phenomenal player.
What a load of nonsense
@ what great insight you have.
@@Robert_The_Builder better than yours.
Wilkinson was a match winner.
In fact a rugby world cup winner.
Stick to building
I would agree. A lot is made of Wilkinson (and Farrell as well actually) defense. Now while he sure did tackle hard he still wasn’t exactly Richard Hill and even if he was, that is completely surplus to requirements at 10. Defense (particularly in his day) was just a hygiene thing for 10s - he just had to not be a liability like a ROG or a Mehrts. In this sense, DC was just as good - didn’t hit players hard but didn’t miss any either. His defense should not really be in the argument.
As to running and playmaking, outside of flashes in 2001 and 2002 he showed absolutely nothing with the ball (pass or run) at test level. And even kicking, he’s the greatest place kicker of all time but line kicking and kicking from hand he’s well down the list. In terms of contemporaries Mehrts, De Beer, Steyn were all better in this regard
AS a Welshman - there will only ever be one GOAT - King John aka Barry John! Some mentioned have benefitted by being in a 'top' team.
It is Barry John and the rest!
Hugo Porta must be in the list
If Dan Carter is not #1, delete your account.
Wait, what? BB is #10. Highest try-scoring 10 in history, multiple world player of the year, and he's your number 10?
Move to the Southern Hemisphere and learn how to play rugby.
Where is Frano Botica?
Barrett was the best player for years, but he was never actually the best 10. It is the case he can play any position across the backs, and NZ had better wings/fullbacks/centers then they did number 10s, so why not play him there
i agree
What, no Phil Bennett?
Wow, no Pollard, 2 x RWC champ and B&I Lions winner. Crazy that.
The ice man!
If Barrett was so good why did he loose his place in AB team? Richie took him out and then Mackenzie !!!😮
Larkham moment of history was orchestrated by the crooked New Zeeland referee
Bryce Lawrence.
Thanks, wondered about that…no need to watch h this video then
Of course he won't mention Pollard because he is a pom
Hey Rugby Buzz, totally agree that Dan Carter is the best fly halve of all time without a doubt!! The very best running fly halve and also tactical and goal kicking rugby player of all time‼️ The Goat
PS nice to see 3 Kiwis in the top 10 Fly Halves 🏉
I totally agree with that last statement, but let's remember not to be like some toxic Springbok fans who never fail to obnoxiously point out their successes however insignificant - stay humble brother :)
@@FineLineDrawing uhh like your team I think you’re missing a point…
@@ecoetzee5291 explain? - you're clearly a saffas fan that is slightly insulted by my comment about toxicity, but I fully respect most saffas fans, it's just the minority that are a bit annoying, for lack of a better word 🤣
😂@@ecoetzee5291
And from an older generation---Cliff Morgan, who excelled in the days when an open-side's primary mission was to destroy or at least intimidate outside halves. And the rules at the time
favoured us. Break when the opposition ball was hooked, advance in-line with the ball while the scrum was still bound until you could find yourself standing opposite their outside-half, looking
him in the eye! Happy days, especially in wet weather. Cliff Morgan excelled on the dry pitches of South Africa during the 1955 Lions tour. To Van Wyk's discomfort.
Youngsters today, what do they know of real rugby, played in the old days, when you were lucky to get off the pitch with all your teeth. and your studs weren't just for grip. When JPR, captaining Bridgend, nearly lost his face to an All Black boot at the bottom of a ruck in 1978 - NZ prop John Ashworth deliberately stamped on him, twice, an act which today would undoubtedly receive a red card and a long ban - requiring 30 stitches before returning to the field after 15 minutes of treatment, and Haydn Mainwaring saved two tries against the Boks in a rare Welsh win in 1961 by bulldozing the South African captain Avril Malan and then the wing Michael Antelme into touch in tackles described respectively as “like a comet burying itself into earth” and “he felled him like an ox”, tackles that today would have earned him at least a yellow card.
Aye, them were the days. But you try an tell the young people of today that, and they won't believe you...
More seriously though, it is extremely difficult to compare the amateur era to the professional one, especially as the game is played today. While it is essentially the same game - look at how Bristol Bears are playing it at the moment - and I have no desire to see a return to the legalised thuggery of the past (and no, the players weren't all mates in the bar afterwards, look up what happened after the Bridgend v NZ game), I do think many of the great players from the past are under-rated these days, as in the list in this video.
I think the Mainwaring-Malan game was against the Ba-Baas, the only game South Africa lost. I was at that game and close to the hit on Malan by Mainwaring in front of the
South Stand. Mainwaring actually shoulder-hit Malan in the kidneys, a red card offense today. Mainwaring was a very good player at full back or centre, but not quite the
best available. He was picked by the Ba Baas for that game because Terry Davies was unavailable. Unfortunately his career coincided with Davies.
And I remember Ashworth stamping on JPR very well, a stud pierced JPR's cheek. When Ashworth was picked by NZ for the Ba Baas game he was booed by the crowd as he ran onto the pitch. That was something previously unthinkable for a Ba Baas fixture.@@PeerAdder
Mark Ella changed the game - which has to be the main quality of the top 5
Dan Carter full stop end of story -stats, 2world cupsetc tec. The best
Dan Carter the G.O.A.T 💪
Wilkinson
@@Nelsonfarmacia💯
Naas Botha,,,, Phil Bennett,,, those two best ever,,,
Cannot understand this ranking. Beauden Barret rated below Jonathan Davies and Jonny Sexton? Seriously! Until I saw Dan Carter in the top position, I thought the list should be upside down with Barret on top.
@@patrickmccutcheon9361 of course you did.
Just a bias kiwi
Show me sexton doing something that Barrett hasnt done on a football pitch. Yeah. Didn’t think so.
@@priehowell8825 I'm a Kiwi and I'm not biased. I rate Jonathan Davies very highly but was never a fan of Sexton. Excellent goalkicker, neat and tidy pivot but I never saw anything from him that made me feel he was a particularly gifted player. Carter, Porta and Barry John would be my top three, in any order.
Probably an unpopular opinion, but in truth Farrell's better than at least 3 of them. Don't think people give him enough credit tbh
Who Farrel does he play for
He gives away too many penalties. A dirty player.
He has got no arms and can’t tackle.
@OscarOSullivan complete nonsense, he tackles like all 10s are taught to, it's just a media led campaign which unfortunately everyone bought into! He made a few tackle errors which all 10s do and got witch hunted for it.
@@mattjones3361as a Springbok supporter, we aren't complaining about his tackling 😂
Non other than HUGO PORTA.
Not having Pollard on here is criminal. You have Sexton here but not Pollard. Baffles me really 😂
Pollard won back to back World Cups, yet Sexton’s called a clutch player despite “fluffing his lines” at the last World Cup. 😂😅😅
@@archieleach9697 Exactly.
Arguing about having Sexton there shows you know nothing about rugby. Pollard isn’t fit to tie Sexton’s boots. Stick to soccer. 😂😂😂😂
@@physicsno1 how can you argue with back to back World Cups? How many World Cups does Sexton have?
Classic saffa with a chip on shoulder. You go straight after the Irish man on the list. Not every player who has won a world cup is an all-time great, what a juvenile perception.
I understand Wilkinson making the list, but watching him play was like watching Geoff Boycott bat! The one I enjoyed watching most was Ella - just a magician (and no, I'm neither Australian).
Very true. They’re always going to put his name on the list but we all know it shouldn’t be there.
Two things. Hugo Porto not being here is ridiculous. Furthermore, many South Africans themselves say that Naas would not have made it in modern-day rugby, although for his time he was good.
That’s like comparing Don Bradman and Lara. Pointless in a game that was very different.
You're not serious with no Mark Ella and Hugo Porter?????
Hugo Porta
Porta is top ten, no doubt. And you have to name Juan Martín Hernandez, what he did in 07 RWC was from an another world. That year was rugby player of the year, and there was big legends playing at the time.
South Africa number 10. The dude that made sure SA wins RWC 2 in a row. I will put him in any number from 1-3.
Anywhere but 1. He's no where near Carter
Yes Porta playing for Argentina (or South Americ XV) beated Springbocks and France and Australia and tied against All Blacks in 1985 in Buenos Aires
That’s exactly right. It’s crazy he wasn’t included as top 5.
I'd have had Larkham higher on the list but not even room for Mehrtens?... come on
Pollard should definitely be in top 10
Pollard has won almost everything in rugby how is he not in the top 10 is criminal
Because he is only good at kicking no playmaker skills and cant tackle.
@@Heinrich.Fourie Correct
@@Heinrich.Fourie he's a great playmaker
@@priehowell8825 No he is not
@@Heinrich.Fourieyou moron, he is excellent at playmaking!!! You clearly shouldn’t be commenting on a sport you know absolutely nothing about!
Wilkinson at 2 - you're having a laugh again - No Phil Bennett, no David Watkins? John only at 6
Pollard, Steyn and Mehrtens ...... seriously ....but you do have some dude who played a whopping 25 test matches for Wales ....takin' the piss
Yes absolutely ridiculous. Pollard has 2 RWC's to his name and was instrumental to SA winning the 2023 RWC, if he missed a single of his 14 kicks SA would have lost. Morne is statistically the best kicker in rugby history, holding the record for the most consecutive successful kicks in international rugby at 48, and he kicked the winning penalties in the 2009 and 2021 British and Irish Lions series as well as many other accolades. Beauden should also be far higher up the list with a RWC and 2 player of the year awards. In my opinion no flyhalf should be above one who has a RWC to his name. Those Welsh players should be nowhere near this list and Sexton should be at the end.
@@damianlangman5381 this video list is a farce, created by someone who hasn’t quite figured out what a world class flyhalf is!
You clearly know nothing about rugby. You do know it was played before you were born, before it became professional?
@@Anonymous-xl9pq You are trying to either claim that the fly half won RWCs single handed, or that they should benefit in this list from playing in a very successful team. Neither makes any sense.
😂 indeed I am aware that rugby was played before it was professional, I'm just not foolish enough to think that the amateur era compares in any way to the professional era @@PeerAdder
Tony Ward had the best all-round game of any fly-half I have ever watched, strangely dropped for Ollie Campbell, by Ireland,
when he was at his peak.
Two exceptional players. Ward was a brilliant running fly-half but Campbell was the superior goalkicker and in test rugby it's often a penalty goal that decides the outcome. I was frustrated to see Ward left out of the Irish side so often, though. It felt criminal that such genius was denied. At the time I felt he was the best all-round fly-half in the world. If I'd have been coach I'd have got both into the team somehow. Today, of course, the substitution rules would allow both to figure in every Irish test match. If only those rules had applied then.
HUGO PORTA
Beauden Barret done dirty 😂😂
Anglophones centric list.
Can't believe Johnny Wilkinson even made the top 10. A very brave defender, an excellent kicker. But he was a plodding 10 when it came to attacking play imo. How is he in the list and Phil Bennett not?!
Typically English centric putting Wilkinson in at 2. Even Matt Dawson isn't that complimentary! For his kicking game & defence probably 7 or 8. Barry John, given the title 'King' by the Kiwis, below Davies? .... give me strength
How is Davies so high on the list
Great player.
Can't help but think this is really "the top 10 greatest northern hemisphere fly half plus a couple of others we've heard of, and Johnny Sexton" list.
Recently the Irish team have had a forward pack that either dominates or competes with the best of the others, talented back line, and yet they can't even make semi finals of a World Cup. That should take Seton out, and I expect if this list was repeated in a couple of years time, he won't even make the honorably mentioned list.
And Jonathan Davies, never beat the All Blacks in a Welsh shirt being at number 4? And being called a "legendary commentator" when he spouts biased nonsense that doesn't match what is actually happening on the field?
It's a shame you haven't seen Mark Ella, or the Ella brothers together. They could be poetry in motion. I'm not sure how much of them is on UA-cam, but they do live in my memory, even though I'm a NZer.
Fully support any South African who thinks this is a poor excuse for a top 10, particularly since SA have won more World Cups than any other team despite not featuring in the first.
As a South African, Beauden should be far higher up on the list, and Naas Botha shouldn't be there. The Welsh players should not be there either, and Sexton should be at the back end, behind Farrell and Pollard, Pollard should at least be top 5 and as much as I sometimes dislike him, Farrell outplayed Pollard in the 2023 Semi-Final and is an excellent player
Salt 🧂
Sometimes I wonder what they put in the water in SA, ya’ll say such outlandish things sometimes. Both Pollard and Faf were probably not even top 5 in the world in their positions during both WCs, but they slotted into the SA game plan perfectly. And world cups don’t mean as much as you seem to think they do. They are bragging rights, but still a ko competition where anyone can win on their day, SA have managed to do it 4 times, which is impressive, but thankfully it really isn’t the be all and end all of rugby.
You seem fun
British hemisphere you mean
Mark Ella revolutionised the position and the game. Criminal he isn’t in the top 5
Barry John is my number 1
In about 5years, there’ll only be ☝️. A new GOAT. Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu
Dam right D.C the best .. proof says it all ..
Love Jiffy to bits but Bennett was a more complete flyhalf and tough competitor 2 grand slams and 1974 lions tour I would have placed in 4th and given honourable mention to Jiffy tough choices! like the list overall!
Enjoyed That
Glad to have Andrew Merhtens mentioned. Shouldve included Carlos Spencer, despite that he didnt have the tactical awareness of Fox and Merhts, he was the most mecurial fly half in international footy.
Rankink Beauden Bareth at 10 is an absolute bullshit. Should be nr. 2-3. Wilkinson is nowhere near.
Wilkinson my no 1
@@bernettmurray number one in the line to polish Carter’s boots 😂
@@bernettmurray Wilkinson could tackle and he could kick. He couldn't score tries or get his team scoring them. Sport is supposed to be entertaining.... watching Wilkinson play was about as entertaining as polishing your cutlery.
True man has 2 world player of the year
I agree, barrett is a tactical magician and pretty much invented the cross kick that's so prevalent in today's game.
I've seen many of the fly halves on this list. The main criterion for me is the impact they were able to make on a game and no one was better than Naas Botha.
I agree. He was deadly.
He’s above Wilkinson imho. Hes the best kicker of a rugby ball (across all disciplines) the game has seen. It’s only kicking that gets JW high on these lists, and Naas was better - I swear I’ve seen footage of him hit a dropkick over his own head backwards
You lost me at Sexton.
Just fast forwarded to the end to check if Carter was at #1. We good
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A mistifying list. Larkham at number 8? That man was a genius and should be no. 2. There are some pretty wooden and stolid players above him in your list. Mehrtens is better than many on your list. Handre Pollard too.
Carlos Spencer was the most exciting player to watch.....
He was exciting
Barry John.
A rock star in his day.
The one everyone wanted to be!
In all these kinds of top something the French are just underrepresented. Even get double spite with argentinians or italians getting credits ! So be it.
I totally agree. And you may have noticed, whenever they have to aknowledge some French preeminence (like, say, Dupont, or Sella, or Blanco …), it hurts those guys so much that behind the smile of their appreciation, they seem to have a stick thrust in their ass. By the way how come Lamaison does not appear in this list ? he simply pulled the best game ever for a fly half at the very highest level. Ask the All Blacks.
Bro your video are amazing you deserve a lot of more subscribers
Yeah, Good Choices!
What about Diego Dominguez? At least as a substitute ( from position 11 to 15)
This definitely shows the contrast of Rugby. What constitutes a good flyhalf? In the NH and South Africa all #10's are known as just tactical kickers, whereas in Aus and NZ there's a massive emphasis placed on ball playing. Nobody on this list can put their outside men through holes with their passing game like Larkham and Carter.
Sorry guys, but Barry John will be always in the conversation for the GOAT on the same level with DC and Wilkinson AND WILL NEVER BE BEHIND jonathan Davis… Also I believe that the other King, King Carlos Spencer, should at least deserve a nomination
For me its Dan the Man and then Wilko.
That was once hard to say. As a Kiwi i wasnt really allowed to like anything English except their football team.
But that Wilkinson could play. We heard all the bluster and awaited the reality check when we played England on the end of year tour.
One nil Johnny.
Then they bulit a team around him. Yes, all the pieces were in place but he still HAD TO deliver or they lose.
He delivered.
Towards the end of his career we started hearing from ex ABs who went North to play. All of them talking about him as a teammate. As a professional. As a winner, period.
Then at the 2011 WC... While everyone was getting stuck into the English side.. all i saw was a legend of the game throwing everything he had into every minute he got.
We could say he wouldve been the best ever had he been from NZ. Thats not me being arrogant. Thats reality. At 9, 12 and 13 we just had far better options. Throw in our fullbacks to compliment anything Wilko wanted to try.... Wouldve been unreal imo.
But thats hypothetical. Reality tells us it was Carter who had that career. Its there on film, so hes the GOAT.
But ssk him whos his fav 10. When the cameras arent rolling.
I have. And its Wilko by a mile.
Handre Pollard GOAT
No where near
The moment you put Barrett at 10 just a red flag. Beauden deserves at least in the Top 5.
Briljante video
Baie dankie
Never mind the players, but I do miss the commentaries of Bill McLaren & Eddie Butler.🎤
Great list up until 2018
You obviously didn’t get to analyse the only fly half in history of the game to play in 2 RWC finals and win them both. His name is Handré Pollard.
Dan Carter didn’t play in 2011 knockouts he only played in 2015.
What an opportunity for you to update your list now that we are in 2024.
Beuden needs to be higher. his only weakness is goal kicking BUT he is by far the best defender and by far the best offensive weapon and much better at creating space and opportunities for teammates, his kicking game offensively is better too. he's maxed out every stat but goal kicking. his other kicking game is elite too.
Farrel should be 4 or 5. Achieved way more than Sexpants.
In terms of a running playmaking fly half. Carlos Spencer crapped all over Wilkinson.
Wilkinson 😂😂😂that's a good joke there.
Glad to see Grant Fox there - a totally underrated player who scored a very high points to match ratio - and this was in the days where goal kicking was much harder due to the leather ball sometimes getting wet in rain and other challenges that came with playing back then!
Agreed the times he pulled the Abs outta certain defeat is underestimated
Carlos Spencer was number 2 behind Carter, then Boden Barrett. Then Morunga I dont know about fox, he never scored a try in test rugby, you might think im one eyed but this selection is worse..😅😊😂
You're having a laugh with Wilkinson at no 2.
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You've forgotten Ronan O'Gara.
Johnny Wilkinson had one good World Cup. How’s he the second best flyhalf ever? 😂
There are so many through out the years ,but I cannot go past Daniel carter ,99% kicker ,had pace and a step, vision and instinctive skill,
Dan Carter 👍
I don't know any better one.
There is Lomo, Antoine Dupont, Sexton, Faf de Klerk, Handré Pollard...
All excellent Players.
For me, as an independent german, Dan Carter ist the best. Since his retirement the All Blacks miss something to be the best Team.
With Dan Carter the final of the RWC23 would have had another Champion.
Spencer and Hugo Porta in place of Davies and Lynagh.
Porta is top 7 at least
No Phil Bennett in a top 10 is sacrilege.
It's very hard to argue against 1,2, and 3 !!
Wilkinson should be about five or six. He was good, not that good
Any fly half can look great behind a good pack of forwards
absolutely true
I think this is a very accurate list - your summaries of their respective careers, and the unique skill sets that they brought was first rate
Who's here from southern hemisphere and not complaining??! Alot more to life than crying over some random lads video
Johnathan Davies but no Pollard? He has two world cups.
Generally good list but this is a bit harsh on Mark Ella. In terms of how much he has shaped the role of the fly-half, he is a Top 3 player. Yes, we only saw him for a handful of years (the reason given for him not being in the Top 10 in the video) but he had 25 caps. Botha only had 28 and John 30 (25 Wales and 5 Lions).
Piet Visage. Tough and smart.
You have to be crazy not mentioning morne stern 2008 2009 2011
Carlos Spencer!!!
Give me Phil bennet over grant fox anytime ...he was pretty ordinary. Any mediocre flyhalf would look good behind that 8os all black pack .