Kiwis crown McCaw
14 Dec 2012
All Blacks captain Richie McCaw has been named New Zealand’s Player of the Year after being beaten to the IRB gong by Dan Carter.
On Friday, McCaw was awarded the Kelvin Tremain Memorial award for the fourth time following his wins in 2003, 2006 and 2009.
McCaw was also nominated for the IRB Player of the Year award, but lost out to Carter. Incidentally, Carter was not nominated for New Zealand’s top prize, and McCaw was favoured ahead of Kieran Read and Conrad Smith for his contributions in 2012.
The All Blacks won 12 of their 14 Tests this season, with a draw against Australia and a loss to England the only blemishes on that record. Predictably, they walked away with New Zealand’s Team of the Year prize, and coach Steve Hansen was named Coach of the Year.
The IRB also recognised these achievements recently, with the All Blacks and Hansen acknowledged as the best in the world.
Other awards of note went to Liam Messam (Maori Player of the Year), Conrad Smith (Super Rugby Player of the Year), Robbie Fruean (domestic player of the year), and Tomasi Cama (Sevens Player of the Year).
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14 Dec 2012, 11:27 am
keiran read robbed…
14 Dec 2012, 11:58 am
god
i cannot wait for this fraud to be exposed for the dishonest, low moralled, ill reputed sportsperson he is.
just ask armstrong how he likes them eggs nowadays.
14 Dec 2012, 12:15 pm
Very, very strange, I must say.
14 Dec 2012, 13:05 pm
Not a bad call by NZRU, Reeche is still their most important player … Read is good but there is something weasely about him. I dont think he appeals across the Counties like Reeche does.
Enjoy your 6months off Reeche.
14 Dec 2012, 13:16 pm
Good on ya maaaaate
14 Dec 2012, 13:25 pm
No man but this guy has hardly shone this year?
Ah well…
14 Dec 2012, 13:32 pm
@Bagel-6: they lurvee reechiee in kiwi land, even when he doesn’t play much of super rugby he is still TD
watch them “crown” him next year after missing 6 months
14 Dec 2012, 13:49 pm
what’s this to us?
nothing really
14 Dec 2012, 13:50 pm
@Angostura-8: Something to aspire to perhaps
14 Dec 2012, 14:02 pm
@Bagel-6: Really? Take a look at the stats during the big games this year. In the four RC games vs Australia and South Africa and also Argentina in NZ, McCaw made more tackles than anyone on the team. He’s often in the top couple of forwards for carries and metres gained too. Add to that getting Greyling so fired up he was carded and helped us win the match.
He’s also been an inspirational captain, keeping the team going with a handful of new caps. And always keeping his cool when he’s elbowed, kneed, head butted, and face-ripped.
I agree, a few other guys deserve a mention too but Richie has had a great year even by his standards
14 Dec 2012, 14:23 pm
Keep being a hater Bakkies. Germ. Get off your arse and do something worthwhile with your life.
14 Dec 2012, 14:35 pm
yes Keiran Read should won
Michael Jones still the greatest 7 to wear Black jersey
McCaw overrated…reminds me of Francios Pienaar..great captain..not very talented or great player.
14 Dec 2012, 14:36 pm
@gonzo-10:
yes. your last statment is true. base on evidence.
but Read IMO was better on form. But think McCaw won because he wearing captain work
14 Dec 2012, 15:03 pm
@greatest13gerber-13: I can’t really argue with you about Read, he had a great year too. He lost points for an out-of-sync haka vs Wales though. That’s like turning up to the game without your boots
14 Dec 2012, 15:50 pm
@greatest13gerber-12:
And the Italians were also going to tear us to pieces at scrum time a few weeks back
14 Dec 2012, 15:54 pm
The biggest cheating player in the history of rugby awarded player of the year by the biggest cheating nation in the history of rugby.
No surprises there.
14 Dec 2012, 16:43 pm
McCaw was better than Carter this year and probably deserved this award but honestly he was not that great. The NZ commentators have a love affair with McCaw and talk him up for every little thing he does and it tricks the public into some kind of hero-worship.
14 Dec 2012, 16:45 pm
@Big Hit-17:
You tell em big titty
14 Dec 2012, 17:00 pm
@NZINCHINA-18: Chris Robshaw (yes, a converted blindside) should “tell ‘em, he made anonymous McCaw his ****** in the last test
Rather like the whole NZ team really, “captain fantastic” and all the other overrated show-ponies nowhere to be seen against our under-21s.
14 Dec 2012, 17:07 pm
@Big Hit-19:
You can’t win all the time just 85% to 90% of the time, when your ready pay a visit to Eden park mid season.
14 Dec 2012, 17:07 pm
@Big Hit-19: Overrated by who? Are you suggesting the ABs aren’t the best team in the world? Fairly consistently since 2004
14 Dec 2012, 17:08 pm
You’re still ranked 9th in the world nothing much has really changed but enjoy your victory because as you know they don’t come around very often.
14 Dec 2012, 17:12 pm
@NZINCHINA-20: @gonzo-21: dont worry about Big twit, its their first win in 9 years, so off course hes gloating…
makes a change from his usual disappearing act afterwards..
14 Dec 2012, 17:16 pm
@the curse-23:
Big titty has been around these parts for years and waiting for this one for a long long time he should enjoy it
14 Dec 2012, 17:17 pm
No one gloats after beating England.
14 Dec 2012, 17:20 pm
@Big Hit-19: we’re World Champs, who cares if we lose an AI friendly?
14 Dec 2012, 17:27 pm
@the authority-16: I see the meathead neanderthal still thinks his opinion is all that…
run along knuckle dragger..
14 Dec 2012, 17:29 pm
@Big Hit-17: Couldn’t agree more.
14 Dec 2012, 17:29 pm
gotta laugh at the hypocrisy of this website… i get banned for calling Saffas neanderthals, yet this authority bloke is still able to post even with his rants about kiwis all being into incest..
how typical..
you can ban this login now meatheads, seems the saffa way..
14 Dec 2012, 18:05 pm
Haha Poppa got banned for racism
The Kiwi’s answer to Skop has been banned!
14 Dec 2012, 18:11 pm
@the curse-29: Your banning wasn’t for one thing, but for a lifetime lived in the gutter.
14 Dec 2012, 18:17 pm
@the curse-29: Welcome back. Haha, glad you picked an appropriate name
Is it a 2-week cooling off period or has the poppa name been banned for life?
14 Dec 2012, 18:28 pm
Well done and well deserved.
But I think its a bit like a big fish in a small pond. Come on, is there genuinely no one else to choose?
Maybe they should just make him player best NZ player 21st Century and move on
14 Dec 2012, 18:39 pm
Congrats to the great man.
14 Dec 2012, 18:47 pm
He should share this award with his PR agency.
14 Dec 2012, 19:16 pm
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14 Dec 2012, 19:45 pm
@cuntlyn-33: Not a bad idea. Richie could be automatic player of the year, no need to even say it, and he can present the award for second best each year.
But imagine being on the voting panel and deciding not to pick McCaw, knowing that he may go down in history as the best AB in history. You’d be like the guy at the Blazers, who passed over Michael Jordan in the ’84 draft
Btw, you gotta change your nic!
14 Dec 2012, 21:38 pm
Pops is that you?
WTF did you do!
14 Dec 2012, 21:43 pm
@gonzo-37:
Richie appears to be a very likeable and down to earth guy. It must be the media that created this hype. There probably not many other cult hero figures in NZ.
Anyway, you right. Should change my nic and try and access my old nic ‘whistleblower’ again. I forgot my password.
14 Dec 2012, 22:38 pm
@29, well then stay away you poor hard done by little girl!
14 Dec 2012, 22:54 pm
Gonzo,so you support the sentiments of this blogger?
15 Dec 2012, 00:46 am
@cuntlyn-39: You could always do what the nic stealers are doing and use a capital i instead of l to make a new whistIeblower name.
@damienm-41: Which blogger? Pops? Yeah, he’s all good, just a little misunderstood around here.
15 Dec 2012, 01:53 am
Look at all the little South Africans complaining over Kiwis awards…… lol
It has nothing to do with at all.
15 Dec 2012, 01:57 am
@the curse-29:
Yeah Authority would have complained. He was making a big fuss over it.
He told keo after me giving it to him big time then a few good bloggers of keo jumped in and started to give him cr@p as well…….furkin funny
15 Dec 2012, 01:59 am
@Big Hit-17:
Unlike you we understand how Kiwi rugby is played.
He plays the perfect game plan for us. He is our captain, he knows more about the game than you are your boyfriend Barnes. So stop the hate and enjoy your 1 in every 10 year win…. we know next time the English wont be so lucky
15 Dec 2012, 02:01 am
@wnbb-34:
Thanks man. At least you understand…unlike a few odd people on here
15 Dec 2012, 02:02 am
@damienm-41:
Do you support the other bloggers on here that racially attack kiwis?
I suggest you put a sock in it.
15 Dec 2012, 02:04 am
@katman-31:
Consider yourself lucky then.
15 Dec 2012, 04:08 am
@greatest13gerber-12:
The Iceman is a legend, along with Zinny, the most skilled forwards to wear the black……but you can’t go past Richie as player of the year…decade…new millenium…world…universe.He needs to procreate and I remember Houston offering his wife to Baakies, I’m sure he will be willing to do the same for Richie…she must denounce her homeland of course.
15 Dec 2012, 06:58 am
Zinzan is the greatest hardman of rugby ever
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