And if you don't believe me ask Bakkies Botha
Canterbury skin-tights.
The best rugby player in the world of 2012 is.... Dylan Hartley
The top rugby players earn around 500k per year
Wales
Benji Marshall and Issac Luke
As of May 2009, Egypt has a strong case for this claim as 3 out of the 4 top players in the world are from the North African country. They are Karim Darwish (no.1), Amr Shabana (no.3) and Ramy Ashour (no.4).
Rugby - they're a team composed of all the best players in the world at that time
Rugby - they're a team composed of all the best players in the world at that time
If you talk about international rugby teams then no one can argue with the IRB rankings where the All Blacks are at number one. If you refer to players then this is purley peoples opinions as there are some amazing players in both code across the world at this time.
Canadia!
The British and Irish Lions is a side made up of the best players from Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales. The Barbarians is a side made up of the best players in the world.
It's hard to say, generally soccer players all need to be very quick, but in rugby some players do little running. Brian Habanna is probably the quickest rugby player in the world and may be quicker than Cristiano Ronaldo when running, however a 20st forward would be slower. The quickest rugby and soccer players may be similar, but the slowest soccer player would be quicker than than slowest rugby player.