Team of the decade - 2000s.

A post on the ever popular Rlfans.com forum on the Warrington board recently posted asked fans to name their team of the decade. Listed were some brilliant forgotten names such as Allan Langer, Danny Farrah, Allan Hunte, Darren Burns and Tawera Nikau. As a Warrington fan myself (I make no secret about it) I couldn't resist a stab at my own Warrington XIII over the past ten years. Below is my selection.

Allan Hunte
Henry fa'afili
Martin Gleeson
Toa Koe Love
Brent Grose
Lee Briers
Allan Langer
Adrian Morley
Danny Farrah
Paul Rauhihi
Logan Swann
Ben Westwood
Tawera Nikau

But then it got me thinking on a wider scale. What would be the team of the decade with regards to the rest of Super League? Even better, what would it be with regards to the rest of the world. On the face of it, it seems an easy task to name 13 players who have amazed, shocked and played outstanding rugby within the last ten year. But it isn't. The scrum half position alone has some wonderful nominees who could be placed there. Andrew Johns, Jonathan Thurston and Stacey Jones to name just three players. There are many more who could be worthy to wear that fictional number seven shirt.

So lets begin at having a stab at it shall we? Over the Christmas and New Year period I shall try to name thirteen of the best payers over the past ten years, starting with the fullback. Below are a list of rules that are being abided to with regards to selection.

A player can be nominated as many times as possible for different positions, but in the opinion of the editor (me) they must have played a significant part of their playing career in that position and not just the odd couple of games.
Players can only feature in the final team once and not in multiple positions, despite being able to be nominated in many.
There is no minimum or maximum number of nominees to each position. If a player is worthy of consideration in any given position, he will be nominated.