HOW DO you measure greatness? Some players, such as Jonah Lomu, would walk into any person’s list of all-time World Cup icons. Other choices here are more contentious. When you consider that the likes of David Campese, Ma’a Nonu, Frans Steyn and Sam Whitelock don’t get a look-in, you appreciate what a distinguished group of men feature over these six pages.
Who would make your top 12? Email rugbyworldletters@futurenet.com with your thoughts on the greatest ever.
1 Bryan Habana
18 matches, 2007-2015
Finishers don’t come better than Habana, whose 15 tries put him top of the all-time RWC list. It’s a record he shares with Jonah Lomu, who said of the Bok: “You know the guy’s got speed, so you cut off his space, but Bryan has ways of beating people no matter what’s in front of him.”
Inspired to play rugby by seeing RWC 1995, when he sat on his dad’s knee at the final, he was a wing in the classic jet-heeled mould. He could chip at
