Johnny Sexton wins World Rugby Player of the Year 2018!

Congratulations to Johnny Sexton, who has won the World Rugby Men’s 15s Player of the Year 2018 award in association with MasterCard #WorldRugbyAwards

[kmal]

Well done Johnny. Hopefully the haters will finally realize that JS is a legend and Ireland's best 10 of the pro era

[BW-pclv]

Fully deserved (although one could argue these awards are heavily in the favour of backs compared to front-row forwards so Furlong was unlucky to miss out). 2018 has clearly been the year of Ireland in Rugby. Would love to see them lift the world cup next year.

[promoterquoter]

Team of the year, player of the year.... No pressure Ireland. I mean sure you have never won a World cup knockout game in 7 attempts but so what right.... I'm sure Johnny and lads will be fine under all that weight of expectation next year.

[EdwardSmithMusic]

As soon as Ireland beat the All Blacks, it was kinda obvious. Well done Ireland 👏🏼 From a South African

[blathnaidsherry]

Proud of you Johnny very much you all deseve I make a me proud to be irish

[BW-pclv]

Over the past 20 years some of the best players to ever play the game have come from Ireland and I've always said all they needed was a world class 10 to be challengers for the world cup and they've more than got that with Sexton. Imagine how many 6N's and world cups O'Dricscoll and co would've won if Sexton was playing at that time instead of the instead of the inconsistent mercurial O'Gara

[kmal]

You can't compare sexton and the likes of Gibson, hence the pro era.

[BW-pclv]

My wold cup Predictions;

A1- Ireland
A2 - Scotland
B1 - NZ
B2 - SA
C1 - England
C2 - Argentina
D1 - Wales
D2 - Fiji

Last 8

Ireland vs SA - Ireland
Scotland vs NZ - NZ
England vs Fiji - England
Wales vs Argentina - Wales

Semi Finals

Wales vs Ireland - Wales
NZ vs England - NZ

Final

Ireland vs NZ - Ireland

Really fancy Ireland to do it. Got the experience+quality

[rhyslewis]

Player of the year? I'm not sure.... maybe a product of the best system but who cares. Go get'em Ireland. We (Celtic nations, at least) love you. lieeee the