<\/p>\n
\nOx Nche of South Africa
\nPhoto: Andrew Cornaga\/www.photosport.nz\n<\/p>\n
No All Blacks have been named among the finalists for World Rugby Player of the Year.<\/p>\n
Richie McCaw, Dan Carter, Kieran Read, Brodie Retallick, Beauden Barrett and Ardie Savea have all won the award since it was first introduced in 2001.<\/p>\n
However, this is the second successive year that New Zealand has not had a finalist.<\/p>\n
The finalists for World Rugby Men’s 15s Player of the Year are: Louis Bielle-Biarrey (France), Pieter-Steph du Toit (South Africa), Malcolm Marx (South Africa) and Ox Nche (South Africa).<\/p>\n
All Black lock Fabian Holland is nominated for Breakthrough Player of the Year, while Tupou Vaa’i’s try against France in July is up for Try of the Year.<\/p>\n
The voting panel included former legends of the game: Jacques Burger, Fiona Coghlan, Victor Matfield, Drew Mitchell, Ugo Monye, Sergio Parisse, Kieran Read and Blaine Scully.<\/p>\n
The winners will be announced this weekend.<\/p>\n
The women’s winners were announced after the World Cup with Sophie de Goede of Canada taking the top honour and New Zealand’s Braxton Sorensen-McGee named Breakthrough Player of the Year.<\/p>\n
World Rugby Men’s 15s Player of the Year<\/p>\n
Louis Bielle-Biarrey (France)<\/p>\n
Pieter-Steph du Toit (South Africa)<\/p>\n
Malcolm Marx (South Africa)<\/p>\n
Ox Nche (South Africa)<\/p>\n
International Rugby Players Association Men’s 15s Try of the Year<\/p>\n
Santiago Cordero (Argentina, v British and Irish Lions – June)<\/p>\n
Santiago Pedrero (Chile, v Samoa, South America\/Pacific Play-off, RWC 2027 qualifier – October)<\/p>\n
Lekima Tagitagivalu (Fiji, v Australia, men’s international – July)<\/p>\n
Tupou Vaa’i (New Zealand, v France, men’s international – July)<\/p>\n
World Rugby Men’s 15s Breakthrough Player of the Year<\/p>\n
Fabian Holland (New Zealand)<\/p>\n
Ethan Hooker (South Africa)<\/p>\n
Henry Pollock (England)<\/p>\n
Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii (Australia)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ox Nche of South Africa Photo: Andrew Cornaga\/www.photosport.nz No All Blacks have been named among the finalists for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,1590,63,1589,44,1591,1588,1586,1587,760,85],"class_list":["post-293087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-audio","tag-australia","tag-current-affairs","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}