{"id":641321,"date":"2026-06-16T08:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T08:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/641321\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T08:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T08:54:07","slug":"the-5-most-overrated-all-blacks-of-all-time-ranked-page-2-of-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/641321\/","title":{"rendered":"The 5 Most Overrated All Blacks Of All Time (Ranked) &#8211; Page 2 of 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>4. Carlos Spencer<\/p>\n<p>Few players have ever possessed more natural talent than Carlos Spencer.<\/p>\n<p>His outrageous offloads, no-look passes and moments of magic made him a fan favourite across the rugby world. However, Spencer\u2019s reputation often seems to be built as much on highlights as achievements.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his brilliance, he never fully cemented himself as New Zealand\u2019s long-term first-choice fly-half and won just 35 Test caps.<\/p>\n<p>Quirky fact:\u00a0Spencer became the first player to score 100 points in Super Rugby history.<\/p>\n<p>3. Beauden Barrett<\/p>\n<p>This is where the debate really begins.<\/p>\n<p>A two-time World Rugby Player of the Year and one of the finest attacking players rugby has ever seen, Barrett\u2019s place among New Zealand\u2019s greats is secure.<\/p>\n<p>However, some supporters rank him alongside Dan Carter as one of the greatest fly-halves ever. While Barrett was devastating with ball in hand, many would argue he was never as complete a game manager or tactical controller as Carter.<\/p>\n<p>Quirky fact:\u00a0Barrett is one of four brothers to play professional rugby, alongside Scott, Jordie and Kane.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ruck.co.uk\/the-5-most-overrated-all-blacks-of-all-time-ranked\/3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CONTINUES ON PAGE THREE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"4. Carlos Spencer Few players have ever possessed more natural talent than Carlos Spencer. His outrageous offloads, no-look&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-641321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}