best newcomer of 6 nations

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best newcomer?

surprised to have so many candidates above north after his game v ireland. the lad went a bit missing after that!

farrell for me, reminds me of JW. his deft pass as he fell to the floor for manus try v france shows he has hands, his kicking has been sublime, and he has had tackled well an all!

North is not a newcomer he has 22 caps and been in the Welsh squad since 2010

22 caps 10 tries and he's not 20 until next month.

What a player.

Cuthbert for me, on the basis of games played. First saw him a couple of years ago withWales' 7s. Impressed me then. Has only recently taken up rugby, one of those late developers. He hs genuine speed and footwork -- he just needs more game time to improve his reading of the game and his defence, and he could then be a great winger.

Tipuric is outstanding and is unlucky that he is the captain's understudy. However, given Warburton's spate of injuroes, he should get more chances to show what Ospreys fans already know.

Maes - if you are on about Georgie, I'm pretty sure he turned 20 this week

As a proud Englishman, I voted for ... Cuthbert. Damn my sense of fair play, but he deserves it. Farrell played a central role in helping his nation off the floor and to regain respectability, Cuthbert played a central role in helping his nation win a Grand Slam, and looked more than at home in such company.

No brainer for me.

SimonofSurrey wrote:As a proud Englishman, I voted for ... Cuthbert. Damn my sense of fair play, but he deserves it. Farrell played a central role in helping his nation off the floor and to regain respectability, Cuthbert played a central role in helping his nation win a Grand Slam, and looked more than at home in such company.

No brainer for me.

You do know where Cuthbert is from dont you? - no complaints whatsoever on his choice of team. (Its nice to see an Englishman come top of the poll one way or another )

rugbydreamer wrote:Maes - if you are on about Georgie, I'm pretty sure he turned 20 this week

His birthday is the day before mine though a healthy few years my junior.

George North DOB 13th April 1992

http://www.wru.co.uk/eng/matchcentre/wales_seniors.php?player=80371&includeref=dynamic

hmmp. Wonder why a load of articles in the papers said it was his birthday this week? ah well, never trust a journalist!

rugbydreamer wrote:hmmp. Wonder why a load of articles in the papers said it was his birthday this week? ah well, never trust a journalist!

Quite a simple bit of research, I used Siri, and for once it worked. Amazed really as it can't even find my wife's birthday...!!!

Breadvan wrote:I voted for Farrell but Cuthbert,Denton should get mentions. I thought Cuthbert was a bit overated before. Its not hard to score against 13 Scots but his try yesterday was sublime. Shut me up!

Cuthbert scored the first welsh try - against 15 Scots I believe.

Cuthbert, great MOTM performance and two others, IMO that could have been MOTM too

For dealing with the pressure that's associated with the HB shirt and at such a young age I went for Farrell. I have been incredibly impressed at how he's just got on with it.

Honourable mentions for Cuthbert, Denton, Rennie and tuperic though.