EPCR European Player of the Year 2017

A panel came up with a shortlist of 15 players, and online voting will open on 3rd April, after the matches this weekend. This list will then be reduced by the panel to 5 candidates on the 24th April.

Tyler Bleyendaal (Munster Rugby)
Elliot Daly (Wasps)
Owen Farrell (Saracens)
Tadhg Furlong (Leinster Rugby)
Jonny Gray (Glasgow Warriors)
Stuart Hogg (Glasgow Warriors)
Maro Itoje (Saracens)
Joe Launchbury (Wasps)
Camille Lopez (ASM Clermont Auvergne)
Conor Murray (Munster Rugby)
Isa Nacewa (Leinster Rugby)
Noa Nakaitaci (ASM Clermont Auvergne)
Garry Ringrose (Leinster Rugby)
CJ Stander (Munster Rugby)
Thomas Young (Wasps)

This year's judges: Stuart Barnes (Sky Sports/The Sunday Times), Mick Cleary (Rugby Correspondent, The Daily Telegraph), Matthieu Lartot (France Televisions), Emmanuel Massicard (Editor, Midi Olympique), Andy Nicol (BBC Sport), Brian O'Driscoll (BT Sport), Dimitri Yachvili (beIN Sports)

http://www.epcrugby.com/epcr/europeanplayeroftheyear/index.php

Sorry, this should be in the club forum, since it's only based on club performances. My mistake.

Lols were there no Welsh teams in the comp??

Cuthbert withdrew to give others a chance

Gooseberry wrote:Cuthbert withdrew to give others a chance

You are the forum equivalent of Cuthbert, fumbling around trying to score but never really finishing.

Shots fired

I'd vote for Stander, he's been immense for munster all year

Obviously Thomas Young deserves it. Superb season at wasps, appropriately selected by Wales and then totally ignored. Sweeeet.

Well, 5 players are out probably of the running now, since the final five man shortlist is usually drawn from the semi-finalists. N

I just don't respect the opinions of several of that judging panel

I voted for Tadhg Furlong

Bad news for Nakaitaci.

France and Clermont wing Noa Nakaitaci is set for a long spell on the sidelines after rupturing ligaments against Toulon on Sunday.

Nakaitaci was Clermont's first try scorer in the Champions Cup quarter-final win before heading off in the second half, with news emerging on Monday that he has ruptured his ACL.

Given the months left in the season and with France's tour to South Africa coming up in June, Nakaitaci will miss both Clermont's run-in for the Top 14 and Champions Cup as well as the Test series against South Africa.

I went with CJ Stander. Not just based on his CC games as he has missed some, but his season as a whole. If not Stander I probably would have gone Itoje.