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Well, the automation series is over, Coley, and you know what that means?

It's time to pick our team of the tournament.

Yes, it is, Ben.

But before we do, world rugby have semi-stolen our thunder, and they've released their men's 15 dream team of the year 2025.

Do you want me to go through it with you?

If you go through the forwards, and then I shall go through the the backs and then we should have a debrief about it. Well, I'll start with the forwards. The front row is Ox Unchay, Malcolm Marks and Thomas De Toy. Second rows, Maritoji and Tyg Byrne. And the back row is Peter Steftitoy Toy, Tom Curry and Harry Wilson. And the back line is Cam Roy Guard Sasha Feinberg Mgon Mazulu

Then we've got

Louis Bair at Bari, we've got Len Iquhart at 12, Hugh Jones at 13, other wing is Cheslin

Colby, and finally at fullback is Will Jordan.

Right, that is the team and it's made up of six Africans, two Australians,

two Englishmen, two New Zealanders, one Irish, one Scott and one Frenchman. What are the key talking points, Cawley? For me, Ben, I'll look at the forwards. I mean, fair play, the easy thing

to do would just been to pick eight South Africans, but they haven't. They've gone for the front row, though, which understandable. I think, you know, no Ardi Salveyor. I think, you know, Harry Wilson's been, obviously, very good for Australia, but then Fraser McRite, you could say, has been, I think he's been outstanding. I think Aris Salveo is also outstanding, but again, it's, um, is the natural aid in Wilson is. I don't know, but yeah, that's the pack. You could make arguments in the second row. I mean, Amaritoje, I think, deserves to be there. You know, Tate Burner game is outstanding in the lines, but then you've also got the sort of three or four African guys that could go in there and change the games. I mean, you look at, say, Will Scalton is the effect he had in the Lions tour. I know he hasn't played loads of in touch, Robbies. That probably rules him out. But yeah, there's quite a few. Again, you can see the reason for all of them, can you. But it's just a question of, are you picking on consistency across the year?

Are you picking on out and out pure performance on one or two games? Yeah, I think one thing for the French team is the fact that they won the Six Nations, of course, but Summer Tour, a lot of them didn't go, and they've also not loads of been involved during the autumn. They only had three matches. So someone like Cross, for instance, the back grower, had an amazing

Six Nations, but then didn't feature in the summer tour, hasn't featured, I don't think he's featured at all that's during the autumn. So he's a back rower that's been, that's been great, that's probably, that's probably, could have been the mix if he played more, more rugby. If I start looking at the back line, Coley. I think Cobus Ryanack's really unlucky. I think Cobus

Ryanack has had a... If I start looking at the back line, Coley, I think Cobus Rionack's really unlucky.

I think Cobus Rionack has had a phenomenal year for the spring box.

He's scored against France, critical try, scored against New Zealand, scored against Ireland again at the weekend.

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