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Baby-faced 85kg back wins URC 'Ironman' award

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Slightly-built Wales and Cardiff full-back, Cameron Winnett, has been rewarded for his durability by winning the United Rugby Championship’s ‘Ironman’ award.

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The URC Ironman award recognises the player who has played the most minutes during the campaign, with Winnett. who weighs 85kgs and stands 1.80m tall, clocking up 1,427 minutes.

Winnett started all 18 rounds of the regular season for Cardiff, missing just 13 minutes all season. He finished ahead of Munster’s Tom Farrell (1,371 minutes) and Dragons RFC forward, Shane Lewis-Hughes (1,353 minutes).

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England’s prop Will Stuart (L) tackles Wales’ full-back Cameron Winnett during the Six Nations international rugby union match between England and Wales at Twickenham Stadium in south-west London, on February 10, 2024. (Photo by Glyn KIRK / AFP) (Photo by GLYN KIRK/AFP via Getty Images)

It was one of several awards handed out before the URC semi-finals, including the Golden Boot and Top Try Scorer, which were won by fellow Welshmen, Ioan Lloyd and Harri Millard.

Scarlets’ Ioan Lloyd was the league’s points scorer with 124, while Cardiff’s Millard crossed for nine tries. That put him level with Stormers winger Leolin Zas and Munster centre Tom Farrell, but Millard had the better tries-per-minute-played ratio.

Ruben van Heerden of The Stormers was named Tackle Machine for his competition-best  171 tackles and a 98 per cent completion success rate, while Farrell claimed the new Playmaker award, which was based on the metrics of try assists, offloads and defenders beaten.

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URC Awards Winners 2024-25

Gilbert Golden Boot: Ioan Lloyd (Scarlets)
OFX Top Try Scorer: Harri Millard (Cardiff Rugby)
Tackle Machine: Ruben van Heerden (DHL Stormers)
Ironman: Cam Winnett (Cardiff Rugby)
Playmaker: Tom Farrell (Munster Rugby)

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SL 37 days ago

He stayed injury free by running in the opposite direction of attackers and offloading as soon as possible when with the ball. How someone can be rewarded for being anonymous is beyond me!!

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fl 2 hours ago
Springboks' dominance of the world rankings comes under increased threat

good comment, but ranking points being doubled during the RWC won’t actually have the effect you’re implying.


You still only lose ranking points if you’re beaten by a team that you could conceivably beat, hence why Italy lose no points when beaten by South Africa. Wales entering the RWC in 2027 in a group full of teams better than them would mean that they would lose no points, or only a very small amount of points, by being beaten, but would have the potential to drastically improve their ranking with just a single upset win.


E.g. using today’s ranking points, lets imagine Wales drew Ireland, Fiji, and Romania in their pool, losing against the first two but beating Romania, then lost to France in the R16. The worst case scenario (losing to Fiji, Ireland, and France by more than 15 points, and beating Romania by less than 15) would only lose Wales 0.66 points. The alternate scenario (coming within 15 points of Fiji and beating Romania by more than 15) would lose Wales just 0.29 points. The dream scenario of Wales securing a narrow win over Fiji would improve Wales’ score by 3.37 points, although I cba factoring in how that would impact Wales’ draw in the knockouts. Feel free to check these calculations yourself at the website called “World Rugby Rankings Calculator”, which is easily found through google but which I don’t think I can link to directly on here.


Its worth remembering that England finished 3rd at the world cup and Ireland lost in the QFs, but because England had a much easier draw than Ireland they finished the tournament ranked 5th, and Ireland 2nd. Overall the rankings do a pretty great job of fairly reflecting how well teams have played.

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