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Pieter-Steph du Toit crowned World Rugby men's 15s player of the year

By Liam Heagney reporting from Monaco
South Africa's Pieter-Steph du Toit (Photo by Paul Harding/Getty Images)

Pieter-Steph du Toit has become a World Rugby men’s 15s player of the year double winner after being crowned the top player for 2024 at Sunday night’s awards ceremony in Monaco. The Springboks flanker had previously won the award in 2019, the same year as his country’s Rugby World Cup final win in Japan.

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Now, 13 months after South Africa successfully defended that title in France, du Toit has beaten off fellow countrymen Eben Etzebeth and Cheslin Kolbe, along with Ireland’s Caelan Doris, to the 2024 award.

The 32-year-old Springboks back-rower this year helped South Africa to win their first full Rugby Championship title since 2009. They then followed that achievement with an unbeaten Autumn Nations Series.

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    Du Toit featured twice this November, helping the Springboks to beat Scotland and England before flying home last Monday from the UK with the shoulder niggle that ruled him out of this weekend’s tour-ending game against Wales.

    That trip south was brief and du Toit was eventually set to be present in Monaco on Sunday night following a storm delay after his award was initially presented to his wife by Jonathan Webb, the former England full-back who this month became the new World Rugby vice-chair.

    It was the fourth time South Africa have won the men’s 15s player of the year. Aside from du Toit’s success in 2019, Schalk Burger and Bryan Habana were previous winners in 2004 and 2007 respectively.

    New Zealand’s Wallace Sititi was named 15s men’s breakthrough player of the year, while Nolann Le Garrec of France won the 15s men’s try of the year.

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    CR 89 days ago

    What a wonderful ambassador for rugby and SA he’s been as well. 👏 congratulations to him. Keep tackling

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    GG 89 days ago

    Good man as well.

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    Mr Robson 90 days ago

    Has been the best player in the world some time now

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    TI 89 days ago

    Him, Etzebeth, Kolbe, Savea, Dupont have been consistently the world’s best players for the last 4-5 years.

    B
    Bull Shark 89 days ago

    100%

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    TI 90 days ago

    GOAT blindside.

    B
    Bull Shark 89 days ago

    Must be

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    Snash 90 days ago

    easiest choice ever

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    JK 90 days ago

    Well done, now go tackle something

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    The One 90 days ago

    Any one of the four would've been a worthy recipient.


    But my candidate is Ox.

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    Bull Shark 89 days ago

    A nomination for Ox at the very least!

    H
    HU 90 days ago

    in a time, when World Rugby (the functionaries not the public) seems to have little love left for the scrum, it may have been looked at as slightly inconsistent to nominate a Prop ...

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    adamdeswardt 90 days ago

    Great choice!

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    JW 1 hour ago
    Where is the new breed of All Black 10?

    Players like Prendergast and Finn Smith already have a few seasons at top club level under their belt and are now test players, at an age when NZ players make their debuts in SR.

    That’s just a difference in standards. You’re confusing SR for being their local domestic comps, where it’s more accurately comparable to Champions Cup, apart from that teams are happy to throw games as it’s in a bit of a limbo in terms of importance atm.


    All these kids have been playing for a comparable NPC team for years now. Sam is no where near ready for tests but he has a great temperament, much like Sextons, that makes it a good choice to speed up his development. He wasn’t even a comparable Super Rugby starter before playing for Ireland, so not a great comparison.


    Fin would be much better example, but then England don’t have 3 world class Test tens in front of him (not that I’d put Beauden their but obviously in terms of young NZ players chances, he is). Would he otherwise have debuted at the same age as Fergus Burke (injury and leaving withstanding), around 24, a couple of years later? England also aren’t as pedantic to who they give jerseys to, in NZ a test jersey is very hard earned for the most part.


    In general I think the effects are as you say, but the only difference is the money involved, as you yourself said, their paths are just as all over the show being loaned out playing for clubs etc. My solution to that, and what you perceive as the problem, would be to introduce university football that utilitizes the large investment they have into high performance sport.

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    Jennifer Ross 4 hours ago
    One rule for Europe's copycats, another for the Springboks

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    JW 4 hours ago
    Where is the new breed of All Black 10?

    JJ and DMac shows how little attention you actually pay to the substance of the articles.

    What do you mean by that? For lack of an answer from you I’d suggest yuo need to look at the game again and then read your article. Because although I’m not going to again but I did quickly review the videos and they all match correctly with my perception.

    JTPL is shifting towards overseas players being JQP in future

    No they’re not, thats a flatout lie Nick. You can find an article on here with their CEO where they want more out of their deals but it’s standard professional sports fair, nothing underhand like the NH does. I find that quite foul that you would share such a view.


    I suppose the new World Club League thats starting would die for the best ABs even for just a year, and probably set them up even better. Mo’unga hadn’t done enough to earn a sabbatical though. This is where NZR needs to start questioning itself. You can’t blame the player if the NZR are not even interesting in offering you a contract. In situations where say NZR aren’t able to reach 70% of the offer I think a great starting point would be for them to be treated differently than someone who just left for money. NZR could say make that player immediately eligible if NZR decide to make a fair offer and they sign to return, with players putting in their overseas contracts a right to leave early if they resign back with NZR.


    Even with Japans fading desire for sabbaticals I still think NZ can make it a good destination and have many reciprocal agreements with JRFU and the JRLO teams. The situation still very much favours NZ and Australia but it’s upto them to make the most of it or the JRFU won’t see any reason to be the ones always giving the favours.

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