Top 10 Greatest Fly Halves in Rugby History

No Larkham until honourable mention. That’s pretty much unforgivable.

Neil Jenkins is behind Barry John, Phil Bennett and Johnathan Davies at 10 out of welsh 10’s for me.

Shocking list . Having Jenkins o gara and Farrell and Barrett no Larkham Spencer or Botha😂😂 madness

Barry John & Phil Bennett (and I'm not welsh). You need more than just being able to kick pens & convs to make a top ten list.

You cant take this list seriously if you have Neil Jenkins ahead of Barry John!!!!!!!

You have Owen Farrel on her but not Handre Pollard, Morne Steyn, Carlos Spensor or Andrew Merthens 😯

Naas Botha could drop with both feet to the posts. I'm not aware of any other flyhalf that had this ability.

Naas Botha was unbelievable. Have a look at his point scoring abilities. He even played for the Dallas Cowboys due to his amazing kicking abilities. When he stepped on a field the team he played against already had a deficit of 15 points!

I'm a Kiwi and missing Larkham easily owns a top spot, Spencer, or Mehrtens, or Fox well before Barrett who can't get a start, and South Africa had Morne Steyn who battles out and beat Carter on many an occasion.... I feel like you just did 10 great guys you could remember.

What about Naas Botha? If you think O'Gara and Porta were drop-kicking geniuses, you haven't seen this guy. He had a brilliant tactical and kicking game and lots of speed to burn. And along with Dan Carter, there were also Andrew Mehrtens or Grant Fox you could have added instead of Beauden Barret

Stephen Larkham for Aus was awesome great all round skill and vision!

Thank you for acknowledging the brilliance of Hugo Porta

Mark Ella was the greatest loss to international rugby. At 24 he captained Australia to a grand slam victory scoring a try in every test match . He then retired because he didn't see eye to eye with then coach Alan Jones while simply being unable to afford to continue play as an amateur. His performances against NZ in the late seventies and 80s woke NZ up to the forward dominated pedestrian style of back play it had adopted in the seventies. Dan Carter is quite rightfully the GOAT due to his all round game, career stats and longevity.

How on EARTH is farrell on this list given his conversion rate? 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️l😂

Was there ever a better side stepping fly half than Phil Bennet. Some great fly halves here, I’m happy with Dan “the Man” Carter at no 1. I’m neither from Wales nor NZ.

Morne Steyn, won Super Rugby titles, and has put over 30 points against NZ in a single match and had important kicks to beat the Lions 12 years apart.

Naas Botha is greatest Springbok no 10’of all time. He is also considered one of the top 5 Springboks ever in South Africa, a rugby genius. I rate Naas and Dan Carter as the best two no 10’s of all time with johny wilkenson a distant third.

Carter is the best ever by some margin, but not including Larkham is a crime! He's top 5 minimum! Castaignède deserved a mention.

Its obviously hard to narrow things down, and even harder to compare players from different eras but I think a top 10 list of #10s without a South African in it has some big holes. I think I see how you landed on the players you did - but focusing on total points in an era when there are so many more tests is for mine the wrong way to look at things. And then you have things like pre 80s it was pretty common for All Blacks Fullbacks to do the goal kicking which would necessarily preclude some of our guys from consideration. I'm a kiwi but i'm pretty surprised Naas Botha didn't get a mention, and mentioning Lynagh without noting Grant Fox is a bit of an omission too.

The world missed out on a guy called Naas Botha due to SA isolation