Another accolade has come the way of All Blacks great Richie McCaw.
Rugby World magazine has celebrated 60 years of publication by naming the players of each decade and McCaw has been named the player of the 2010s while former All Black, and Wales coach now with the Chiefs, Warren Gatland was named the greatest coach.
A greatest women's team was also named with New Zealanders Anna Richards (first five-eighths), Farah Palmer (hooker) and Casey Robertson (blindside flanker) being included.
McCaw was interviewed for the magazine and was asked the best piece of advice he had received?
"What I've lived by is you never want to look back and think 'if only'. With rugby, I've never wanted to look back with regret," he said.
And when asked which player from another decade he would have liked to play with, he chose the man who redefined loose forward play before McCaw came along, Sir Michael Jones.
"A hero growing up with his athleticism and what he did with the All Blacks. To play in a loose-forward trio with him and perhaps Buck Shelford, I'd have loved that," he said.
McCaw said first five-eighths Dan Carter was his favourite team-mate while the best game he played in was the 2015 Rugby World Cup final against Australia, largely due to being able to complete consecutive World Cup wins.
"From a personal point of view, with it being my last game, I didn't limp to the end. I think I played as well as I had for a long time. Putting all those things together, I was happy with it as a game to finish on," he said.
He reaffirmed Australian flanker George Smith as his toughest opponent while his best coach was the All Blacks trio of Graham Henry, Steve Hansen and Wayne Smith, especially for the way they took the All Blacks from the despair of Cardiff in 2007 to triumph in Auckland in 2011 in the Rugby World Cups of those years.
Jonah Lomu was named the player of the 1990s and reference was made to a 2010 interview he did with the magazine for his ratings. Emile Ntamack of France was his toughest opponent while he nominated his school coach Chris Grinter as his best coach because if he hadn't been there, Lomu would never have found rugby.
No surprises for Eric Rush being his best team-mate while he nominated the 'game of the century' against Australia in Sydney in 2000 when New Zealand won 39-35 as the best game he played in.
"Scoring the winning try was indescribable," he said.
Other decade winners were: 1960s - Mike Gibson, 1970s – Gareth Edwards, 1980s – Serge Blanco, 2000s – Brian O'Driscoll.