Gallagher Premiership Rugby FInal 2022

LEICESTER TIGERS V SARACENS
DREAM TEAM
DELIVERS A
A SIDE WITH
INCREDIBLE
PLAYERS ACROSS
THE BOARD
It is the hardest selection of the season. But the commentary team
at BT Sport have the job of finding best Gallagher Premiership
Rugby player in every position as Josh Graham finds out.
AFTER A sensational
Gallagher Premiership
Rugby season, the BT Sport
Dream Team has been
selected with representatives from
seven clubs.
Two of the league’s top four, Leicester
Tigers and Harlequins, have four players
apiece while Saracens and Gloucester
Rugby provide two of the 2021-22
season stars, with the final three coming
from Sale Sharks, Wasps and Newcastle
Falcons respectively.
Tigers have had a phenomenal season
under Steve Borthwick with captain
Ellis Genge at the front of things and
deserving of his spot in the side at
loosehead prop.
He is joined in the pack by clubmate
Hanro Liebenberg who packs down
at No.6 after an industrious campaign
while George Ford is in at fly-half after
rediscovering his prime playmaking
form.
Freddie Steward slots in at full-back
after carrying the momentum from
his England debut last summer into a
superb domestic campaign.
Evergreen Danny Care is at scrum-half
for last year’s champions Harlequins
and he is joined in the backline by
winger Cadan Murley who has shown
his eye for the tryline this season.
The Rugby Players’ Association’s
players’ player of the year Andre
Esterhuizen has been the standout 12
in the league while up front, Will Collier
has been a rock for Quins at tighthead.
Saracens hit the ground running on
their return to England’s top tier with
Max Malins excelling on the wing,
notably scoring four tries against Wasps
in October.
His close friend and teammate Ben Earl
also chipped in with valuable scores
and turnovers while being incredibly
effective on both sides of the ball on
the pitch.
Buoyed by touring South Africa with
the British & Irish Lions last summer,
Scotland centre Chris Harris continued
to produce stellar performances in the
No.13 jersey for Gloucester to bag his
spot in the side.
Harris’ clubmate and second row
Freddie Clarke has also had a fantastic
campaign in the engine room,
one particular highlight coming at
Twickenham against Harlequins when
the 29-year-old showed a fantastic turn
of pace to dot down for a terrific try.
Newcastle Falcons’ try machine George
McGuigan has had a terrific year at
hooker with his performances earning
a first England call-up to Eddie Jones’
latest training squad.
Brad Shields’ tireless work rate earns the
Wasps back row the No.8 jersey while
Sale Sharks’ towering lock Jean-Luc
du Preez joins him in the pack after
another campaign of displays littered
with brutal physicality.
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