25 Days of Rugby Man Hotness (Dec 25)

There was no contest.

Zac Guildford

25 Days of Rugby Man Hotness

Of course he had to be one of the top two!

Richie McCaw

25 Days of Rugby Man Hotness (Dec 23)

Introducing the utterly gorgeous, hottest-rugby-Daddy-ever...

Tamati Ellison

25 Days of Rugby Man Hotness (Dec 22)

The sexiest #9 in the world.  Ever.

Mike Phillips

25 Days of Rugby Man Hotness (Dec 21)

Bestill my beating heart...

Jarrad Hoeata!
... we call him 'Hottyata' for a reason!

25 Days of Rugby Man Hotness (Dec 20)

He needs no introduction...

Dan Carter!

25 Days of Rugby Man Hotness (Dec 19)

The utterly delectable...

Richard Kahui!

25 Days of Rugby Man Hotness (Dec 18)

Introducing the delicious...

Frederic Michalak!

25 Days of Rugby Man Hotness (Dec 17)

Today's hotty is....

Ryan Crotty!

25 Days of Rugby Man Hotness (Dec 16)

The hotty for today is....

Ross Kennedy!

25 Days of Rugby Man Hotness (Dec 15)

December 15th's hotty is......

Pierre Spies... I've been staying away from topless photos
... but for Mr Spies, I think a topless photo is imperative.

25 Days of Rugby Man Hotness (Dec 14)

Todays hotty is........

Israel Dagg!

25 Days of Rugby Man Hotness (Dec 13)

The hotty for Dec 13 is...

Tim Visser (from Scotland)

25 Days of Rugby Man Hotness (Dec 12)

Man of the moment for December 12 is...

Felipe Contepomi!

25 Days of Rugby Man Hotness (Dec 11)

December 11th's hotty is....

Kieran Read!

25 Days of Rugby Man Hotness (Dec 10)

Todays hotty is...

Cory Jane
... the rugby man of my dreams for such a long time...

25 Days of Rugby Man Hotness (Dec 9)

Today is....

Francois Trinh-Duc
Lauriel IS French, so I guess there needed to be one on the list!

25 Days of Rugby Man Hotness (Dec 8)

Mr December 8 isssss.....

The only Whitelock on the list... Sam Whitelock!

25 Days of Rugby Man Hotness (Dec 7)

Mr December 7th is....

David Pocock!
I guess there needed to be an Aussie on the list SOMEWHERE

25 Days of Rugby Man Hotness (Dec 6)

Here is Mr December 6!

Andre Taylor! 
the man always has interesting facial scruff going on!

25 Days of Rugby Man Hotness (Dec 5)

Mr December 5th is....

Mr Ali Williams!
He's just too funny to not throw him into the list!

25 Days of Rugby Man Hotness (Dec 4)

Mr December 4th is........

Adam Thomson
not your traditional hotty, but all dressed up & scruffy, he's not half bad!

25 Days of Rugby Man Hotness (Dec 3)

Mr December 3rd....

Victor Vito - the man does scruff VERY well

25 Days of Rugby Man Hotness (Dec 2)

Mr December 2nd....

Sam Cane - still very young, but has a promising future in the hotness stakes!

25 Days of Rugby Man Hotness (Dec 1)

Take a look at Facebook this month and you'll find numerous '25 Days of ___________' type photo albums... usually these are related to Christmas, or being grateful, or other such boring stuff...  So I decided that I would use December as a chance to showcase some of the nommiest men in the rugby world, in my eyes (and Lauriel's!) anyway.

So without further adieu, I give you Mr December 1st

Sean Maitland - who gets extra hotness points
for this facial scruff & suit ensemble!

Movember Mo-Men (week 4)

I saved (some of) the best until last!

Movember 22nd - Julian Savea
... another one who does the mo relatively well.

Movember 23rd - Stephen Donald
... the man won the RWC2011 for New Zealand...
even if the mo looked dreadful I would be full of praise.

Movember 24th - Sam Whitelock
Falls under the category of SURPRISE MO!
and doesn't look half bad...
Still in existance post Dec 1st as well!

Movember 25th - Israel Dagg & Richie McCaw.  feat. Prince William.
I'm sure that Prince William felt that Izzy's mo-nstrosity took some of the
attention way from his receding hairline... the same can be said about Izzy's
receding hairline too... nicely played Iz, nicely played.

Movember 26th - Aaron Smith
quite possibly the most surprising of all the moustaches...
relativley thick & dark for such a little fella...
VOTE PEDRO!

Movember 27th - Conrad Smith
Conrad was going for 'cop mo' look, circa 1960's-1970's
& as a tribute to his father!  how sweet

Movember 28th - Kieran Read
... another one for whom the mo doesn't look dreadful
but he looks a lot better with scruff!

Movember 29th - Luke Romano
considering the man has size 17 flippers (sorry, feet),
I thought his mo would be a lot more epic...

And naturally, the VERY best was saved for the VERY last day of Movember...  And I post these photos in honour of my fiancée, who I believe has become very fond of the McAwful/McAwesome mo!  Somehow he managed to pull it off.  The wearing of the mo, I mean.  He didn't pull the actual mo off.  That would hurt.

Movember 30th - Mr Movember himself, Richie McCaw

It's only appropriate to finish off with Lauriel's favourite movember McAwesome mo...

Unexpected Benefit of the End of Year Tour

There has been a very unexpected benefit of the All Blacks 2012 end of year tour to Europe.  Along the way they have played Scotland, Italy, Wales - and this weekend England.  They have won 3/3 so far, with their toughest game being this weekend against England - but they are still favourites to win... even if they are now seen as thugs due to Andrew Hore's major fuck up.  (for the record, 5 weeks - not enough).

But that unexpected benefit?  The unearthing of hot foreign rugby players!  The two main ones that come to mind are Tim Visser (Dutch, plays for Scotland) & Mike Phillips (Wales, also plays for Bayonne)... and now I leave you with Mr Visser and Mr Phillips, for your viewing pleasure.

Mr Visser

Mr Visser looking rather nommy in his Barbarians jeresy

More Visser goodness

And now for the nommier of the two, Mike Phillips - aka the Welsh DC (Dan Carter)

What's not to love about Mike Phillips?

Lounging by the pool.  Oh to be a fly on the... umbrella...

All suited up... and looking goooooood.

What a view!  Nice scenery too...

Ludicrously huge bottle of wine, for a ludicrously sexy man!

Looking rather European!

Movember Mo-Men (week 3)

Here we go with week 3!

Movember 15th - Jason Eaton
Where to start?  Wow. Went from ScaryBeard to ScaryMo, overnight
... literally.

Movember 16th - Adam Thomson
Tommo-Mo

Movember 17th - Conrad Smith
WOW, the SnakeyMo came out of nowhere

Movember 18th - Kendrick Lynn
... he's friends with Hottyata, of course I had to include him

Movember 19th - Brodie Retallick
eeeeek, it's FrankenMo!
(we think he looks a little like Frankenstein)

Movember 20th - Andrew Hore
hmmm, the best part of this picture is Mr McCaw

Movember 21st - Nick Barrett
the dude has gone a bit OTT....