Ireland Women: Team of the Decade

We are pleased to announce the Ireland Women Team of the Decade as voted for by the readers of The Front Row Union.

The key objective of the poll was to help push the profile of the women’s game during lockdown and with over 11, 000 readers participating to cast over 21,000 votes it has to be a poll worthy of note.

The votes came from 75 different countries and over 500 different towns and cities, the Top 10 in each case shown below.

With regards to spreading the word, it was good to see so many community groups, who wouldn’t normally be visiting our pages, swing their votes behind one of their local players and hopefully that has helped raised the profile of a few players in their local areas.

The selected Starting XV accounted for just under 55% of the total votes cast and the Replacements accounted for another 18% leaving the players selected accounting for 73% of the total votes.

There were some close battles, and scrum half saw the most votes cast, for a single position, as the fans of Larissa Muldoon and Tania Rosser slugged it out.

Three players dominated their category with Niamh Briggs, Alison Miller and Claire Molly each receiving 75% or more of their positional votes, We’ll be putting these three through to a vote for Player of the Decade later in the week.

You can view all those selected in the web story below, or scroll down for the full list and associated graphic. Both the web story and the Graphic should be easily shareable.

Final Standings

NO	FIRST	VOTES	SECOND	VOTES	THIRD	VOTES	TOTAL
15	Niamh Briggs	943	Mairead Coyne	145	Lauren Delany	143	1231
14	Eimear Considine	608	Ashleigh Baxter (REP)	349	Niamh Kavanagh	262	1219
13	Lynne Cantwell	677	Enya Breen	523	Jenny Murphy	451	1651
12	Michelle Claffey	921	Sene Naoupu (REP)	689	Grace Davitt	318	1928
11	Alison Miller	1197	Beibhann Parsons	241	Megan Williams	147	1585
10	Nora Stapleton	836	Ellen Murphy	581	Nikki Caughey	215	1632
9	Larissa Muldoon	1134	Tania Rosser (REP)	668	Kathryn Dane	254	2056
1	Fiona Coghlan	485	Fiona Hayes (REP)	420	Lindsay Peat	330	1235
2	Cliodhna Moloney	884	Gill Bourke (REP)	389	Derbhile nic a Bhaird	114	1387
3	Ailis Egan	599	Fiona Reidy (REP)	476	Linda Djougang	341	1416
4	Ciara Cooney	963	Sophie Spence (REP)	551	Aoife McDermott	165	1679
5	Marie Louise Reilly	619	Nicola Fryday	415	Judy Bobbett	118	1152
6	Ciara Griffin	543	Anna Caplice	310	Siobhan Fleming	202	1055
7	Claire Molloy	773	Edel McMahon	160	Sinead Ryan	102	1035
8	Joy Neville	589	Paula Fitzpatrick (REP)	422	Heather O’Brien	173	1184
	TOTALS	11771		6339		3335	21445

The Team of the Decade

Thanks to everyone that voted and congratulations to all the players involved.

Here’s to the next 10 years!