Gallagher Premiership 2019-20 | Top 5 Most Underrated Players In The League

A powerful, hard-hitting ball carrier, Wray is a highly skilled graduate of the Saracens academy who has gone on to achieve success at the senior level. With multiple Premierships and back-to-back Champions Cup medals, he’s probably one of the most successful club players never to play for England. The Sunderland-born back-rower collected both the Players’ Player and Fans’ Player of the Season awards last season.

Wasps may have fielded more recognisable names with chunkier pay packets in their backline over the past three seasons, but few have performed as consistently and wholeheartedly as Bassett. A fantastic wide-man and deadly finisher.

A skilful dynamo of a hooker, the former England U20 international, who joined from Leicester Tigers, was nominated for the Land Rover Discovery of the Season award during the 2015/16 campaign. In an impressive debut season that included a hat-trick versus Wasps and a scintillating brace versus Tigers, Thacker was listed in the Guardian team of the year.

Other than Liam Williams, there are few backs in the world who refuse to accept a tackle like Nowell. Hitting him once isn’t the problem, you must keep hold of him and drag him to the floor whilst he’s constantly battling to move forward like an American weather reporter in a hurricane. A world-class operator.

The versatile forward captained the club in the 2013-14 season, and his experience have seen him as one of the first names on the teamsheet for the Cherry and Whites since. Also an underrated ball carrier.