Title winning Bristol dominate the 2017/18 Championship Dream Team with seven current players and three close season signings from rival clubs making the final XV. Ex-Bro Myrddin Welsh Comprehensive School pupil Dan Thomas also made the final XV as Bristol cantered to title glory.
It is the joint highest representation from a single club since the Dream Team concept was first introduced for the 2003/04 season.
The team of the year is voted for by Greene King IPA Championship head coaches and directors of rugby from the league.
The Welsh duo are part of a posse of signings Bernard Jackman has made for next season as the Dragons continue to strengthen their squad.
Despite an injury-disrupted campaign, Samoa captain Chris Vui is named at lock and he is joined in the pack by Bristol team-mates, flankers Steven Luatua Dan Thomas.
In the backs, it is an all-Bristol half-back partnership with Rhodri Williams and Ian Madigan getting the nod at nine and 10 respectively, while the devastating running of Luke Morahan and Jordan Williams caught the eye of opposition coaches on the right wing and at full-back.
Thomas and Morahan picked up nine of the 11 votes available to them – one short of the all-time individual record set by Argentina international Juan Pablo Socino whilst playing inside centre for Rotherham in the 2013/14 season.
Bedford’s Dean Adamson makes up a stellar back three after being narrowly chosen on the left wing ahead of one of Bristol’s summer recruits, Jersey’s Tom Pincus. Blues also have a presence in midfield in the form of Michael Le Bourgeois.
Two players from Championship runners-up Ealing Trailfinders find their way into the Dream Team in Piers O’Conor, another to step up a level with Bristol next season, and lock Barney Maddison.
For the second time in the Dream Team’s 14-year history, Jersey provide both the props with Bristol-bound duo Jake Woolmore and Jake Armstrong following in the footsteps of 2014-15 inductees, Sam Lockwood and Harry Williams. They pack down either side of Nottingham hooker Jimmy Stevens.
Cornish Pirates No.8 Tom Lawday takes the total number of clubs represented in the Dream Team to six
