Goodhue, O'Connor, Lienert-Brown, Vakatawa among those to miss out as fans vote for world's best centre

A slate of the world's top midfielder have failed to make it to the final round of a global fan-voted campaign to determine the best outside centre on the planet.

Punters worldwide have hit the polls on RugbyPass’ Facebook and Instagram accounts as part of the Straight 8 Fan Vote campaign to decide the planet’s best players in each position, as voted by the fans.

Six instalments of the campaign have already passed, with South Africa dominating proceedings through victories to the likes of hooker Malcolm Marx, flanker Pieter-Steph du Toit, No. 8 Duane Vermeulen and wing Cheslin Kolbe.

That quartet of Springboks are set to be joined in the winner's circle by one of two British stars in the form of Jonathan Davies and Manu Tuilagi.

The two British and Irish Lions representatives have qualified for the final round of voting for the outside centre knockout bracket after dispatching a host of world-class players in the first and second rounds.

Wales veteran Davies opened his campaign with a dominant 81 percent winning margin over Wallabies utility back James O'Connor, before going on to down All Blacks star Jack Goodhue with 61 percent of the public's backing in the semi-final.