Why Hayne shouldn't win the Dally M Medal

[pedge]

u can use any system u want this year, and i think hayne wins the award....in the last 7 weeks alone he has scored 5 9s and 2 10s....p[retty sure i read that he was the only player in the history of the ratings to score two 10s, or two 10s in 1 season or something like that....he was moved 2 fullback in round 8 and has been killing it ever since, only now that we are winning games he is getting more recognition....
u could use the afl system and im confident hayne would win the award
u could use an american style nba system(which i actually think is best) where coaches vote, and he would get the awrd....im pretty confident anything u use, he would win it this year!!!

 

[muznik]

Hanye











The rest.


Have to agree though that the system is a little flawed. Hindmarsh should already have one in his cupboard. BTW Sterlo once scored 2 x "10's" in RLW. Just shows their Eels biased I guess

 

[leagueblog]

Can we start calling him Hanye West?

Any way, any player who hits top form due to eating fish heads gets my vote for Dally M player of the year.

 

[The Dodger]

Unfortunately, you'd rather watch the Sharks than any other team, so that doesn't say a lot for your preferences. Also, you'd rather watch romantic comedy with your grandmother than watch a St George player, good or bad.

thats a lie!

i enjoyed every second of the game the dragons played last weekend against the bunnies.

 

[drake]

thats a lie!

i enjoyed every second of the game the dragons played last weekend against the bunnies.

I know man; Cronulla winning a game is almost as good for you as Saints losing one.

 

[The Dodger]

well we haven't won one in a while so watching the stains lose is the next best thing.

 

[IFR33K]

How old are you? 14?

Go f**k yourself, you clueless merkin.

You obviously have no f**king idea. Hayne has been killing it since round seven or eight and was 1 of the best in the origin series. The guy couldnt of had a better season, if he had tried.

Like I said in my original post, he has dominated this season in such a way that it hasnt been witnessed before by to many players.

Take your biased glasses of you cocky merkin.

I believe credit should be given when credit is due. With so much negitive publicity for the game this year, Hayne and his form is a blessing in disguise.

 

[Hanscholo]

Hayne winning sets a bad example imo. I want the Dally M player to have been the best player for the WHOLE year, not just for a part of it. Personally i would like to see either Thurston or Soward getting it as imo they have been the best and as importantly, the most consistent off all candidates, for the entire season. However, given how the Hayne bandwagon has rolled on, both by fans and the media, i could see him picking up plenty of points over the last couple of months.

I could see this year's awards being very similar to the one from several years ago when Thurston and Johns battled it out. After Johns returned from injury, he killed it in the Dally M points but eventually came up just short.

Surely you arent suggesting that Thurston and Soward have been in good form all year? Take a close look at the cowboys games that were dropped on the run into the semi's and you will see a liteny of errors from the half, from wrong options down to horrendous defence missing 10 tackles a game and conceading try after try from his poor defence. Soward is a little better off, nut certainly has had his ups and downs. Hayne on the other hand has been the most damaging and simply the best player during the season, he dominated Origin, the most critical test for a player and has gone on to destroy every side in his path since. He certainly deserves to win it.

 

[IFR33K]

Surely you arent suggesting that Thurston and Soward have been in good form all year? Take a close look at the cowboys games that were dropped on the run into the semi's and you will see a liteny of errors from the half, from wrong options down to horrendous defence missing 10 tackles a game and conceading try after try from his poor defence. Soward is a little better off, nut certainly has had his ups and downs. Hayne on the other hand has been the most damaging and simply the best player during the season, he dominated Origin, the most critical test for a player and has gone on to destroy every side in his path since. He certainly deserves to win it.

Amen to that, brother

 

[Loudstrat]

was he killin it at 5/8

he will never be greatest of all time cos he aint even a ball player

Have you seen Hayne play? How many tries does he set up? Besides, of the first 4 immortals, only 1 was a playmaker.

 

[Everlovin' Antichrist]

I've been watching Rugby League since 1967 or 1968 and I've never seen anyone dominate like Hayne is at the moment. Usually they intersperse "reasonable without dominant" games in with the excellent ones, but Hayne hasn't played one of those in months.

Starting to wonder what a bad game from Hayne looks like.

He will rightly sh*t it in.

 

[nomis88]

The Dally M usually comes up with the right winner. Just like last year when Matt Orford won.

 

[pedge]

I've been watching Rugby League since 1967 or 1968 and I've never seen anyone dominate like Hayne is at the moment. Usually they intersperse "reasonable without dominant" games in with the excellent ones, but Hayne hasn't played one of those in months.

Starting to wonder what a bad game from Hayne looks like.

He will rightly sh*t it in.

i think last week was a 'quiet' game for hayne....he only had 1 linebreak and 2 try assists....throw in a few tackle busts as well

 

[IFR33K]

Have you seen Hayne play? How many tries does he set up? Besides, of the first 4 immortals, only 1 was a playmaker.

Dont worry buddy, about that sando fella. He has no f**king idea, whatsoever.

I stopped quoting him, a long time ago. He knows nothing about the game.

 

[hineyrulz]

Surely you arent suggesting that Thurston and Soward have been in good form all year? Take a close look at the cowboys games that were dropped on the run into the semi's and you will see a liteny of errors from the half, from wrong options down to horrendous defence missing 10 tackles a game and conceading try after try from his poor defence. Soward is a little better off, nut certainly has had his ups and downs. Hayne on the other hand has been the most damaging and simply the best player during the season, he dominated Origin, the most critical test for a player and has gone on to destroy every side in his path since. He certainly deserves to win it.

Stop talking sense.

 

[mickdo]

i think last week was a 'quiet' game for hayne....he only had 1 linebreak and 2 try assists....throw in a few tackle busts as well

Yeah, probably only picked up 2 DM points

 

[Jason Maher]

Am I the only one who thinks it is a travesty that the original legend of our great game has had his name tarnished by being associated with such a farce of an award?

It is engtirely fitting that the award for the best player each season is named after Messenger. It is an insult that they can't get the bloody thing right so that all in the game might take it as seriously as the AFL takes the Brownlow.

 

[Ridders]

Surely you arent suggesting that Thurston and Soward have been in good form all year? Take a close look at the cowboys games that were dropped on the run into the semi's and you will see a liteny of errors from the half, from wrong options down to horrendous defence missing 10 tackles a game and conceading try after try from his poor defence. Soward is a little better off, nut certainly has had his ups and downs. Hayne on the other hand has been the most damaging and simply the best player during the season, he dominated Origin, the most critical test for a player and has gone on to destroy every side in his path since. He certainly deserves to win it.

I admit that Hayne currently is by far the best player in the game and that from about halfway point of the competition Hayne has been great while post-origin he has been simply out of this world. My point is that why do people seem to place more emphasis on players starting the season slowly and then firing up towards the end as opposed to when players start of the season with a bang but may not end it as well? There is a reason the Dally M polling is done from Rd 1.

You say he destroyed every side in his path post-Origin, what about pre-Origin? There is a reason Parra are barely scrapping into the 8 and not near the top like Soward's team is. I don't want to hear some of the bullsh*t i've heard that Hayne has been great all year but his team was sh*t for the first part of the season. For the first part of the season the entire Parra team was performing sub-par INCLUDING Hayne.

 

[Eelementary]

I don't think Hayne should win it.

But I agree that the award is a farce, and it should not be named after any legend of the game. Tarnishes their legacy imo.

 

[Eelementary]

I admit that Hayne currently is by far the best player in the game and that from about halfway point of the competition Hayne has been sensational. My point is that why do people seem to place more emphasis on players starting the season slowly and then firing up towards the end as opposed to when players start of the season with a bang but may not end it as well? There is a reason the Dally M polling is done from Rd 1.

You say he destroyed every side in his path since Origin, what about pre-Origin? There is a reason Parra are barely scrapping into the 8 and not near the top like Soward's team is. I don't want to hear some of the bullsh*t i've heard that Hayne has been great all year but his team was sh*t for the first part of the season. For the first part of the season the entire Parra team was performing sub-par INCLUDING Hayne.

The race to the Premiership is a marathon, not sprint.

It's like saying, "Oh, you know - Michael Schumacher won the Grand Prix of Monaco, but Mark Webber was leading for the first 3 laps so he was driving better."

There is not a single player in the competition who can fire for 26 consecutive weeks, plus finals and rep football. It's just too demanding a task.

As for his early season form, it wasn't half as bad as you make it out to be - at 5/8, an entirely new position for him, he made bucketloads of tackles (many of them try-savers) and actually made plenty of metres from hit-ups. He then moved to centre where he nearly scored three tries in one half of football (poor handling on his behalf being the main reason he didn't succeed in doing so).

As I said, I don't think he should win. But if he did, it wouldn't be any less deserved that Jamie Soward or Brett Kimmorley or whoever else winning it.