Dally M update thread

[Tonearm Terrorwrist]

Can someone please remind me why we didn't have the Dally M's in 2003? I have no recollection of that. Perhaps it's time I start investing in some memory pills!

player strike wasn't it?

 

[c_eagle]

Can someone please remind me why we didn't have the Dally M's in 2003? I have no recollection of that. Perhaps it's time I start investing in some memory pills!

Wait, let me get my broom ...!

And in relation to Inglis winning Five-Eighth Of The Year, I personally always thought the team of the year was based on DallyM points, but when you've got Cameron Smith and Billy Slater collecting as many points as they did and finishing 2nd and 3rd respectively, there's not really room for a 3rd player to go so well. That's my take on it anyway.

RLPA doozy. They were all, 'we're not coming to your stupid awards if you don't do what we say' and the NRL were like, 'hey bitch, this ceremony is for you, we don't even need it'. So the players were like, 'Nah uh, you're so going to give in'. And yeh, the NRL cancelled it and I'm pretty sure Gower cried himself to sleep that night.

 

[Jatz Crackers]

Congratulations OX.

Well deserved for someone who understands that the sum of the whinging coming from dropkick critics on this forum amounts to more than the complexity of their brains.

 

[Estoboy]

Just quietly, but did Chris Heighington get more Dally M points compared to Glenn Stewart?

 

[Nuke]

RLPA doozy. They were all, 'we're not coming to your stupid awards if you don't do what we say' and the NRL were like, 'hey bitch, this ceremony is for you, we don't even need it'. So the players were like, 'Nah uh, you're so going to give in'. And yeh, the NRL cancelled it and I'm pretty sure Gower cried himself to sleep that night.

This does sound vaguely familiar. The Gower comment rang the faintest of bells for me.

Come to think of it, I should look it up in one of my books! Why didn't I think of that before?!

 

[Special K]

Gallen, Covell and Stuart got jibbed!

 

[Eagle_Rocker]

:lol: They just highlighted Cameron Smith's face on fox sports news, great stuff.

 

[God-King Dean]

Suck sh*t Slater. If you weren't such a gutless pr*ck you would have won. :lol:

 

[seaeaglesin08]

Congratulations Matty. Well done and fully deserved.

 

[Patorick]

Best and fairest.

Well done Oxford!

 

[Tommax25]

wtf..

How did pillow score that?

Lol, when I saw her I was like holy sh*t, f**k she's hot, I was searching for who she was with and thought wow, big perry, nice.

 

[Tommax25]

yeh...upset that a Manly player was nowhere to be seen ;-)

also devastated the Brent Kite did not win...:sarcasm:

manly don't have a set lock, they were never going to get a nomination there

I'd be more devo that no storm prop made the nominations rather than worrying about kitey (or even perry)

I know its late in the piece to be saying this now (I probably campaigned for it at the time) but people (especially selectors) wonder why nsw lost again. when they had no established easy-pick halfback they tried to go with a fullback, then went with two rookies as opposed to the dally m player of the year (obviously they didn't know then but he was in fantastic form and which was when he posted the majority of his points).

they are in need of props and they ignore form (and one aussie) props and go with encumbent/storm player who has had an average at best year? Why did they pick white again? something has to change, selectors, change in policy to actually allow in form players to be choosen as opposed to fan/selector/coach favourites. I doubt campese would have made 5/8 if he were in his current form then, because they had the irresistable option of a australian lock and a player with experience in origin to choose from(although I did think anasta deserved his call-up at the time).

 

[mongoose]

Well done to matt orford. I remember a lot of people here predicting manly to slide big time this year because monaghan left. Well he was achingly close to leading his team to the minor premiership and people still don't give him any credit. Manly also finished with the best attack.

 

[Tommax25]

Campese and Anasta both finished above Inglis in the voting so how does Inglis win 5/8 of the year?

Talk about a Storm love-in.

well campese would have been 5/8 if it weren't for slater. the way I understand it if you are in top 3 in voting you get the positional award (unless 1/2 is in your position). so if slater hadn't polled the 1 point in the last round then he would be on 21, and things could have been alot different. campese, being tied 3rd place, would be guarenteed 5/8, leaving it difficult for news ltd/nrl to get inglis in their somehow. incidentally, if campese had polled 3 instead of 2 that same week he would have got it aswell. a bit unlucky IMO.

I'm surprised jason ryles didn't pick up the prop of the year, he had 5 more points than petero, and while I think glenn stewart deserved second rower he had less points than many of the candidates (6 less than hindy, thaiday, 5 less than watmough who wasn't nominated and heinghton).

 

[Tommax25]

Must be why he played all those rep games this year.

my above post about selectors covers this, and they did a slightly better job by dropping an uncreative hindmarsh and ryan, but not enough.

 

[gong_eagle]

 

[gong_eagle]

The final Dally M player-by-player counts for 2008: Matt Orford
Sea Eagles
24



Billy Slater
Storm
22

Cameron Smith
Storm
22

Brett Kimmorley
Sharks
21

Danny Buderus
Knights
21

Terry Campese
Raiders
21

Braith Anasta
Roosters
20

Kurt Gidley
Knights
18

Nathan Hindmarsh
Eels
18

Sam Thaiday
Broncos
18





Anthony Watmough
Sea Eagles
17



Chris Heighington
Tigers
17

Craig Fitzgibbon
Roosters
17

Feleti Ma teo
Eels
17

Jamie Soward
Dragons
17

Brett Hodgson
Tigers
16

Robbie Farah
Tigers
16

Scott Prince
Titans
16

Brett Seymour
Sharks
15

Jason Ryles
Dragons
15

John Sutton
Rabbitohs
15

Johnathon Thurston
Cowboys
15

Michael Ennis
Broncos
15

Simon Mannering
Warriors
15

Cooper Cronk
Storm
14

Greg Inglis
Storm
14

Karmichael Hunt
Broncos
14

Mitchell Pearce
Roosters
14

Brett Finch
Eels
12

Frank Pritchard
Panthers
12





Glen Stewart
Sea Eagles
12



Joel Monaghan
Raiders
12

Luke Lewis
Panthers
12

Brent Kite
Sea Eagles
11





Brett Stewart
Sea Eagles
11



Greg Bird
Sharks
11

Paul Gallen
Sharks
11

Preston Campbell
Titans
11

Sonny Bill Williams
Bulldogs
11

Aaron Payne
Cowboys
10

Ben Creagh
Dragons
10

Benji Marshall
Tigers
10

Brett Kearney
Sharks
10

Jeff Lima
Storm
10

Lance Hohaia
Warriors
10

Petro Civoneceva
Panthers
10

Peter Wallace
Broncos
9

Andrew Ryan
Bulldogs
8

Ben Hornby
Dragons
8

Brent Tate
Warriors
8

Dallas Johnson
Storm
8

David Milne
Raiders
8

Isaac Luke
Rabbitohs
8

Jarrod Mullen
Knights
8

Mark Gasnier
Dragons
8

Anthony Laffranchi
Titans
7

Colin Best
Raiders
7

Grant Rovelli
Warriors
7





Jamie Lyons
Sea Eagles
7





Steve Menzies
Sea Eagles
7



Willie Mason
Roosters
7

Justin Poore
Dragons
6

Luke Bailey
Titans
6

Mark Minichiello
Titans
6

Wade McKinnon
Warriors
6

Anthony Tupou
Roosters
5

Ashley Harrison
Titans
5

Chris Houston
Knights
5

Chris Sandow
Rabbitohs
5

Darren Lockyer
Broncos
5

Ian Henderson
Warriors
5

Israel Folau
Storm
5





Josh Perry
Sea Eagles
5



Luke Covell
Sharks
5

Luke Patten
Bulldogs
5

Manu Vatuvei
Warriors
5

Nathan Friend
Titans
5

Alan Tongue
Raiders
4

Amos Roberts
Roosters
4

Anthony Quinn
Storm
4

Corey Paterson
Knights
4

Craig Wing
Rabbitohs
4

George Ndaira
Rabbitohs
4

Isaac De Gois
Sharks
4

Joe Picker
Raiders
4

Josh Morris
Dragons
4

Lopini Paea
Roosters
4

Michael Gordon
Panthers
4

Michael Luck
Warriors
4

Nathan Smith
Panthers
4

Rangi Chase
Dragons
4

Sione Faumuina
Cowboys
4

Todd Carney
Raiders
4

Troy Thompson
Raiders
4

Adrian Purcell
Raiders
3

Ben Roberts
Bulldogs
3

Chris Bailey
Knights
3

Corey Hughes
Bulldogs
3

Corey Parker
Broncos
3

Danny Williams
Bulldogs
3

Greg Eastwood
Broncos
3

Iosia Soliola
Roosters
3

Junior Sau
Knights
3

Lachlan Coote
Panthers
3

Matt Bowen
Cowboys
3

Maurice Blair
Panthers
3

Michael Jennings
Panthers
3

Mitchell Aubusson
Roosters
3

Nathan Fien
Warriors
3

Patrick Ah Van
Warriors
3

PJ Marsh
Broncos
3

Ray Cashmere
Cowboys
3

Steve Price
Warriors
3

Steve Simpson
Knights
3

Tony Puletua
Panthers
3

Wade Graham
Panthers
3

Zeb Taia
Knights
3

Adam Cuthbertson
Sea Eagles
2

Ben Pomeroy
Sharks
2

Dane Tilse
Raiders
2

Dean Young
Dragons
2

Denan Kemp
Broncos
2

Fraser Anderson
Sharks
2

James Aubusson
Roosters
2

Jarrod Sammut
Panthers
2

Liam Fulton
Tigers
2

Lincoln Withers
Raiders
2

Luke Priddis
Panthers
2

Marc Herbert
Raiders
2

Mark O'Meley
Roosters
2

Mathew Head
Tigers
2

Mathew Keating
Eels
2

Matt Ballin
Sea Eagles
2

Nathan Merritt
Rabbitohs
2

Reece Williams
Sharks
2

Roy Asatasi
Rabbitohs
2

Ryan Hoffman
Storm
2

Scott Dureau
Knights
2

Scott Geddes
Rabbitohs
2

Shannon Gallant
Tigers
2

Steve Matai
Sea Eagles
2

Tony Carroll
Broncos
2

Adam Blair
Storm
1

Andrew Taumata
Bulldogs
1

Anthony Minichiello
Roosters
1

Ashton Sims
Broncos
1

Ben Hannant
Broncos
1

Ben Jeffery
Titans
1

Chad Robinson
Eels
1

Chris Lawrence
Tigers
1

David Kidwell
Rabbitohs
1

Hazem El Masri
Bulldogs
1

Jeremy Smith
Storm
1

Jerome Ropati
Warriors
1

Joel Moon
Broncos
1

Josh Hoffman
Broncos
1

Kris Keating
Eels
1

Luke Burt
Eels
1

Luke Douglas
Sharks
1

Luke Rooney
Panthers
1

Matt Cooper
Dragons
1

Matt Geyer
Storm
1

Michael Crocker
Storm
1

Michael Sullivan
Bulldogs
1

Misi Taulapapa
Sharks
1

Nathan Cayless
Eels
1

Nigel Plum
Raiders
1

Peni Tagive
Tigers
1

Rhys Wesser
Panthers
1

Richie Fa'aoso
Knights
1

Ryan Hinchcliffe
Raiders
1

Ryan Shortland
Warriors
1

Sam Perrett
Roosters
1

Sam Rapira
Warriors
1

Sean Kenny - Dowall
Roosters
1

Setaimata Sa
Roosters
1

Shane Tronc
Cowboys
1

Steve Southern
Cowboys
1

Stuart Flanagan
Tigers
1

Taniela Tuiaki
Tigers
1

Todd Payten
Tigers
1

Tony Williams
Eels
1

Trent Waterhouse
Panthers
1

Weller Hauraki
Eels
1

Wendell Sailor
Dragons
1

Wes Naiqama
Knights
1

Adam MacDougall
Knights
-1

Fuifui Moimoi
Eels
-2

Ashley Graham
Cowboys
-3

Brendan Oake
Eels
-3

Matt Hilder
Knights
-3

Mickey Paea
Roosters
-3

Sam McKendry
Panthers
-3

Trevor Thurling
Raiders
-4

Jarryd Hayne
Eels
-5

Jacob Lillyman
Cowboys
-6

Scott Logan
Raiders
-9

Nate Myles
Roosters
-11

Brett White
Storm
-12

Ben Ross
Sharks
-21


http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/sport/nrl/story/0,26799,24322076-5012669,00.html

 

[gong_eagle]

Congratulations OX.

Well deserved for someone who understands that the sum of the whinging coming from dropkick critics on this forum amounts to more than the complexity of their brains.

Don't think Ox even knows if LU exists :sarcasm:

 

[hybrid_tiger]

Covell? Best? Orford?

Dally Messenger would be turning in his grave.

FMD.

 

[CharlieF]

Well done to matt orford. I remember a lot of people here predicting manly to slide big time this year because monaghan left. Well he was achingly close to leading his team to the minor premiership and people still don't give him any credit. Manly also finished with the best attack.

Its unbeleivable isn't it? Still can't understand why the selectors never picked him for SOO. They have already lost 3 series in a row without him. With Orford winning the Dally M, their bias is now shining through. Especially when you consider they picked unproven and inexperienced players, time after time. And time after time they lost.