Dally M 2023 discussion

[The Wheel]

Hamole wins tackle of the year

Haumole Olakau'atu's massive shot has been awarded the Dally M Tackle of the Year for 2023! 💪 | Haumole Olakau'atu's massive shot has been awarded the Dally M Tackle of the Year for 2023! 💪 | By NRL | Facebook

Haumole Olakau'atu's massive shot has been awarded the Dally M Tackle of the Year for 2023! 💪

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[HoldenV8]

Not surprisingly we don't have a single player in the current Top 10 votes.

 

[HoldenV8]

Reminder:

Ivan Cleary was a Manly junior.....

 

[The '47ers]

Geez there dragging this crap out, get on with it

 

[Heckenberg]

Not surprisingly we don't have a single player in the current Top 10 votes.

Surprised dce hasn’t polled more

 

[The Wheel]

Webster coach of the year - well deserved for a first year coach

 

[Disco]

Christ are we not up to positions yet?

 

[HoldenV8]

Great, just what we need ... big headed Newcastle.

Both of their fullbacks won the Dally M Medal, NRL and NRLW.

 

[PONTIAN SEA EAGLE]

Well done to dce where he finished people rave on about cleary but Dce finished above him.

 

[HoldenV8]

NRL Team of the Year

FB - Kalyn Ponga (Knights)
WG - Dallin Watene-Zelezniak (Warriors)
CE - Stephen Crichton (Panthers)
CE - Herbie Farnworth (Broncos)
WG - Jamayne Isaako (Dolphins)
FE - Ezra Mam (Broncos)
HB - Shaun Johnson (Warriors)
PR - Payne Haas (Broncos)
HK - Harry Grant (Storm)
PR - Addin Fonua-Blake (Warriors)
SR - Liam Martin (Panthers)
SR - David Fifita (Titans)
LK - Patrick Carrigan (Broncos)

Coach - Andrew Webster (Warriors)

 

[HoldenV8]

Surprised dce hasn’t polled more

He ended up in the top 10, and above Cleary. The only halfbacks in front of him were Johnson and Hynes.

 

[HoldenV8]

Geez there dragging this crap out, get on with it

No offence intended to the girl from the Cowboys who won the NRLW's community award, but her acceptance speech was very John Goss like.

For those who don't know, John Goss was a motor racer prominent in the 70s and 80s. Won Bathurst twice (1974 and 1985) and is the only driver to have won both the Bathurst 1000 and the Australian Grand Prix which he did in 1976. Gossy had a habit of giving LOOOOOOOOONG acceptance speeches. The in-joke was that his speech on the Bathurst podium in 1974 went longer than the race (over 7 hours...).

 

[ALinda]

Good on DCE being in the top 10, even though we finished outside the 8.

The team of the year seems fair enough but surprised Fifita got a second rower award. Thought Haumole might've got it.

 

[Rackets]

Good on DCE being in the top 10, even though we finished outside the 8.

The team of the year seems fair enough but surprised Fifita got a second rower award. Thought Haumole might've got it.

Fifi should give his award to Foz for making him get off his lazy a**e

 

[HoldenV8]

The Top 10

1 - Kalyn Ponga (56)
2 - Shaun Johnson (55)
3 - Scott Drinkwater* (50)
4 - Nicho Hynes (48)
5 - Harry Grant (47)
6 - Daly Cherry-Evans (46)
7 - Addin Fonua-Blake (44)
=8 - Dylan Edwards (42)
=8 - Nathan Cleary (42)
=8 - Payne Haas* (42)

* - ineligible

 

[seaeagle10]

The coverage of the memorials to past players was disgusting. the singing was great and moving but I was under the impression that the section was about paying tribute to past players not concentrating on the person singing the song. Very poor camera work by Fox sports.

 

[NYEagle]

No single player from Manly other than DCE deserved to be listed tonight, and that’s how it went so that was pleasing.

The rest should not be sitting around in suits hoping for an award. They all played like busted coconuts this year and deserve nothing. They should be in Bali right now soaking up the rays and having a pleasant time because I don’t think 2024 is going to be all cushdie for this mob. Manly have gone all in with salary upgrades so there will be pressure to preform, and I hope the off-season will be brutal.

To be fair I’m not sitting around hoping for an award either unless Silvertails are offering one.

NYEagle

 

[Uk eagle]

I'm surprised Ponga won, though he probably got top points every time they won because they rely that heavily on him. NZ and panthers both have 2 players in the top 10 so the points are spread a bit more. All in all I thought Johnson would have been a deserved winner

 

[Waz13]

I'm surprised Ponga won, though he probably got top points every time they won because they rely that heavily on him. NZ and panthers both have 2 players in the top 10 so the points are spread a bit more. All in all I thought Johnson would have been a deserved winner

I was good with Ponga getting it. SJ cooled at the back end of the year and it cost him. Think he might have been injured as well.

Joke That Haumole didn’t win backrower with the Penrith bloke.

Cleary and Haas and others in those teams pay the price for great players across the team in these awards as votes are more widely spread.

 

[simon64]

I hardly watched it but caught the speech by the woman from the Gold Coast ? I think she was the coach of the year or something.

I've heard Stevie Wonder give shorter acceptance speeches than that. Talk about verbal diarrhoea. I could hardly remember a time when she wasn't talking.