Number Player Club 1. Billy Slater Melbourne Storm 2. Israel Folau Brisbane Broncos 3. Michael Jennings Penrith Panthers 4. Matt Cooper St George Illawarra Dragons 5. Manu Vatuvei New Zealand Warriors 6. Darren Lockyer * Brisbane Broncos 7. Benji Marshall * Wests Tigers 8. Adam Blair * Melbourne Storm 9. Cameron Smith * Melbourne Storm 10. Dave Taylor South Sydney Rabbitohs 11. Anthony Watmough Manly Warringah Sea Eagles 12. Gareth Ellis Wests Tigers 13. Luke O’Donnell North Queensland Cowboys 14. Kurt Gidley Newcastle Knights 15. Anthony Tupou Cronulla Sharks 16 Nate Myles Sydney Roosters 17. Alan Tongue Canberra Raiders 18. Luke Bailey Gold Coast Titans 19. Josh Morris Canterbury Bulldogs 20. Jarryd Hayne Parramatta Eels * Automatic selections No real surprises there. Cooper and Gidley not worthy but were always going to get over the line through fan support
Selection criteria was "The first player selected in the NRL All Stars team public vote will be the representative who receives the highest overall number votes for a single position. His selection will mean that no other player from that representative’s club will be eligible to make the side. The next player selected will have recorded the second highest number of overall votes for a single position ….and so on." Slater was listed down as a fullback only, whereas Hayne was listed as a fullback and an outside back. So I assume that Haynes votes were probably split between the two positions meaning he got outpolled by The Grub for the fullback spot.
