Wasn't the Brawn team & set up basically a slimmed down version of the Honda one?

Same team principal, engineering team, drivers etc only without the budget and in need of some serious sponsorship and didn't Honda help the transition by not removing themselves until the transition was completed having invested heavily in the design of the 2009 car?

I am not belittling Brawns achievement, which is brilliant, but like I said since the 1960's they have awarded this trinket to a collective team of sports-people with only an odd exception and do think it should stay this way to be honest. The largest part of the 'team' are not sports-people or athletes and also Jenson is an individual racing alongside but still against his 'team' mate. It is the same reason that I don't think a trade cycling team should ever win this award (if we had a good enough one... which we might soon!).

It has to be the English Women's Cricket Team for me TBH, but still think that the Rhinos should be mentioned as worth of consideration. In actual fact I am hoping that we win the WCC and take the hub-cap and SL title again and then along with 4-in-a-row we would also match Wigan and Saints treble and therefore be clear favourites to win in 2010!

Leeds Rhinos? Not a chance. How many times did Wigan have to win the Challenge cup before they got any recognition in this catagory.

As it's meant to be an annual award it should take more than winning the title to be in the running. Leeds had a better shout in 2008.

I agree with your 'not a chance' summation.

But Wigan won the quadruple of WCC, CC, Championship and Premiership titles and where runners up in the regal trophy in 1993/1994 season. That means they were in every available final and only lost one that year!

Saints did the treble of CC, Hub-cap and SL in 2006.

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I have no idea what Zoo Magazine is. Bit disappointed in the Yorkshire Post....

stopped watching it a few year back. No interest in any moter sport, Inverdale and his rugger cronies, dont like Sue Barker either

You still would though, wouldn't you?

Absolutely!!!

Wanted to post a pic on here of Clare Balding but I could only find an article about her otter hunting in Winchester.
Beaver hunting surely?

giggity giggity giggity ! ohhh yeaaaah

How hot is Jessica Ennis as well...

Brawn GP by a country mile for the Team Award, with Jenson in with a shout as well.

Rhino's have had a good year winning the Grand Final again but thats it?

Win the CC and World Club Challenge in the same year and then you will have a sniff of the Team of the Year



Ala 2006

Like who in 2006? Bradford & Saints?

Only really big, well known, rugby league clubs that transcend sport into a social cult would be considered for such an award.

Ah, another trophy sullied forever by your legacy of cheating.

Thanks for reminding us.

Really, I can't remeber Wigan winning it?

You're sounding like Wigan fans now. "We used to be succesful and the biggest club in RL".

You didn't win the WCC in 2006!

I can, and without rigging the vote.

As usual Wigan were the first, the real pioneers of our sport.

There is a Tony Robinson 'Time Team with the Goons' special on C4 over Christmas'. They are going to excavate Central Park and try to prove if the local legend of the side being any good was actually true.

Is it true that Wigan invented Sam Tomkins.