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Thoughts and Feelings?

Well, at least the Cunningham fairytale has been nipped in the bud.

A little surprised that Morely is in there again. I guess that shows you just how highly he is regarded by the playin fraternity.

morley is a true leader and deserves the nomination
peacocks been just as inspirational this season but maybe the games missed by injury counted against him

Think it's a joke S.Tomkins is included.

Why? He's been absolutely fantastic this season and is a massive part of the reason why we finished top of the league. He's torn teams apart single handedly at times this season.

I can see why he's in there. We shut him down well after those first 10 mins on Sunday, but every other time I've seen him, he looks a major threat.

The loss of Deacon meant we SHOULD have moved Sam to 6 where he would still get the ball. But we moved Lockers there which meant that we struggled to get the ball into positions where Sam could have an impact.

McGuire and Westwood are a bit unlucky, but McGuire didn't get in the dream team ahead of Sam so it shouldn't be expected that he'd get MOS ahead of him I suppose.

All worthy winners imo.

Because i don't think he's a M.O.S the same as i thought Hodgeson last year and the year Roby won it.
Richards i can see why he was nominated same with Morley i don't think "Golden boy" Tompkins shouild of made the short list simples.

The players who voted for him obviously do.

Is it time to change the title (given that I don't think Trumans Steel is involved in the award any more!) to something more appropriate like SL Player's Player of the Year?

It would make sense. Man Of Steel lends itself towards Morley/Peacock type players. Man of elastic would be more suitable for Tomkins I think.

They just want an even bigger head to aim at!

Tomkins - one trick pony but at the same time special talent, no doubt.

Morley for me.

And yes I agree the 'Man of Steel' has become an outdated title for the SL Player Of The Year.

Don't doubt he has talent but i don't think he's a M.O.S.
Fully agree with your last sentence.

Have they voted yet? I thought the players picked from the shortlist.

They should have Man of Steel for forward of the year, another for back of the year. And then an overall player of the year.

I don't agree with the "one trick pony" stuff levelled at Tomkins. People on here shudder when McGuire is labelled as such and Tomkins has as many assists as him this year.

The try he laid on with a couple of dummies then a cut out pass just last weekend was very good. He's shown he can be very dangerous from full back or stand off. He's got a very good short kicking game IMO (set up lots of tries with it last season when he was Wigan's go to kicker) and is still only young.

He's a cracking player I reckon, and it's not all down to a sidestep.

The original concept of the 'Man Of Steel' was to recognise the player or person who had had the biggest impact on the game from the winners of the various categories.

The Man Of Steel could in theory have been the young player of the year, the coach of the year or even the referee of the year.

Thankfully we've at least moved away from that possibility.

Wind ups aside, I'm forced to agree.

i think tomkins is geting a bit too big headed. i would like to see morley get it, i think he is a great player, a natural (and great) leader and a true gentleman of the pitch too. great ambassador for the game.

Should be seperate awards . Player Of The Year (most influential) , and Man Of Steel ( hardest barsteward ).
The title of MOS suggests a big hard , black boot-wearing 'lad' , when in fact it could be a biscuit-boned pink boot-wearing wuss that wins it .

Morley, Not even best player in a warrington shirt this year


Tomkins, Hold onto peoples arms, good one week crap the next


Richards, Chokes in big games when his good kicking is most needed,




My Nominations are

Mcguire, King, Chase

Obviously I'm inherently biased, but I think Roby has been the best player in SL this season.

McGuire and Chase would both have been worthy nominees, not sure about King.

Robys had a cracking season as well, but the two main inspiritational players for the top of the league side have been Tomkins and Richards (probably Lockers as well, but his form has dropped a little).

Tomkins has torn teams apart single handedly this season, and hasn't really had a bad game (he's been quiet, but never come up with huge errors).

Richards is just the epitomy of consistency, you give him the ball and 9/10 he'll score, he makes huge metres taking the ball up early in the set and is fantastic under the high ball.

You could maybe say that Richards, Moz + Roby would have been a better shortlist, but I think Sams had a quality year, he's become a lot more rounded than last year when it was just all about the step.