Richards
Watts
Maguire

Don't care. If an average old Aussie like Richards can win it (following the likes of Hodgson) then it goes a long way to explaining why our game is a long way behind Australia.

Boooo. Gerroff!

Old.... he's 28!!! If your location is actually right then you wouldnt have seen Richards that much this season and as such are not in position to be calling him average.

Id still say O'Loughlin for MoS and Maguire for coach of the year becuase he has massively improved a team without adding to it. Not really sure about young player of the year, maybe Whitehead or Harrison.

Seconded.

I'm completely against wingers getting MoS, call me old fashioned but he's only scored so many tries by the hard work done by the forwards and the creativity or the halves and O'Loughlin.

Morley or O'Loughlin for MoS
Watts or Houghto
Maguire or Smith

19th March against Hull Kingston Rovers? 7 games in is barely halfway through the season is it.

MOS - Richards, runner up McGuire, third O'Loughlin
Young player of the year - S Tomkins, runner up B Harrison, third L Watts
Coach - Maguire, runner up Noble, third Agar

It was going so well, then you blew it at the end!

Without turning this into another Hull FC v Hull KR borefest IMO only Tony Smith could be ahead of Agar in that list. Agar, despite only having his 2 half-backs playing together once or twice in the full season, has taken the team who finished 12th last year to having a realistic chance of been in the top 4. The alternative coaches who might be deemed 'better' coaches (Bluey, Brown, Morgan) have taken their teams from 2nd, 3rd and 4th respectively to (atm) 5th, 6th and 7th.

MOS - Pat Richards (reluctantly)
Young player - Danny Houghton
Coach of the year - Maguire

Sean O'Loughlin
Elliott Whitehead
Brian Noble

MOS-?

Young player Widdop but as he is not in SL then ..........

Coach McDermott considering the rubbish he has had to put up with.

Ben Harrison and Joel Tomkins are 23 so we may as well give the young player of the year to Steve Menzies if they are being considered. Even Sam Tomkins at 21 is a bit old for this award.

There are a lot of candidates for the young player of the year Liam Farrell at Wigan, Tom Briscoe at Hull, Clarkson at Leeds, Donaldson and Whitehead at Bradford, Dixon, Lomax and Foster at St.Helens.

Out of all these players you would have to say Briscoe is the player that has performed week in week out.

I think that Maguire has a good shot at being coach of the year. The fact that there is no stand out candidate for MOS at Wigan shows how well they have played as a team.

MOS is very open. I think that the likely winner will come from Warrington or Wigan. Michael Monaghan or Matt King would be good bets. Sam Tomkins is a much more worthy winner than Richards. The award should really go to a great rugby player than a goal kicker.

So I think the awards should go to...

MOS: Monaghan
YP: Briscoe
Coach: Maguire

But I am sure politics will get in the way.

Pat Richards
Liam Watts
Brian Noble

richards
briscoe
noble

Have you seen the amount of votes for Richards?





That's why Richards is so popular. His kicking imo hasn't been as good this year as in previous years, but his general play is just great practically every game he plays.

MOS is between Pat Richards and Ben Westwood Id say

Bit surprised Chris Riley hasn't even been mentioned for young player considering he could easily be the leading scorer in all comps?

riley is a good player but most of his trys are walk inns not taking away some of the good one's he has scored but he is a no frills player that you can count on if you give him the space to get the ball down

Richards - Most consistant player by a long way

Tomkins - If he is a contender for MOS which I believe he is, then he must win YPOTY

Noble - He had no team when he took over, he has taken them to the top 8, amazing achievement

Richards/
Clarkson/Tomkins
Noble

MOS -richards
YPOTY - briscoe
coach - mcguire/smith/noble

coach could be any of three depending positions silverware etc.

Noble has to be COTY surly?

Pat Richards
Tom Briscoe
Michael MaGuire - It surely has to be Madge - who would have tipped Wigan to finish top? Surely he has proven how inept Brian Noble was after transforming the same squad as last season (apart from the addition of Deacon & loss of Gaz Hock).