Has been awarded to...

Tommy Makinson

Tom Johnstone has been robbed.

Well done Tommy Makinson, well deserved.

Is it really? Really struggled to see how he is deemed to be the best player in the world througout the 2018 season,especially when you look at the likes of Valentine Homes etc.. If the Aussies thought Sinfield was a joke the year he won it I wonder what they think to this one ? Makes you wonder how on earth JM missed out last year after the year he had...

By the way, yes he had a great game against NZL and thoroughly deserves the shirt on that performance.. i think he has performed very well in an England shirt unlike many others I can admit when I made an error in judgement and I did just that when questioning WBs selection over TJ.

Quote ="homme vaste"Is it really? Really struggled to see how he is deemed to be the best player in the world througout the 2018 season,especially when you look at the likes of Valentine Homes etc.. If the Aussies thought Sinfield was a joke the year he won it I wonder what they think to this one ? Makes you wonder how on earth JM missed out last year after the year he had... By the way, yes he had a great game against NZL and thoroughly deserves the shirt on that performance.. i think he has performed very well in an England shirt unlike many others I can admit when I made an error in judgement and I did just that when questioning WBs selection over TJ.'" Can't believe I find myself agreeing with you. Whilst he's a cracking winger he's nowhere near the best player in the world so there is a fundamental flaw in the shortlisting process. When you look at the list of previous winners he's way below the level of some of these guys.... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby_L ... Boot_Award Like I said though, cracking player but a little undeserved IMO.

Quote ="homme vaste"Is it really? Really struggled to see how he is deemed to be the best player in the world througout the 2018 season,especially when you look at the likes of Valentine Homes etc.. If the Aussies thought Sinfield was a joke the year he won it I wonder what they think to this one ? Makes you wonder how on earth JM missed out last year after the year he had... By the way, yes he had a great game against NZL and thoroughly deserves the shirt on that performance.. i think he has performed very well in an England shirt unlike many others I can admit when I made an error in judgement and I did just that when questioning WBs selection over TJ.'" Can't believe I find myself agreeing with you. Whilst he's a cracking winger he's nowhere near the best player in the world so there is a fundamental flaw in the shortlisting process. When you look at the list of previous winners he's way below the level of some of these guys.... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby_L ... Boot_Award Like I said though, cracking player but a little undeserved IMO.

Almost as much of a joke as the RFL. The lad must be squirming with embarrassment

Yeah, dead 'embarrassing' to get such an award isn't it?

Well done, however why don’t they wait until the final test this weekend and take that into account as well? The international schedule is small enough already to use for criteria without deciding with a game still to go.

First time it has been awarded to a winger. Only one position left without an award since it started.

It's awarded based solely on international performances, so it's a fair result IMO. Any of them on the list would've been a fair choice

You don’t even know what the golden boot award is. Tip for you, it’s not “the best player throughout the 2018 season” as you claimed above

Under new rules introduced this year, the Golden Boot award is determined by performances in internationals from the 2017 World Cup final to last Sunday.

Fair result based on this. Now if it was club games too then fair enough.... It would probably be someone else.

Whitehead would have been the more worthy winner in my opinion.
Glad for Makinson though. The criteria these days is people who have performed on the biggest of stages. With Australia getting beat by new zealand and us beating them I can see why a English player has won. Thought tedesco would have had a good chance though with the New South Wales series win.
Thought Latrell Mitchell was unlucky to miss out aswel on nomination also.

With his landslide victory in the golden boot, Makinson now his name etched in history along side other greats of the game such as Darren Lockyer, Billy Slater, Greg Inglis, Kevin Sinfield, Jonathon Thurston, Shaun Johnson and Cameron Smith who have all also won this prestigious honour

Thought they would have waited until they had played the Kiwi game as I thought the betting was pretty even with the short listed players. No complaints if any of the other listed players would have won it, we might get a few complaints from 1 or 2 wakey fans, "you know who fans" who have a blinkered opinion on these matters.

Well done [size=150Tommy Makinson[/size done the British International and Superleague proud, great for Whitehead to be on that short list as well.

As others have said it is awarded solely on performances at international level.

When you look at how Makinson has performed in the mid season test and the first 2 against NZ it’s difficult to argue with the decision.

I find it amusing how the Aussies are whinging about it when they’ve only played 2 games that count towards the voting. A WC final that they won 6 nil and a comprehensive loss against NZ won’t really put their players in the reckoning.

If he's got the Aussies whinging then hes fully justified his award. Well done Tommy.

We seem to have this desperation in RL to give awards and trophys out for everything. Not sure if its lead by UK influences but its extremely devaluing. The GB criteria is wrong. To take into account a game from 1 year ago, a smattering of meaningless tests and one test series between 2 countries, all games of which numerous different players have taken part is ludicrous. Theyd have been better off cancelling the GB. TM should be man of the series instead which he will likely get.

Other examples, the tropy for the England France test. Pointless. The Bev Risman Trophy, Leeds v Leigh. Pointless.

It's got Fitler spewing so it's fine by me. Typical Australian arrogance saying he's only seen him play once so how can he be winner? Don't believe that statement for a second but same logic could be said on Tedesco.Not everyone watches NRL etc. The criteria was set last year. TM wins fair and square.

Its a great quote by Fittler, next years award should be called the golden boot for players Fittler could be bothered to watch.

He's saying Tudesco had a great SOO, what relevance does that have to an international award. Tommy would have no doubt gone well if Lancs had played Yorks.

Going by the new criteria for the award I've no problem with Makinson winning it.

However who approved the change in criteria and what was the rationale for the decision? I'm not sure what benefit the change has had, can someone enlighten me?

Of was it another typical RL change for change's sake?

Yes, I enjoyed reading his rant and his lack of knowledge of the criteria to achieve the award. He still thinks its a world player award when we all know (well most of us) thats it has been devalued to an international appearances award.

The NRL have the Daily M award, Superleague has the Man of Steel Award, and now the RLIF have the Golden Boot Award. I just hope Tommy Mak has a good game in the 3rd test so that Fittler will know him and appreciate his international game, after all Bennett also made a quote saying: Where have been hiding this Guy.

Apologies for my previous post, I wasn't aware of the (nonsensical) criteria that the Golden Boot is awarded on. In which case, based on that criteria TM is fully deserving of the award. Unless I'm missing something, even the Golden Boot article on Wikipedia doesn't describe the criteria correctly does it?



And excuse my ignorance, is there now a World award based on combined performances for club/country/SOO etc? ( With the international calendar being so sp it's not exactly a great criteria to judge on as having 2 or 3 decent games automatically puts you in the running!!!

As it is new criteria being used this year it is not right to compare Makinson with the previous winners selected. Looked at under the new conditions it isn't a bad decision but those conditions are daft - more so in that there is one more match to go this weekend. What happens if Makinson has a stinker this weekend and one of the other contenders rips it up? Does this weekends game count towards next year's award?

Ironically if only international games were used in the past then Farrell and Sinfield wouldn't have won theirs, both couldn't hack it against the Aussies but dominated Super League.

I would imagine the Golden Boot would have more "carat" value when we have a World Cup Competition.