Exactly

Not one mention of Monaghan which i find shocking.

morley
richards
westwood
in that order

Morley purely for consistency, 2nd year on the bounce, week in week out puts in the exact same fantastic performance, to think no one else wanted to offer him a long contract ? I bet they are all kicking themselves now

Wasnt so long ago thet the goons wanted Amos roberts to be crowned,and yes he started the season with a bang up until his injury.
I cast my mind back to the year James Roby won this award from the bench,YES from the bench,as a previous poster as said Morley as played 80 minutes week in and week out i have watched him a lot closer than Pat richards who no doubt as had a fantastic season...............So ladies and Gentelmen the 2010 man of steel award goes to ADRIAN MORLEY........

Id go with...

1. Richards
2. Morley
3. S.Tomkins

Others who come close...

Westwood
Joel Tomkins
Roby
Graham
King
O'loughlin

Joel Tomkins and Westwood being the closest runners. Both have had fantastic years as the stats on the link show. Joel seems to be quite abit better going forward but gives away more penalties and makes more errors. Both are even matched up with metres made, carries, and tackles when you take into account westwood has played slightly fewer games.

[urlhttp://www.superleague.co.uk/statistics_player.php?hs1=2010&hp1=2163&hs2=2010&hp2=470&stat=tries&season=2010[/url

what i find interesting is how it's now a player's player award.. how much rugby do superleague players actually watch? i would guess not a lot.. it should really be a journalists vote

I think that will be the shortlist, although I would have Richards (who will and should win it), Morley and James Graham.

The journalists have their RLWA awad.

Trys, goals, points should be an irrelevance.

It is all about performance over the season.

Why are trys, goals or points irrelevant? Surely that's what the game is about. A prolific finisher or a relentless goalkicker is useful to his own team just like somebody who does the hard yards and makes a load of tackles.

At the end of the day Wigan topped the league, and Richards was a difference in what separated them from teams like us who were just behind. Look at their pack with Fielden, Coley, Riddell, Bailey, J Tomkins and so on, is that any better at getting the hard yards than Morley, Carvell, Monaghan, Westwood, Wood, Harrison etc? What about their centres, Carmont, Gleeson, are they better than Atkins, King and Bridge? Is Goulding better than Riley? Even at halfback where Sam Tomkins is one of their best players, I don't think he's better than Briers at this point in time. Wigan had something that made them special otherwise why did we not finish above them?

If the crux of the situation is about points, that immedialtely discounts non-kickers, forwards and the majority of half backs and threequarters.

The quality of Richard's performance yields points, that should be the focus of his play. I would have no issue with Tom Briscoe receiving the award as his performances merit it, regardless of his try scoring record.

I'm not saying it should be a competition of who is the top points scorer, however being a good goalkicker is something which would contribute to evaluating a players overall performance. We would have had a couple more wins, with a better goalkicker. If Chris Hicks had been our goalkicker and had a percentage similar to Richards then we might have finished on top of the league, and Hicks would have been well placed for MoS with that on top of his great finishing. Richards is a finisher in the same class as Hicks and has goalkicking, plus superb penalty kicking to touch, as part of his game as well.

I still think Morley should win it.

Agree. Richards it is then.

So taking away tries, points, goal kicking, you think Richards has performed better than Morley?

Taking away the metres and tackles, do you think Morley has performed better than Richards

Why take away meters made?

Richards 3679
Morley 2993

How about

Try assists:
Richards 11
Morley 1

Tackle busts:
Richards 74
Morley 29

Clean breaks:
Richards 25
Morley 4

I was being a little sarcastic.

Talking away tries and points from a goalkicking winger is assessing their performance is plain daft.

Its funny how many Warrington fans object to the statue of Keiron Cunningham considering we have a statue of Brian Bevan at our ground. I'm sure Bevan was right up there with Cunningham's work rate and tackle count!

Er yes!

I dont think they object to it sally,Its just that they cannot see any likeness!

Undeniably so. To reference him solely as top try and points scorer demeans the quality of his standard of play across the season.

time will tell. as i understand it i think the players voted last weekend for MOS. I would not argue if it was Richards, Lockers, Sam T, Morley, Westwood, Graham, Monaghan. There are many derserving winners and i personally hope it is Pat but there have been many outstanding players from many clubs that have had a superb season

He's a classy player too. Always got a smile on his face.