The 2009 Super League Dream Team has been officially announced this afternoon and the squad has had a major shake-up with new debutants, including four players from Hull Kingston Rovers, and two from Huddersfield Giants.

The Hull KR quartet are winger Peter Fox, scrum-half Michael Dobson and second rowers Ben Galea and Clint Newton while Huddersfield’s two representatives are club captain Brett Hodgson and hooker Scott Moore.

The youngest person in the 2009 engage Super League Dream Team is 20-year-old Wigan Warriors stand-off Sam Tomkins, who takes his place in a side featuring three of the most recognisable faces in the competition.

England captain Jamie Peacock is again featured in the front row, where he makes his seventh appearance, while there are recurring Dream Team appearances for two players who have not featured for some time.

Leeds Rhinos centre Keith Senior’s outstanding form earns him a recall to the Dream Team for the first time since 2004 while Adrian Morley dons a Dream Team jersey 10 years after he was last named in Super League’s form side.

Morley, the Warrington Wolves captain, last made the Dream Team in 1999, his last season in Super League before he left Leeds Rhinos to join NRL club Sydney Roosters. When Morley lined up for the commemorative Super League Dream Team photograph in 1999, Tomkins was still two years from High School!

Senior and Peacock are two of four players from engage Super League defending champions Leeds Rhinos, who are also represented by captain Kevin Sinfield – making his fourth appearance – and debutant Ryan Hall, the winger who is Super League’s leading try-scorer in 2009 with 28 tries.

St Helens are represented by centre Matt Gidley, one of five Australians in the 2009 Dream Team.

The engage Super League Dream Team is chosen by a panel of Rugby League journalists and broadcasters who regularly cover the engage Super League competition and is based on form throughout the regular season.

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2009 engage Super League Dream Team
1 - Brett Hodgson (Huddersfield) – debut
2 - Peter Fox (HKR) – debut
3 - Matt Gidley (St Helens) - (200icon_cool.gif
4 - Keith Senior (Leeds) – (2002, 2003, 2004)
5 - Ryan Hall (Leeds) – (debut)
6 - Sam Tomkins (Wigan) – (debut)
7 - Michael Dobson (HKR) – (debut)
8 - Adrian Morley (Warrington) – (1998, 1999)
9 - Scott Moore (Huddersfield) – (debut)
10 - Jamie Peacock (Leeds) – (2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006, 200icon_cool.gif
11 - Ben Galea (HKR) - (debut)
12 - Clint Newton (HKR) - (debut)
13 - Kevin Sinfield (Leeds) – (2005, 2006, 200icon_cool.gif
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As predicted last week, Rugby League Today correctly guessed 8/13 of last week's unofficial Dream Team.

Brett Hodgson, Peter Fox, Matt Gidley, Ryan Hall, Sam Tomkins, Jamie Peacock, Clint Newton and Kevin Sinfield.

Morley for me, he's been immense this season. He turns up every week and always puts a performance in, he's proved he can do it not only here but in Oz aswell.

I do however think Hodgson's had a great season and will push him very close, he's been instrumental to the giants.

I always think MOS should be a big hard hitting enforcer type player, therefore it would stand that it would go to Morley or Graham (I'd go with Moz).

Hodgeson has been pivotal in Hudds upturn in form, similar to Dobbo for us but I don't see a play makers like Hodgeson (or Dobbo) as living up to the term man of steel.

Or am I wrong and its just a fancy term for players player of the year..

Its probably the latter. The name does make it sound like the former though. Why dont they just call it players player?

Awwww.









Seriously what a t*t - why would you need to do thise when you're earning thousands a week as an RL player?!

Me too. You mean it shouldn't go to the like of James Roby?



Morley gets my vote, though I did predict mid-way through the season Hodgson would win it, he single handedly ripped us apart at Craven Park on Bank Holiday Monday.