2014 Dally M Awards

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2014 Dally M Awards
Date29 September
Location The Star Sydney
Hosted by Matthew Johns
Dally M Medal Parramatta colours.svg Jarryd Hayne
North Queensland colours.svg Johnathan Thurston
Television/radio coverage
Network Fox Sports

The 2014 Dally M Awards were presented on Monday 29 September 2014 at Sydney's Star Casino. Broadcast on Fox Sports, the awards ceremony was hosted by Matthew Johns. They are the official annual awards of the National Rugby League and are named after Dally Messenger. The Dally M Medal was awarded to Jarryd Hayne and Johnathan Thurston in a tie of votes, making it the first time for the medal to be awarded to joint winners. [1]

Contents

Judges

The 13 judges for the 2014 Dally M's were:

Fox Sports: Greg Alexander, Gary Belcher and Ben Ikin

Channel 9: Brad Fittler, Andrew Johns and Wally Lewis

Sky NZ: Daryl Halligan

The Daily Telegraph: Paul Crawley, Paul Kent, Josh Massoud, Dean Ritchie, Barry Toohey and Nick Walshaw

Dally M Medal

Player votes tally Top 10 [2]
PointsPlayer
32 North Queensland colours.svg Johnathan Thurston
32 Parramatta colours.svg Jarryd Hayne
29 South Sydney colours.svg Sam Burgess
28 St. George colours.svg Gareth Widdop
28 Brisbane colours.svg Ben Hunt
23 Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Daly Cherry-Evans
19 Penrith Panthers square flag icon with 2017 colours.svg Matt Moylan
19 Melbourne colours.svg Cameron Smith
19 Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Kieran Foran
19 Parramatta colours.svg Chris Sandow

Dally M Awards

The Dally M Awards are, as usual, conducted at the close of the regular season and hence do not take games played in the finals series into account. The Dally M Medal is for the official player of the year while the Provan-Summons Medal is for the fans' of "people's choice" player of the year.

AwardPlayer
Provan-Summons Medal North Queensland colours.svg Johnathan Thurston
Peter Moore Award for Rookie of the Year Wests Tigers colours.svg Luke Brooks
Captain of the Year Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Jamie Lyon
Representative Player of the Year Parramatta colours.svg New South Wales colours.svg Jarryd Hayne
Coach of the Year Penrith Panthers square flag icon with 2017 colours.svg Ivan Cleary
Top Tryscorer of the Year Parramatta colours.svg Jarryd Hayne 20
Top Pointscorer of the Year North Queensland colours.svg Johnathan Thurston 208
Peter Frilingos Memorial Award for Headline Moment of the Year New South Wales colours.svg New South Wales winning the State of Origin series.
Holden Cup Player of the Year Gold Coast Titans colours.svg Kane Elgey

Team of the Year

AwardPlayer
Best Fullback Parramatta colours.svg Jarryd Hayne
Best Winger Parramatta colours.svg Semi Radradra
Best Centre Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Jamie Lyon
Best Five-Eighth North Queensland colours.svg Johnathan Thurston
Best Halfback Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Daly Cherry-Evans
Best Lock South Sydney colours.svg Sam Burgess
Best Second-Rower Newcastle colours.svg Beau Scott
Best Prop Canterbury colours.svg James Graham
Best Hooker Penrith Panthers square flag icon with 2017 colours.svg James Segeyaro

Presenters

Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks controversy

Each of the players implicated in the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks supplements scandal were banned from attending, or receiving awards at the 2014 Dally M Awards ceremony in September as a result of the investigation into the club's supplements scandal; captain Paul Gallen was also ruled ineligible for the Brad Fittler Medal for being the best performed New South Wales player during their victorious State of Origin series campaign. [3]

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References

  1. "Thurston, Hayne share Dally M Medal". NRL.com. Bigpond. 29 September 2014. Archived from the original on 26 January 2015. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
  2. "2014 Dally M Medal: Johnathan Thurston and Jarryd Hayne share Dally M Award". The Daily Telegraph. Sydney: News Corp Australia. 29 September 2014. Retrieved 29 September 2017.
  3. Paul Gallen and all suspended Cronulla Sharks players banned by NRL from Dally M awards , The Daily Telegraph (Sydney), 28 August 2014