The BBC have put Sir Kev on their shortlist for 2015 sports personality of year away


Incredible achievement

Only cos he's playing Union now.

True. A fitting tribute to our greatest ever player.

Come on people, vote vote vote!

Or because Clare Balding was announcing the nominees.....he's always been her bit of rough

Club announcement says that the majority of the Leeds squad and McDermott will be attending the event so I imagine they'll be highlighted at some point in the show.

Nah, it would have been the English cricket team for the spectacular ashes win, or England football team for going unbeaten in the tricky Euro qualification group, or even England RU for their brave exit from the WC

Well the photo the BBC have used on their shortlist montage is of him wearing a union shirt.

Just some recent vote totals for the top 3

2014 -
Lewis Hamilton - 209,920
Rory McIlroy - 123,745
Jo Pavey - 99,913

2013 -
Andy Murray - 401,470
Leigh Halfpenny - 65,913
AP McCoy - 57,854

2012 -
Bradley Wiggins - 492,064
Jessica Ennis - 372,765
Andy Murray - 230,444
(Higher than usual this year probably down to the massive Olympic year)

2011 -
Mark Cavendish - 160,152
Darren Clarke - 42,188
Mo Farah - 29,780

2010 -
AP McCoy - 293,152
Phil Taylor - 72,095
Jessica Ennis - 62,953

Really nice tribute to Kev in .... the Telegraph

With my Rhinos hat on I'd love Kev to win. But in terms of achievement this you can't really top beating Wladimir Klitschko in Germany to become the unified, linear and undisputed Heavyweight champion of the world. Fury should probably win.

Not knocking Fury's win but Deontay Wilder still holds the WBC version, I believe.

He does.

Fury shouldn't be anywhere near Sports Personality. I would have taken most top heavyweights to beat Klitschko on Saturday, he stank the place out. Finally looked the tired old man he is.

I agree with this. Think Fury was the right man at the RIGHT time, a Klitschko of a few years younger age would've defeated him comfortably. It was a poor bout and people get misty eyed over the heavyweight division in boxing because of past greats but it's been one of the dullest weight divisions going for a while now.

As for Murray, as I've mentioned before his exploits have been massively over exaggerated. It's all well saying it's been 70+ years since the last win but really Murray has only really been committed to that tournament for about 2-3 years and he's won it already and he didn't beat anyone of real top quality to do it. In the final he beat the world number 16 and world number 100+ for his single points.....hardly the toughest scalps and he always faced guys he was ranked well above of.

Hamilton, meh the Mercedes is so far ahead of its rivals it was always a two horse race against a guy who has never really looked like being a World Champion

So out of the other main contenders if I take Sinfield out of the equation I'd go for Jessica Ennis-Hill.