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| The original concept of the 'Man Of Steel' was to recognise the player or person who had had the biggest impact on the game from the winners of the various categories.
The Man Of Steel could in theory have been the young player of the year, the coach of the year or even the referee of the year.
Thankfully we've at least moved away from that possibility.
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| Quote FearTheVee="FearTheVee"
He's a cracking player I reckon, and it's not all down to a sidestep.'"
Wind ups aside, I'm forced to agree.
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| i think tomkins is geting a bit too big headed. i would like to see morley get it, i think he is a great player, a natural (and great) leader and a true gentleman of the pitch too. great ambassador for the game.
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| Quote Andy Gilder="Andy Gilder"Is it time to change the title (given that I don't think Trumans Steel is involved in the award any more!) to something more appropriate like SL Player's Player of the Year?[/quot
pinning all those players to the ground between his arm and the ball though must mean that Sam Tompkins is pretty strong!!

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| Should be seperate awards . Player Of The Year (most influential) , and Man Of Steel ( hardest barsteward ).
The title of MOS suggests a big hard , black boot-wearing 'lad' , when in fact it could be a biscuit-boned pink boot-wearing wuss that wins it .
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| Morley, Not even best player in a warrington shirt this year
Tomkins, Hold onto peoples arms, good one week crap the next
Richards, Chokes in big games when his good kicking is most needed,
My Nominations are
Mcguire, King, Chase
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| Quote Craigloiner="Craigloiner"Morley, Not even best player in a warrington shirt this year
Tomkins, Hold onto peoples arms, good one week crap the next
Richards, Chokes in big games when his good kicking is most needed,
My Nominations are
Mcguire, King, Chase'"
Obviously I'm inherently biased, but I think Roby has been the best player in SL this season.
McGuire and Chase would both have been worthy nominees, not sure about King.
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| Quote FearTheVee="FearTheVee"Obviously I'm inherently biased, but I think Roby has been the best player in SL this season.
McGuire and Chase would both have been worthy nominees, not sure about King.'"
Robys had a cracking season as well, but the two main inspiritational players for the top of the league side have been Tomkins and Richards (probably Lockers as well, but his form has dropped a little).
Tomkins has torn teams apart single handedly this season, and hasn't really had a bad game (he's been quiet, but never come up with huge errors).
Richards is just the epitomy of consistency, you give him the ball and 9/10 he'll score, he makes huge metres taking the ball up early in the set and is fantastic under the high ball.
You could maybe say that Richards, Moz + Roby would have been a better shortlist, but I think Sams had a quality year, he's become a lot more rounded than last year when it was just all about the step.
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| Quote Andy Gilder="Andy Gilder"Is it time to change the title (given that I don't think Trumans Steel is involved in the award any more!) to something more appropriate like SL Player's Player of the Year?'"
The Most Feared Man In Super League has a certain ring to it.
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| Quote inside_man="inside_man"Robys had a cracking season as well, but the two main inspiritational players for the =#FF0000top of the league side have been Tomkins and Richards (probably Lockers as well, but his form has dropped a little).'"
It never seems to count for much when Leeds top the league. Must be a Lancashire (Greater Manchester, Merseyside etc) type of thing.
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| Quote tvoc="tvoc"It never seems to count for much when Leeds top the league. Must be a Lancashire (Greater Manchester, Merseyside etc) type of thing.'"
Its probably been unfortunate that a Leeds player hasn't won it before now. Can't really see a reason why, except perhaps (I dont particularly subscribe to this thought but anyway) its been a pretty well known fact you have the strongest and most balanced squad in the league for many years, and part of the reason for your success is that most of the team performed consistently well and relied less on individual performances to win games.
Sinfield is probably the key man for you, but as good as he is has he been deserving of MOS? Peacock would be the obvious one as well, I struggle to see why he hasn't been close to it before.
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| Fair comments.
(Just to say though that Leeds have provided three Men Of Steel with David Ward the inaugural winner in 1977, Garry Schofield in 1991 and they have even had one during the SL Era with Iestyn Harris in 1998.)
4 SL Championships to 1 Man Of Steel winners.
Oh well, thems the breaks.
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