I voted multiple times because I was allowed to. But I don't agree with it.
What's to say that Murray didn't also receive multiple votes?

Yep, his Mum's facial expression seemed to suggest: "Dream on, RL peasants. My team of ninja telephonists has got this covered..."

In some ways i disagree with multiple votes, but its the same for all candidates. ALso, it enables fans to give some sort of magnitude to their appreciation of the sports star. If you don't have multiple votes, then someone voting for Murray as theyre the only person theyve heard of gets the same voice as someone who has kevin sinfield down as some sort of god. You should be able to express how much you want someone to win

No one called him "disloyal" but it was very stupid and self-centred of himself to air his comments when he's involved in the sport at a media level. It's obvious how big this was for the sport and fans of it so sometimes maybe just hold your tongue especially when he decided to criticise fans of the sport just for the 'crime' of wanting to support the sport they're passionate about.

As for multiple voting, like has been said. All other nominees will have had people vote several times for them so they all could've gotten their person up to Sinfield's total if they cared enough......and that's the key thing. What Sinfield's total says to me is that more people cared about his achievements being rewarded than 10 of the other nominees. If people who voted for the other nominees only voted once then clearly their sporting achievements didn't mean as much to the people who voted for them.

The BBC's agenda was apparent to anyone with half a brain. It could only ever be a Rugby League team that completes a clean sweep of all available trophies, yet doesn't win a single award despite being represented in 3 different categories on the night. The BBC wanted us to crawl back under our stone and keep quiet, whilst yet again pushing Rugby Union to the forefront. How a Rugby Union player won an award on the night when the all conquering Rhinos went empty handed was unbelievable, but you must expect nothing else from the BBC. Dan Carter is undoubtedly a good player, but to shoehorn him in for an award was sick inducing, even by BBC standards. He effectively had to win one game with his team, against Australia, to win the World Cup, yet the likes of Djokovic, who beat the worlds best all year to win multiple tournaments including Grand Slams, is apparently invisible in the "best overseas sportsman category". The BBC is a nauseating company, morally corrupt and not worth a licence fee.

Well, I won't be losing any sleep. A nominee from RL was unique; were it not then I doubt that many of those voters not from Leeds would have bothered and I suspect that many from Leeds wouldn't have voted as many times.

The near-absence of RL from the prog has been nothing other than appalling. List me the other sports who've had representatives listed then tell me there hasn't been a far worse fix of sorts.

I had an interesting Twitter conversation after I happened to Tweet that perhaps British Athletics might be able to get another SPOTY winner if they campaigned more for the likes of Jessica Ennis-Hill. Got a reply from someone who turned out to be a Senior Media Officer for British Athletics pointing out how they had tweeted a link of how to vote for the 3 British Athletes.

I did point out the extent of the campaign for Sir Kev (videos, getting other sportsmen involved) and commented that perhaps they could learn a thing or 2.

I suspect the more mainstream the sport, the less they feel they have to galvanize their supporters into voting.

Was Kev's media campaign led by the RFL or the Rhinos?

Whomever did it we could do with a bit more of the same thinking when promoting the sport as a whole.

IIRC the videos with Jonny Wilkinson, Paul Scholes etc were done by Super League TV.

Ladbrokes also piled some of their weight behind it.