Not denying he was a great captain (for Leeds anyway), but wouldn't call him the best ever captain.

Andrew Johns, Darren Lockyer and Neil Fox I'd consider to be a few of those higher up on the "best captains" list.

There are many things holding the game back, that isn't one of them. Jesus wept

There it is! I was waiting for this!

I'm not sure what Sinfield has done individually this year to get nominated but I'll still vote for him purely because of my RL bias. There is no doubt how good he has been for Leeds but I feel the nomination is possibly recognition for his career rather than this year.

If Leeds don't get team of the year someone wants shooting (though they'll probably give it to Andy Mur..... Sorry team GB.

True it's definatley a career nomination but it's not the first time they've done it. In 2009 Ryan Giggs won the award and that was swayed by his long career in the game, Phil Taylor in darts came second one year and hasn't been nominated any other year even though he won loads year upon year. AP McCoy won, he obviously won the Grand National that year but can't recal other Grand National winning jockeys ever being nominated before so obviously his career was taken into account.

And even though it's an "of the Year" award, quite frankly I don't think their's anything wrong with putting someone in based on their career in the right circumstances and I think this warrants it. Had his final season ended trophyless or with just one trophy then hard to put him in, but he captained his side to all three prizes.

Willzay - why would you say Johns or Lockyer were better captains than Sinfield? Just interested. Better players, sure. But Captains? I can't think of anyone who comes close for longevity and success combined.

Might be a bit of a broken record to say this but I must say I was thinking the exact same thing lol good for sinfield nonetheless but he doesn't stand a chance, Andy Murray for me all the way.

If that was the case then why didn't they include Sam Burgess 12 months ago? His move to Bath was already confirmed and he was always going to be in the England squad. Sinfield is too old to have England aspirations in RU and has played a couple of games for a 2nd tier team in the north of the country.

More likely because it was his final season, won a treble and Leeds will have to make way for the team award to Team Andy Murray.

Whilst I appreciate it won't happen, it surely would be funny if he ended up winning (with 500k votes from RL fans? -hmm).

The BBC having to showcase Rugby League and one of our players winning it over all the other mainstream sports would be great.

It could be a good night for RL as, Leeds will be right up there for team of the year and would have been nailed on winners if the GB"Team" hadn't won the Davies Cup.
Sadly, Sinfield wont win the main prize as there are too many higher profile "stars" in front of him but, excellent recognition for him and the sport.

Yes dead right I wish my team had had him when he first came into the game and we had won has many games has he has has captain

Pff team ... The Davis cup is as series of individual performances.