My main issue with any Motorsport really is although no doubt very talented it really does matter what equipment you have more so than other sports, and as you say this was a two horse race

Mal Meninga won the BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year Award in 1990.

That was way back when proper tours took place and international RL and the sport had some credibility.

Alas, today it has no credibility whatsoever.

Any announcement on dates and venues for the Kiwi series yet?

Thought not.

Until the 2014-15 football fixtures are announced, I wouldn't expect there to be any announcement on dates for the Kiwi tour given ground availability will need to be taken into account.

But I suspect you know that already.

So did anyone watch? How did RL do?

I'm guessing the entire SL season and 4 Nations summarised in 30 seconds by that old Welsh RU player, and 5 seconds on Sam during the RU section.

To be fair they did that with all sports. All time and focus nowadays is dedicated to the 10 nominees and what else happened in sport apart from what those 10 did is rushed through. Wouldn't be so bad but the nominees just give the same old "wouldn't be here without the support of others, it's about hardwork, etc" interviews

Who was the more interesting, Hamilton or his dog?

From memory we had Hall (I think) scoring in the cup final, the Flower punch on the ground and a Sts try from the grand final for RL. To be fair though, its become less a review of the year, as it used to be, and more of a "fawning over various people" event.

And there's far too much Eddie sodding Butler too

Nothing on 4 nations iirc

For some reason they linked hero Johnny Wilkinson's one code career with two code Sam Burgess' move from South Sydney to Bath. Presenter (Gabby Logan) said England fans would hope "Slammin' Sam" is a great success in RU.

The whole thing is a farce - Hamilton wins - tax exile, he doesn't participate in a sport and his year could not compare with the golfer - BUT - his driving attracts a lot of keen followers who vote! To be fair, even he seemed to admit he didn't deserve it. Big anti-climax - you could see that everyone wanted to golfer to win (who himself looked ed off).It's about time the stupid show was retired.

They managed a feature on Brian O'Driscoll despite him not being British. Good old BBC. They'd never show undue bias towards RU compared with other sports would they?

The people that run the bbc are probably blissfully aware that Ireland gained independence last century......I know the IRB management are

He was probably still scarred from when they showed the clip of him at the Ryder Cup holding a champagne bottle and the cork popping off on its own and then have a gurning fawning Gary Linekar asking him "I hope you don't pop your cork early on a regular basis!"

When was the last time a 'personality' actually won it? Gazza 1990?

Bradley Wiggins ?

Certainly a personality, albeit in one of the "less popular" sports and he's a RL fan

I watched most of the show and thought it was utter tosh in the main. Just kept hoping Lineker would completely lose his voice.