The big one-the 2012 Man of Steel is......Sam Tomkins (as voted for by his peers & presented by Bradley Wiggins)

SHOCK

Come on guys, I can understand fans from other forums taking the bait but not regulars!

Tomkins. Ball in hand.
Absolute class. Frightens the life out of me, every time he attacks the line, and I'm only watching him on the telly. Defenders must pooh bricks.

Tomkins. Without ball in hand.
At best, average. When he's "not on his game", he stinks the house out.

So, 50% of his game is not good at all (imo), yet he gets Man of Steel. There's more to our game than attacking.

ATEOTD, he's won it, so be it. He's been nominated before, it was only a matter of time before he got it.
I'd bet a hearty sum of money, he'd rather be playing on Saturday night, though, than having a little silver salver on his mum's mantlepiece.

Roby, well everybody spat their dummies out when he won it a few years back, when he was only playing 50% of the match time, whilst being a teammate of Cunningham. It's almost like MonaghanM wasn't nominated last year, whilst interchanging with Higham., eh?

TBH, Westwood would struggle to win it.
We all know his true value to our team. Workaholic, tackling machine, but he's not a glamour second rower, in the mould of a Denis Betts, for example, who'd get you 10-20 tries a season.

Hypothetical question.
Go into a Sport's Bar in London on any Saturday, and ask a Cockney who's won a (RL) trophy this year. Chances are, you might get a few who say "I saw Warrington win the Challenge Cup, before Final Score came on". Ask him who won Man Of Steel, and he'll look at you as if you've just come from the moon, or say "Man of Steel, is it summat to do with bodybuilding? Either way, it sounds a bit gay, dunnit?"

Tomkins has won. Well done, Tomkins.
I can't wait for Saturday. Unless Sky have him as a guest summarisor, he wont be there. WE WILL.

Voted by peers who know more about pro-RL than anyone on here. That'll do for me (even if he comes across as odious).

From reading Ben Galea twitter he didn't get to vote and knows other players who didn't.

The voting details were sent to the chairmen/CEO of each club by email from the RFL. Only HKR players didn't vote which says something about their management.

Players don't HAVE to vote, but I understand the majority do.