Quote: Juan Cornetto "In your earlier post you said RL supporters would only vote for a great player and never just a good club player and Sinfield would not be supported outside Leeds as in your opinion he is not a great player.
So now after the huge support shown for Sinfield, to avoid accepting your opinion was wrong, you not only suggest the voting was only for RL and not the man and therefore was a "shame" as it somehow demeaned the value of SPOTY!
Did you ever consider much of Murray's support was because he was a Scot?
Thankfully more than a quarter of a million fair RL fans didn't share your predjudice.'"
But you must acknowledge the point he is making surely. Voting for someone/anyone just because they play Rugby League is just cynical. I actually feel sorry for Sinfield who must have felt more than a bit embarrassed by the whole thing. I mean he wasn't even regarded highly enough to be considered in the top 3 for the Man of Steel voting. How on earth he can be the Sports Personality of the Year is beyond comprehension. Look at the achievements of Fury and Ennis for example, the best in the world in their disciplines, Sinfield isn't even the best at his own club.
I suppose that's what you get when you allow the 'public' to choose. At one end of the scale you get Jeremy Corbyn leading a party he has dedicated his life to voting against in Parliament, who none of the PLP can get on with, because the membership think they know better. And at the other end of the scale you get Jeremy Vine and the likes entering and succeeding week after week, a dancing competition, when he cannot dance, but the public like him because he's a laugh.
Voting for someone for any reason other than you think he or she is the best is cynical and renders the trophy worthless.