McShane has done that in 16 games in fairness. On an average basis he’d be around 4 try’s and 14 assists played over a 27 game regular season (if he kept that sort of average per game going).

I just think Hodgson has had his chance for England and GB and he’s been dire. He’s cut a great career in Oz but I’m genuinely stumped as to how. When playing for England, he still looks like the pretty average superleague hooker I used to watch at HKR.

You only needed to look at the shortlist to see the approach was flawed. Not quite as flawed as the backs in the Dream Team . . . .

But fair play to McShane - nobody can dispute he's not been great for Cas over the last couple of years and it's a really proud night for the lad. I hope he enjoys it despite the hassle he's getting.

Every year we have the same debate and outcry regardless of the system.

McShane has been great over the last 5 years, consistently outstanding his game has changed so much in relation to his he plays.

When he joined Cas he was basically a scooting hooker, now he is much more of a playmaking 9. He is the heartbeat of everything good Cas do in attack and defence.

Has he been the best player in the league maybe, maybe not he has been up there though without doubt so it’s hardly a massive shock especially given he has been near the top of the points table all year.

Fair play to the lad, in my opinion you can make a case for all of them winning it that were named on the shortlist and a couple of others too he didn’t make the list.

and missed most of the season with an acl

I agree I would have thought his best year was 2017 he was outstanding this year been ok in a poor Castleford side.

Id go as far as to say the man of steel shouldn't have run this year, mainly because it became apparent early on that not all games were going to go ahead and it lead to this rather award tonight.

Nah mate King is a quality player far better than Zak at centre

Offiah MOS 1988

At first I thought Hardaker would be wasted at centre, but I’ve been very impressed every time I’ve seen him play there. Strong defensively, always a threat and runs a great line that you usually only see from players who have played the position for years.
He’d be my choice for one of the centre positions for England at the moment.

I think he’s a cracking player and good on him.

I’ve said before if I could choose a system is have each club internally select a MOS nominee, club captains & coaches then vote from that shortlist but you can’t vote for the player in your team.

It’s also a shame that we have I post on the coach of the year thread and 5 pages thus far on this one.

That was this season.

I still think he has a lot of work to do on his lines of attack personally. He keeps trying to go on the outside of players and running himself out of room. He’s big enough and strong enough to stay in the field of play but he needs to straighten things up a bit for me and try and hit the gaps. He isn’t quick enough to go round people anymore.

He’s getting to grips with the position bit by bit though. I think he’ll kick on a level next year because he’ll have a full Lee season knowing he’ll be at centre and he’ll be able to put all his efforts in to it.