Australian SupeRugby awards

[Brumby Jack]

The Queensland Reds have dominated the awards ceremony today.
Will Genia has taken out player of the year, Ewen McKenzie has taken out coach of the year and the Reds took out team of the year.

Other awards handed out were Rookie of the year which went to Nick Phipps of the Melbourne Rebels and referee of the year went to Stu Dickinson - unfortunately due to the Ash cloud covering New Zealand and southern Australia, Richie McCaw was unable to attend to award Dickinson his prize.

Try of the year went to Cam Shepherd of the Western Force for his effort against the Crusaders in round 11.

 

[Gingerbeer]

Shepherd, Phipps, Genia & Link are all deserving winners. Dickinson's award I have no real opinion on.

But it shows what I know about rugby. I thought Genia was robbed last year when the award went to Cooper. I thought Cooper was much better, more mature player this season but both years I would have voted for Will over Quade.

 

[fatprop]

I still think Ita Vaea should have been the Rookie, Phipps started well, but fell away and started missing too many tackles.

 

[daz]

Good call on Phipps fp. He impressed the hell out of me in the first half of the season, but suddenly went off the radar. To be fair, so did most of his team. It would be a harsh critic indeed to point the finger at a rookie player for the failings of the team as a whole.

 

[tigerland12]

Nar Phipps was definatly the best rookie this year. Vaea and Pyle also impressed.

Personally I thought Quade Cooper had a better season to date then Genia. David Pocock finishing 5th shows how good this bloke is, he played half the season!

 

[barbarian]

I would have Nathan Sharpe in 3rd, the guy was titanic this season. Surprised at how high Pocock is, thought he was good this season but not that good.

 

[ChargerWA]

So when is the GAGR award announced?

 

[Brumby Jack]

So when is the GAGR award announced?

Not until the end of the year I believe. So we're only halfway.

 

[waratahjesus]

Nar Phipps was definatly the best rookie this year. Vaea and Pyle also impressed.

Personally I thought Quade Cooper had a better season to date then Genia. David Pocock finishing 5th shows how good this bloke is, he played half the season!

quade has had an improved year, but under pressure a few games this year he went to rabble a bit, especially his kicking, genia stayed solid and its well deserved

 

[RugbyReg]

So when is the GAGR award announced?

actually the provincial awards will be named in the next few weeks. One for each team. The Wallaby of the Year award is at the end of the year.

 

[matty_k]

Is there an over all Australian SupeRugby player of the year?

 

[TOCC]

Is there an over all Australian SupeRugby player of the year?

based on the way we vote you wouldnt think so...
Unless the votes are somehow indexed to a teams performance then its likely a constant performer in one of the lower performing teams would outscore a higher performing player int he Reds or Tahs purely due to the added competition in those two teams.

 

[RugbyReg]

spot on TOCC, we'll do a poll of each of the winners, but even from game to game different number of people voted. Often a Rebels game might get half a dozen votes, whereas the Tahs would get 30 odd. So unfair to just say the player with the most votes overall was the winner.

 

[matty_k]

So you are saying that we would just be giving it to Scott Higginbotham?

 

[Italian Stallion]

Andrew Fagan for Brumbies Player of the Year !

 

[rugbysmartarse]

spot on TOCC, we'll do a poll of each of the winners, but even from game to game different number of people voted. Often a Rebels game might get half a dozen votes, whereas the Tahs would get 30 odd. So unfair to just say the player with the most votes overall was the winner.

can you take the 3 players with the most votes for each team and assign them a 3, 2, 1 for each game, then irrespective of the number of members voting, each game only gets 6 points awarded?

 

[RugbyReg]

can you take the 3 players with the most votes for each team and assign them a 3, 2, 1 for each game, then irrespective of the number of members voting, each game only gets 6 points awarded?

perhaps. Timmsy has agreed with you so shall chat to him about it.

 

[rugbysmartarse]

perhaps. Timmsy has agreed with you so shall chat to him about it.

you understand of course that I am full of good ideas, but have zero application

 

[MajorlyRagerly]

Did Beale get anything?

Pocock, Cooper, Genia... all great players, but none of them put the fear of god into me when they get the ball like Beale does.

 

[Brumby Jack]

Did Beale get anything?

It's hard to win the Sanchez Award when the real Sanchez wins the overall prize...