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Because he has had a great year and been consistent as hell.
2015 Brisbane Broncos Awards
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Because he has had a great year and been consistent as hell.
Danoz Direct
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Summary
NYC Best Forward - Jai Arrow
NYC Best Back - Jayden Nikorima
NYC Players' Player - Jai Arrow and Keegan Hipgrave
NYC Player of the Year - Jai Arrow
Best Forward - Sam Thaiday
Best Back - Ben Hunt
Most Consistent Player - Andrew McCullough
Rookie of the Year - Kodi Nikorima
Fans Player of the Year - Anthony Milford
Players' Player - Anthony Milford
Play of the Year - A length of the field try against the Raiders after the half time siren that also included Anthony Milford, Darius Boyd, Ben Hunt, Alex Glenn and the try scorer Lachlan Maranta
Clubman of the Year - Justin Hodges
Player of the Year - Corey Parker
NYC Best Forward - Jai Arrow
NYC Best Back - Jayden Nikorima
NYC Players' Player - Jai Arrow and Keegan Hipgrave
NYC Player of the Year - Jai Arrow
Best Forward - Sam Thaiday
Best Back - Ben Hunt
Most Consistent Player - Andrew McCullough
Rookie of the Year - Kodi Nikorima
Fans Player of the Year - Anthony Milford
Players' Player - Anthony Milford
Play of the Year - A length of the field try against the Raiders after the half time siren that also included Anthony Milford, Darius Boyd, Ben Hunt, Alex Glenn and the try scorer Lachlan Maranta
Clubman of the Year - Justin Hodges
Player of the Year - Corey Parker
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Danoz Direct
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He has definitely played a lot better than previous years.
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I'm fine with Thaiday getting the best forward.
Blair was great, but he had a slow start.. He really went up another gear mid-season when McGuire got injured.
Thaiday has been pretty consistent throughout the year.
Whenever you saw a forward trying to spark the team, it was usually Thaiday.
Blair was great, but he had a slow start.. He really went up another gear mid-season when McGuire got injured.
Thaiday has been pretty consistent throughout the year.
Whenever you saw a forward trying to spark the team, it was usually Thaiday.
Danoz Direct
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I think they use the same system as the Dally M's where the positional award don't necessarily go to the highest voted in the positions.
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Good stuff, Corey!
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COREY Parker has etched his name in club folklore after winning his third Paul Morgan Medal at the NRMA Insurance Broncos’ Presentation Ball tonight.
The international lock streaked the field, leading the tally after rounds six, 12 and 18, and winning by 20 votes.
It makes Parker just the third player in Broncos’ history to win the Player of the Year trophy three times.
He joins Darren Lockyer (2002-03, 2011) and Petero Civoniceva (2004, 2006-07) as fellow three-time winners of the prestigious medal.
Parker’s wins in 2009, 2013 and 2015 place him behind only the great Allan Langer, who won the Morgan Medal five times – in 1988 and four straight between 1993 and 1996.
Parker finished the voting tally well in front on 78 votes, with first-year Bronco Anthony Milford congratulated for his effort of finishing second with 58 votes.
He was just ahead of Sam Thaiday (56 votes), who was followed by Andrew McCullough (38 votes) and Matt Gillett (36 votes).
Adam Blair and Ben Hunt were next, both on 33 votes.
Parker was not the only veteran to take home a trophy, with retiring captain Justin Hodges a popular winner of the Clubman of the Year award.
Hodges’ award was testament to the outstanding job he has done in 2015 – both on and off the field – in leading the club to the NRL Grand Final.
Milford did take home a trophy, winning the coveted Players’ Player award for his enterprising play at five-eighth.
Milford was also involved in the Play of the Year, a length-of-the-field try against the Raiders after the half-time siren that also included Darius Boyd, Hunt, Alex Glenn and the try scorer Lachlan Maranta.
Thaiday was the winner of the NRL team’s Best Forward award, while Hunt was named Best Back.
Tireless hooker Andrew McCullough, the top tackler in the entire NRL competition, was named the Most Consistent player, while utility Kodi Nikorima was judged Rookie of the Year for his break-out season in the NRL.
In the under-20s, Jai Arrow was named NYC Player of the Year.
Arrow also won for NYC Best Forward and shared the Players’ Player trophy with Keegan Hipgrave.
Jayden Nikorima was named NYC Best Back.
Parker Wins Third Paul Morgan Medal - Broncos
The international lock streaked the field, leading the tally after rounds six, 12 and 18, and winning by 20 votes.
It makes Parker just the third player in Broncos’ history to win the Player of the Year trophy three times.
He joins Darren Lockyer (2002-03, 2011) and Petero Civoniceva (2004, 2006-07) as fellow three-time winners of the prestigious medal.
Parker’s wins in 2009, 2013 and 2015 place him behind only the great Allan Langer, who won the Morgan Medal five times – in 1988 and four straight between 1993 and 1996.
Parker finished the voting tally well in front on 78 votes, with first-year Bronco Anthony Milford congratulated for his effort of finishing second with 58 votes.
He was just ahead of Sam Thaiday (56 votes), who was followed by Andrew McCullough (38 votes) and Matt Gillett (36 votes).
Adam Blair and Ben Hunt were next, both on 33 votes.
Parker was not the only veteran to take home a trophy, with retiring captain Justin Hodges a popular winner of the Clubman of the Year award.
Hodges’ award was testament to the outstanding job he has done in 2015 – both on and off the field – in leading the club to the NRL Grand Final.
Milford did take home a trophy, winning the coveted Players’ Player award for his enterprising play at five-eighth.
Milford was also involved in the Play of the Year, a length-of-the-field try against the Raiders after the half-time siren that also included Darius Boyd, Hunt, Alex Glenn and the try scorer Lachlan Maranta.
Thaiday was the winner of the NRL team’s Best Forward award, while Hunt was named Best Back.
Tireless hooker Andrew McCullough, the top tackler in the entire NRL competition, was named the Most Consistent player, while utility Kodi Nikorima was judged Rookie of the Year for his break-out season in the NRL.
In the under-20s, Jai Arrow was named NYC Player of the Year.
Arrow also won for NYC Best Forward and shared the Players’ Player trophy with Keegan Hipgrave.
Jayden Nikorima was named NYC Best Back.
Parker Wins Third Paul Morgan Medal - Broncos
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Hunt's is quality too. As is Kahu's and Arrow's
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JoeldTrafford
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Seems odd that Ashley Taylor didn't win any awards at the broncos awards night but won the dally m medal as best player in the whole competition
Big Pete
International Captain
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I guess it goes to show the differences in what the coaches appreciate versus the referees. Arrow was easily the Broncos most consistent through out the year and watching him run around was like watching a younger version of Corey Parker.
Still, surprised Jayden got selected infront of Taylor. Normally, that would be a toss of the coin but given Jayden only played half the season, it's a bit surprising. Perhaps it was political? Sort of like how the Raiders gave Milford their Player of the Season in 2013.
Still, surprised Jayden got selected infront of Taylor. Normally, that would be a toss of the coin but given Jayden only played half the season, it's a bit surprising. Perhaps it was political? Sort of like how the Raiders gave Milford their Player of the Season in 2013.
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Do they give points after every game or just decide at the end?
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He was back in his element on Friday night at the 28th Broncos Presentation Ball and coach Wayne Bennett took the opportunity to give departing skipper Justin Hodges a final farewell, and a few light-hearted digs.
Hodges wasn't the only player to be singled out with fellow retiree David Stagg and UK-bound Mitchell Dodds also receiving kind words from the master coach and Corey Parker and Jack Reed acknowledged for individual milestones.
Despite the success of the team in 2015 there was something of a sombre note to proceedings coming just five days after their heartbreaking grand final defeat at the hands of the Cowboys but Bennett had the large crowd in the palm of his hand whenever he spoke.
"The one question that you don't have to ask me tonight is whether I'm happy to be back. I am," was how he opened.
On stage before the Broncos faithful is where Bennett belongs and the highlight of the evening was his tribute to Hodges, the man he dropped to reserve grade 14 years ago when he announced he was heading to the Roosters.
Hodges came back three years later and after time at the Dragons and the Knights so too did Bennett and said he had no hesitation in making the Queensland and Australia representative captain of the club.
"There are so many things that I admire about rugby league and there are so many things that it gives us and I believe without rugby league, I'm not sure where Justin would have been or what he would be," Bennett said.
"I saw that transformation from the year 2000 to the year 2015 where I have spent a lot of my life with him; many, many training sessions and many situations over that long period of time and to see that transformation in him has been quite remarkable.
"I wouldn't have made him captain of the Broncos if he hadn't made that journey but I didn't have a lot of doubt about him being captain.
"I've been very particular all my coaching career about who gets to captain this club. It's been a bone of contention for me, I've just wanted the right person to do that and he stepped up this year and did a great job.
"You may have read about the phone call last year at the grand final. He was in Sydney and saw the game and said he wanted to go back. He rang me that night from the ground to tell me that he wanted to go back there and take the team back there.
"Well he lived that; he lived that all year for us."
The great charm of the relationship between Bennett and Hodges lies in their differing personalities. Where the coach is a disciple of discipline, the star centre – who was also named Clubman of the Year – developed a reputation for dodging certain training sessions.
"I remember it like it was yesterday when he played his first game in Canberra," Bennett recalled. "It was State of Origin time and we had a lot of players missing and I gave him an opportunity to play.
"I quickly realised that cold weather wasn't his forte. It just didn't grab him at all and if I hadn't of played him it wouldn't have worried him.
"On my return this year I realised there had been a change of attitude with him. On my first day back I saw him getting changed and on his biceps he had little bubbles and I thought, Hello, he's bought into the weight room a little bit.
"He was starting to fill out in the chest a bit and I thought, God, he must have been lifting something. He didn't like the training part, he hated the weight room most of all.
"But the calf muscles haven't changed. They're still the same size.
"Why it's been a pleasure to coach him is that while he gives you a lot of grief off the field, on the field he gave it all.
"His ethos was that you can bugger up through the week and he mightn't be the best trainer in the world but come Saturday or Sunday when he crossed that white line he gave you 100 per cent.
"And he did that for his teammates because the one thing he always hated was letting his mates down."
Bennett's tribute to departing skipper - NRL.com
Hodges wasn't the only player to be singled out with fellow retiree David Stagg and UK-bound Mitchell Dodds also receiving kind words from the master coach and Corey Parker and Jack Reed acknowledged for individual milestones.
Despite the success of the team in 2015 there was something of a sombre note to proceedings coming just five days after their heartbreaking grand final defeat at the hands of the Cowboys but Bennett had the large crowd in the palm of his hand whenever he spoke.
"The one question that you don't have to ask me tonight is whether I'm happy to be back. I am," was how he opened.
On stage before the Broncos faithful is where Bennett belongs and the highlight of the evening was his tribute to Hodges, the man he dropped to reserve grade 14 years ago when he announced he was heading to the Roosters.
Hodges came back three years later and after time at the Dragons and the Knights so too did Bennett and said he had no hesitation in making the Queensland and Australia representative captain of the club.
"There are so many things that I admire about rugby league and there are so many things that it gives us and I believe without rugby league, I'm not sure where Justin would have been or what he would be," Bennett said.
"I saw that transformation from the year 2000 to the year 2015 where I have spent a lot of my life with him; many, many training sessions and many situations over that long period of time and to see that transformation in him has been quite remarkable.
"I wouldn't have made him captain of the Broncos if he hadn't made that journey but I didn't have a lot of doubt about him being captain.
"I've been very particular all my coaching career about who gets to captain this club. It's been a bone of contention for me, I've just wanted the right person to do that and he stepped up this year and did a great job.
"You may have read about the phone call last year at the grand final. He was in Sydney and saw the game and said he wanted to go back. He rang me that night from the ground to tell me that he wanted to go back there and take the team back there.
"Well he lived that; he lived that all year for us."
The great charm of the relationship between Bennett and Hodges lies in their differing personalities. Where the coach is a disciple of discipline, the star centre – who was also named Clubman of the Year – developed a reputation for dodging certain training sessions.
"I remember it like it was yesterday when he played his first game in Canberra," Bennett recalled. "It was State of Origin time and we had a lot of players missing and I gave him an opportunity to play.
"I quickly realised that cold weather wasn't his forte. It just didn't grab him at all and if I hadn't of played him it wouldn't have worried him.
"On my return this year I realised there had been a change of attitude with him. On my first day back I saw him getting changed and on his biceps he had little bubbles and I thought, Hello, he's bought into the weight room a little bit.
"He was starting to fill out in the chest a bit and I thought, God, he must have been lifting something. He didn't like the training part, he hated the weight room most of all.
"But the calf muscles haven't changed. They're still the same size.
"Why it's been a pleasure to coach him is that while he gives you a lot of grief off the field, on the field he gave it all.
"His ethos was that you can bugger up through the week and he mightn't be the best trainer in the world but come Saturday or Sunday when he crossed that white line he gave you 100 per cent.
"And he did that for his teammates because the one thing he always hated was letting his mates down."
Bennett's tribute to departing skipper - NRL.com
