I'd be curious to know what the current and ex players think of this award these days.
It really feels like the logies now, based on popularity not actual skill/performance
Well done to the NRL for making it even more dodgy then it was , now that is an achievement!
In terms of making it better my only thought would be the match review people do it.
They are technically supposed to be non biased AND have to watch all games closely
Gina Riley: Oh, come on, John. That’s a bit old hat, the corrupt IOC delegate. John Clarke: Old hat? Gina, in the scientific world when they see that something is happening again and again and again, repeatedly, they don’t call it old hat. They call it a pattern.
Haha how do two judges watch that and award their 3-2-1 to 6 different players. How does an Eels player get a point for that dross? We didn’t get any points despite leading 18-0 last week, how do they get any this week?
Funny how last year raiders would get beat by just a few points and not get a single Dally M point for a player, but we absolutely flog a team and their players get points??????
I love Tapine and he was good last night but how the hecks does he get the same points as Timoko? Timoko massacred the Eels. If Manu or Crichton or Best or Staggs did that, there’d be six articles on Fox Sports.
I'd say whoever gave a point to Dylan Brown also gave the 3 and 2 to Tapine and Smithies, as they clearly didn't watch the game. The 3-2-1 to Timoko, Savage, and Strange is far more sensible.
‘Farce’: Uproar over ‘ridiculous’ Eels playmaker’s Dally M vote
The NRL is under fire again over another Dally M medal voting “farce”. Rugby league commentators on Monday morning were blowing up after it emerged Dylan Brown was awarded one vote despite the Eels being torn apart by the Raiders in Canberra on Sunday night.
Ruben Daley wrote: ↑April 8, 2024, 10:28 am
I love Tapine and he was good last night but how the hecks does he get the same points as Timoko? Timoko massacred the Eels. If Manu or Crichton or Best or Staggs did that, there’d be six articles on Fox Sports.
They don't watch or at least don't pay any attention to the games and then just pick the names they know. It's the only explanation I can think of.
Ruben Daley wrote: ↑April 8, 2024, 10:28 am
I love Tapine and he was good last night but how the hecks does he get the same points as Timoko? Timoko massacred the Eels. If Manu or Crichton or Best or Staggs did that, there’d be six articles on Fox Sports.
They don't watch or at least don't pay any attention to the games and then just pick the names they know. It's the only explanation I can think of.
I think you’re right. It’s clear a large percentage of people in the media and others involved in the game like this simply don’t watch games. And when they watch games, watch without a critical eye.
I don’t understand it. I watch 4-5 games a week around my job and family commitments. This is their job.
Ruben Daley wrote: ↑April 8, 2024, 10:28 am
I love Tapine and he was good last night but how the hecks does he get the same points as Timoko? Timoko massacred the Eels. If Manu or Crichton or Best or Staggs did that, there’d be six articles on Fox Sports.
They don't watch or at least don't pay any attention to the games and then just pick the names they know. It's the only explanation I can think of.
I think you’re right. It’s clear a large percentage of people in the media and others involved in the game like this simply don’t watch games. And when they watch games, watch without a critical eye.
I don’t understand it. I watch 4-5 games a week around my job and family commitments. This is their job.
I get that, but you did not even need to watch last nights game to know Tomoko, or any other Raider, had a better game than Brown.
Ruben Daley wrote: ↑April 8, 2024, 10:28 am
I love Tapine and he was good last night but how the hecks does he get the same points as Timoko? Timoko massacred the Eels. If Manu or Crichton or Best or Staggs did that, there’d be six articles on Fox Sports.
They don't watch or at least don't pay any attention to the games and then just pick the names they know. It's the only explanation I can think of.
I think you’re right. It’s clear a large percentage of people in the media and others involved in the game like this simply don’t watch games. And when they watch games, watch without a critical eye.
I don’t understand it. I watch 4-5 games a week around my job and family commitments. This is their job.
I get that, but you did not even need to watch last nights game to know Tomoko, or any other Raider, had a better game than Brown.
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That’s true. You’d get it pretty much spot-on if you read the stats and watched the three-minute highlights.
Ruben Daley wrote: ↑April 8, 2024, 10:28 am
I love Tapine and he was good last night but how the hecks does he get the same points as Timoko? Timoko massacred the Eels. If Manu or Crichton or Best or Staggs did that, there’d be six articles on Fox Sports.
They don't watch or at least don't pay any attention to the games and then just pick the names they know. It's the only explanation I can think of.
I think you’re right. It’s clear a large percentage of people in the media and others involved in the game like this simply don’t watch games. And when they watch games, watch without a critical eye.
I don’t understand it. I watch 4-5 games a week around my job and family commitments. This is their job.
I get that, but you did not even need to watch last nights game to know Tomoko, or any other Raider, had a better game than Brown.
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That’s true. You’d get it pretty much spot-on if you read the stats and watched the three-minute highlights.
So no arguments that the Dylan Brown thing is madness, but in terms of Raiders ratings, the ABC call team had Morgan Smithies the best raider on the ground by quite a distance. It was Timoko and Strange getting the 2 and 1 behind him I think I recall. Not saying Timoko didn’t have a blinder or that Savage and Tarps weren’t great, but not all judges see these things the same.
Billy Walker wrote:So no arguments that the Dylan Brown thing is madness, but in terms of Raiders ratings, the ABC call team had Morgan Smithies the best raider on the ground by quite a distance. It was Timoko and Strange getting the 2 and 1 behind him I think I recall. Not saying Timoko didn’t have a blinder or that Savage and Tarps weren’t great, but not all judges see these things the same.
Alan Tongue giving a hard working Lock the 3 points is the same as Blocker always choosing a prop as man of the match.
Billy Walker wrote:So no arguments that the Dylan Brown thing is madness, but in terms of Raiders ratings, the ABC call team had Morgan Smithies the best raider on the ground by quite a distance. It was Timoko and Strange getting the 2 and 1 behind him I think I recall. Not saying Timoko didn’t have a blinder or that Savage and Tarps weren’t great, but not all judges see these things the same.
Alan Tongue giving a hard working Lock the 3 points is the same as Blocker always choosing a prop as man of the match.
Was it Tongue or Sam Williams who gave them out? Whoever it was, they had much love for Morgan!
Jamal Fogarty 5
Hudson Young 3
Brian Kelly 2
Kieran Foran 1
Josh Papalii 1
Canberra Raiders Dally M points after Round 6
Jamal Fogarty 10
Zac Hosking 8
Matt Timoko 7
Joseph Tapine 6
Ethan Strange 5
Morgan Smithies 4
Hudson Young 3
Jordan Rapana 2
Xavier Savage 2
Josh Papalii 1
Gina Riley: Oh, come on, John. That’s a bit old hat, the corrupt IOC delegate. John Clarke: Old hat? Gina, in the scientific world when they see that something is happening again and again and again, repeatedly, they don’t call it old hat. They call it a pattern.
Hong Kong Raider wrote: ↑April 15, 2024, 5:41 am
How can Tapine miss getting any Dally M points ? What a farce.
Its ridiculous
The spiral of silence refers to the idea that when people fail to speak, the price of speaking rises. As the price to speak rises, still fewer speak out, which further causes the price to rise, so that fewer people yet will speak out, until a whole culture or nation is silenced. This is what happened in Germany.
If you do not speak, you are not being neutral, but are contributing to the success of the thing you refuse to name and condemn.
Tapine not getting a point sets a new bar for Dally M voting incompetence. And that’s saying something.
NRL and the broader non Daily Telegraph rugby league media need to really kick up a stink about what is meant to be our premier player of the year award.