I'd advocate Hodgson on the basis that Morley & Graham - both outstanding candidates - have not improved the relative positions of their teams, whereas Hodgson has had IMO a marked impact on the performance of his whole team.

I know that the coaching staff have had a major influence on this but their impact stops the moment the whistle blows.

Compare the Giants last season with Thorman (mostly) the last line of defence & principal goalkicker, with this season's Giants.

The main difference has been Hodgson.

Have the candidates for Young Player of the Year & Coach of the Year been anounced?

FWIW, my winners would be Ryan Hall and John Kear. But I would expect both Nathan Brown, Justin Morgan & Terry Matterson to be mentioned too.

Am I the only one who's underwhelmed by Hodgson's inclusion. He's a good player, and had a good season but better than Senior, Peacock, or Dobson? I don't think so.



Morley to win out of thos 3.

oh f*** off you boring gimp.

Who is the James Graham that is nominated?



Is this the same James Graham who;



Talks a good game.



Comes in and hits people 4th man in.



Is scared of Ryan Bailey



Chucks the ball away before contact.



Spits his dummy on a weekly basis



There's hope for us all really isn't there!

Crap list, but out of those 3, Moz.

Hmmm, given it is the players vote this year I did think Senior would not make the top three but thought Peacock would... so that is the surprise for me!



Given that they can not vote for anyone from their own club I suspect that their was very little way of votes between Saints and Leeds players, so also surprised to see Graham in the list!



It has to be Mozza for me because he is well liked and I think that is part of the new player vote system we will have to live with I am afraid!



Just thinking that maybe the best way to do this is to have a players player of the year award (which is now the man of steel), and a 'press' player of the year award and then combine the two voting systems (some how) to select the Man of Steel! Would that be a better system with less bias?

surely it would be best just to put the saints players names into a hat, and pick one at random?



bar that, why not just get the coaches to vote. seem as they are the ones who studies the opposition players. could even go down the dally M route of picking the best player every week, then totalling up at the end of the season

As I,ve said last week Peacock is in decline, and the short list more or less confirms it.

Graham has years ahead of him and will still be playing at a high standard, he might convert his sulkiness to a more fistiful approach so the Leeds forwards need to watch out in the near future.

i would say the one in one of the trade papers is best. it is updated each week and dobson romped it.

i'm surprised he wasn't in the running.had a great season

You couldn't do that, Meli might come out, and everyone would see through it.

Nope. Some genius posted something similar on page 1.

Agree at all here.



Mozzer all the way.



As for Hodgson I've highlighted the number of turkeys he's produced in big games. He's saved 'dancing through the tulips' against Celtic/Bulls et al