... Paul McShane. Seems like the same old, 'big fish in a small pond.'
In my opinion he hasn't even been the best hooker this season, never mind best player.
... Paul McShane. Seems like the same old, 'big fish in a small pond.'
In my opinion he hasn't even been the best hooker this season, never mind best player.
Who was on the selection committee? Daryl Powell, Jon Wells and Stevie ••••ing Wonder? What an absolute ••••take.
Forwards win games. The backs decide by how much.
Because of the disjointed points system this year it came down to Ellery Hanley to pick a winner!
Cas finished 9th out of 11. Won 6 out of 10 and somehow McShane has won MOS. I can't spek
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What an absolute farce. You have to laugh
This truly is a VERY strange season
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It shows how flawed the system is, it puts more weighting on the better players of poor teams as they are more likely to stand out each week rather than actually taking in to account the end result of where their team ends up. What we now have is a result that says the leagues best player this year played for a team that finished eighth and only won one league game since resumption.
Personally, i think the Man of Steel award needs some sort of weighting system applied to it, based on where teams finish in the league, that way you have a system that in essence awards the Man of Steel to one of the best teams best players, rather than giving it the best bloke in a crap team.
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As much as you got the odd stupid one under the player's player method, the winner was usually about right
In fact why don't they go back to the original, picked by a panel, and also a player's player of the year
I’m baffled. I’ve watched a load of Super League this year and I haven’t noticed him at all throughout the year. He’s not even been the best hooker in Super League, Roby and Powell have been better than him by some distance, so the fact he’s Man of Steel is a joke.
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He has similar stats to Roby with 2 massive differentials: Missed Tackles 50 McShane compared to 5 for Roby, Penalty Machine 14 McShane compared to 3 for Roby.
The only logical explanation is that he was a regular player for Cas when the team was injury ridden so he picked up lots of points and played through without being rested. So Man of Survival would be more apt.
Well deserved MOS.....
Kind regards
Mr & Mrs McShane.
My Man of Steel is Alex Walmsley and i'm not biased?????????????
No way is McShane better than Big Alex. Roby, Powell and Clarke all better Hookers than McShane this season.
It’s a farce but at the same time I think Bevan French has been massively overrated this year so thats cushioned the blow for me.
Ridiculous decision. BTW, that Carney chat with Elstone at the start of the show was bugging me. Don’t remember the word rugby being mentioned once. Elstone saying that ‘Super League means so much to the fans’. No mate, Super League means nothing to me, it’s a brand name. I’m a rugby league fan. Use the name of the sport.
This just about sums up 2020.
McShane wouldn't get in the team of anyone in the Top 6, and there are probably about 30 players in SL that you would pick ahead of him.
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Looks like MOS has been added to the "not worth winning" bin along with the league leaders shield and the cup. There isn't going to be anything left worth winning if we are not careful.
I could agree with you but then we would both be wrong.
Probably the worst winner of MoS ever......
RL shoots itself in the foot again
"The great fallacy is that the game is first and last about winning. It is nothing of the kind. The game is about glory, it is about doing things in style and with a flourish, about going out and beating the other lot, not waiting for them to die of boredom." Danny Blanchflower.
Might have been written by a footballer about football - but never a truer word............