The Dally M Awards are the official annual player awards for the

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competition. As well as honouring the player of the year, who received the

Dally M Medal The Dally M Medal is awarded each year (annually) to the player voted for as the 'Player of the year' over the National Rugby League (NRL) regular season. The awards are named in honour of Australian former rugby league great Herbert Henry "Dal ...

, awards are also given to the premier player in each position, the best coach, the best captain, representative player of the year and the most outstanding rookie of the season. The awards are named in honour of

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former

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great Herbert Henry "Dally" Messenger.

History

The awards were introduced in 1979 by

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. Their journalists vote on the best performing players in each match on a 3, 2, 1 point(s) system. The scores of the voting are visible to the public and media up until Round 16 of the NRL season. In 1998, following the merger of the Super League and the

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(ARL), the awards became the official awards of the newly formed

. Prior to 1998, the official award of the game was voted on by the referees and were known as the

Rothmans Medal The Rothmans Medal was the premier individual award in the New South Wales Rugby League and Brisbane Rugby League competitions, and later in the Australian Rugby League, which was given to the player voted by referees as the best and fairest ...

from 1968 to 1996 and the Nokia Provan-Summons Medal in 1997. Today the Provan-Summons Medal is for the fans' "people's choice" player of the year. Between 1979 and 1996, when both the Dally M Medal and Rothmans Medal were awarded, the same player won both awards on only three occasions - Peter Sterling in 1987,

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in 1989 and

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in 1993. In 1997, when the game was split between the News Limited-organised

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competition and the ARL, News Limited did not hold the awards. The only other time the awards night has not been held was in 2003, following a dispute with the Rugby League Players Association (RLPA). After the players had threatened to boycott the event unless the NRL met their demands, the NRL cancelled the Dally M awards two days prior to the ceremony.

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would have been named player of the year had the awards not been cancelled. Gower was subsequently awarded the inaugural RLPA Players Player Medal in recognition of his 2003 NRL season exploits, and his central role in the dispute that saw the creation of the game's first overarching workplace agreement 8 months after the boycott. The 2014 Dally M Medal was held on 29 September 2014 and was won jointly by

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and

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of the

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. It was the first time the medal has been won jointly since its inception.

Dally M Recent Results

* 2004 Dally M Awards * 2005 Dally M Awards *

2006 Dally M Awards The 2006 Dally M Awards were presented on Tuesday 5 September 2006 at the Sydney Town Hall in Sydney and broadcast on Fox Sports. Warren Smith presided as Master of Ceremonies, a role which he had held in previous years. Dally M Player of th ...

2007 Dally M Awards The 2007 Dally M Awards were presented on Tuesday 4 September 2007 at the Sydney Town Hall in Sydney and broadcast on Fox Sports. Warren Smith presided as Master of Ceremonies a role which he had held in previous years. Dally M Player of the Y ...

* 2008 Dally M Awards *

2009 Dally M Awards The 2009 Dally M Awards were presented on Tuesday 8 September 2009 at the State Theatre in Sydney and broadcast on Fox Sports. Dally M Medal-Player of the Year :Presented by the Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd ; Dally M Player of the Y ...

* 2010 Dally M Awards * 2011 Dally M Awards * 2012 Dally M Awards * 2013 Dally M Awards *

2014 Dally M Awards The 2014 Dally M Awards were presented on Monday 29 September 2014 at Sydney's The Star, Sydney, Star Casino. Broadcast on Fox Sports Australia, Fox Sports, the awards ceremony was hosted by Matthew Johns. They are the official annual awards of ...

* 2015 Dally M Awards *

2016 Dally M Awards The 2016 Dally M Awards were presented on Wednesday 28 September 2016. They are the official annual awards of the National Rugby League and are named after Dally Messenger. Cooper Cronk and Jason Taumalolo became just the second joint winners of t ...

* 2017 Dally M Awards *

2018 Dally M Awards The 2018 Dally M Awards was presented on Wednesday 26 September 2018. They are the official annual awards of the National Rugby League and are named after Dally Messenger. Dally M Medal Dally M Player of the Year: Roger Tuivasa-Sheck Dally ...

* 2019 Dally M Awards * 2020 Dally M Awards * 2021 Dally M Awards * 2022 Dally M Awards

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