We’re days out from the 2022 NRL and NRLW grand finals, which means the awards season is well and truly in full swing.
14 clubs have bowed out of the NRL premiership race with most of their end of season awards nights in the books, but now it’s time to kick off rugby league’s night of nights — the Dally M Awards.
After a different format last year due to the pandemic affected season, the Dally M Awards returns to Grand Final week on Wednesday night before the big dance.
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Read on for the 2022 Dally M Medal Ultimate Guide.
THE FORMAT
This year’s Dally M Medal awards will be held at Randwick Racecourse.
The Dally M Medal is presented to the player deemed the competition’s Best & Fairest. The voting occurs after each regular season premiership match.
Points are allocated for each match and the Dally M Leaderboard is publicised up until Round 12 of the premiership season, after which voting goes behind closed doors.
Judges vote on a 3-2-1 basis after every match and the player with the most votes at the end of the regular season is awarded the Dally M Medallist for that season.
Players who are suspended lose three points, and become ineligible should they serve a multi-week ban, or be suspended twice.
When the points tally went behind closed doors, Dragons halfback Ben Hunt was in the lead with 19 votes, ahead of Penrith skipper Isaah Yeo on 17 and Sharks playmaker Nicho Hynes on 16.
Dylan Edwards, Mitchell Moses or Yeo could become just the fifth player in the past 35 years to win both a premiership and the game’s top individual award in the same season.
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HOW TO WATCH
The 2022 Dally M Awards will be held on Wednesday, September 28 from 7.30pm.
Catch all the action on Fox League, Channel 502, or you can also subscribe to Kayo to watch the event, and also stream the 2021 NRL Telstra Premiership finals series live & on-demand.
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MEN’S DALLY M LEADERBOARD AFTER ROUND 12
Ben Hunt 19
Isaah Yeo 17
Nicho Hynes 16
Mitchell Moses 15
Ryan Papenhuyzen 15
James Tedesco 14
Daly Cherry-Evans 13
Dylan Edwards 13
Cameron Munster 12
Adam Reynolds 11
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MEN’S DALLY M WINNERS
2021 Tom Trbojevic
2020 Jack Wighton
2019 James Tedesco
2018 Roger Tuivasa-Sheck
2017 Cameron Smith
2016 Cooper Cronk and Jason Taumalolo
2015 Johnathan Thurston
2014 Jarryd Hayne and Johnathan Thurston
2013 Cooper Cronk
2012 Ben Barba
2011 Billy Slater
2010 Todd Carney
2009 Jarryd Hayne
2008 Matt Orford
2007 Johnathan Thurston
2006 Cameron Smith
2005 Johnathan Thurston
2004 Danny Buderus
2003 Not Awarded
2002 Andrew Johns
2001 Preston Campbell
2000 Trent Barrett
1999 Andrew Johns
1998 Andrew Johns
1997 Not Awarded
1996 Allan Langer
1995 Laurie Daley
1994 Cliff Lyons
1993 Ricky Stuart
1992 Gary Freeman
1991 Michael Potter
1990 Cliff Lyons
1989 Gavin Miller
1988 Gavin Miller
1987 Peter Sterling
1986 Peter Sterling
1985 Greg Alexander
1984 Michael Potter
1983 Terry Lamb
1982 Ray Price
1981 Steve Rogers
1980 Robert Laurie
1979 Steve Morris
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MULTIPLE WINNERS
Cowboys legend Johnathan Thurston has won the award a record four times, while the Knights champion and the eighth Immortal, Andrew Johns won three times during his career.
Seven players have won the award twice: Eels stars Peter Sterling and Jarryd Hayne, Storm legends Cooper Cronk and Cameron Smith, Manly’s Cliff Lyons, Sharks forward Gavin Miller, while Mick Potter was the only man to win with two clubs, the Bulldogs in 1984 and the Dragons in 1991.
WOMEN’S DALLY M WINNERS
2021 Emma Tonegato and Millie Boyle
2020 Ali Brigginshaw
2019 Jessica Sergis
2018 Brittany Breayley-Nati
2017 Simaima Taufua
2016 Kezie Apps
2015 Jenii Sue Hopper
