The 2014 Dally M Awards were presented on Monday 29 September 2014 at Sydney's Star Casino. Broadcast on Fox Sports, the awards ceremony was hosted by Matthew Johns. They are the official annual awards of the National Rugby League and are named after Dally Messenger. The Dally M Medal was awarded to Jarryd Hayne and Johnathan Thurston in a tie of votes, making it the first time for the medal to be awarded to joint winners.
Judges The 13 judges for the 2014 Dally M's were:
Fox Sports: Greg Alexander, Gary Belcher and Ben Ikin
Channel 9: Brad Fittler, Andrew Johns and Wally Lewis
Sky NZ: Daryl Halligan
The Daily Telegraph: Paul Crawley, Paul Kent, Josh Massoud, Dean Ritchie, Barry Toohey and Nick Walshaw
Dally M Medal +Player votes tally – Top 10 PointsPlayer32 Johnathan Thurston32 Jarryd Hayne29 Sam Burgess28 Gareth Widdop28 Ben Hunt23 Daly Cherry-Evans19 Matt Moylan19 Cameron Smith19 Kieran Foran19 Chris Sandow
Dally M Awards The Dally M Awards are, as usual, conducted at the close of the regular season and hence do not take games played in the finals series into account. The Dally M Medal is for the official player of the year while the Provan-Summons Medal is for the fans' of "people's choice" player of the year. AwardPlayerProvan-Summons Medal Johnathan ThurstonPeter Moore Award for Rookie of the Year Luke BrooksCaptain of the Year Jamie LyonRepresentative Player of the Year Jarryd HayneCoach of the Year Ivan ClearyTop Tryscorer of the Year Jarryd Hayne – 20Top Pointscorer of the Year Johnathan Thurston – 208Peter Frilingos Memorial Award for Headline Moment of the Year New South Wales winning the State of Origin series.Holden Cup Player of the Year Kane Elgey
Team of the Year AwardPlayerBest Fullback Jarryd HayneBest Winger Semi RadradraBest Centre Jamie LyonBest Five-Eighth Johnathan ThurstonBest Halfback Daly Cherry-EvansBest Lock Sam BurgessBest Second-Rower Beau ScottBest Prop James GrahamBest Hooker James Segeyaro
Presenters Russell Crowe Gary Sweet Lisa Wilkinson Wally Lewis Jessica Fox Cate Campbell Bronte Campbell Sally Pearson Matthew Johns Arthur Summons Braith Anasta Jodi Gordon Paul Whittaker
Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks controversy Each of the players implicated in the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks supplements scandal were banned from attending, or receiving awards at the 2014 Dally M Awards ceremony in September as a result of the investigation into the club's supplements scandal; captain Paul Gallen was also ruled ineligible for the Brad Fittler Medal for being the best performed New South Wales player during their victorious State of Origin series campaign.Paul Gallen and all suspended Cronulla Sharks players banned by NRL from Dally M awards , The Daily Telegraph (Sydney), 28 August 2014
See also Dally M Awards Dally M Medal 2014 NRL season
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