The NRL has reportedly addressed rising requires the Dally M system to be revamped, with adjustments anticipated for this 12 months’s voting system.
But one fascinating determination has The Daily Telegraph’s Phil Rothfield perplexed.
Rothfield revealed in his weekend column for The Telegraphthat there’ll now be two judges as an alternative of simply the one giving out their 3-2-1 votes.
It implies that gamers will now be capable to earn a most of six votes per recreation.
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“There has been controversy over the years over different awards but the NRL in their wisdom have decided to appoint two judges to every game this year,” Rothfield defined on ‘The Big Sports Weekend’ program on Sunday.
“They will both vote 3-2-1 and so a clear man-of-the-match would get six points. Those points will be added up.”
Rothfield although was confused by one other new element within the voting course of.
“What surprised me is what I regard as a lack of transparency, we’re not going to know who the judges are each week which I find quite incredible,” he added.
“Why are they hiding that from us?” fellow Daily Telegraph colleague and Big Sports Weekend co-host Dean Ritchie requested.
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“I don’t know, I really don’t,” Rothfield replied.
“There was a suggestion maybe they would attract more judges. People like Brad Fittler or Billy Slater coming up to Origin are reluctant to publicly judge these awards because they don’t want to be seen to be giving away hints or things like that. Maybe that’s behind it. “Maybe they want to protect the judges from a lot of criticism that has been handed out over a long period of time. Certainly I’m baffled every couple of weeks by some of the decisions but it’s subjective.
“I guess the NRL is trying to do the right thing around integrity of the award but I don’t quite agree with the way they’ve gone about it.”
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There was controversy again in 2018 after then Jillaroos participant Ruan Sims stood down from Dally M voting after it was revealed she voted on a recreation with out being on the floor.
Instead, she was taking part in in a girls’s recreation on the time and later watched a replay of the sport earlier than awarding her factors, together with one to Apisiai Koroisau regardless of the Sea Eagles dropping 44-10 to the Eels.
Brett Morris, in the meantime, admitted to being stunned at topping the Dally M leaderboard early in 2021 after scoring hat-tricks within the first two rounds for the Roosters.
Morris as an alternative believed teammates Luke Keary and James Tedesco deserved extra of the reward for placing him ready to attain.
Keary, for instance, didn’t ballot a single level regardless of recording 4 strive assists, two linebreak assists, two linebreaks, 74 operating metres, 19 tackles and 316 kicking metres in a win over the Tigers.
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