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How can The Daily Telegraph come out and select Sonny Bill Williams as “the game’s best player” and only award him 11 Dally M Points last season?
Buzz Rothfield has gone into print to declare SBW is the best player in the game.
Not “in my opinion…”, or “we have voted”, just a big in your face headline as though he is the sole judge and jury in between watching his beloved football team the Western Sydney Wanderers.
I am not going to pull Buzz’s top 50 apart and it is hard to argue with his top three of SBW, GI and JT.
Hey, any player that only requires his initials must be going ok.
For the record though, players who can run a team and have great communication and organisational skills are clearly the most valuable in my data base, which is why Jonathan Thurston is a worthy Golden Boot winner.
Here’s my gripe with Buzz and his colleagues!
They voted the great Sonny Bill Williams as the 28th best player in NRL 2013 and did not consider him good enough to even be the best back row forward in his club. Roosters second row Boyd Cordner polled four points more on 15.
James Maloney on 18 points was the club’s best player according to The Daily Telegraph’s Dally M judges (13 points above Jake Friend).
SBW is a player widely considered as a living legend, and the winner of numerous man of the match awards.
However, he only polled 11 points and finished 28th in the Dally M count, but then all of a sudden was hailed as the number one?
Buzz and his colleagues made a laughing stock of the Dally Ms which is why this award should be owned by the NRL.
If you think that SBW and the Dally Ms was an aberration, well think again.
Sonny Bill may not be the best player in the game, but he is certainly the best forward and his arch rival is England and Rabbitoh Sam Burgess, who was voted in the world’s top three players after the World Cup 2013.
But guess what? Buzz and his mates could not find a place for big Sam in the Rabbitohs’ top five players in 2013.
You probably don’t believe me so here is the proof:
John Sutton – 18
Issac Luke – 17
Greg Inglis – 16
Adam Reynolds – 13
George Burgess – 5
This is tangible testimony that the Dally M voting is a shame and must be changed if it is to maintain any credibility.
As for Buzz, it would be appropriate if he put on a Western Sydney Wanderers shirt when covering the NRL.
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