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Jack Wighton of the Canberra Raiders won the Clive Churchill Medal in a losing side at the 2019 NRL Grand Final.
Wighton scored Canberra’s only try of the night, and was an instrumental player throughout what was a tight match well and truly alive right up until the end.
Wighton became just the fourth man to win a Clive Churchill Medal in a losing side, and the first since Manly’s Daly Cherry-Evans six years ago in 2013.
James Tedesco entered the night as the favourite to take home the medal, no surprise given that he had to this point completed a clean sweep of the NRL’s major awards.
2019 NRL Grand Final
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Tedesco won the Wally Lewis Medal as the player of the series in State of Origin this year, leading the Blues to back-to-back series victories.
He picked up the Dally M medal as the NRL’s best player in 2019 earlier this week, and is also a finalist for the RLPA Players’ Champion award.
Tedesco entered the grand final as a $5 proposition to take the medal home.
His teammates Cooper Cronk and Luke Keary were the only other players in single-digit odds for the award, at $6 and $7.50 respectively, underlining Sydney’s favouritism.
Josh Hodgson, at $10, was the most-favoured player representing Canberra in the betting markets for the award.
Bailey Simonsson, Corey Horsburgh and Emre Guler were the players most on the outer before the match, all priced at $151 to take home the medal.
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