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Hello, welcome and good evening.
It’s one of the showpiece nights of the rugby league calendar, with the great and the good gathering at Randwick Racecourse for the Dally M Awards, which we are legally obliged to refer to as the NRL’s night of nights.
The big race is in the Men’s competition, with Shaun Johnson looking to cap an astounding late career surge by taking home the NRL player of the year gong.
If he does manage it, it will be a remarkable comeback and his biggest individual honour since being named Golden Boot all the way back in 2014.
His competition will come from last year’s winner, Nicho Hynes, and from Payne Haas, the Broncos proper who lead when the voting went dark midway through the year. Outside chances are Nathan Cleary, though injury might limit him, and Harry Grant, who started very strongly.
On the NRLW side, it is a wide open race – though Tamika Upton and Tarryn Aiken will go close – in the battle to succeed Raecene McGregor, who picked up both the Dally M and the Golden Boot in 2022.
There’ll be teams of the year, coaches, captains, moments and, of course, frocks upon frocks.
We’ll be there for all of it, so join us in the comments.