ML Player of the Season. I've never laughed so hard

redroar1942

Ready for a giggle:

http://www.magnersleague.com/news/5609.php

I thought this was a wind up untill I read that it was in conjunction with S4C. I presume the two piss heads who do the English commentary behind the red button made up the short list. Needless to say 4/5 play in Wales.

Rush- good player but injured for most of the ML and as always saved his best for Europe

Sweeney - the guy is lucky to be paid to play rugby

Bowe - No arguement

Brew - I must have missed something. If there is going to be a dragon then surely fussell was their outstanding player or even harries who shone late season. Is there a race quota on this thing?

Visser - Was top try scorer but 5 of them came in 2 games, and 3 of them in 5 mins of madness

What about Dan Parks, the entire Glasgow backrow and Stan Wright ? Oh wait they don't play in Wales.

thomond2006

Rush - Was he injured for most of it? Well anytime I saw him play in the ML he was quality. Gotta be Heaslip though, just for his performance in the semi-final against Munster.

Sweeney - He was okay and filled in well when Norton Knightmare turned out to be shíte, Parks was far better though.

Bowe - No arguments there.

Brew - Agree with this one. He is deceptively strong and very quick. I remember he scored a try where he best 3/4 Munster players and almost ran over Howlett. Harries didn't play much until the 2nd halfof the season IIRC and Fussell is a close second to Brew,

Visser - Good player but there's already two wings nominated so I would go Stan Wright as well.

So it would Heaslip, Parks, Bowe, Brew and Wright.

sock puppet

Seems like a stupid idea. They already do a team of the season.

Chucky the tree

Rush played 15 games in the ML last season.

outwest

bowe for me, great year in all compititions

PhatPiggins

Sweeney and Brew :pac: it must be a wind up

thomond2006

Maybe Celtic Rugby didn't want to pay for a flight for an Irish based player, knowing CR that could be true.

wixfjord

Brew actually had a good season last year. People forget that its a player of the year in the ML, not a the best player in the ML, which Brew would obviously be nowhere near.

Where they got Sweeney I dont know though! Surely Parks.

PhatPiggins

wixfjord wrote: »

Brew actually had a good season last year. People forget that its a player of the year in the ML, not a the best player in the ML, which Brew would obviously be nowhere near.

Where they got Sweeney I dont know though! Surely Parks.

Brew had a good season by his(low) standards though. Fussel was the stand out Dragons back 3 player in my eyes. Fionn Carr did more then enough to get a mention ahead of Brew

Is Sweeney even the best ML 10 in Wales? I thought Tovey was excellent and Biggar was better then Sweeney, though he missed a bit of the season on Welsh duty.

thomond2006

Turner, Bradley, Paterson, Owens and the Blues all honoured
24 August 2010, 8:05 pm
By Westgate

Dragons head coach Paul Turner, former Connacht boss Michael Bradley, Scarlets hooker Ken Owens, Edinburgh full back Chris Paterson and the entire Cardiff Blues squad were all winners at Monday night's inaugural Magners League Awards.

Wales coach Warren Gatland presented Turner with the Magners League Coach of the Season award after Turner pipped Sean Lineen of Glasgow Warriors to the title for turning the Dragons into one of the most competitive sides in the League. They lost only twice at home and beat all four Play-Off sides at Rodney Parade.

Bradley was the first winner of the Chairman's Award in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the Magners League during his time as head coach of Connacht.

The former interim Ireland coach was in charge of Connacht for 138 games and after eight seasons has decided to move on. In that time he has made Galway one of the most difficult venues for any team to visit and has moulded Connacht into a highly competitive side packed with young Irish talent.

Connacht beat Leinster last season and Munster the season before that while, Bradley has also made it his mission to groom players like skipper John Muldoon and hooker Sean Cronin for Irish honours.

Scarlets hooker Owens managed what even wing stars and fellow award winners Tommy Bowe and Tim Visser failed to do when he collected the Magners League Try of the Season award.

The all-action front row forward took the honour for his spectacular score against Leinster at the RDS in February, beating off efforts from Shane Horgan, James Hook, Jim Thompson and Aled Brew.

Owens stepped out of the shadow of Wales and Lions star Matthew Rees last season, featuring in all bar one of his side's 18 Magners League ties.

Having made just 12 starts in his previous three seasons, the 23-year-old began 13 games last time out and his form earned him a first senior Wales call up for the 2010 Six Nations.

Paterson- one of the world game's elite in winning a century of Test caps - was named the 2009/10 season's supreme marksman and the winner of the Gilbert Golden Boot Award.

He had the remarkable success rate of 88.89% from his 45 kicks at goal on the way to scoring 115 points in just nine tournament appearances last season and hoisting his overall tournament tally to 640 points in 70 appearances.

Finally, Cardiff Blues received a cheque for £10,000 for being the side with the best disciplinary record in the Magners League. This will be spent on Youth Development at the club.

http://www.magnersleague.com/news/6090.php

buck65

What about the Ospreys OH that kept Hook out of the team?! Great season and they won the bloody thing because of him....What's his name??!

theKramer

Dan Biggar. Good player alright. Will be Stephen Jones' replacement, I'd say.