The 2016 Dally M Awards were presented on Wednesday 28 September 2016. They are the official annual awards of the National Rugby League and are named after Dally Messenger. Cooper Cronk and Jason Taumalolo became just the second joint winners of the Dally M Medal after both players tied with 26 votes apiece.
Judges Judges are usually ex-players which have an involvement in that game such as commentary. Such judges in 2016 included Brad Fittler, Darren Lockyer and Braith Anasta
Dally M Medal
+Player votes tally – Top 10PointsPlayer26 Cooper Cronk26 Jason Taumalolo22 Johnathan Thurston22 Cameron Smith19 Ryan James19 Anthony Milford18 Josh Hodgson18 Mitchell Moses17 Corey Norman17 Ben Barba
Dally M Awards The Dally M Awards are, as usual, conducted at the close of the regular season and do not take games played in the finals series into account. The Dally M Medal is for the official player of the year while the Provan-Summons Medal is for the fans' of "people's favourite" player of the year. + Awards Award Player Provan-Summons Medal Jarrod Croker Peter Moore Award for Rookie of the Year Ashley Taylor Captain of the Year Jarrod Croker Representative Player of the Year Cameron Smith Coach of the Year Ricky Stuart Top Tryscorer of the Year Suliasi Vunivalu – 22 Top Pointscorer of the Year Jarrod Croker – 276 Peter Frilingos Memorial Award for Headline Moment of the Year Anthony Milford, golden point field goal vs North Queensland, Round 4 Holden Cup Player of the Year Jayden Brailey Female Player of the Year Kezie Apps
+ Team of the YearAwardPlayerBest Fullback James TedescoBest Winger Josh MansourBest Centre Joseph LeiluaBest Five-Eighth James MaloneyBest Halfback Cooper CronkBest Lock Jason TaumaloloBest Second-Rower Matt GillettBest Prop Jesse BromwichBest Hooker Cameron Smith
Presenters
Pre-Dally M Presentation
Monday Night with Matty Johns crew
The following people are from Fox Sports (Australia)'s Monday Night With Matty Johns. They performed their show 'live on the red carpet' instead of on their regular Monday night.
Matthew Johns Nathan Hindmarsh Gorden Tallis Bryan Fletcher Jamie Rogers (from Sportsbet) Lara Pitt 'Professor' James Rochford
On the red carpet interviews Through Matty Johns' show, regular interviews occurred between the following presenters and a number of players arriving with their partners.
Aaron Woods Kayla Boyd (Darius Boyd's wife).
Dally M Presentation
Hosts The following Fox Sports presenters were the main hosts for the event.
Tony Squires Lara Pitt
Countdown The following Fox Sports presenters were the main presenters for the countdown. They gave a brief summary round by round from round 16-26 before announcing any points given to anyone in the top 10.
Greg Alexander Matthew Johns
See also Dally M Awards Dally M Medal 2016 NRL season
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