First non-Aussie to be MOM in a Grand Final!! Whoopy do!

He'll get a mention in the minor sports round-up during the programme but he had no chance of making the list given his lack of profile and interest in the NRL from the UK "Sporting" public. He might have had a chance of making the list had England made the RLWC final last year or won it.

He may be in with a shout in a couple of years if he establishes himself in RU though

Sam Burgess playing in foreign domestic competition 10,000 miles away not on SPOTY Shortlist provokes latest Moonie Outrage!

Typical BBC agenda who must really hate Rugby League, etc.

BOO! Hissssssssssssss.

Whilst breaking his face in the first minute....name one sportsman that has been as brave and honest as that anywhere ...at the very top of their sport.

God only knows why Gareth Bale is in the list. For being an over paid Welsh man in a team of prima donnas...I mean 'super stars'.
Football is the most dishonourable and dishonest spectacle on earth. Full of over paid actors and cheats.

Roger Millward captained and won the 1980 Challenge Cup with Hull KR with a broken jaw. He wasn't nominated either that year iirc

Sad man continues to pretend he's a Rugby League supporter in order to get himself off on what he thinks is some kind of satiricle take of real Rugby fans.

Give it a rest Playtime, no ones impressed.

Should Burgess be there any more than, say, Steffon Armitage??

4 nations was trending on twitter 8 out of the top ten places when every match was being played.

Bit of a weak crop this year. Hamilton will probably win it (popular, very visible competitor in a very high profile sport) ahead of McIlroy, but the likes of Yarnold and Dujardin have arguably been as dominant in their respective sports in 2014.

That people like Peaty and Whitlock are making the shortlist having won nothing at World level is a bit embarrassing, frankly.

Hamilton should be in the Overseas category surely?

Lewis Hamilton all day long for me .

Why ?

He's a tax dodging b*stard.

1 silver at the worlds
1 gold at the euros
3 golds at the commonwealth

Not a bad year for someone whose won nothing at world level

Id say he easily qualifies for the SPOTY this ahead of sam burgess no matter how much we all wanted sam to be apart of it

He's still English so should get spoty but never knighted by the queen

RL fans showing their ignorance of other sports on this thread - and wonder why RL gets no recognition in the national press about anything slightly positive!

Small town game for small town/small minded people!

You are Nicole Sherzinger and I claim my £5

McIlroy certainly should be. Isn't he representing Ireland at the next Olympics as he also did as an amateur?

Hamilton is, justifiably, nailed on for the main award.

jo pavey for me - a true inspiration to all older people out there that a sporting career does not necessarily end at 34.

Agreed, I'll actually bother to vote for her, she'd be a worthy winner.

Out of the rest three aren't even sports; golf (pastime), dressage (seriously!) & F1 (because having the best engineer/car doesn't help at all

) Hamilton is a moody and petulent man child (still) & a total robot. Gareth who, what the hell has he achieved ffs! Froch, seriously scraping the barrel, he's had ONE fight in 2014..ONE!! Andre Ward would kick his arris (again) but Froch won't go near the champion because he knows he'd be shown up.
The now obligatory disability athlete in there because it's un PC not too.

As it is it should be Pavey and behind her should be Peaty & Max Whitlock, both have had an amazing last 12 mths, Peaty with 6 golds and a silver at just 19 (4 golds at the commonwealth's) and Whitlock at 21 has 4 golds & 3 Silver medals this year including an amazing Silver in the all-around at the worlds (behind 5 time champion Uchimura) when he was so out of sorts beforehand.

Yeah SB deserves to be in there, in one of the toughest sports in the world he IS the alpha male.

The St.Evenage car punk or the Irish ball whacker will win it though

Does anybody actually watch the show? It's boring as hell and entirely pointless.

Any time you're in a swimming competition that doesn't have the US or the Australians (or both), it's cheap medals. It's like England winning an RL World Cup that didn't have Australia or New Zealand in it.

agreed

I'm guessing you're high on most peoples 'ignore' list....I must attend to that now. Goodbye.

Don't worry, I won't be missing you!

Good to see you came back with a well reasoned argument to my point - oh no, wait a minute...... Bye!