Quote ="nick hkr"Players that are willing to go above and beyond.
Sure you can still have other awards that state how good a half back has controlled a game but a good halfback doesnt get tackled too often and stays out the way in defence so although their influence on games is great its players who are putting their bodies on the line in nearly every tackle, getting up with broken noses...etc and carrying on (i.e.Jon Wilkin/Andy Farrell) that deserve this award.
Remember Ben Fisher was told towards the back end of our first season in SL that he had broken fragments of bone in his knee, he carried on playing with it to see us through to the end of the year, that to me is going above and beyond.
As said there are other awards for other things but I think when your stating a person is a "Man of Steel" it needs to mean just that, they have been solid and unbreakable all season no matter what adversity has been thrown at them. Things that should come into it in my opinion is things like what happened to Burgess, his father dying could have broken him and his brothers but he still went out there and put in some terrific displays nothing says more than that, that he was a Man of Steel through that time.'"
Rhys Lovegrove?
