Dally M Awards Dally M Awards The Dally M Awards are the official annual player awards for the National Rugby League competition. As well as honouring the player of the year, who received the Dally M Medal, awards are also given to the premier player in each position, the best coach, the best captain, representative player of the year and the most outstanding rookie of the season. The awards are named in honour of former Australian rugby league great Herbert Henry "Dally" Messenger. The awards were introduced in 1979 by News Limited. Their journalists vote on the best performing players in each match
Dally M Medal vote entering the final round and was unofficially considered man of the match in the final round, is the player thought to have missed out on winning the award as a result. 1 – Jarryd Hayne and Johnathan Thurston became the 1st joint winners in history of the Dally M Medal in 2014<br> 2 – Cooper Cronk and Jason Taumalolo became the 2nd joint winners in history of the Dally M Medal in 2016 The following players have won the Dally M Medal multiple times. Dally M Medal The Dally M Medal is awarded each year (annually) to the player