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The 2005 Dally M Awards
Dally M Awards
The Dally M Awards are the official annual player awards for the National Rugby League competition. The most prestigious of these awards is the Dally M Medal which is only ever awarded to Australian born Players...

were presented on Tuesday 6 September 2005 at the Sydney Town Hall

Sydney Town Hall

The Sydney Town Hall is a landmark sandstone building located in the heart of Sydney. It stands opposite the Queen Victoria Building and alongside St Andrew's Cathedral...

in Sydney

Sydney

Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

and broadcast on Fox Sports

Fox Sports (Australia)

Fox Sports is an Australia group of sports channels. They are owned by the Premier Media Group, which is in turn owned by News Corporation, and Consolidated Media Holdings. Its main competitors are ESPN, which has little local content and the free-to-air digital channel One HD...

. Warren Smith

Warren Smith (broadcaster)

Warren Smith is an Australian rugby league commentator for Fox Sports Australia's National Rugby League coverage. He was also previously the host of two programs aired on Fox Sports NRL weekend action and NRL on Fox, a Wednesday preview of rugby league for the coming weekend.Smith regularly duels...

presided as Master of Ceremonies

Master of Ceremonies

A Master of Ceremonies , or compere, is the host of a staged event or similar performance.An MC usually presents performers, speaks to the audience, and generally keeps the event moving....

Dally M Player of the Year

Dally M Medal

The Dally M Medal is the premier individual award in the Australian rugby league competition, which is given to the player voted by sports commentators as the best and fairest in the competition for that year....

Winner:

Johnathan Thurston

Johnathan Dean Thurston is an Indigenous Australian professional rugby league footballer in the NRL with the North Queensland Cowboys whom he co-captains...

, North Queensland Cowboys

North Queensland Cowboys

The North Queensland Cowboys are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Townsville, Queensland. They compete in Australasia's elite rugby league competition, the National Rugby League premiership...

Top Three:

Johnathan Thurston

Johnathan Dean Thurston is an Indigenous Australian professional rugby league footballer in the NRL with the North Queensland Cowboys whom he co-captains...

, North Queensland Cowboys

North Queensland Cowboys

Andrew Johns

Andrew Gary "Joey" Johns is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s who is considered by many to be the greatest player of all time. He was heralded as the world's best halfback for a number of years...

, Newcastle Knights

Newcastle Knights

The Newcastle Knights are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Newcastle, New South Wales. They compete in Australasia's premier rugby league competition, the National Rugby League premiership...

Ben Kennedy

Ben Kennedy , is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s...

, Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles

Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles

The Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles are an Australian professional rugby league club based on the Northern Beaches of Sydney. They compete in the National Rugby League's Telstra Premiership, the premier rugby league competition of Australasia...

Special awards

Provan Summons Medal (fan's choice for 2005's best player)

Presented by Norm Provan

Norm Provan

Norm "Sticks" Provan is an Australian former rugby league footballer and coach. A giant of a man, he was a second-row forward with the St. George Dragons during their 11-year consecutive premiership-winning run from 1956 to 1966...

and Arthur Summons

Arthur Summons

Arthur Summons is a former Australian representative rugby union and rugby league player, a dual-code rugby international fly-half or five-eighth...

Winner:

Nathan Hindmarsh

Nathan William Hindmarsh is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who captains the Parramatta Eels in the National Rugby League and the Australian Prime Minister's XIII...

, Parramatta Eels

Parramatta Eels

The Parramatta Eels are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the Sydney suburb of Parramatta. The Parramatta District Rugby League Football Club was formed in 1947, with their First Grade side playing their first season in the New South Wales Rugby Football League...

Nominated:

Darren Lockyer

Darren Lockyer is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer. He was the captain of the Australian national team, the Queensland State of Origin team and his National Rugby League club, the Brisbane Broncos. His professional career spanned between 1995 and 2011...

, Brisbane Broncos

Brisbane Broncos

The Brisbane Broncos are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the city of Brisbane, the capital of the state of Queensland. Founded in 1988, the Broncos play in Australasia's elite competition, the National Rugby League premiership. They have won six premierships and two...

Andrew Johns

, Newcastle Knights

Newcastle Knights

Scott Prince

Scott Prince is an Australian professional rugby league footballer and current captain of the Gold Coast Titans club of the National Rugby League...

, Wests Tigers

Wests Tigers

The Wests Tigers are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Sydney's mid-western suburbs. They have competed in the National Rugby League since they were formed at the end of the 1999 season as a joint-venture club between the Balmain Tigers and the Western Suburbs...

Peter Moore Award for Dally M Rookie of the Year

Presented by Jim Leis

Jim Leis

Jim Leis is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1980s. A New South Wales representative forward, he played in the New South Wales Rugby League competition for Western Suburbs Magpies, Canterbury-Bankstown and Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks.In his debut first-grade season,...

, 1980 Dally M Rookie of the Year

Winner:

Tim Smith, Parramatta Eels

Parramatta Eels

Nominated:

Leon Bott

Leon Bott is an Australian rugby league and union player.-Early years:Bott attended Lurnea Public School, Lurnea High School and Westfield Sports High School, making the Australian Schoolboys Rugby Union Team in 2003 & 2004.-Brisbane Broncos:Leon Bott made his debut in the National Rugby League in...

, Brisbane Broncos

Brisbane Broncos

Yileen Gordon

Yileen "Buddy" Gordon is an Australian rugby league footballer who plays for the Penrith Panthers in the National Rugby League. He has also played for the South Sydney Rabbitohs and the Bulldogs. His playing position is centre or second row.-Playing career:Yileen Gordon started of his career at...

, South Sydney Rabbitohs

South Sydney Rabbitohs

The South Sydney Rabbitohs are an Australian professional rugby league football team based in Redfern, a suburb of South-central Sydney, New South Wales. They participate in the National Rugby League premiership and are one of nine existing teams from the state capital...

Greg Inglis

Greg Inglis is an Australian professional rugby league player for the South Sydney Rabbitohs. A Queensland State of Origin and Australian international representative outside back, Inglis joined the Rabbitohs in 2011 after much controversy.Inglis is a versatile back, having played in several...

, Melbourne Storm

Melbourne Storm

The Melbourne Storm are an Australian professional rugby league club based in the city of Melbourne. They are the first fully professional rugby league team based in the Australian rules football-dominated state of Victoria....

Dally M Captain of the Year

Presented by Gorden Tallis

Gorden Tallis

Gorden James Tallis is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played from 1992 to 2004. He captained Australia and Queensland as well as the Brisbane Broncos club, with whom he won three premierships and one Clive Churchill Medal...

Winner:

Scott Prince

Scott Prince is an Australian professional rugby league footballer and current captain of the Gold Coast Titans club of the National Rugby League...

, Wests Tigers

Wests Tigers

Nominated:

Trent Barrett

Trent Barrett is an Australian retired professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s...

, St George Illawarra Dragons

St George Illawarra Dragons

The St George Illawarra Dragons is an Australian professional rugby league football club, representing the St. George and Illawarra regions. They have competed in the National Rugby League since 1999 as a joint venture between Sydney's historic St. George Dragons club and 1982 expansion club, the...

Nathan Cayless

Nathan Frederick Cayless is a retired New Zealand-Australian professional rugby league footballer, who was a long-time captain the Parramatta Eels of the National Rugby League. His position of choice was prop forward. He is also a former captain of the New Zealand national team, whom he led to...

, Parramatta Eels

Parramatta Eels

Andrew Johns

, Newcastle Knights

Newcastle Knights

Dally M Representative Player of the Year

Presented by Olympic and World Swimming Champion Libby Lenton

Libby Lenton

Lisbeth "Libby" Constance Trickett OAM is a world record holding and Olympic gold medalist swimmer from Australia. She was a gold medallist at both the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2008 Summer Olympics. She is the world record holder in the short-course 100 metres freestyle...

Winner:

Andrew Johns

, New South Wales

New South Wales

New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

Halfback

Nominated:

Nathan Hindmarsh

Nathan William Hindmarsh is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who captains the Parramatta Eels in the National Rugby League and the Australian Prime Minister's XIII...

, New South Wales

New South Wales

and Australian Second Rower

Anthony Minichiello

Anthony Minichiello is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who, to date, has played his entire career for the Sydney Roosters of the National Rugby League. He plays at fullback and on the Wing. Minichiello has represented New South Wales and Australia...

, New South Wales

New South Wales

and Australian Fullback

Matt King, New South Wales

New South Wales

Winger

Dally M Coach of the Year

Presented by the Premier of New South Wales, the Hon. Morris Iemma

Morris Iemma

Morris Iemma , is a former Australian politician and 40th Premier of New South Wales, succeeding Bob Carr after he resigned on 3 August 2005. Iemma led the Australian Labor Party to victory in the 2007 election before resigning as Premier on 5 September 2008, and as a Member of Parliament on 19...

Winner:

Tim Sheens

Tim Sheens is an Australian professional rugby league football coach and former player. He currently coaches the Wests Tigers of the National Rugby League and in 2009 was appointed coach of the Australian national team, the Kangaroos...

, Wests Tigers

Wests Tigers

Nominated:

Wayne Bennett

Wayne Bennett (rugby league coach)

Wayne James Bennett AM is an Australian professional rugby league football coach and former player. He is the current head coach for the Newcastle Knights of the NRL...

, Brisbane Broncos

Brisbane Broncos

Nathan Brown, St George Illawarra Dragons

St George Illawarra Dragons

Brian Smith

Brian Smith (rugby league)

Brian Smith is an Australian coach and former player of rugby league football. He is the current head coach at the Sydney Roosters of the NRL. Smith played for St. George and South Sydney Rabbitohs , appearing in a total of 31 first grade games...

, Parramatta Eels

Parramatta Eels

Peter Frilingos Memorial Award for the Headline Moment of the Year

Presented by David Penberthy

David Penberthy

David Penberthy is the editor-in-chief of News Limited opinion website, The Punch. He was editor of The Daily Telegraph in Sydney, Australia, from April 2005 until November 2008.-Career:Penberthy studied at the University of Adelaide in the late 1980s...

, Editor of The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph is a daily morning broadsheet newspaper distributed throughout the United Kingdom and internationally. The newspaper was founded by Arthur B...

and Matthew Frilingos, Peter Frilingos

Peter Frilingos

Peter Frilingos was a sports journalist and commentator, best known for his work as a rugby league writer. He was affectionately known as Chippy because of his Greek background....

's son

Winner:

Andrew Johns

's Return, State of Origin Game II

Nominated:

Benji Marshall

Benji Marshall is a professional rugby league footballer with the Wests Tigers of the National Rugby League . A goal-kicking five-eighth, he is the current captain of the New Zealand national team, with whom he won the 2008 World Cup and 2010 Four Nations tournaments...

Magic, Round 21

Ty Williams

Ty Williams is an Australian professional rugby league player for the North Queensland Cowboys in the National Rugby League competition.-Cowboys:...

Try, Round 21

The broadcast then crossed live to Andrew Johns who was at the Halliwell Jones Stadium
Halliwell Jones Stadium
Halliwell Jones Stadium is a rugby league stadium in Warrington, England that is the home ground of Warrington Wolves. It has also staged Challenge Cup semi-finals, the European Nations Final and the National League Grand Finals' Day....

in Warrington
Warrington
Warrington is a town, borough and unitary authority area of Cheshire, England. It stands on the banks of the River Mersey, which is tidal to the west of the weir at Howley. It lies 16 miles east of Liverpool, 19 miles west of Manchester and 8 miles south of St Helens...

, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

, to receive the award.

Top Try Scorer

Winners:

Billy Slater

Billy Slater is an Australian professional rugby league footballer for the Melbourne Storm of the National Rugby League . An Australian international and Queensland State of Origin representative fullback, he has played his whole NRL career to date at Melbourne...

, Melbourne Storm

Melbourne Storm

- 19 tries

Shaun Berrigan

Shaun Berrigan is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who currently plays for the Canberra Raiders of the NRL. Brother of fellow professional, Barry, Shaun has also played for the Brisbane Broncos, Hull and the New Zealand Warriors...

, Brisbane Broncos

Brisbane Broncos

- 19 tries

Top Point Scorer

Winner:

Brett Hodgson

Brett Hodgson is an Australian professional rugby league footballer for the Warrington Wolves of Super League...

, Wests Tigers

Wests Tigers

Team of the Year

Best Fullback

Winner:

Brett Hodgson

Brett Hodgson is an Australian professional rugby league footballer for the Warrington Wolves of Super League...

, Wests Tigers

Wests Tigers

Nominated:

Matt Bowen

Matthew Jeremy "Matt" Bowen is an Australian rugby league player. He has spent his whole professional career with the North Queensland Cowboys in the National Rugby League , playing in over 200 matches and holding the club's record for the player with the most NRL appearances. He appeared in the...

, North Queensland Cowboys

North Queensland Cowboys

Karmichael Hunt

Karmichael Neil Matthew Hunt is an Australian professional multi-code football player, currently playing Australian rules football for the newly formed Gold Coast Suns in the Australian Football League ....

, Brisbane Broncos

Brisbane Broncos

Anthony Minichiello

, Sydney Roosters

Sydney Roosters

The Sydney Roosters are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney. The club competes in the National Rugby League and is one of the oldest and most successful clubs in Australian rugby league history, having won twelve New South Wales Rugby League...

Billy Slater

, Melbourne Storm

Melbourne Storm

Best Winger

Winner:

Eric Grothe, Jr.

Eric Raymond Grothe is an Australian retired professional rugby league footballer of the 2000s. A New South Wales State of Origin and Australian international representative three-quarter for the Parramatta Eels of the National Rugby League...

, Parramatta Eels

Parramatta Eels

Nominated:

Colin Best

Colin Best is an Australian rugby league player for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in the National Rugby League competition.-Career:...

, St George Illawarra Dragons

St George Illawarra Dragons

Ty Williams

Ty Williams is an Australian professional rugby league player for the North Queensland Cowboys in the National Rugby League competition.-Cowboys:...

, North Queensland Cowboys

North Queensland Cowboys

Matt Sing

Matthew Charles Sing is an Australian semi-retired professional rugby league footballer for the Central Comets in the Queensland Cup. His first grade career spanned much of the 1990s and 2000s...

, North Queensland Cowboys

North Queensland Cowboys

Best Centre

Winner:

Mark Gasnier

Mark Gasnier is an Australian former rugby league player, a state and national representative centre three-quarter. He played eleven top-grade seasons with the St. George Illawarra Dragons in the NRL, interrupted by two seasons of rugby union played with the French club Stade Français. He was a...

, St George Illawarra Dragons

St George Illawarra Dragons

Nominated:

Best Five-Eighth

Winner:

Benji Marshall

, West Tigers

Nominated:

Best Halfback

Winner:

Johnathan Thurston

Johnathan Dean Thurston is an Indigenous Australian professional rugby league footballer in the NRL with the North Queensland Cowboys whom he co-captains...

, North Queensland Cowboys

North Queensland Cowboys

Nominated:

Best Lock

Winner:

Ben Kennedy

Ben Kennedy , is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s...

, Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles

Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles

Nominated:

Paul Gallen

Paul Gallen is an Australian professional rugby league footballer for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks of the National Rugby League. Gallen's position of choice is lock and occasionally at Prop. He is an Australian international and New South Wales State of Origin representative...

, Cronulla Sharks

Cronulla Sharks

The Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks are Australian professional Rugby league team based in Cronulla, in the Sutherland Shire, Southern Sydney, New South Wales...

Shaun Timmins

Shaun Timmins is an Australian retired professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s...

, St George Illawarra Dragons

St George Illawarra Dragons

Ashley Harrison

Ashley Harrison is an Australian professional rugby league footballer for the Gold Coast Titans of the NRL...

, South Sydney Rabbitohs

South Sydney Rabbitohs

Best Second Rower

Winner:

Nathan Hindmarsh

Nathan William Hindmarsh is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who captains the Parramatta Eels in the National Rugby League and the Australian Prime Minister's XIII...

, Parramatta Eels

Parramatta Eels

Nominated:

Steve Menzies, Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles

Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles

Craig Fitzgibbon

Craig "Fitzy" Fitzgibbon is an Australian professional rugby league footballer for Hull in the European Super League and previously the Sydney Roosters of the NRL. A New South Wales State of Origin and Australian international representative forward, he is the son of former rugby league player and...

, Sydney Roosters

Sydney Roosters

Steve Simpson

Steve Simpson (rugby league footballer)

Steve Simpson is a former Australian professional rugby league footballer. He played his whole career for the Newcastle Knights in the National Rugby League competition. He has also been selected to represent Country Origin, New South Wales and Australia...

, Newcastle Knights

Newcastle Knights

Anthony Watmough

Anthony Watmough is an Australian professional rugby league footballer for the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles club of the National Rugby League...

, Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles

Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles

Best Prop

Winner:

Luke Bailey, St George Illawarra Dragons

St George Illawarra Dragons

Nominated:

Shane Webcke

Shane Webcke is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer, who spent his entire top-grade career playing for the Brisbane Broncos. His position of choice was at prop forward and at his peak he was renowned as the best front rower in the world...

, Brisbane Broncos

Brisbane Broncos

Petero Civoniceva

Petero Civoniceva is an Australian professional rugby league footballer currently contracted to the Brisbane Broncos of the National Rugby League...

, Brisbane Broncos

Brisbane Broncos

Roy Asotasi

Roy Asotasi is a professional rugby league footballer who currently captains the South Sydney Rabbitohs of the National Rugby League. A New Zealand international representative prop forward, he previously played for the Bulldogs, with whom he won the 2004 NRL Premiership...

, Canterbury Bulldogs

Canterbury Bulldogs

The Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Belmore, a suburb in the Canterbury-Bankstown region of Sydney. They compete in the National Rugby League premiership, as well as New South Wales Rugby League junior competitions...

Best Hooker

Winner:

Danny Buderus

Danny Buderus is an Australian professional rugby league player who currently plays for the Newcastle Knights in the NRL...

, Newcastle Knights

Newcastle Knights

Nominated:

Robbie Farah

Robert Peter "Robbie" Farah is an Australian professional rugby league player for the Wests Tigers club in the National Rugby League competition. He primarily plays at hooker and can operate as a half-back...

, Wests Tigers

Wests Tigers

Hall of Fame Inductees
Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame
The Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame honors players who have shown exceptional skill at rugby league, all-time great coaches and referees, and other major contributors to the game who are Australian...

Pre-WWII

Frank Burge (Glebe, St George; lock/second-row from 1911–27)
Harold Horder (Souths, Norths; winger from 1912–1924)
Vic Hey (Wests, Ipswich, Leeds, Dewsbury, Hunslet, Parramatta; five-eighth from 1933–49)

Post-WWII

Harry Bath (Balmain, Barrow, Warrington, St George; second row from 1946–59)
Norm Provan (St George; second row from 1951–1965)
Ken Irvine (Norths, Manly; winger from 1958–1973)

Jimmy Craig, Chris McKivat, Brian Carlson, Ron Coote, Duncan Thompson and Brian Bevan.

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Dally M Player of the Year

Special awards

Team of the Year

Hall of Fame InducteesAustralian Rugby League Hall of FameThe Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame honors players who have shown exceptional skill at rugby league, all-time great coaches and referees, and other major contributors to the game who are Australian...

Hall of Fame Inductees
Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame
The Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame honors players who have shown exceptional skill at rugby league, all-time great coaches and referees, and other major contributors to the game who are Australian...