Nizaam Carr
Marcell Coetzee
Willie le Roux
Handré Pollard
Duane Vermeulen
Five Springboks have been nominated for the prestigious SA Rugby Player of the Year Award for 2014 with one of Nizaam Carr, Marcell Coetzee, Willie le Roux, Handré Pollard or Duane Vermeulen in line to claim the coveted annual award for the first time in their careers.
The five players, who all played for the Boks this year, have been nominated by the South African rugby media following a stellar year on the field. Springbok rugby fans across the globe will now be given a voice in the selection of the winner, SARU announced on Friday.
The public will also be asked to cast their votes in two other categories, Young Player and the Absa Team of the Year. To cast your vote, CLICK HERE.
Carr and Pollard have also being named in the Young Player category, along with Cheslin Kolbe, Seabelo Senatla and Jan Serfontein. The Junior Springboks, Springboks, Springbok Sevens, DHL Western Province and Xerox Golden Lions have been nominated as Absa Team of the Year.
Public polling for the three awards will open on Friday 5 December 2014 with all the winners to be announced at a gala event on 8 February 2015 in Midrand.
The public can make their vote, which is powered by social marketing platform Spredfast, for the top awards on SARU’s website or by using (for example) #YPOTYNizaamCarr on Twitter*. Voting will also take place through SARU’s official digital Springbok Magazine, where subscribers can cast their votes.
Jurie Roux, SARU CEO said: “It is again very pleasing that we are able to give our rugby fans a voice in the game, and the SARU Player of the Year Awards is an ideal platform to do so. The last two years proved that supporters have strong opinions on who should win and that feedback was great, hence the decision to make the public part of the polling process again.
“The Awards are a highlight on the South African rugby calendar, and involving the fans and coaches more directly will no doubt add to the prestige of the event,” said Roux.
Media, coaches and players had a major say in determining the outstanding players of the season in a range of categories and competitions.
Other awards on the night include for the outstanding players in Vodacom Super Rugby, Absa Currie Cup Premier and First Division and Vodacom Cup competitions, as well as for the Absa Coach of the Year, SA Under-20 Player of the Year, Springbok Sevens Player of the Year, Women’s Achiever of the Year, SARPA Players’ Player of the Year, Supersport Try of the Year, Marriott Referee Award, Cell C Community Cup Player of the Tournament and Coca-Cola Craven Week Player of the Tournament.
The closing date for public voting is Friday 12 December 2014 at 14:00.
ryecatcher wrote:
Simple answer, Control
The want to control every facet of society, like the old school Stalinists they are and the ideology they believe in
They will never relinquish any power, what’s more part of the power grid
@ Nama:
No i mean pollard and senatla.
Senatla has only played 8 senior rugby games… Ever.
But he is nominated as young player of the year.
I know you have been keeping your cool about kolbe. I like him too, but he first needs to prove himself in SR.
@ ryecatcher:
Dont get me started uncle. 🙁
On the bright side, got some pork rashers on the braai.
Is this the criteria to be young player of the year?
Any South Africa-qualified player playing in SARU competitions and teams under the age of 23 on 1 January.
90 @ MacroBok:
16 rounds in SR alone. I can’ remember AC goving him a break. There were talks about it but it never realized.
Same in the CC. From memory I’ll say that he comfortably played 20+ matches in SR and CC.
@ nortie:
Yes why was Lood not also nominated? He is 21 and made his springbok debut.
@ Nama:
He had 21 SR caps at the start of the year… Look he had a great year. But “young player of the year” is a bit of a stretch for me.
MacroBok wrote:
He played well for the first couple of games but was invisible in the rest
HM should have given Willemse a chance, he’s a good player with physical presence.
With Bakkies gone we need more tough locks to do the hard work than ball playing semi-backline player locks
We have Oupa Victor already, the original centre-lock
@ nortie:
I think it also depends on the amount of matches that a player had played before the start of the year. If I recall correctly, something like that was mentioned in 2011 when Lambie was nominated for the 2nd year in a row.
And if we are going to look at the currie cup in isolation to include guys like senatla… What about faf de klerk who was damn good in super rugby?
@ Victoriabok:
Yes even paul willemse deserved a nomination as he is an actual young player that played well all year.
I agree lood fizzled out in europe and came up fairly short in the end.
@ MacroBok:
I hear you.
Janneman’s nomination would therefor irks you as well. 😆
99 @ Nama:
Carr played 21 sr games and 14 cc games at the start of the year.
@ Nama:
It does actually.
Just proves that the young talent at our disposal is not as godly as the media wants us to believe.
The only players that fits the catagory would be pollard and kolbe
MacroBok wrote:
I’m not talking about the award, I’m talking about the Boks
He and Carr should have played in the EOYT rather than Lood and Oupa
They would never let the team down
I prefer guys who do the hard work rather than the flashy ball players who only show up when it’s going well
The Danie Rossouw type player
What happened to everybody?
No-one here?
Even MacroBok is gone
Must be load shedding 🙁
@ Victoriabok:
I said we missed a heavy ball carrier like Flip and Alberts.
If Willemse didnt decide he was bigger than the game and moved to Grenoble, he may have been selected.
@ Victoriabok: hullo. All is not lost. This larger than life personality arrived. Aren’t you lucky Vic?
@ MacroBok: Hi MB. Ja. Its irks when a relatively young player, with massive potential, elects to chase the bucks first before he even considers working his backside off to earn a place at the top table. The wallet rules with some.
@ Tassies: and Alberts was missed in particular. It was a talking point during the tour games amongst us lesser mortals.
MacroBok wrote:
He’s been playing good rugby for the last few years, he warranted a call up long ago
Would you stay at your current job with no prospect for promotion if you can be paid ten times more in France?
I selected Duane for my player of the year and young Kolbe for young player of the year. That one’s not ‘cut and dried’ but he certainly sets the field alight with ball in hand. I nearly wet my pants when he’s on fire. He is a frighteningly good rugby talent in the Willie Le Roux mould, just different. I wouldn’t hesitate to put him in my Bok squad.
Tassies wrote:
@ Victoriabok: can I answer that? If he was the right candidate then HM would have picked him for sure. There’s more to what meets the eye than pure skill. But I’m not qualified to judge on Willemse the player.
@ Victoriabok: touche!!!!!!
@ Victoriabok: and hows the chill on that there lil island Vic? Dec = chilly. No?
8.33 over here in slaapstad and what a beautiful windless evening it is. Sun has just dipped over the mountain and the silhouette is pure magic. Live for these moments.
okay so even Vic has tired of my humble company. I’ll sulk off to my book on Mr Branson’s life’s tales then.
Tassies wrote:
Not too cold, it’s overcast then it is mild, about 9C
Last week it was blue skies and -3C, we had some snow too but not much
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Tassies wrote:
Sorry man, it’s Monday morning at work 🙁
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