The gamer of the match award in Super League’s Grand Final will be relabelled the Rob Burrow Award, Rugby League Commercial has actually verified.
The award will change the Harry Sunderland Prize, which has actually existed to the gamer of the match in the previous 26 Grand Finals because 1998 – having actually been presented in 1965, and formerly provided to the male of the match in Champion and Premiership Finals.
Burrow, the previous Leeds Rhinos, England and Great Britain scrum-half who was granted a CBE in the King’s New Year’s Honours for services to Motor Neurone Illness Awareness, ended up being the very first gamer to win the Harry Sunderland Prize as the exceptional entertainer in 2 Super League Grand Finals.
He was acknowledged in 2007 and once again in 2011, when he scored among the most incredible and renowned shots in Grand Final history in the Rhinos’ 32-16 win versus St Helens – and ended up being the very first gamer to win the Harry Sunderland Prize on a landslide, making all 37 taped votes from the participating in members of the RLWBA.
Burrow is among just 3 gamers to have actually won the Harry Sunderland Prize two times in Grand Finals.
The others are Kevin Sinfield CBE, his previous Leeds Rhinos captain and now fellow MND advocate; and Danny McGuire, his long-lasting Rhinos half-back partner.
Burrow and Kevin Sinfield, fellow MND advocate, are 2 of 3 males to win the Harry Sunderland Prize two times
Sinfield and McGuire have actually been welcomed to provide the very first Rob Burrow Award at Old Trafford on October 14, in acknowledgment of their shared accomplishments.
Trevor Hunt, the chair of the Rugby League Writers and Broadcasters Association, who is presently functioning as vice president of the Rugby Football League, stated:
” After long and severe factor to consider, our company believe the time is now best to present a brand-new award for the gamer of the match in the Super League Grand Final – and I am particular that rugby league gamers and fans will concur that the name of Rob Burrow is a fitting one to identify.
Danny Maguire has actually likewise won the award two times, with he and Sinfield welcomed to provide the very first Rob Burrow Award at Old Trafford on October 14
” He has actually been among the most popular and effective gamers in the 3 years because the Super League was formed in 1996, and made his own history at Old Trafford as the very first male to win the Harry Sunderland Prize in 2 Grand Finals – setting a never ever to be beaten record of winning each and every single choose his dazzling efficiency for Leeds versus St Helens in 2011.“
Rhodri Jones, the handling director of Rugby League Commercial, stated: “It is an honour to present the Rob Burrow Award for the exceptional entertainer in the Super League Grand Final. Rob has actually gone beyond Rugby League, both with the ability, speed and guts he revealed on the field – most memorably with the Old Trafford efficiencies.
” Today’s statement is a program of our appreciation to Rob for being the gamer he was, and an indication of rugby league’s assistance to him and his household in the fight versus MND.”
The Harry Sunderland Prize – won by Jonny Lomax in 2022 – was very first presented in 1965
RL Commercial has actually commissioned the brand-new award, which will be revealed at the start of the 2024 Super League play-offs in September.
The winner of Rob Burrow Award will be identified in the exact same method as the Harry Sunderland Prize, through a survey of members of the RLWBA participating in the Grand Final.