BRADFORD Bulls’ Jayden Myers missed out at the RFL’s End of Season awards last night.
The 21-year-old centre was one of three deserving nominees for the Betfred Championship Young Player of the Year award, after scoring 12 tries this season and playing a key role in Bulls’ run to the play-off semi-finals.
Myers was up against York’s Brad Ward and Wakefield’s Oliver Pratt for the award, and it was the latter who won the prize.
Outside back Pratt has been instrumental in Trinity finishing as runaway league leaders, with his side clear favourites to win their play-off semi with York this Sunday and then the subsequent Championship Grand Final the following weekend.
Given Wakefield’s dominance of the second tier this season, it was little surprise that they swept the board at the End of Season awards.
Daryl Powell was named Championship Coach of the Year, while Max Jowitt scooped the Player of the Year prize.
With a likely two games left, Jowitt needs just 13 more points to beat the British record for the most points in a single season of all time.
He is currently sat on 484 in all competitions, with Lewis Jones’ 496 for Leeds/RL XIII/Rest of League/Great Britain in 1956/57 the current record.
As for the League 1 awards, former Bulls boss Mark Dunning was named Coach of the Year after his impressive work in guiding unfancied Midlands Hurricanes to a fifth-placed finish and an elimination play-off win over Workington Town.
That put the Hurricanes into an elimination semi-final, where they were unluckily beaten 18-14 by Hunslet.
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