The 2009 Super League Dream Team has been officially announced this afternoon and the squad has had a major shake-up with new debutants, including four players from Hull Kingston Rovers, and two from Huddersfield Giants.
The Hull KR quartet are winger Peter Fox, scrum-half Michael Dobson and second rowers Ben Galea and Clint Newton while Huddersfield’s two representatives are club captain Brett Hodgson and hooker Scott Moore.
The youngest person in the 2009 engage Super League Dream Team is 20-year-old Wigan Warriors stand-off Sam Tomkins, who takes his place in a side featuring three of the most recognisable faces in the competition.
England captain Jamie Peacock is again featured in the front row, where he makes his seventh appearance, while there are recurring Dream Team appearances for two players who have not featured for some time.
Leeds Rhinos centre Keith Senior’s outstanding form earns him a recall to the Dream Team for the first time since 2004 while Adrian Morley dons a Dream Team jersey 10 years after he was last named in Super League’s form side.
Morley, the Warrington Wolves captain, last made the Dream Team in 1999, his last season in Super League before he left Leeds Rhinos to join NRL club Sydney Roosters. When Morley lined up for the commemorative Super League Dream Team photograph in 1999, Tomkins was still two years from High School!
Senior and Peacock are two of four players from engage Super League defending champions Leeds Rhinos, who are also represented by captain Kevin Sinfield – making his fourth appearance – and debutant Ryan Hall, the winger who is Super League’s leading try-scorer in 2009 with 28 tries.
St Helens are represented by centre Matt Gidley, one of five Australians in the 2009 Dream Team.
The engage Super League Dream Team is chosen by a panel of Rugby League journalists and broadcasters who regularly cover the engage Super League competition and is based on form throughout the regular season.
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2009 engage Super League Dream Team
1 - Brett Hodgson (Huddersfield) – debut
2 - Peter Fox (HKR) – debut
3 - Matt Gidley (St Helens) - (2008)
4 - Keith Senior (Leeds) – (2002, 2003, 2004)
5 - Ryan Hall (Leeds) – (debut)
6 - Sam Tomkins (Wigan) – (debut)
7 - Michael Dobson (HKR) – (debut)
8 - Adrian Morley (Warrington) – (1998, 1999)
9 - Scott Moore (Huddersfield) – (debut)
10 - Jamie Peacock (Leeds) – (2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2008)
11 - Ben Galea (HKR) - (debut)
12 - Clint Newton (HKR) - (debut)
13 - Kevin Sinfield (Leeds) – (2005, 2006, 2008)
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As predicted last week, Rugby League Today correctly guessed 8/13 of last week's unofficial Dream Team.
Brett Hodgson, Peter Fox, Matt Gidley, Ryan Hall, Sam Tomkins, Jamie Peacock, Clint Newton and Kevin Sinfield.
RockNRolla wrote:Disagree. Hodgson has been the best fullback in the league this season by some margin. Has to be up there for man of steel too IMO.
Congrats on having 4 of your players in though. Thouroughly deserved.
Think its a tight call, Hodgeson is better going forward but can be dodgy under the high ball and isn't the best defensively. Briscoe is solid and very dependable but hasn't the attcking threat of hodgeson.
LEE-HKR wrote: As predicted last week, Rugby League Today correctly guessed 8/13 of last week's unofficial Dream Team.
Brett Hodgson, Peter Fox, Matt Gidley, Ryan Hall, Sam Tomkins, Jamie Peacock, Clint Newton and Kevin Sinfield.
its not the best ratio!
Tarquin Fuego wrote: I love Jamie and have done since he was 10 years old.
The Reason wrote:Hi Andy
The Rugby Football League are in the process of reviewing the video that you are referring to. We do not condone behaviour of this nature and have contacted the player’s employer, Hull F.C., who have confirmed that they are dealing with the incident under their club rules.
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