I got bored so I thought I'd make a start on an actual proposal for this thing:
Ahem,
Basically what I'm putting forward is another set of awards run completely separately from the TRFies. The TRFies celebrate forum members and their general contribution to life here on TheRugbyForum whereas these new awards (let's call them TRF Rugby awards for now, for lack of a better name) would be more rugby orientated. They would focus not on the members of the forums, but on the rugby world at large, celebrating the best (and possibly worst) players and teams in the game.
Voting could be carried out in a similar way to the system used by the TRFies. Members would post their nominations for awards in a specially dedicated subforum so as to cut down on clutter. Each member could be rewarded by a rep point for posting their nominations. This nomination process would last roughly 2 weeks. After this the top 5 nominees in each category would be taken forward to the voting period which again would be 1-2 weeks long (dependant on number of votes received etc.). We the tot up the results and work on issuing the awards(by that I mean putting an article on the main page and if at all possible try to get in contact with one of the winners, however unlikely). If the effort is made to launch this by the end of November, the results could be in roughly around Christmas time which would be a nice touch.
I'd recommend we start of with around 7 or 8 categories at the start. Any more and it would be a tad excessive, no? Anyway I' do with:
* Player of the Year - lets wait til after the Ireland vs SA game
* International team of the year - has to be Springboks with Ireland a close second (an ANZAC team should really look at a tour up North to fill their pockets rather than these damned redundant Bledisloe cup match ups and to have something approaching a Lions tour)
* Club/Provincial team of the year - sad as i am to say it, Bulls
* Match of the year - Lions tour was nothing like the Currie cup final. Didn't watch all the the 6N fixtures, though so hard to compare.
* Manager of the year - is that like coach?
* The Wayne Barnes award for Hate Figure of the year - LOL, another tie... between Schalk Burger and Brian O'Driscoll
* Worst Jersey of the Year - Bath
* Try of the year - Jacque Fourie against the Lions, 2nd test; Fck you, fck you and.. thank you.
I dunno how the situation with the two codes would be resolved to be honest, we could either have two separate set of awards or incorporate them both into one, which would probably be alot easier.
I think that's about it, at least I don't think I've forgotten anything too big. So back to you, guys.[/b]