Tom Trbojevic has capped 1 of the champion idiosyncratic seasons ever enactment unneurotic with yet different idiosyncratic award, crowned the Rugby League Players' Association's Players Champion.
Trbojevic was handed the prestigious gong by four-time victor Johnathan Thurston during Nine's sum of the NRL expansive final and admitted "it means a batch to me".
The Manly megastar scooped the excavation of idiosyncratic honours successful 2021, with the Players' Champion grant sitting alongside his Dally M Medal and the Wally Lewis Medal for subordinate of the bid successful NSW's State of Origin win.
It's a stunning array of accolades for the 25-year-old, peculiarly aft helium missed the opening 4 rounds of the play with a torn hamstring, an wounded that has dogged the aboriginal stages of his career.
Speaking to Thurston, Trbojevic said helium had ne'er felt arsenic physically beardown arsenic helium had aft making his comeback successful Round 5 and thanked the Manly conditioning unit for helping him spell to the adjacent level.
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"The squad backmost astatine Manly person been awesome for maine and I've been feeling truly assured retired determination and conscionable going retired determination and playing footy, which is what it's each about," Trbojevic said.
He said it was "pretty special" to beryllium honoured by his peers.
"To beryllium the Players' Champion, voted by the players, it means a batch to me. I cognize you're a four-time winner. It's a peculiar grant and it's thing I'm precise arrogant of," Trbojevic said.
What changed for Turbo successful 2021?
Trbojevic was besides named the Players' Champion Fullback of the Year, arsenic portion of the players' Dream Team, and the RLPA and NRL Academic Player of the Year.
"I would similar to congratulate Tom connected being voted by his peers arsenic the game's champion for 2021," RLPA Clint Newton said.
"Despite the challenges of 2021, this year's finalists each had astonishing seasons, but Tom's play reached caller and bonzer heights and volition decidedly spell down arsenic 1 of the astir superb idiosyncratic performances successful rugby league history."
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