Pro12 Awards 2012-2013

Players' Player of the Season: Nick Williams (Ulster)
Young Player of the Season: Luke Marshall (Ulster)
Coach of the Season: Gregor Townsend (Glasgow Warriors)
Chairman's Award: Michael Swift (Connacht)
Golden Boot: Ian Madigan (Leinster)
Collision Kings: Scarlets
Fair Play Award: Ulster
Straight Talking Award: Alun Wyn Jones (Ospreys)
Try of the Season: Andrew Trimble (Ulster)

2013 RaboDirect Pro12 Dream Team: Stuart Hogg (Glasgow Warriors); George North (Scarlets), Luke Marshall (Ulster), Jonathan Davies (Scarlets), Tim Visser (Edinburgh); Ian Madigan (Leinster), Nika Watawalu (Glasgow); Ryan Grant (Glasgow), Leonardo Ghiraldini (Treviso), Adam Jones (Ospreys), Alun Wyn Jones (Ospreys), Ali Kellock (Glasgow), Alessandro Zanni (Treviso), Nick Williams (Ulster), Justin Tipuric (Ospreys).

Ali Kellock was awarded the 'Captaincy' of the Dream Team. I dunno what that means really. But I'm a big Kellock fan. Good haul for Ulster! Watch Trimbles try versus Connacht here.

I see this mysterious Nika Watawalu makes another appearance. How difficult can it be to get someone name right Rabo

What is the Straight talking award?

I suppose that "Nikola Matawalu" could either be a 'Niko' or a 'Nika'.

Nika is too close to 'knickers' for me.

Well done to Ulster's 3 for their awards - very well done. Hopefully Ireland can use Madigan as he's supposed to be used from now on. Trimble has stepped up this season and is no longer (in my mind) a poor man's Tommy Bowe ().

Golden wrote:What is the Straight talking award?

Really thought that my wife would win that this year.

Well done to Toonie - still eating massive doses of humble pie on that appointment and now, officially, amongst the North Stand Massif, he is not a muppet at all.

21st Century Schizoid Man wrote:Well done to Toonie - still eating massive doses of humble pie on that appointment and now, officially, amongst the North Stand Massif, he is not a muppet at all.

+1 I share in your repast, c21st, my judgement was poor

Aye ASBO my muppet standing is climbing steadily re Toonie and should we win on Saturday will go stratospheric !

What are the Collision Kings and Straight Talking Awards? And how are they selected?

CK is for best breakdown work. No fecking idea what the ST award is.

Nigel Owens won it last year!

I think the Straight Talking award means something like this:

Nigel says he'll have no messing around, that it isn't football they're playing, that they should stop acting like kids and knuckle down to get the scrum right.
..to which Alun Wyn Jones responds: "P-iss off, Nige"

No?

The Scottish contingent rocking the tartan at the Awards ceremony... hmmm.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=623696014325210&set=a.623695957658549.1073741840.221684101193072&type=3&theater

Could Madigan look any more like Olly Murs?

George Carlin wrote:Could Madigan look any more like Olly Murs?

BOOM.

Williams flexes those biceps and Trimble and Madigan fall off the ends of the bench

Hard/impossible to argue with any of those awards although some recognition of what Treviso have achieved would have been understandable

InjuredYetAgain wrote:Hard/impossible to argue with any of those awards although some recognition of what Treviso have achieved would have been understandable

Franco Smith was nominated for coach of the season along with Mark Anscombe, but the rapid transformation in Glasgows style makes me think Toonie deserved it.

Apparently Madigan gave an interview to RTE and confirmed that he just wants you to dance with him tonight.