Right then lets just clear a few things up, rules were stated clearly, since there were no objections I went ahead as planned. However just to reiterate, the rules were that if anyone or anything got more than 50% of the nominations then there wouldn't be a poll. It was never the case that getting nominated would automatically get you into the poll, we had that situation before with previous TRFies where members couldn't nominate who they wanted but still wanted to nominate regardless. The current situation, as it was with the last TRFies is a far fairer solution.
For the SH Player of the Year Du Preez has 25 out of 47 nominations, Brussow had 5, Carter had 4 and McCaw had 3.
For the NH Player of the Year, BOD had 43, Bowe had 2 ergo we have a run-off between BOD and Du Preez.
As I explained with the NH Young Player of the Year there were 11 nominations for Sexton, 9 for Halfpenny and 5 each for Kearney and Earls. The poll had turned into a farce because people were voting for Halfpenny because of Sexton's age, so I did the best thing I thought I could do in scrapping that poll and bringing in the next most nominated players. Before the poll was closed it was tied between Sexton and Halfpenny 10-10 so how I can be accused of doing it to deny Halfpenny winning it is ridiculous when it wasn't even a sure thing that he'd even win in the first place. Nothing was deleted either.