Dally M hooker of the year: Can anyone take down Storm star Smith
Cameron Smith is the game’s most decorated No.9 but there are plenty of challengers ready to take him down. Who will be the Dally M’s hooker of the year? VOTE NOW!
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Cameron Smith is the game’s most decorated No.9 but there are plenty of contenders ready to take his title as the NRL’s best hooker.
While the Storm star will go down as arguably the game’s best in his position, he faces plenty of competition in season 2020.
Check out the top contenders to be named the NRL’s best hooker and vote in our poll.
Damien Cook
The NSW Blues incumbent suffered a form slump coming out of last year’s State of Origin series but rediscovered his touch going into the finals. Cook is poised for a big year trying to lead a Souths forward pack missing inspirational forward Sam Burgess and his younger brother George Burgess.
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Cameron Smith
The Storm great has won the Dally M Hooker of the Year award seven times and is the reigning medallist. With his fingerprints over everything the Storm do, Smith will be at the centre of the point-scoring again.
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Cameron McInnes
Cruelly, a medium-to-high-grade MCL injury suffered during the NRL Nines last month is likely to keep him out of the first two months of the Dragons’ season, with veteran Issac Luke poised to prove 2020’s shrewdest transfer.
Jake Friend
Before breaking down in 2019 with a bicep tear followed by a forearm fracture, he was one of the game’s most durable hookers, having played 20-plus matches in all eight of the previous seasons. With young gun Sam Verrills breathing down his back at the reigning premiers, Friend will need a return to full fitness and form if he is any chance of wearing this medal in 2020.
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Josh Hodgson
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