North Queensland playmaker nominated for world’s best player awardVictory would cap an incredible year for premiership winner ThurstonJohnathan Thurston has the chance to again create history after being nominated for the Golden Boot award. Never in the history of rugby league has a player won an NRL premiership and claimed the Dally M Medal,Clive Churchill Medal and Golden Boot for the world’s best player in the same season.
Thurston could conclude just that after helping Queensland reclaim the State of Origin Shield and kicking the golden-point field goal that sealed North Queensland’s first premiership, as well as being a runaway Dally M winner.
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Source: theguardian.com