{"id":10440,"date":"2025-07-21T08:31:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T08:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/10440\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T08:31:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T08:31:15","slug":"mays-dominate-as-tedesco-fails-zero-tackles-nrl-mvp-round-20-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/10440\/","title":{"rendered":"May’s dominate as Tedesco fails: Zero Tackle’s NRL MVP, Round 20 – NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A failure to score in Round 20 by Sydney Roosters<\/a> fullback James Tedesco<\/a> has left him with just a three-vote lead at the top of Zero Tackle’s NRL<\/a> MVP with seven rounds to play.<\/p>\n

Tedesco has been in fine form, but didn’t score a single vote as the Roosters came up short against the Cronulla Sharks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Terrell May<\/a>, meanwhile, scored himself 15 votes for the Wests Tigers<\/a> in their scratchy win over the Gold Coast Titans<\/a> to shut the gap to just three points.<\/p>\n

It was Taylan May<\/a> who stole the show in that game though, being named unanimous man of the match. He was joined over the course of the weekend by Connelly Lemuelu<\/a>, Blayke Brailey<\/a>, Dylan Edwards<\/a> and Roger Tuivasa-Sheck<\/a> as the unanimous best on ground players, while Ethan Strange<\/a>, Sebastian Kris<\/a>, Clint Gutherson<\/a> and Stephen Crichton<\/a> were also handed the full five votes by at least one judge.<\/p>\n

Gutherson has used his impressive display to move his way back into the top ten, while Joseph Tapine<\/a> and Addin Fonua-Blake<\/a> now sit tenth and eleventh with impressive points hauls.<\/p>\n

Brailey and Edwards, who scored 20, are around the top 15, but over 80 votes back from the lead, while Herbie Farnworth<\/a> and Isaiya KAtoa could only manage one and ten votes respectively, but are still in touch with the top.<\/p>\n

During every round of the 2025 NRL<\/a> season, four judges from Zero Tackle’s team (founder Matt Clements, writers Ethan Lee Chalk and Dan Nichols, and myself as editor), will assign votes on a 5-4-3-2-1 basis for every game during the season, with results to be published each week here on Zero Tackle.<\/p>\n

Without any further ado, here are the votes from Round 20.<\/p>\n

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Top Ten<\/p>\n

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Click here to view the full leaderboard<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A failure to score in Round 20 by Sydney Roosters fullback James Tedesco has left him with just…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-10440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}