{"id":175890,"date":"2025-09-28T19:49:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T19:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/175890\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T19:49:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T19:49:20","slug":"roosters-and-broncos-dominate-nrlw-nominations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/175890\/","title":{"rendered":"Roosters and Broncos dominate NRLW nominations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NRLW grand finalists Sydney Roosters and Brisbane Broncos have dominated the 2025 Dally M women\u2019s nominations, with the Tricolours leading the count with 13, two clear of the Broncos.<\/p>\n<p>Skipper\u2019s Isabelle Kelly and Ali Brigginshaw were rewarded for their teams\u2019 success this season \u2013 with the Roosters undefeated in 2025 and the Broncos\u2019 only loss coming to the Roosters \u2013 by being nominated for captain of the year, along with Newcastle\u2019s Yasmin Clydsdale.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Roosters captain Isabelle Kelly and coach John Strange.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cd75c60d794ef5ec1a39b72c0f5d06d14dcdc043.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Roosters captain Isabelle Kelly and coach John Strange.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Coaches John Strange and Scott Prince were similarly recognised by being nominated for coach of the year, along with Ricky Henry, who helped lead the Cowboys to their first finals series just two years after joining the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly has also been nominated for centre of the year \u2013 which she won in 2024, 2023 and 2022 \u2013 and for the Provan-Summons Medal, on behalf of the Roosters, which is awarded to the player deemed by Dally M judges to have displayed the \u2018true spirit of the game\u2019 through their on-field actions.<\/p>\n<p>Reigning Dally M medal winner Olivia Kernick, centre Jess Sergis, playmaker Jocelyn Kelleher, halfback Tarryn Aiken (who will miss the grand final due to an ACL injury), hooker Keeley Davis, props Otesa Pule and Rima Butler, and second rower Aliyah Nasio are the other Roosters\u2019 players nominated in their positional categories.<\/p>\n<p>The only positional category a Roosters player was not nominated in was fullback, with Parramatta\u2019s Abbi Church, North Queensland\u2019s Jakiya Whitfeld and Brisbane\u2019s Tamika Upton the three nominations.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Roosters second rower Olivia Kernick won the 2024 NRLW Dally M Player of the year.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/d3fee2f2d7cbf655b3161bca436042af39b11b7c.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Roosters second rower Olivia Kernick won the 2024 NRLW Dally M Player of the year.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The Tricolours also missed out on a nomination for rookie of the year, with Raiders fullback Elise Simpson, Dragons centre Indie Bostock and Broncos forward Shalom Sauaso the three nominees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NRLW grand finalists Sydney Roosters and Brisbane Broncos have dominated the 2025 Dally M women\u2019s nominations, with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-175890","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175890","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=175890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}