{"id":575691,"date":"2026-03-31T05:41:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/575691\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T05:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:41:12","slug":"boyd-goes-scoreless-as-panthers-trio-sit-in-top-five-zero-tackles-nrl-mvp-round-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/575691\/","title":{"rendered":"Boyd goes scoreless as Panthers trio sit in top five: Zero Tackle’s NRL MVP, Round 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three Penrith Panthers<\/a> players have cracked the top five of Zero Tackle’s NRL<\/a> MVP at the end of Round 4, but it’s still New Zealand Warriors<\/a> halfback Tanah Boyd<\/a> who holds the overall lead.<\/p>\n

Boyd, who piloted the Warriors to three straight wins in the opening weeks of the year, was joined by a returning Luke Metcalf<\/a> in the halves for the Auckland-based side during Round 4, but they lost their first game of the year to the Wests Tigers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Boyd, unsurprisingly, did not poll.<\/p>\n

The Penrith Panthers<\/a> meanwhile, clattered the Parramatta Eels<\/a> in the west of Sydney, and combined with their excellent start to the year, Dylan Edwards<\/a>, Thomas Jenkins<\/a>, and Nathan Cleary<\/a>, who earned a perfect 20 votes, are now all within eight votes of the lead.<\/p>\n

Dominic Young<\/a>, who was also voted as the unanimous best on ground, sits in fifth spot, while there have been other changes in the top ten, with Scott Drinkwater<\/a> and Braydon Trindall<\/a> both playing good games.<\/p>\n

Cleary and Young were joined by Adam Doueihi<\/a>, Kotoni Staggs<\/a> and Arama Hau<\/a> as the players voted best on ground by all four judges, while in the other games, Robert Toia<\/a>, Naufahu Whyte<\/a>, Scott Drinkwater<\/a>, Jake Clifford<\/a>, William Kennedy<\/a> and Braydon Trindall<\/a> were all awarded five votes by at least one judge.<\/p>\n

As a reminder of how this works, our panel, comprising Zero Tackle founder Matt Clements, journalist Leo Twemlow, and writer Dan Nichols, alongside myself as editor, will cast votes on a 5-4-3-2-1 basis from each game of the premiership season.<\/p>\n

Here are the Round 4 votes.<\/p>\n

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Top ten<\/p>\n

Click here to view the full leaderboard<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three Penrith Panthers players have cracked the top five of Zero Tackle’s NRL MVP at the end of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-575691","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\/575691","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=575691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}