Panthers supremo Nathan Cleary holds a three-point lead over Warrior Jackson Ford as Dally M voting goes silent after Round 12 of the 2026 NRL Telstra Premiership.<\/p>\n
Cleary turns for home on 38 points as he bids to become just the second Panther to claim the Dally M Medal after Greg Alexander in 1985.<\/p>\n
Ford picked up two votes in the Warriors’ 30-12 win over the Dragons to take him to 35 points at the halfway stage.<\/p>\n
Should Ford continue his devastating form and go on to claim the medal he would join Roger Tuivasa-Sheck (2018) as the only Warriors to claim the game’s most coveted individual prize.<\/p>\n
Panthers fullback Dylan Edwards sits third on 32 points with Cowboys fullback Scott Drinkwater snaring four votes against the Rabbitohs to climb to fourth on the standings on 29.<\/p>\n
Dolphins halfback Isaiya Katoa, Bulldogs five-eighth Matt Burton and Sea Eagles fullback Clayton Faulalo all scored maximum votes in Round 12.<\/p>\n
Dally M voting now goes behind closed doors with the winner to be crowned at a gala ceremony in NRL grand final week.<\/p>\n
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Faulalo dynamic at the back in Round 12<\/p>\n
Dally M Medal Round 12 votes<\/p>\n
Cowboys v Rabbitohs<\/p>\n
Dally M votes: Scott Drinkwater 4, Tom Chester 3, Reed Mahoney 3, Matt Dufty 1, Thomas Mikaele 1.<\/p>\n
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Te Maire Martin continues impressive return<\/p>\n
Leaderboard after Round 12<\/p>\n
38
NATHAN CLEARY (Panthers)<\/p>\n
35
Jackson Ford (Warriors)<\/p>\n
32
Dylan Edwards (Panthers)<\/p>\n
29
Scott Drinkwater (Cowboys)<\/p>\n
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James Tedesco (Roosters)<\/p>\n
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Braydon Trindall (Sharks)<\/p>\n
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Haumole Olakau’atu (Sea Eagles)<\/p>\n
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Adam Doueihi (Wests Tigers)
Latrell Mitchell (Rabbitohs)<\/p>\n
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Kalyn Ponga (Knights)<\/p>\n
18
Harry Grant (Storm)
Jake Clifford (Cowboys)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Panthers supremo Nathan Cleary holds a three-point lead over Warrior Jackson Ford as Dally M voting goes silent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-692697","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\/692697","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=692697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}