Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\nCleary accepted the Dally M Medal from home on the couch and a pre-recorded video message was played as he gave a classy speech, which you can watch above. <\/p>\n
The NRL shared photos of Cleary in a wheelchair, and his dad and coach Ivan Cleary revealed Nathan would be wheelchair bound for a few more days and will undergo a second round of surgery later this week. <\/p>\n
Brisbane Broncos fullback Tamika Upton won the NRLW Dally M Medal for the third time, and the NRL and NRLW teams of the year were also announced. <\/p>\n
There was plenty of glitz and glamour as NRL and NRLW stars and their partners stepped out on the red carpet in Sydney. <\/p>\n
Catch up on all the awards and red carpet pics below. <\/p>\n
Originally published as Dally M Medal: Nathan Cleary accepts medal at home in wheelchair<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nathan Cleary has won the Dally M Medal, claiming the NRL\u2019s highest individual honour for the first time.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":911228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[429182,469206,478910,478912,478903,478911,478905,468229,478918,64,63,478906,50921,93341,81992,377206,478904,478919,191,478914,62756,377208,386388,218787,16496,161303,1203,761,762,277557,10668,35062,377169,158,478909,16284,3778,38633,46677,478913,85,1369,670,463175,419183,385521,435708,376549,439257,478915,380184,478917,478916,438980,423069,478907,378969,469309,478908,41313,23000,377211],"class_list":["post-911227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-s-ceremony","tag-s-highest-individual-honour","tag-s-preliminary-final-loss","tag-a-classy-speech","tag-a-few-more-days","tag-a-pre-recorded-video-message","tag-a-second-round","tag-a-wheelchair","tag-all-the-awards","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brisbane-broncos-fullback-tamika-upton","tag-cleary","tag-dally-m","tag-dally-m-medal","tag-every-game","tag-glitz-and-glamour","tag-his-dad-and-coach-ivan-cleary","tag-home","tag-just-1-cleary","tag-kayo","tag-kayo-sports-new","tag-later-this-week","tag-leg","tag-medal","tag-nathan","tag-nathan-cleary","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-ncaeditorialkayoprogram","tag-newcastle","tag-night","tag-no-ad-breaks","tag-nrl","tag-nrl-and-nrlw-stars","tag-penrith","tag-photos","tag-play","tag-plenty","tag-red-carpet-pics","tag-sports","tag-surgery","tag-sydney","tag-the-2026-nrl-telstra-premiership-finals-series","tag-the-award","tag-the-couch","tag-the-dally-m-medal","tag-the-first-time","tag-the-grand-final-live","tag-the-horror-broken","tag-the-nrl","tag-the-nrl-and-nrlw-teams","tag-the-nrlw-dally-m-medal","tag-the-panthers-star","tag-the-red-carpet","tag-the-third-time","tag-the-year","tag-their-partners","tag-tough-scenes","tag-wednesday","tag-wheelchair","tag-your-first-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911227","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=911227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/911228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}