Snubbed star would have been Joey's pick

The Roosters fullback won the vote, coming disconnected yet different stellar play successful the Tricolours.

"Totally hold with it, I deliberation it's Tedesco's champion year," Andrew Johns said.

"Considering what he's done successful his career; Brad Fittler medallist, Dally Ms, blah blah blah, this has been his champion year."

While Latrell Mitchell has been immense successful the finals campaign, staking a genuine assertion for the tag of rugby league's champion player, his play was heavy interrupted by injury, making it hard for his peers to ballot for him up of Tedesco.

Still, hard to reason against his claims to beryllium short-listed.

The Panthers' No.1 goes nether the radar successful examination to Tedesco, Mitchell and Tom Trbojevic, but arsenic the 2022 play has worn connected it has go abundantly wide wherefore the Panthers wouldn't commercialized him.

Edwards has had arguably his champion play and has go a blistery extremity to triumph the Clive Churchill Medal.

Even earlier he'd played a azygous NRL crippled Joseph Sua'ali'i was talked up arsenic a aboriginal large of the game.

And successful conscionable his 2nd year, the Roosters young weapon has go arguably the premier winger successful the contention astatine conscionable 19.

A bruising defender and a almighty runner, Sua'ali'i is already conscionable astir the afloat bundle and has been tipped by galore to deterioration a Kangaroos jersey astatine this year's World Cup.

He was Johns' archetypal prime connected the flank for squad of the year, and the Immortal was backed up by the NRL players who voted.

On the different flank, the players recognised different Rooster, successful Tupou, arsenic worthy of a Dream Team nod.

The elephantine winger had a superb season, reclaiming his NSW jersey and tormenting opponents with his aerial quality and finishing skills.

But portion helium got the important votes, Johns would person opted for different flyer to inhabit his position.

Like helium did for State of Origin, the Bulldogs flyer had his presumption successful this squad taken by Daniel Tupou but Andrew Johns would person gone the different way.

"I would person gone with Addo-Carr, adjacent though helium played successful a squad that was struggling, jeez helium had a bully year," Johns said.

After a dilatory commencement to the year, Addo-Carr scored 16 tries successful his 23 games, striking up a lethal operation with Matt Burton and adding overmuch needed enactment to the Canterbury backline.

As helium often has been passim his career, the game's premier try-scorer was overlooked for a jersey successful this squad contempt scoring a whopping 30 tries successful the season.

Johnston, a Rabbitohs favourite, has present scored 30 tries successful back-to-back seasons. Before this play nary 1 had adjacent achieved that people twice, fto unsocial doubly successful 2 seasons.

While the Storm were incapable to marque a dent successful September, their destructive centre was making dents successful the antiaircraft enactment conscionable arsenic regularly arsenic ever.

"Olam's a wrecking ball, arsenic we know," Johns said, simply, agreeing with his spot successful the Dream Team. 

The Kiwi superstar had specified a bully play that astatine 1 signifier during the twelvemonth helium was gathering a lawsuit for the 'best subordinate successful the game' tag.

As the Roosters got blistery and made their tally precocious successful the regular play it was Manu successful the heavy of the action.

Superb erstwhile helium filled successful astatine five-eighth, determination was immoderate conjecture astir Luke Keary's spot successful the squad earlier helium came backmost from injury.

Ultimately Manu had to beryllium done the Roosters' elimination last nonaccomplishment to the Rabbitohs from the sidelines owed to injury. A beardown statement could beryllium made that it would person been antithetic had helium played.

The Cowboys prima was 1 of Queensland's champion arsenic they defied underdog presumption to triumph the Origin bid and he's been a cardinal cog successful the astonishment packets of the NRL season, reinventing himself arsenic a centre.

Perhaps harshly overlooked for the Dream Team, Holmes has been outstanding successful onslaught and defence, with adjacent impeccable goal-kicking to boot.

The Cronulla wrecking shot was unstoppable astatine times this season, earning a NSW jersey aft coming to the attraction of Blues manager Brad Fittler aft a destructive show against Manly.

A cardinal antheral successful a scintillating Sharks backline.

Cameron Munster was a one-man wrecking instrumentality astatine times this season, and helium was forced to go the Storm's Mr Fix It erstwhile Ryan Papenhuyzen picked up a play ending injury.

He played a immense relation successful Queensland's Origin bid triumph and gave the Storm each accidental of a heavy finals tally until they ran retired of puff against the Eels and fell retired of the apical four.

Andrew Johns is 1 of his biggest admirers and was successful nary uncertainty astir his spot successful the side.

"We each cognize the superstar helium is, and the amended the occasion, the amended helium goes," Johns said.

While Munster is simply a hard antheral to region from immoderate side, the maturation of the Parramatta No.6 this play gave him decent changeable of doing so.

Brown has been a superb foil for Mitchell Moses this season, with the pairing gathering a beardown lawsuit to beryllium considered the champion halves concern successful the competition.

The young five-eighth joined the Cowboys with large question marks hanging implicit him and plentifulness to prove.

Fast guardant to present and he's an Origin bid victor and 1 of the cardinal cogs successful a Cowboys broadside that is conscionable 1 crippled from a decider.

A genuinely singular year.

He's spent astir of his vocation astatine the Dragons beating disconnected criticism, but the antheral maligned for his monster terms tag has silenced the doubters this year.

"He's carried the Dragons, he's won games connected his own," Johns said.

"His toughness - I deliberation he'll triumph the Dally M." 

From Storm back-up to the ascendant prima successful a Sharks squad that finished 2nd connected the ladder, Nicho Hynes has been an implicit revelation successful 2022.

"He's truly amazed maine however large he's gone successful that position," Johns said.

He whitethorn not beryllium the halfback of the twelvemonth but he's adjacent to the bargain of the season.

He whitethorn yet triumph much important honours successful 2022, but contempt being arguably the astir influential subordinate successful the NRL, the Panthers halfback has had to play 2nd fiddle successful this team.

Probably missed excessively galore games - astir of them owed to suspension - to propulsion Hunt for the Dream Team No.7 jersey. 

'The Fish' has for the past fewer seasons seized the tag of 'best prop successful the game' and is simply a deserving starter successful the 2022 Dream Team.

Should the Panthers spell back-to-back they'll bash it acknowledgment to the level laid by their Kiwi enforcer.

Much has been expected from Joseph Tapine since helium near the Knights for the Raiders.

In 2022 helium delivered and past some. Was tremendous successful the Raiders' elimination last triumph implicit the Storm and has staked his assertion to beryllium considered among the apical props successful the game.

As Johns pointed out, Tapine completes an all-Kiwi Dream Team front-row, giving Michael Maguire's broadside an intimidating look.

"All-Kiwi beforehand enactment - truthful look retired World Cup," Johns said.

Even astatine 33, the Roosters wouldn't commercialized JWH for immoderate front-rower successful the competition.

The spiritual person of the Tricolours had different exceptional season, though helium volition rue his relation successful an ill-disciplined finals show that yet ruled them retired of premiership contention.

A ace talent, the Broncos powerhouse was astatine the centre of the club's improbable emergence into the apical 4 midway done the season, but was besides symptomatic of their fall, with his signifier waning towards the concern end.

Still precise young and volition nary uncertainty beryllium regarded arsenic 1 of the game's premier front-rowers for years to come.