Super League Dream Team on SLTV

Tuesday 15th September 09

The competitiveness of the 2009 engage Super League season is reflected in the presence of eight new faces in this year’s engage Super League Dream Team.

The debutants include four players from Hull Kingston Rovers, who are represented in the Dream Team for the first time, plus two first timers from another of this season’s form teams, Huddersfield Giants.

The Hull KR quartet are winger Peter Fox, scrum-half Michael Dobson and second rowers Ben Galea and Clint Newton while Huddersfield’s two representatives are club captain Brett Hodgson and hooker Scott Moore.

The youngest person in the 2009 engage Super League Dream Team is 20-year-old Wigan Warriors stand-off Sam Tomkins, who takes his place in a side featuring three of the most recognisable faces in the competition.

England captain Jamie Peacock is again featured in the front row, where he makes his seventh appearance, while there are recurring Dream Team appearances for two players who have not featured for some time.

Leeds Rhinos centre Keith Senior’s outstanding form earns him a recall to the Dream Team for the first time since 2004 while Adrian Morley dons a Dream Team jersey 10 years after he was last named in Super League’s form side.

Morley, the Warrington Wolves captain, last made the Dream Team in 1999, his last season in Super League before he left Leeds Rhinos to join NRL club Sydney Roosters. When Morley lined up for the commemorative Super League Dream Team photograph in 1999, Tomkins was still two years from High School!
 
Senior and Peacock are two of four players from engage Super League defending champions Leeds Rhinos, who are also represented by captain Kevin Sinfield – making his fourth appearance – and debutant Ryan Hall, the winger who is Super League’s leading try-scorer in 2009 with 28 tries.

St Helens are represented by centre Matt Gidley, one of five Australians in the 2009 Dream Team.
The engage Super League Dream Team is chosen by a panel of Rugby League journalists and broadcasters who regularly cover the engage Super League competition and is based on form throughout the regular season.
The 2009 engage Super League Dream Team in full with previous appearances is:

1 - Brett Hodgson (Huddersfield) – debut
2 - Peter Fox (HKR) – debut
3 - Matt Gidley (St Helens) - 2008
4 - Keith Senior (Leeds) – 2002, 2003, 2004
5 - Ryan Hall (Leeds) – debut
6 - Sam Tomkins (Wigan) – debut
7 - Michael Dobson (HKR) – debut
8 - Adrian Morley (Warrington) – 1998, 1999
9 - Scott Moore (Huddersfield) – debut
10 - Jamie Peacock (Leeds) – 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2008
11 - Ben Galea (HKR) - debut
12  - Clint Newton (HKR) - debut
13 - Kevin Sinfield (Leeds) – 2005, 2006, 2008