GUINNESS PRO12 Awards 2014/15

Pro12 Players' Player of the Season - Rhys Webb (Ospreys)

Runners-Up: Craig Gilroy (Ulster) and CJ Stander (Munster)

Previous winners: Tommy Bowe (Ospreys), Ruan Piennar (Ulster), Tim Visser (Edinburgh), Nick Williams (Ulster) and Dan Biggar (Ospreys).

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Young Player of the Season - Sam Hidalgo-Clyne (Edinburgh)

Previous winners: Tim Visser (Edinburgh), Taulupe Faletau (Newport Gwent Dragons), Stuart Hogg (Glasgow Warriors), Luke Marshall (Ulster) and Jonny Gray (Glasgow).

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Coach of the Season - Gregor Townsend (Glasgow Warriors)  

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Chairman's Award in Recognition of Outstanding Service - Alastair Kellock (Glasgow Warriors)  

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Sky Sports Try of the Year - Craig Gilroy (Ulster) v Scarlets (polled more than 60% of the public vote)



Runner-Up: Jack O'Donoghue (Munster) v Cardiff Blues.

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Rhino Collision Kings - Glasgow Warriors - Awarded by a panel of experts who assess teams' efficiency at the breakdown and tackling.

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Rhino Golden Boot Award -  Ian Madigan (Leinster) - 87.04% goalkicking success (47 kicks out of 54)

Runner-Up: Dan Biggar (Ospreys) - 86.96% (60 kicks out of 69)

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SpecSavers Fair Play Award - Connacht Rugby, who win £10,000 cheque to put towards youth development - award is for obtaining the fewest yellow and red cards and citings over the 22 games.

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Pro12 Dream Team 2014/15, selected by an independent media panel:

15 Liam Williams (Scarlets), 14 Tommy Seymour (Glasgow Warriors), 13 Robbie Henshaw (Connacht), 12 Peter Horne (Glasgow Warriors), 11 Craig Gilroy (Ulster Rugby), 10 Dan Biggar (Ospreys), 9 Rhys Webb (Ospreys)

1 Denis Buckley (Connacht), 2 Rory Best (Ulster Rugby), 3 WP Nel (Edinburgh), 4 Alun-Wyn Jones (Ospreys) (captain), 5 Franco van der Merwe (Ulster), 6 CJ Stander (Munster), 7 Tommy O'Donnell (Munster), 8 Josh Strauss (Glasgow Warriors).

Well done to everyone who won - Gilroy and Hidalgo-Clyne in particular were outstanding this year.

Rhys Webb, player of the season, you cannot argue with that, the kid has been outstanding, and scoring tries for fun.

Haven't seen many of the Ospreys games this year but Gilroy and Stander have been outstanding - fair play to Webb, he must have been on fire.

Doesn't it grind the gears of Wales fans knowing that they've been putting up with Mike Philips for years when they can now see what a *proper* scrum half is actually supposed to do?

George Carlin wrote:Doesn't it grind the gears of Wales fans knowing that they've been putting up with Mike Philips for years when they can now see what a *proper* scrum half is actually supposed to do?

Yes, it does, we have not had a proper scrum half since Dwayne Peel, and I have been saying this for a while now, but it looks as though Webb has now jumped in front of Phillips in the Welsh pecking order. Hasn't Webb broke the Pro12 try scoring record this season ? Or was it just the Ospreys record ?