NRL bans Gallen from Dally M awards

The NRL has banned Paul Gallen and all other players suspended following the ASADA doping investigations from the Dally M awards.

All players have been ruled ineligible to win any honours.

Gallen was in line to claim the representative player of the year as well as the Brad Fitler Medal.

Fitler had recently said that Gallen should not receive the award after the ban was announced.

“In my opinion, given the circumstances that he is suspended, he should be ineligible to win the medal,” he said.

The Dally M rules state: “The game acknowledges that a player found guilty of a doping offence may be stripped of any award or be ruled ineligible to receive any award subject to the determination of the NRL.”

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