{"id":424561,"date":"2024-10-02T22:11:48","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T22:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=424561"},"modified":"2024-10-02T23:08:08","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T23:08:08","slug":"special-act-that-brought-dally-m-winner-to-tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=424561","title":{"rendered":"'Special' act that brought Dally M winner to tears"},"content":{"rendered":"

J\ufeffahrome Hughes<\/a> admits he had "goosebumps" after several Kiwi teammates honoured him with a "really special" haka on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

The halfback picked up the first Dally M Medal of his career, holding off Roosters captain James Tedesco by just a single vote on rugby league's night of nights.<\/p>\n

As proceedings were being wrapped up, the cry from Storm winger Will Warbrick was loud and clear, before Dally M Team of the Year members Joseph Tapine and Eli Katoa left the podium to join him in a show of respect.<\/p>\n

READ MORE:<\/strong> How Hughes went from unwanted to best in the game<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

IN PICTURES: \ufeff<\/strong>All the big moments from Dally M night<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

READ MORE:<\/strong> Manager reveals 'homesick' Hughes almost quit Storm<\/strong><\/a>\ufeff<\/p>\n

\ufeffThe performance went for just under a minute and was applauded by the crowd, before Katoa and Tapine returned to the stage to embrace \ufeffHughes.<\/p>\n

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"A powerful mark of respect and what it means to this great game of ours in the NRL," presenter Yvonne Sampson said.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Nine's Today <\/em>on Thursday morning, Hughes explained why the moment meant so much to him and thanked the trio for their tribute.<\/p>\n

\ufeff"It meant a lot," the 29-year-old said.<\/p>\n

"When the boys got up and done it, I was truly humbled. It just showed so much respect and I was starting to get a bit teary-eyed, going through what I've been through.<\/p>\n

Watch the 2024 NRL grand final live and free on Nine and<\/strong><\/em> 9Now<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

"It was a special moment for myself and it's the one moment that will stick with me forever. It was just a special moment at the time, for the boys to do that for myself and show that respect, it really gave me goosebumps.<\/p>\n

\"Epic<\/p>\n

"It just all hit me at once when they got up to do it."<\/p>\n

\ufeffIn 2018, Roger Tuivasa-Sheck was honoured with a haka after he won the Dally M Medal, becoming the first Warriors player to receive the award.<\/p>\n

Jordan Rapana, Jazz Tevaga, Issac Luke and Jamayne Isaako were the four men paying tribute that year, with Tuivasa-Sheck was notably close to tears at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

J\ufeffahrome Hughes admits he had "goosebumps" after several Kiwi teammates honoured him with a "really special" haka on Wednesday night. The halfback picked up the […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":424566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424561"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=424561"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424573,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424561\/revisions\/424573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/424566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=424561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=424561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=424561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}