Red carpet at the ruby league Dally awards in Randwick

Both the NRL and NRLW worlds come together at the Dally awards in Randwick to celebrate medal winners from the 2024 season.

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00:00It's the NRL's night of nights tonight, with rugby league players suiting up for the sports

00:07top gongs at the Dally M Awards.

00:09Both the NRL and NRLW worlds are coming together to find out the male and female medal winners

00:16for the 2024 season.

00:18Alinia Chenery is there.

00:19Alinia, who is in the running tonight?

00:20Hi, Jeremy.

00:21A lot of NRL and NRLW stars are here tonight to celebrate the Dally M's.

00:28For those of you who are unfamiliar how it works, throughout the season, two judges

00:32will vote for each game throughout the season and they will give three points to their best

00:36on field, two points for the second best and one point for their third overall best player.

00:41And at the end of the season, the player with the most points wins the Dally M.

00:45Now before the voting went behind closed doors after round 12 for the men's game, Dylan Edwards

00:52from the Penrith Panthers was at the top.

00:55But since then, Jerome Hughes has had an outstanding season and if you listen to any of the chatter

01:00around, he is a heavy favourite to take out the top gong.

01:03A lot of people are saying heavy favourite, I don't know how they would know that, but

01:07yeah I'm excited for the night.

01:10Obviously they put on a great night so I'm keen to just enjoy it and whatever comes,

01:15comes I guess.

01:16For the women, Isabel Kelly of the Sydney Roosters is the heavy favourite to take it

01:21out after a stellar season that cultivated in her playing in the grand final on Sunday.

01:26So we're really looking forward to seeing who's going to win it.