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Cameron Smith to captain Melbourne Storm

January 22nd 2008 22:10

World player of the year 2007, Cameron Smith, will captain the reigning premiers for the upcoming season after convincing coach Craig Bellamy to give him a fair crack of the whip at the captaincy on a permanent basis.

The 24 year-old Test rake has also led Australia before in a match against New Zealand in October 2007 and will take on the role as sole captain of Melbourne Storm after Bellamy opted to scrap the rotational captaincy policy of the last two years.

"Cameron was always the chosen one to be the captain but I just didn't think he was ready," said Bellamy at the announcement of a sleeve sponsorship deal with Suzuki.

"After the Origin series I thought it was the right time to put him in there and his form certainly didn't fall off with the added responsibility.

"He deserves that captaincy role now and I'm sure he'll hang on to it for many years." he added.

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Cameron Smith wins 'Golden Boot' Award

November 30th 2007 07:30

Melbourne Storm captain Cameron Smith has won the Rugby League World Golden Boot Award for 2007, a prestigious accolade awarded by an international judging panel and votes by fans from two separate websites.

The 24 year-old Australian hooker scooped the most prestigious individual honour in international rugby league ahead of Great Britain captain Jamie Peacock with Australia halfback Johnathan Thurston in third place from the votes tallied by the judging panel of 14.

Smith joins a list of who's who of Rugby League including the likes of Mal Meninga, Wally Lewis, Brett Kenny, Peter Sterling, Andrew Johns and Darren Lockyer who have all won this award in the past.

The award caps off an amazing year for Smith after winning the Ron McAuliffe Medal for Queensland's Player-of-the-Series in their triumphant State-of-Origin campaign; the Wally Lewis Medal for Player of the State-of-Origin Series; the Dally M Representative Player-of-the-Year; and a third straight Melbourne Storm Player-of-the-Year Award.

As the captain of the Storm, he led the club to a 34-8 victory over Manly in the NRL Grand Final, and also captained Australia for the first time in their record-breaking 58-0 demolition of New Zealand in the Wellington Test match on October 14.

Congrats Cam!

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