Morne Steyn has been voted by the Sport24 readers as the man who delivered the performance of 2009!

Yes, the votes are in – all 8 326 of them - and we here at Sport24 are chuffed to be able to announce the Performance, Plonker and Picture of 2009 …

The Sport24 awards are unique in two ways: They are about a single performance rather than an aggregated effort over 12 months, and the winners are decided by the Sport24 readers. So if a sportsman or woman is nominated for 3 different performances in 3 different months, as our winner was, then in effect they compete with themselves for the “Performance of the Year”. Their votes do not get added together – the awards are based on individual performances in a given month.

So while Morne Steyn was nominated three times (as decided by reader votes on a monthly basis), it was the Bulls idol’s 53m penalty on the hooter that settled not only the match but the series against the British and Irish Lions too that got him the “Performance of the Year”.

The original cool customer, it seems, he was brought belatedly off the bench in the brutal, dramatic second Test against the Lions at Loftus, and did the business. What more could a Bok fan wish for?


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