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Harry Grant has won his maiden Golden Boot award after Dylan Brown was controversially denied the mantle of rugby league’s best international player for 2025.
Player-of-the-match in all three of New Zealand’s games during their Pacific Cup triumph, Brown was widely expected to claim the biggest individual award of his career.
But the Newcastle-bound playmaker was narrowly pipped at the post by Grant, with the Melbourne hooker impressing judges during Australia’s 3-0 Ashes rout of England.
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Melbourne teammate Cameron Munster was also overlooked, despite being named man of the series by a seven-person judging panel at the end of the Ashes.
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