Its that moment no one has been waiting for.... mostly because we can see who the winners are already.
But awards need a ceremony, so without further-a-do....

The Winners are .....

Best Gifer - @mariner4life
Best Memer and you true King of Memes - @RoninWC (Prick)
Spirit of Covid - @Snowy
Broken Record - The Fern for never getting off Fozzie's back, well done us.
Best Meme - Bear having Goldilocks read to him
(This one?)
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Best Thread of the Year - Lockdown Check in
Best Come Back - @jegga
Most Level Headed - @Donsteppa
Best Stats Nerd - @Stargazer (for all things sugby stuff)
Best Sauce - @bayimports
Best Sports Poster - @Stargazer

Sporties - Favourite Cricket moment of the year.
Kane Williamson and Ross Taylor hitting the winning runs in the WTC Final.

Sporties - Favourite Cricket player of the year.
Kyle Jamieson

Favourite Sportsman/woman (Non Rugby/Cricket)
Lisa Carrington

Favourite Sporting Moment of the Year (Non Rugby/Cricket)
Lisa Carrington winning 3 Golds at the Olympics

Favourite Rugby Player of the Year
Lisa.... Samisoni Taukei'aho

Most Improved Rugby Player
Samisoni Taukei'aho

Favourite Rugby Game of the year.
A Tie, All Blacks vs France and Jordie kicking the winner vs Boks at Townsville.

Well there you have it, a big congrats to all the winners (not @RoninWC, clearly proving quantity over quality wins every time.)
@Stargazer you can tell everyone you have something in common with Lisa Carrington and Samisoni Taukei'aho, you are all 2 time winners of a Fernie/Sportie....

A big thanks to @Duluth for allowing this to happen again this year after a false start earlier in the year. Its been a tough year again for most of us here, the Fernies were an attempt to add some cheer and laughs, often at my expense.
Happy the 2nd time round made it to the end even though it didnt go as originally planned.
..kinda hoping to bring back the glory days of past Fernies....there was at least one of you that was a fan...

Anyway my small moment of power has come to an end, thanks again to @Duluth and the other Mods for humoring me and for their input...though i cant believe they actually made @MajorRage a mod.

Congrats again to the winners (not @RoninWC )
@MN5 maybe you need to double up on your double ups to have some chance of winning next year..

Lets all hope 2022 will be a better year, a possible return to some sort normalcy.
@Barchen
A year of less pandemic shit, better times with work and family and where friendships can survive or maybe begin again..

No apologies for how weirdo this is going to turn out.

Merry fucking Xmas...

Can one of the mods be kind enough to pin this please, you can unpin the other threads..ta

The Silver Fern

Virgil