Rugby the big loser at Comet Awards

Okay, I knew I did not stand an earthly but one remarkable thing about last night's Comet Sport Awards was the way in which rugby players, clubs or administrators had nominations in the running for pretty much every award - two out of three in some cases - but contrived, I think, to win just one title (Stevenage Boys' U17s for Youth Team of the Year). A bit like one of those Oscar nights when the most nominated film wins next to nothing.

This was even more notable when most of the inter-club banter concerned rugby - Stuart Kenny (for Letchworth, complete with tie) vs. Stevenage vs. Hitchin, egged on by the compere - a fact even more remarkable when you realised that (myself aside) Letchworth were not nominated for anything at all, despite being the "senior" club in the area and not without its successes in 2008. 

For example, it was fascinating to hear that one of Stevenage's main claims to fame and justifications for their award was the fact that they had beaten Letchworth in a cup final (by one point!). I was left thinking about the teams like Letchworth's boys' U15s who, if I remember right, had done just as much - if not more. Why were they not up for an award? Did no-one think to nominate them? Are the boys' and men at our club a bit shy, perhaps - a bit reluctant to advertise their successes?  Or is it innate generosity, to share things around and allow the smaller clubs to have their moment in the sun?