West Harbour fly-half Tayler Adams has claimed the highest honours at the Catchpole Awards night, being named the Shute Shield's Player of the Year.

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Adams was the recipient of the Ken Catchpole Medal despite his side missing out on the finals by just one competiton point.

Other nominees included Warringah's Hamish Angus, Gordon's Paul Balakena, Parramatta's Andrew Cox and Waldo Wessels, Randwick's Andrew Deegan, Eastwood's Tom Hill, Southern District's Rohan Saifoloi and Luke Smart as well as Sydney University's Jake Wainwright.

The Pirates playmaker was delighted to be held in such high regard, with the competition boasting plenty of talented names that were all, in his eyes, equally as worthy of the award.

''There's a lot of great players thoroughout the competition and I think that showed throughout the year with the coverage that we keep getting so it's a huge honour for me, just not for me but for my family and West Harbour and everyone at the club,'' Adams said after receiving his medal.

West Harbour strung together a seven-game winning streak at the back end of the year against formidable opponents including finals contenders Manly, Randwick and Eastwood, falling short of the top four after a loss to 11th placed Parramatta earlier in the year hurt their finals case.

It was a massive turn around after dropping their first three fixtures, momentum that Adams believes the club can build on in 2018.

''We knew it was going to be hard early on in the first few games just getting our team together, but once we started to understand each other more and the culture and what we were about, it was quite hard to stop us and I think that showed in the last rounds against teams like Manly where we showed we really could play,'' he said.

The Player of the Year award is voted by the tournament's referees on a 3-2-1 scoring basis over the 18 competiton rounds. Points are awarded on the basis of a player's consistency and contribution throughout a match, their point of difference in the game as well as overall best and fairest.