Three former Huddersfield rugby league personalities were handed awards at the annual Super League Man of Steel dinner.

On a night when Castleford Tigers picked up a number of top awards – with Daryl Clark named the Steve Prescott Man of Steel and Young Player of the Year and Daryl Powell the Coach of the Year – former Giants players David Hodgson and Martin Gleeson and ex-Fartown coach Terry Flanagan were all honoured on the night.

Winger Hodgson (who was at Hull KR last season) and centre Gleeson (at Salford) were two of seven players presented with awards to mark their retirement from Super League after making over 200 appearances.

The others were Matt Diskin (Bradford), Jon Clarke (Widnes), Richard Horne (Hull), Willie Manu (St Helens) and Francis Meli (Salford).

And the annual Mike Gregory Spirit of RL Award was presented to Flanagan, the former Oldham and Great Britain forward who has played a leading role in the foundation of the sport’s charity Rugby League Cares.

But much of this year’s awards night was about Castleford, who atoned for their near-misses on the pitch in 2014.

The Tigers lost in the Challenge Cup final at Wembley and narrowly missed out on finishing top of the league for the first time in their 88-year history.

At the heart of those successes was Clark, who took the Man of Steel award from Giants skipper Danny Brough, whose scintillating form has earned him a place in the England squad for the 2014 Four Nations Series and is only the third player in the 37-year history of the awards to claim both individual titles.

The 21-year-old, who is moving to Warrington in 2015, beat off competition from two former Man of Steel winners, Jamie Peacock (Leeds) and James Roby (St Helens), as well as Warrington’s England prop Chris Hill to scoop the highly-prestigious award, which is given to the player judged to have made the biggest impact on the season.

“I’d have been happy with just the young player,” he said. “I don’t think I could have complained if it had gone to any of the other three nominees. They’ve all had great seasons.

“I’m pretty speechless really. I didn’t expect to come here tonight and win both awards. It was a pretty amazing moment for me.”

He was chosen after the results of a poll of every Super League player went in front of a specially-convened five-strong panel featuring a former Man of Steel and representatives from the players’ union and the media.

The award has been renamed in memory of Steve Prescott, one of rugby league’s most respected players who passed away 11 months ago after a long and courageous battle against a rare form of stomach cancer.

Roby received the hit-man award after making 1,054 tackles in Super League this year and Warrington full-back Matty Russell was the top metre maker with 3,546 metres.

Warrington winger Joel Monaghan received a prize for topping the try chart with 28 and St Helens goalkicker Luke Walsh was named top gun after enjoying a success rate of 78.57 per cent with the boot.

Widnes were named club of the year and a foundation award went to Warrington.