Before last Friday, Harry and Jack Greenhalgh already knew their dad Jason was something pretty special.

Now the rest of Australia does too.

The president of the Bloomfield Junior Rugby League Club, Jason Greenhalgh has won this year’s Philips community sports dad of the year award - an accolade confirmed at the end of last week - edging out some fiercely friendly and time-sacrificing dads from Bondi to Bunbury to claim the title of best dad ever to live.

On Fathers’ Day eve, that’s what Jack and Harry, six and nine years of age respectively, think anyway.

“Harry said to me the other day, ‘so Dad, you’re the number one dad in Australia now?’.”

There’s a pause, but who can argue with such an award. Jason, who was nominated by the Bloomfield junior rugby league club, isn’t about to anyway.

“So the award says,” he laughed.

“It’s a nice little bit of recognition for the club as much as anything.”

The Bloomfield club is the big winner out of the gong, with the club receiving $5000 as the beneficiaries of the hard work their club president has put in throughout 2015.

A coach for three seasons, he took on the role of senior vice president in 2014 and made the next step to president for the 2015 season.

Jason says he puts in the hard yards during the week and then again every Saturday morning at Brendon Sturgeon Oval, the home of the Tigers, so that Orange kids get the chance to play a game he loves dearly.

“It’s just something that needs to be done,” the 40-year-old said.

“There’s been people here involved for five or six years, and it was time for someone else to step up.

“There’s enjoyable days and then there’s days you wish you weren’t doing it, but at the end of it all, if me doing this means there’s more kids playing rugby league, than it’s well worth it.”

nick.mcgrath@fairfaxmedia.com.au