POTY

[thebish]

don't be such a grumpy old sausage!

[Bruce Rioja]

Amos, for he has been the best at being shittest.

Haha. An Italian taxi driver once described Berlusconi to me as being "Za best, of stoopeeed".

[twilight]

Would have got more votes if it was worst player of the year. I would have loved to see who got that one!!

[CrazyHorse]

don't be such a grumpy old sausage!

Maybe he's grumpy because he has to put up with you unnecessarily picking holes in every other post he makes, no?

[thebish]

don't be such a grumpy old sausage!

Maybe he's grumpy because he has to put up with you unnecessarily picking holes in every other post he makes, no?

nahh - just a regular and normal disagreement/discussion about who might be player of the year...

tango thinks it has to be feeney - I think Holden... I think POTY should have been here all year/season... that's what the thread is for - to discuss/debate/disagree about who (if anyone) it should be - that's all - nothing to see!

[Worthy4England]

Pretty much has to be Feeney.

Got my vote too.

[officer_dibble]

I went for Lawrie Wilson.

Performed the best out on loan and I liked his 'Fck off Lennon' celebration.

[thebish]

I wonder if the players are half-hoping they don't win it... so as not to draw attention to themselves???

[Prufrock]

Player of the year? Behave!

[Peter Thompson]

I'm voting for Twardzik.

Same here....

[bobo the clown]

Veloso for me.

[Riviman]

Vaz Te it's his year !

[bobo the clown]

Would have got more votes if it was worst player of the year. I would have loved to see who got that one!!

I guess the problem would be that it'd just be a contest for who'd come second after Madine.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

I wondered how many games Holding had started, as some POTY awards only include those who've started half the games (sorry Jay). Turns out he has, just... here's the list of 30 starters we've had this term, in descending order of starts (with subs in brackets).

37 (0) Ben Amos (G)
36 (1) Liam Feeney (M)
33 (0) Dean Moxey (D)
33 (0) Darren Pratley (M)
32 (2) Mark Davies (M)
29 (1) Joshua Vela (M)
24 (0) Rob Holding (D)
23 (2) David Wheater (D)
22 (3) Zach Clough (F)
22 (10) Gary Madine (F)
21 (1) Dorian Dervite (D)
19 (1) Derik (D)
19 (0) Prince (D)
18 (4) Jay Spearing (M)
18 (11) Neil Danns (M)
14 (8) Wellington (F)
11 (15) Emile Heskey (F)
9 (1) Lawrie Wilson (D)
9 (0) Jose Casado (D)
8 (5) Liam Trotter (M)
6 (2) Shola Ameobi (F)
6 (1) Paul Rachubka (G)
5 (3) Max Clayton (F)
5 (10) Kaiyne Woolery (M)
4 (0) Niall Maher (D)
3 (4) Thomas Walker (M)
3 (19) Stephen Dobbie (F)
2 (1) Francesco Pisano (D)
1 (1) Alex Finney (D)
1 (0) Oscar Threlkeld (D)

[bobo the clown]

I think maybe we should vote for Prince now.

Poor lad.

[Burnden Paddock]

So Feeney has played in as many games as anyone else to date, despite being shipped out. For me, he is very definitely in the running and gets my vote.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

So Feeney has played in as many games as anyone else to date, despite being shipped out. For me, he is very definitely in the running and gets my vote.

More, for now: although that list doesn't show it, he started four cup games to Amos's three. In the remaining three league games Amos will presumably overtake him (all comps) but the only other man who can match him is Moxey, who also started all four cup games but was dropped midweek.

Think it says a lot that there's only one game for which he was available this season that Feeney didn't start: at home to Forest. He came on at half-time.

[thebish]

for comparison's sake - recent winners...

2002 Simon Charlton
2003 JJ
2004 Kevin Davies
2005 Bruno N'gotty
2006 Ricardo
2007 Jussi
2008 Kevin Davies
2009 Kevin Davies
2010 Lee Chung-Yong
2011 Stuey Holden
2012 Bogdan
2013 Spearing
2014 Tim Ream
2015 Tim Ream

[officer_dibble]

They would all get in the side now, even jay jay and he's 56! With the exception perhaps of the guy who won the last two...he's a bit gash..

[Worthy4England]

What happened to the three years Andranik won it???