POTY Question

Covered End

PL54 said:

Has anyone explained why the number of required appearances was halved ?

killerjerrylee said:

I have been the culprit who puts together the voting criteria for Player of the Year over the last 4 years and set out the voting forms. I had no idea there was any set minimum number of games previous to my involvement and decided that eveyone who has played 10 or more games should be on the ballot. This produced two wins for Solley and one for Semedo all by pretty large margins and everybody seemed pretty happy with it.

This season is less straightforward but Yann, Dale Stevens and Ben Alnwick are all on the ballot and have each received votes already. It is up to each individual to decide if their contribution has been so immense that despite playing for only a portion of the year,they warrant your vote. The same comments apply to Reza, Astrit and Diego. The latter will reach 23 appearances for the season if he appears in the remaining games so his contribution has not been that insignificant and if my memory serves me right Andy Petterson won the award in 1997 only figuring in the first team for the second half of the season.

Still, collecting in the votes does underline how we all see things differently and it would be a boring old world if we all agreed. I can reveal that every player but one on the voting form has received at least one vote and the one person who still has 'nilpoints' is far from being the most obvious candidate.

By the way Jose Semedo was so pleased to be POTY that he took the cup back to Portugal to show his family and then left it there. It took months and months to get it back !!

Anyway we will be out collecting as many votes as possible before the Blackburn game so make sure that you give us yours so that the eventual winner will be the most deserving in an otherwise pretty forgettable season

Southendaddick

My top 3 would be

Morrison
Jackson
Wilson

Poyet for young player of the year

Dont get the logic in voting for Yann, he would have romped it had he stayed based on his recent form but I think its disrespectful on the likes of the 3 above who have busted their balls this season

CrayAddick

My choices would be.


Poyet
Cousins
Hamer

ShootersHillGuru

Those of you that have been before. What is de rigueur for this ? Don't want to make an arse of myself ;0)

delroofer

There is normally a mixture of suit & tie or slacks & shirt. Dress to impress!

Covered End

SHG, I'd say it's a bit like going to the theatre. You can wear what you want & you won't really look out of place, as long as you don't look a mess.

I'm wearing a decent shirt & smartish jeans. I wore the same last year & didn't feel out of place.

Solly wore jeans and a jacket last year & he was the winner !

Stone

Don't listen to them SHG. It's strict fancy dress and this years theme is Rocky horror show so I hope you've got some benders in the wardrobe.

Don't forget your camera ;-)

Mendonca In Asdas

I thought the dresscode was Ben Hamer beards Stone?

ShootersHillGuru

Stone said:

Don't listen to them SHG. It's strict fancy dress and this years theme is Rocky horror show so I hope you've got some benders in the wardrobe.

Don't forget your camera ;-)

Thanks for putting me straight with that. Thank god I found out in time.

chester_conrad

ShootersHillGuru said:

Those of you that have been before. What is de rigueur for this ? Don't want to make an arse of myself ;0)

Dirty white vest, tracksuit bottoms, white socks and a pair of grey slips ons is the way to go.

kodfish

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