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He was an easy winner in both and took the man of the match award with 35.3% of the vote. Brian Jensen's two saves in the second half, and in particular the one right at the end, earned him second place with 22.7% whilst 12.3% of the vote was enough to see Carlisle's central defensive partner Steven Caldwell take third place.
The two central defenders were the top two in the player ratings. Carlisle's rating of 8.92 out of 10 gave him first place whilst Caldwell had a rating of 8.17 to take second place. Ade Akinbiyi, who turned in as good a performance as I've seen from him surprisingly only picked up a total of one point and that came from his third place in the player ratings. His rating was 7.75 out of 10.
It all means that Wade Elliott at worst will now be our Joint Player of the Year. With a maximum of six points to be won for each game he now sits twelve points clear with just the two games left. It will take two vintage Robbie Blake performances to prevent him taking the title outright.
The current table
81: Wade Elliott
69: Robbie Blake
68: Clarke Carlisle
41: Kyle Lafferty
39: David Unsworth
36: Alan Mahon
34: Jon Harley & James O'Connor
28: Chris McCann
25: Gabor Kiraly
24: Andy Gray
22: Brian Jensen
19: Steven Caldwell
14: Ade Akinbiyi
13: Andrew Cole, Joey Gudjonsson & John Spicer
5: Graham Alexander
3: Michael Duff & Stanislav Varga
2: Mark Randall & Wayne Thomas
1: Stephen Jordan