Cole takes Man of the Match as Wade wins title

Cole scored the second goal, chased Darren Purse and had an all round excellent game and was always going to be one of the two leading candidates alongside Clarke Carlisle to win the Man of the Match Poll and the player ratings thread. He won both with Carlisle right behind him in second place on both.

He polled 40.6% of the vote for man of the match whilst Carlisle took second place with 31.5% of the vote. Robbie Blake, playing on the left, finished third with 6.5% of the vote.

It was the same top three in the player ratings thread on the message board. Cole topped it with a rating of 8.04 out of 10 with Carlisle second with 7.65 and Blake third with 6.62.

Robbie was the only player able to catch Wade Elliott in our Player of the Year but he needed a full six points from this game and also from this coming week's game at Crystal Palace. He's now slipped to third with Wade now ten points ahead of Carlisle with the one game to go.

The current table

81: Wade Elliott
72: Clarke Carlisle
71: Robbie Blake
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 & Andrew Cole
14: Ade Akinbiyi
13: Joey Gudjonsson & John Spicer
5: Graham Alexander
3: Michael Duff & Stanislav Varga
2: Mark Randall & Wayne Thomas
1: Stephen Jordan

Clarets Mad Player of the Year Winners

2001/02 Arthur Gnohere
2002/03 Graham Branch
2003/04 Robbie Blake
2004/05 Gary Cahill
2005/06 Ade Akinbiyi
2006/07 Eric Djemba-Djemba
2007/08 Wade Elliott