I would think there are a number of contenders for the main prize this season, one of whom is Sam Vokes who was forced off early in last Saturday's game against Leicester with an injury after he went down just in front of the Bob Lord Stand.
I hadn't even seen what had happened at the time but on seeing it again on television I feared the worst. There was no positive news coming from the club which suggested we'd have to wait until Sam had been for a scan.
Just after 5 o'clock I received a text which simply read: "We were right about Vokes. Poor lad. Horrible way to end his fantastic season." I didn't need any further information; I knew it was the dreaded words Ruptured Anterior Cruciate Ligament.
Sam's season is over, almost certainly Sam's 2014 is over in terms of playing for the Clarets. It's a massive blow for the club but certainly more so for the player and comes just one week after he'd scored his 20th league goal of the season to match Danny Ings' total this season.
What a season Sam has had. Just two or three days before it opened I suspect he was expecting to take his place on the bench. With Martin Paterson gone it looked certain that Sean Dyche would start with Charlie Austin and Danny Ings up front.
Austin was always going to be first choice once his transfer to Hull had fallen through and Ings had turned in a pre-season that demanded he be in the starting eleven. For Vokes, it would be a familiar position, one he'd occupied for 33 of the league games in the 2012/13 season.
I was at Hyde on the Wednesday night watching the development squad when I was sent the news that Charlie was about to sign for QPR and with no immediate replacement signed it meant Sam was drafted straight into the team at the eleventh hour.
At the time I'd have been seriously concerned had I thought there wouldn't be a striker signed until January, but that concern started to disappear once Vokes had scored his first goal at Hillsborough on the second Saturday of the season.
His partnership with Ings has been far, far better than any of us could have dared hope and such has been his form that when the team is named for the game at Watford this coming Saturday it will be the first time he's not been in it.
Right now, despite the performances of Ings, of Kieran Trippier, of Jason Shackell and any of the other players in the team, Vokes would get my vote as our player of the year.
That we will be without him is a blow but I can't even begin to imagine what he's going through, knowing that he's going to be out of the game for some considerable number of months.
I can only wish for Sam a full recovery and a return to the Burnley team just as soon as possible.
All we can do now for him is to support him and make damn sure that when he's back fit and ready to play again it is with a Burnley team that is playing its football in the Premier League.