Double save sees Grant tower over Blackpool

Last updated : 25 October 2012 By Tony Scholes

It was a day when he didn't make a mistake but kept Burnley in front as he made a superb save to deny Alex Baptiste before recovering to save the second effort from Gary Taylor-Fletcher.

It's won him both the man of the match vote and the player ratings on Clarets Mad and given him the maximum ten points towards the player of the year.

He polled 25.8% of the vote, just enough to give him first place over Brian Stock who was recalled to the side by caretaker boss Terry Pashley. Stock had a 23.7% share. 10.8% was enough to give Junior Stanislas with left back Ben Mee coming in fourth with 8.6% of the vote.

The player ratings brought a somewhat different result although Grant was again the winner with a rating of eight out of ten. Charlie Austin, scorer of the only goal, was second. His rating was 7.83, ahead of Stock who was third with a rating of 7.71. A rating of 7.56 out of 10 was enough to give captain Jason Shackell fourth place.

Apart from the ten points for Grant, Stock collects five points, there is three points for Austin, two for Stanislas and one each for Mee and Shackell. It's had little impact on the Clarets Mad Player of the Year Table with Austin and Grant still some distance ahead although Austin's lead at the top from Grant has been reduced to 16 points.

Currently the voting continues for the Bristol City game. You can vote via the front page or the VOTING POLLS page and the PLAYER RATINGS can be posted on the message board.

The result from the Blackpool game and the current player of the year table can be found below.

MAN OF THE MATCH

25.8% - Lee Grant (186 votes)
23.7% - Brian Stock (171 votes)
10.8% - Junior Stanislas (78 votes)
8.6% - Ben Mee (62 votes)
7.8% - Dean Marney (56 votes)
7.5% - Charlie Austin (54 votes)
7.3% - Kieran Trippier (53 votes)
4.7% - Jason Shackell (34 votes)
1.8% - Michael Duff (13 votes)
0.8% - Ross Wallace (6 votes)
0.7% - Chris McCann (5 votes)
0.6% - Marvin Bartley (4 votes)

PLAYE R RATINGS

8.00 - Lee Grant
7.83 - Charlie Austin
7.71 - Brian Stock
7.56 - Jason Shackell
7.44 - Ben Mee
7.42 - Kieran Trippier
7.35 - Junior Stanislas
7.15 - Dean Marney
7.04 - Michael Duff
6.69 - Ross Wallace
6.63 - Marvin Bartley
6.19 - Chris McCann

CLARETS MAD PLAYER OF THE YEAR

71: Charlie Austin
55: Lee Grant
32: Ben Mee
30: Dean Marney
20: Chris McCann
18: Brian Jensen
15: Joseph Mills
14: Junior Stanislas & Kieran Trippier
10: Jason Shackell & Brian Stock
6: Marvin Bartley, Martin Paterson & Sam Vokes
2: Michael Duff, Steven Hewitt & Ross Wallace