First Man of the Match award for Jay Rod

Last updated : 15 December 2010 By Tony Scholes
Jay Rodriguez
Jay strolled to the top of both the vote and the player ratings to land the maximum six points towards the Clarets Mad Player of the Year in a game where the player ratings marks were very low.

In the man of the match he polled 52.4% of the vote which with Brian Easton taking second place with 22.0%. Jack Cork, very impressive in the first half, came third with 17.4% of the vote.

When it came to the player ratings it was the same top three, and they were the only three players to reach a rating of 6 out of 10 which is considered an average performance, meaning, overall, it was thought eight of the eleven were below average or worse.

Jay was again top with a rating of 7.13 out of 10 whilst this time it was Cork in second place and his rating was 6.23. Left back Easton took third place with a rating of 6.08 out of 10.

Cork and Easton both get three points towards the Clarets Mad Player of the Year alongside the six awarded to Rodriguez. Those points now see Cork go nine points clear at the top of the table whilst the maximum for Jay have lifted him into eighth place.

The next vote will be the man of the match after the Cardiff game and that will be available within an hour of the end of Saturday's game.

Clarets Mad Player of the Year Table

50: Jack Cork
41: Chris Eagles
30: Andre Bikey
25: Clarke Carlisle
18: Tyrone Mears
17: Wade Elliott
15: Lee Grant
14: Jay Rodriguez
13: Chris Iwelumo
11: Brian Jensen
9: Brian Easton & Dean Marney
8: Michael Duff & Ross Wallace
6: Martin Paterson
3: Leon Cort
2: Steven Thompson
1: Graham Alexander & Danny Fox