George Boyd is January player of the month

Last updated : 14 February 2015 By Tony Scholes

But, catching up on things, we go back to the last game of January and the result from the Sunderland game which ensured George Boyd was voted our player of the month, just ahead of Danny Ings and Michael Keane.

Ashley Barnes, the December player of the month, came out top in the disappointing performance at the Stadium of Light. He won the man of the match with 37.1% of the vote, over double the 17.4% won by Kieran Trippier who took second place. Third and fourth places went to Ben Mee and Boyd with 7.8% and 7.2% respectively.

The player ratings were, as you would expect, low after arguably our most disappointing performance of the season and only goalkeeper Tom Heaton was able to get a rating of six or more, an average performance.

He won the ratings with 6.07 out of 10 with Barnes now second with a rating of 5.85. Trippier came in third with 5.67 and Boyd's 5.52 out of 10 meant he finished fourth.

That result brought Barnes eight points towards the Clarets Mad Player of the Year. There were five points each for Heaton and Trippier and two each for Boyd and Mee.

Those points have taken Boyd and Barnes ever closer to Scott Arfield in third place and Barnes, now fifth, is only 12 points behind Jason Shackell who is second. Ings still leads the table by 15 points.

With the cup ties against Spurs, we played six games during January and Boyd won the most points with 22, but it was very close. Ings was second with 19 points and followed by Keane (18), Trippier (16) and Mee (15).

All the results are below, for the Sunderland game, the player of the month and the current player of the year table.

Today is the last day you can vote for the Man United game.

You can vote for your man of the match via the front page or the VOTING POLLS page.

PLAYER RATINGS can be posted on the message board.

MAN OF THE MATCH

37.1% - Ashley Barnes
17.4% - Kieran Trippier
7.8% - Ben Mee
7.2% - George Boyd
6.0% - Dean Marney
4.2% - David Jones & Ross Wallace
3.6% - Tom Heaton
3.0% - Lukas Jutkiewicz & Jason Shackell
2.4% - Danny Ings & Michael Keane
1.8% - Scott Arfield

PLAYER RATINGS

6.07 - Tom Heaton
5.85 - Ashley Barnes
5.67 - Kieran Trippier
5.52 - George Boyd
5.19 - Jason Shackell
5.15 - Ross Wallace
5.11 - Danny Ings
4.81 - David Jones & Lukas Jutkiewicz
4.78 - Michael Keane
4.74 - Dean Marney
4.44 - Ben Mee
4.04 - Scott Arfield

CLARETS MAD JANUARY PLAYER OF THE MONTH

22: George Boyd
19: Danny Ings
18: Michael Keane
16: Kieran Trippier
15: Ben Mee
11: Ashley Barnes
10: Michael Kightly
8: Tom Heaton
4: Scott Arfield & Sam Vokes
3: Marvin Sordell
2: Jason Shackell & Ross Wallace
1: Michael Duff

CLARETS MAD PLAYER OF THE YEAR

80: Danny Ings
65: Jason Shackell
57: Scott Arfield
54: George Boyd
53: Ashley Barnes
41: Kieran Trippier
36: Tom Heaton
31: Lukas Jutkiewicz
29: Michael Duff
26: Ben Mee
25: Michael Keane
21: Dean Marney
17: Stephen Ward
16: David Jones
11: Michael Kightly
10: Nathaniel Chalobah
6: Marvin Sordell
4: Sam Vokes
2: Ross Wallace
1: Matt Gilks & Matt Taylor