Time for the first Goal of the Month vote

Last updated : 03 September 2015 By Tony Scholes

Looking back, the first vote was for August, September and October combined with  January, when we scored nine goals, the only month to get its own vote.

Our strikers might not have been firing yet, but we have scored six goals in the first five league games played during August, starting with Sam Vokes' first league goal since March 2014 which came on the opening day of the season at Leeds.

It was late in the game when George Boyd and Tendayi Darikwa combined down the right with Vokes getting on the end of Darikwa's cross to head home. All goals count, but that remains our only goal so far this season from open play.

We scored twice in the home draw against Birmingham, much awaited first Burnley goals for both Michael Keane and Matt Taylor. The first of them, from Keane, came from a Michael Kightly free kick on the left which was flicked on by Jelle Vossen for Keane to stoop and head home at the far post.

Twice we were behind in the game but Taylor, who had just come on as a substitute, got our second equaliser with a free kick all of his own, won after George Boyd had been fouled. From around 25-yards, he got the ball round the wall before it flew into the net via the underside of the bar with the goalkeeper hardly helpless to do anything about it.

The remaining three goals all came the same way, via corners taken by David Jones. Keane headed home a right wing corner in the 1-0 home win against Brentford and last Saturday, first Ben Mee and then Keane again headed goals from Jones' corners, Mee's a left wing flag kick and Keane's as in the previous week, coming in from the right.

So, six goals to vote for, and I don't think any of us expected half of them to come from one of our central defenders.

You can vote via the front page of the site or the VOTING POLLS page and voting will run through the weekend until the end of Sunday.

The winning goal will automatically win a place in the Goal of the Season vote in May as we look to see who will take the award won last season by Boyd (pictured) for his winner against Man City at home.