Burnley have been blessed in the last decade in terms of strikers. Blake is one of seven who have been sold by the club for in excess of £1 million over that period and added to that group were players such as Martin Paterson, crucial during our first promotion to the Premier League, home grown Jay Rodriguez and current strikers Danny Ings.
It always threatened to be a tough challenge to win one of the two striker places in the team but it turned into a three horse race, and eventually a two horse race for second place as the little magician Robbie pulled away.
He won 42.0% of the vote whilst below the challenge between Ings and Rodriguez saw our current leading goalscorer take the runners up spot. Ings secured 23.5% of the vote with Jay Rod not far behind with 19.0%.
That left some outstanding players ay down the reckoning. Charlie Austin, a prolific goalscorer in two seasons at Turf Moor received only 4.6% to come in fourth and just behind him was Sam Vokes, so close to being Clarets Mad's player of the year in 2013/14. Vokes took 3.1% of the vote, just ahead of the 3.0% won by Steven Fletcher.
The rest were all below one per cent. They were Ade Akinbiyi (0.9%), Andy Gray and Steven Thompson (0.6%), Gifton Noel-Williams, Martin Paterson, David Nugent and Chris Iwelumo (0.4%), Ian Moore and Kyle Lafferty (0.3%) and Ashley Barnes, who scored three vital goals for the Clarets in last season's run in, down at the bottom with 0.1%.
All but Blake are back in for the final team vote as we look for our last striker to complete the line up which currently reads: Tom Heaton, Kieran Trippier, Gary Cahill, Jason Shackell, Ben Mee, Wade Elliott, Dean Marney, David Jones, Scott Arfield and Robbie Blake.
You can vote via the front page of the site or the VOTING POLLS page and the vote will run until the end of Tuesday. - Please note only the option from the voting polls page is currently available.
That will be it, the team will have been selected, and the seven subs will be chosen from the best runners-up. It will leave us with just the manager to vote for and that vote starts next Wednesday when you will have the choice between Steve Cotterill, Owen Coyle, Brian Laws, Eddie Howe and current manager Sean Dyche.