Dar-goal confirmed as P.O.Y.

With the votes now tallied for the final few games of the season, it can finally be confirmed that the winner of this season's CaleyThistleOnline Player of the Year award is striker Craig Dargo. Although Craig had it sewn up weeks ago, the race for the runner up spots was changing almost weekly. Darren Dods finished as runner up and Barry Wilson, Mark Brown and Ian Black completed the top 5.

Craig was rewarded for his tremendous season with the Players' Player of the Year trophy after the last home game against Dundee United, and the website fans who vote throughout the season for the best performers in each match have agreed with the players that Craig was the man who made the biggest impact for Caley Thistle as we navigated our way through this season.

PLAYER POY PTS  VOTES  Dargo Craig  69 280 Dods Darren  47 261 Brown Mark  44 261 Wilson Barry  44 210 Black Ian  40 164 Tokely Ross  28 191 Morgan Alan 25 100 Hart Richard  22 98 Duncan Russell  20 119 Wyness Dennis  15 84 Brewster  Craig  11 75 Proctor  David  11 70 McBain  Roy  9 53 Keogh  Liam  7 69 Hastings Richard  7 56 McCaffrey  Stuart  4 31 Munro  Grant  1 57 Golabek  Stuart 1 15 Bayne  Graham  0 14 Fox  Liam  0 13 Fraser  Michael  0 13 McAllister  Rory  0 11 Sutherland Zander 0 10 Hislop  Steven  0 2 Parratt  Tom  0 0 Finnegan  Chris  0 0 Soane Stuart 0 0

Darren 'The Machine' Dods, who won the supporters player of the Year award managed to hold off the challenges of Mark Brown and Barry Wilson to retain second spot and Ian Black, out injured for a few weeks towards the end of the season rounds out the top 5.

Special mentions must also go to 2003/04 POY winner Liam Keogh who only came back into the side after injury for the last few games and managed to amass 69 votes and 7 POY points and also to youngster Zander Sutherland who received 10 votes for the Falkirk game where he made his debut.

Unfortunately for Zander, 10 votes was not enough to get any Player of the Year points for this game as Tokely, Duncan and Keogh all got slightly more votes, but it was a good start for the promising youngster.

How Does it Work ? Started in season 2000/2001, the CaleyThistleOnline.com Player of the Year trophy is awarded at the end of each season to the player that supporters have voted to be the most consistent over a whole season.

After every League and Cup game of the season, supporters who were at the game can vote on who performed best in that match.  The voting traditionally took place on the Player of the Year forum on the old SportNetwork site but since the redesign, we now run a weekly poll which is open for 7 days from the final whistle of any game. This allows website users to vote for the players they think were the top 3 performers in that match. The top player is awarded 5 'match points', the 2nd gets 3 'match points' and the third gets 1 'match point'. When the voting is closed, we tally up both the quantity of votes (regardless of whether they are 5, 3 , or 1 point votes) and also the number of points awarded.

The quantity of votes a player receives in any match is counted up and the player with the highest quantity of votes at the end of each month is deemed to be the CaleyThistleOnline Player of the Month. This allows consistent performers who may get loads of 1 or 3 point votes but not too many 5 pointers to be in with a shout at being Player of the Month.

ICT PLAYERS OF THE MONTH 2005/06  MONTH PLAYER    August 2005 Craig Brewster  53 votes  September 2005 Mark Brown  42 votes October 2005 Darren Dods  43 votes  November 2005  Ian Black  43 votes  December 2005  Craig Dargo  64 votes  January 2006  Mark Brown  49 votes  February 2006  Craig Dargo  34 votes  March 2006  Richard Hart  26 votes  April 2006  Mark Brown 91 votes May 2006  Ross Tokely 31 votes

Player of the Year Points are calculated by counting up the number of points awarded to the player for each match by website users. We add up all the points for each player for each match and when they are all counted, the top 3 players in each match (highest match point totals) are awarded 5, 3, or 1 player of the year points respectively.

Player of the year points are counted up over the season and the player with the highest POY points total receives the CaleyThistleOnline Player of The Year trophy at an end of season awards ceremony.

WELL DONE to Craig, who joins those who have previously won the trophy. 

No player has been able to win it for two seasons in a row, so here's hoping that not only Craig but all of our top challengers from this season and maybe a few others will be around to try and win it next year ....

Winners  YEAR PLAYER   2000/2001 Bobby Mann   2001/2002 Barry Robson   2002/2003 Stuart Golabek   2003/2004 Liam Keogh   2004/2005 Ross Tokely   2005/2006 Craig Dargo