Player of the Year 2005-06

Even before the votes for the last three games of the season are tallied (last weeks game at Livi plus the final two games), it is now clear that Craig Dargo has been voted by the fans as the CaleyThistleOnline.com Player of the Year 2005/06 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 journeyed through this season.

Player		POY PTS	TOTAL VOTES
Dargo	Craig	69	269
Dods	Darren	46	245
Brown	Mark	43	240
Black	Ian	40	164
Wilson	Barry	39	191
Tokely	Ross	23	157
Hart	Richard	22	98
Morgan	Alan	20	82
Duncan	Russell	17	94
Wyness	Dennis	14	79
Brewster	Craig	11	75
Proctor	David	11	70
McBain	Roy	9	53
Hastings	Richard	7	56
McCaffrey	Stuart	4	24
Munro	Grant	1	53
Golabek	Stuart	1	13
Keogh	Liam	0	33
Fox	Liam	0	13
Bayne	Graham	0	9
McAllister	Rory	0	9
Hislop	Steven	0	2
Parratt	Tom	0	0
Finnegan	Chris	0	0
Fraser	Michael	0	0

Darren 'The Machine' Dods, who won the supporters player of the Year award is fighting it out for second place with Mark Brown, and Barry Wilson. Any of these three players can still finish second to Craig in the voting, but Ian Black, the other player in the top 5 cannot add to his points tally as unfortunatley, his season is already over.

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.

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	?
May 2006	?

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. 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.

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

WELL DONE to Craig, who now joins those who have previously won the trophy. No-one has been able to win it two season's in a row, here's hoping that not only Craig but all of our top challengers from this season will be around to try and win it next year ....