CTO Player of the Month - November

Editorial note: First of all, we must apologise for the lateness of this article. Our resident vote collator  Hislopsoffsideagain did submit it in plenty of time, but we dropped the ball editorially. So without further ado, here is the article for our Player of the Month award for November (which will be followed closely by the December article).

Aside from a 5-1 shellacking at home to Motherwell, November was a successful month indeed for ICT, producing wins at Kilmarnock, Celtic and Aberdeen as well as a draw with Hearts in Inverness.  In fact, the team did so well that they managed a clean sweep of SPL awards - manager of the month for Terry Butcher, Player of the month for on-form striker Billy McKay, and young player of the month for Aaron Doran.

So it may come as a surprise that CaleyThistleOnline's Player of the month for November was not McKay (who was only sixth), or Doran (who came third) but...

DAVID RAVEN!!!!

After a somewhat shaky start to the campaign, the English right back has been the epitome of consistency in recent weeks - and clearly supporters have been noticing.  Raven picked up 44 votes in November, and was man of the match in the Hearts game.  He comfortably beat fellow defender Gary Warren (30 votes) into second.

No player won more than one man of the match vote this month - Andrew Shinnie (vs Kilmarnock), Antonio Reguero (vs Motherwell), Aaron Doran (vs Celtic) and Billy McKay (vs Aberdeen), so the overall standings remain close.  The elder Shinnie is now the outright leader, five points ahead of Richie Foran, with Ross Draper third.  It is very, very close though...