Just in case anyone is interested, here are the jonwant.com Player
of the Season Awards for 2004-2005.
As regular readers will know, I (and the occasional guest reporter)
have marked each player out of ten in each game I have seen this
season, and also awarded a Man of the Match Award for each game.
Based on these figures, and a little discretion, I have made my
choices for the Player of the Season Awards.
In 3rd Place is RONNIE WALLWORK. Having
won the official fans vote, Ronnie was certainly in the running
for the top prize. Had the vote been on the second half of the season,
he would certainly have won it, but I didn't feel I could give the
top prize to a player who didn't feature for the first nineteen
games. His average rating of 7.05 was the highest in the squad,
and he also picked up 3 Man of the Match awards. He was a consistent
rather than a spectacular performer but he played a vital role in
helping to shield the back four.
In 2nd Place is JONATHAN GREENING. Jonno
was by far and away Albion's most consistent performer in the first
half of the season. Had his average rating been taken prior to his
suspension for the Spurs game, he would have won at a canter, but
a mini slump in form at the business end of the season brought his
rating down to 6.78. His total of 6 Man of the Match awards indicates
how much he stood out from the crowd.
I had no doubts as to who should win the jonwant.com Player of the
Season. With an average rating of 6.73 and an outstanding 8 Man
of the Match Awards, it goes to ZOLTAN GERA. Gera
stood out as Albion's most consistently skillful player and probably
the fittest. He is the only member of the squad to have played a
part in every single first team game this season. Megson may not
have been sure of the Hungarian's talents despite the spectacular
way in which he marked his full debut against Spurs, but Robbo started
him in all but two of the games that he took charge of. His total
commitment to the cause and his penchant for scoring great and important
goals meant that, in my opinion, he was the outstanding player of
the season.
There are other players that deserve a
special mention. Paul Robinson and Neil Clement performed superbly
well once Robson took charge and look to be finally realising their
promise to be good Premiership players and Kieran Richardson was
certainly a star during his loan spell, and his quality was underlined
by his superb England debut. And I must make a point of praising
Andy Johnson; he has been much criticised on this website, and I
would just like to say how much he started to improve under Bryan
Robson - his injury was ill-timed and I look forward to seeing if
he can pick up where he left off next season.
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