Football League awards: top 15 players

[The Albion Roar]

The fact that Stephens and Dunk have been our 4th/5th best players at the absolute most and the only 2 to get on there is ridiculous. Kayal, Bruno, Stockdale our best 3 then you have Knockaert, Rosenior, Hemed, Goldson etc.

Is it a 'fact'? Or an opinion?

Not many managers saw Knockaert, Rosenior and Goldson play (at least not twice), so voting for them wouldn't have been obvious. And Hemed, for a forward, was hopelessly out of form for a while, not scoring for about 10 matches.

 

[Petee]

Does it really matter? The reason why we've been so good this season is the way that we've played as a TEAM rather than having a couple of star individuals making the headlines.

I know I agree but dunk and Stephens our best 2? Don't think so

 

[Dolph Ins]

According to whoscored top 5 players so far this season

norwood
judge
davies
ayala
duffy

Its a funny old game

 

[GingerBeerMan]

See it this way ... if the MANAGERS of this league can't see how good Kayal is, we have a very good chance of keeping him.

If opposition managers can't see how good Kayal is, that's probably why we keep bloody winning.

 

[strangersam]

The fact that dunk and Stephens have been picked over kayal and Bruno just shows how meaningless these awards are

 

[Ninja Elephant]

Stephens carried Kayal at the start of the season, and he was scoring. Kayal was maddeningly sloppy and dithery at times.

It's obvious the midfield severely suffered with the absence of either of them, but Kayal was - in comparison to Stephens at least - not quite there. In comparison to most of the rest of the division, he was still way up there of course.

It's Stephens who the fellow professionals have noticed. Pity not so many of the fans have.

In your opinion, only. I think you'll find that a lot of people couldn't possibly agree that Kayal was "not quite there", compared to anyone. Quite honestly, I can't believe anyone who watched the games doesn't think Kayal was outstanding at the start of the season. Maybe it's more a commentary on your memory, but whatever it is, we couldn't disagree more.

Nobody is criticising Stephens, the man has been fantastic but I suspect he gets more recognition for scoring goals in televised matches. For me, Kayal has been THE difference for us.