Duff and Rodriguez share the Watford spoils

08 March 2012 16:46
Last Saturday was another disappointing day for us as we lost a 2-0 lead at Watford and went down to a 3-2 defeat, our third successive Championship loss.

Such was the performance, the player ratings were low whilst the man of the match vote drew a very small number of voters.

Michael Duff came out on top in the vote despite playing only the first half before being withdrawn with an injury. He polled 34.7% of the vote with Jay Rodriguez, scorer of our first goal, taking second place.

Jay's share was 27.0% and Dean Marney had 12.1% which was enough to give him third place on his return to the side following the birth of his baby a week earlier.

The same three players took the top three places in the player ratings although this time it was Rodriguez who came out on top with a rating of 7.08 out of 10. Duff and Marney were the only other players to score above the average performance rating of six with Duff's 6.54 taking second place and Marney coming third with a rating of 6.15 out of 10.

That means five points each for Duff and Rodriguez towards the Clarets Mad Player of the Year with two points for Marney.

Those points have changed the table too with Jay moving into first place, four points clear of Kieran Trippier. Marney remains in fourth place and Duff has now moved above Charlie Austin and David Edgar into sixth place.

The next vote will get underway on Saturday evening after the Crystal Palace home game and the results from the Watford game with the current player of the year table are below.

Man of the Match

34.5% - Michael Duff (60 votes)27.0% - Jay Rodriguez (47 votes) 12.1% - Dean Marney (21 votes) 4.6% - Lee Grant (8 votes) 4.0% - David Edgar & Ben Mee (7 votes) 3.4% - Ross Wallace (6 votes) 2.9% - Brian Easton (5 votes) 1.7% - Chris McCann, Josh McQuoid, Martin Paterson & Kieran Trippier (3 votes) 0.6% - Charlie Austin (1 vote)

Player Ratings

7.08 - Jay Rodriguez6.54 - Michael Duff6.15 - Dean Marney5.92 - Lee Grant & Kieran Trippier5.69 - Ross Wallace5.08 - David Edgar5.00 - Ben Mee4.92 - Charlie Austin4.77 - Chris McCann4.69 - Josh McQuoid4.23 - Martin Paterson3.54 - Brian Easton

Clarets Mad Player of the Year

63: Jay Rodriguez59: Kieran Trippier50: Marvin Bartley43: Dean Marney37: Lee Grant32: Michael Duff31: Charlie Austin30: David Edgar25: Ross Wallace24: Chris McCann & Ben Mee22: Andre Amougou17: Keith Treacy11: Brian Easton5: Wade Elliott & Junior Stanislas2: Martin Paterson1: Zavon Hines & Danny Ings 

Source: FOOTYMAD