KUMB Writers' Player Of The Month - October 2006

Gnome's been slaving over his spreadsheets again. Well it keeps him off the streets.....

It was a hell of a month. Or should that be a hellish month. Five matches included four defeats as part of one of the worst runs in the club’s history and we were dumped out of the League Cup, not for the first time, by lower-league opposition. Against this background it was hardly surprising that, when I cranked up the steam-powered KUMB player-marks spreadsheet the average marks weren’t exactly on the high side. Indeed, of the 21 players used during the month, only six managed to average of 6 or more out of ten per match.

The arrival of the two Argentinian lads put the position of a number of last season’s regulars in doubt. Hayden Mullins in particular must have thought his number was up with the advent of Mascherano. However Javier has failed to make a major impression in the middle (other than as a mid-match snack for certain players keen for a change from their all-lasagne diet). The result was that Mullins’ steady average of 6.30 was good enough to give him October’s third place spot.

Anton Ferdinand nabs second spot with an average of 6.38 having had a month in which he could probably have been described as the least worst of the back four during the period.

However bad as most of October was, at least it ended with a win. There were signs of improvement and many put that down to the introduction of Robert Green between the sticks. His three appearances in the month netted him an impressive average of 7.67 marks per match and with it the KUMB Writers’ October Player of the Month award.

England’s no.1 has yet to make enough appearances to qualify for a spot on the main table in the race for Player of the Season which is led by Anton Ferdinand ahead of the August/September monthly award winner Lee Bowyer.

The full table:


1 Ferdinand 6.39
2 Bowyer 6.27
3 Carroll 6.25
4 Mullins 6.05
5 Tevez 5.86
6 Gabbidon 5.83
7 Mears 5.62
8 Benayoun 5.61
9 Cole 5.53
10 Dailly 5.51
11 Konchesky 5.44
12 Sheringham 5.35
13 Paintsil 5.32
14 Zamora 5.24
14 Harewood 5.24
16 Mascherano 5.11
17 Reo-Coker 4.90
18 Etherington 4.75





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