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They are tonight for some reason. Hopefully Matt Ritchie can win it, but Marlon Pack did look quality yesterday.

But why have the awards now? with 10 or so games to go. It's just stupid.

Thought the right back Lowe was as good as i have seen in the league yesterday.

Worse than that they have to be voted on before the end of December apparently.

Myles Storey up for the apprentice award too.

And Swindon Town up for Best Family Club and Best Matchday programme.

Might be wrong, but aren't they for 2011?

Also thought Cheltenham's full back (Lowe?) was very good - don't think Rooney got past him very often.

Rooney didn't give him a lot to do once Lowe figured out that Rooney would pick the ball up and cut inside every time

Full shortlists....


http://www.football-league.co.uk/footballeagueawards/20120209/shortlists-2012_2293339_2604804

Cardiff family club of the year ??????!

Do they have the League Two team of the year, or is it later on this season?

We've been named as Family Club of the Year in L2.

Swindon win Family Club of the Year.

I've just popped open a bottle of champers

Any news of if Ritchie got L2 Player of the Year yet?

No news on Player of the year awards yet, Club or Gary Rose will say on Twitter for the quickest for updates.

No. Storey missed out on Apprentice of the Year.

Think it was pretty obvious Nick Powell would win that, been brilliant for Crewe this season.

 :clap: :clap:

Yeah....Nick Powell....obvious.... ???

Scored two crackers yesterday,only 17 as well.

Crewe player ost.Superb talent and rightful winner.

Just looked at his record.......46 games under his belt and only 17 :eek:

Gus Poyet wins Manager of the year, was really hoping Lee Clarke would win that.

The first was especially good.

Yeah...I knew that....obviously....

Is that a FACT

I guess so...I have to confess ignorance on this one, I've watched the FL Show all season but I've clearly not been paying attention ???

The amount of young players from Crewe is truly remarkable.

It is, shame the new rule about young players will really affect them.

It's a pity there is no award for best celebration. Paolo would have won that hands down after Norhampton !!

STFC have been awarded The Football League Best Matchday Programme for League 2 at the 2012 Football League Awards #STFC


Still nothing on Player of the year yet though!

Just the player awards left now I think.

10 goals from 46 games from midfield at 17 years old.
Saw his goals yesterday, clearly a special kid.

Mr Wray, if you're reading this, whack a £150K bid in for him in the summer ;)

Well deserved I think, our programme is much better than any of the away ones I have seen this season.

Whilst it will be good for him, who really cares. These awards are a joke being done so early and Ritchie won't even win our player of the season so I find the whole thing a waste of time.

We did win the League 1 best programme last year.

With reported interest from Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool, it's safe to say we have no chance. 

That's the spirit

The #npower Player of the Year for #League2 is Matt Ritchie #stfc #FLAwards2012

Well done Matt!

Great stuff, well done Ritchie.

Although, I do kind of agree with Give Us A S, I would put him third behind McCormack and Caddis as our player of the season.

Well done Matt Ritchie!

That'll put another few bob on his price.

The fact that he's not even the clear cut choice to win our own player of the year (I think I'll probably vote McCormack, for example) is a testament to how good a season this has been.

He only won it 'cos the other nominees had an off-day

Fully agree on that.

Gary Rose just posted that on twitter.

Pretty much every single person I follow who has replied has said McCormack...

I really am happy for him. But McCormack and Caddis will fight our player of the season. Personally I don't understand the whole process. But great for our player to get recognition.

McCormack's adapted brilliantly, but Caddis has had a brilliant season and was ever present until this weekend.

Our upturn of form can be traced almost perfectly to the arrival of one Wesley Foderingham.

And the unbeaten run started pretty much the moment Benson arrived.

So many candidates, it seems unfair to even try to pick one.

Absolutely. Either that or he must've gotten lucky. How much is the fine nowadays for winning awards as Swindon Town?

Are these calender year rather than season?

Which makes little sense as we spent some in L1 and less in L2. I dunno why I think they are, something about Simon Cox goal Vs Walsall not being nominated because it was in January or something the other year.

Great effort from Ritchie. For those that knock him for having quiet games every now and again, it is worth remembering that other sides come to play us, set up to nullify him.  McCormack has been exceptional, but at centre back his role is more reactionary and he is naturally going to be more consistent. The fact Ritchie has been as potent as he has, when he has been double marked half the time makes his impact all the more impressive. It is a well deserved award. Now sign that contact extension...

Matt Ritchie is currently trending on twitter too.

Congrats to Matt Ritchie!

Richie is a match winner and creative. Easy to see why he gets the attention he does. He's also the player who is worth the most(if he was for sale of course)
Macca deffo would get the nod for player of the year currently, but its nice to have plenty of players in the running who i wouldn't begrudge winning it.

We've had so many seasons where our player of the year was so hard to pick - because there was no-one deserving of the award.  We've also had some years when one player stood out by a mile - the Parkin years.  Its great to have a hard choice because so many have been consistently good.

alan mccormack, alan mccormack, alan, alan

I personally think at the moment it's between Fodders & Macca.

But Foderingham has only been here since october and only 'our' player since January, and McCormack has been here all year, so at the moment, he wins it for me.

Yesterday is a perfect example of that. Mark Yeats said in his post match interview that he dropped their regular left back to bring in Jombati specifically to counter Ritchie's threat.

That's some compliment.

I was wondering that!!!

I would like to throw Flint into the mix.  He has been injured in recent weeks but up until then he has been huge for us this season.

Really pleased for Matt and for the club to get so many nominations and actually win several awards.

This is a real up and coming club, watch out Football League we are coming to get you!

Oh and I know it bothers some people on here but I like to read what other fans are saying about us, here are some reactions to last nights awards.

Done fuck all? A cursory comparison of the top scorers table would suggest otherwise

45 appearances, 10 goals, 14 assists, and interest from the rest of the Football League.

By way of comparison, Pack has 42 appearances, 4 goals and 7 assists. Maybe that's unfair, as I don't know what type of player he is. However, nobody at Cheltenham has more than 8 assists, and none of their midfielders is into double figures for goals.

'Matt Richie isn't fit to lace up Marlon boots.


Because we're Cheltenham, that's why Richie claimed the prize. No congratulations from me.


Matt Richie has done Feckall. The awards are a complete farce'

This annoys me. How do Cheltenham fans (apart from 2 games) know what Matt Ritchie has done this year?

Likewise, had Pack won the award, it would annoy me if anyone on here moaned about 'what Marlon Pack has done this year'.

Fans don't know anything about other team's players so these comments are completely stupid!

Deserved....i think the arrival of Rooney has taken a bit of pressure off him.
Had a few quite games recently but that is to be expected with the energy he gives every match.

If you're looking at the Chelt forum, ignore anything that Malabus posts. The biggest wind up merchant on any forum going.

I think they are talking about someone else anyway. I've never heard of Matt Richie.

He used to be on Eastenders,still is maybe.

As I do when I have no work and bored, had a quick look on the yellows site. Interesting quote on their thread about the awards (Leven was up for goal of the season). Probably a wind up but interesting nonetheless.

The bad news is that Pack has agreed to join Swindon in the summer. Deal is as good as done and will sign a three year deal.

Read more: http://www.yellowsforum.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=oufcplayers&action=display&thread=8265#ixzz1oty6qkyr

Good forum that!

Disappointing attendance at the awards.

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Well done Matt!

A key part of our team, has provided goals all season and bagged some worldys, im sure in part he would like to dedicate his award to Ferry and Caddis, those 3 when there on form are sometimes unplayable at this level.

COYR

I think we got Eric's vote for that one at least.

So do they still do a L2 team of the year then? i.e people vote for the (supposedly) best XI as opposed to the best team (i.e. Swindon)

And just where does he get his info on our future transfer targets ??

I think this is wild speculation because Marlon was sat on our table. 2+2 = 5 comes to mind.

Yes, but that's the PFA awards. I remember back in '85-86 that we won the division by 18 points...but had no-one included in the team.

But thats like this season - there were plenty of teams better than us and plenty of players better than we had

No Bob, Leven really was up for goal of the season!

Should have a good midfield next season then, Marlon Pack, Simon Ferry and Peter Leven!! 

With Messi and Cavani up front.

Only if Benson is injured.

He is the biggest tool going.

I see Graham Turner got an award for services to football at the dinner - I bet Fatty Evans thinks he was robbed and it was all a fascist conspiracy to stop him winning anything!!

Fatty Evans paid us a compliment, and it wasn't even backhanded. I think the Devil is skating to work tomorrow.

http://www.crawleytownfc.com/page/LatestNews/0,,11025~2647174,00.html

.....and Oxford don't.....................oh no I see another meltdown coming.

Eric is going to get very angry - they're at the game and they're in your end - every game and every year.