Butters is Player of the Season

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Well done Guy Butters

And not-so-well done to the alarmingly high number of posters on here who can't recognise consistently good performance when they see it. Or maybe the Player Of The Season award should just be automatically given to the player with the most goals - to save the blushes of an awful lot of posters who you'd assume would be a bit more savvy about what they're watching week in week out

 

[Mendoza]

An Experienced man playing in defence,
who ya gonna call.....GUY BUTTERS
When you see a long ball, clear it with your head,
who ya gonna call............GUY BUTTERS

 

[Inkerman]

I'm not saying it should have gone to Knight, and I agree that Butters is the most improved player. But BEST? Come on!

There's lots of ways of defining "best"

 

[Spicy]

I am pleased for Butters.

 

[Jam The Man]

Great news - well done Guy...

 

[Trigger]

Despite thinking Leon should have won, i will be giving Guy a huge round of applause tomorrow and i hope everyone else who doesn't agree with the choice will be aswell, he deserves that.

 

[Safeway]

He plays for the Albion, aren't we on the same side here?

Alan, disagreeing with the choice of Player of the Season has nothing WHATSOEVER to do with not supporting The Albion. Where on earth do you get that notion from?

I agree with Chappers as well. Butters may have a claim to the 'Most Improved' title, but never Player of the Season.

Scandalous. After last season this term's performances were the LEAST he could do.

 

[Safeway]

i will be giving Guy a huge round of applause tomorrow and i hope everyone else who doesn't agree with the choice will be aswell, he deserves that.

For the record, I agree entirely.

 

[kevinsmith]

Well done Guy. Having turned the supporters around from being an"overwieght no goodxxxxxxx to player of the season.

A well deserved award for the effort he has put in this season

 

[goldstone]

Waht a f***ing JOKE that is.

Tell me where in the table we'd be without Knights goals.

Please.

True, but irrelevant to whether he should be player of the season. Most fans will vote for a player who has given 100% for the team all of the time and I'm afraid Leon has seldom given 100%. He's a lazy little ..... sometimes. If he offered 100% on a regular basis I believe he could have been at 30 goals from open play plus the penalties.

 

[London Irish]

I think Butters will be quite embarassed. He obviously knew there was some danger of him winning, hence the interview he gave to Andy Naylor on Wednesday pleading for people to vote for Knight.

Oh well, it will get people talking - a little bit of controversy might raise the profile of the award.

I don't think it's a farce that he's won it over Leon, but it is a farce when Butters is only the third best central defender in the squad and a long way the second best on the season's performances.

 

[mitch]

well done guy butters,by the way how many people expressing disapproval actually voted?

 

[Pevenseagull]

Roberts has been key to a lot of points this season

The defensive record at home is magnificent and Butters has been as good as anyone at the back from what I've seen. Over the last few season's if Cullip's not been available or having a rare bad game we've been in all kinds of trouble. This season Butters has made a big difference, especially when you consider the number of youngsters who've been playing at the back with the experienced campaigners Watson and Mayo not contributing anything like as much as in the two championship seasons.

Chippy has performed well in a generally poor midfield in the (albeit few) games I've seen.

However, across 3 divisions only one player has scored more league goals than Knight. Knight's acheived this playing with half a dozen different partners up front. I don't care if he doesn't tackle back and doesn't run himself into the ground chasing lost causes.

He's scored 40% of our league goals this season.

Well done Guy Butters

Leon Knight, player of the season

 

[Gullet]

I actually voted the top 3 in the correct order so obviously I'm over the moon that he won. His effort and determination all season has been unquestionable and he has been a rock in defence against some good attacks. He's even contributed a couple of goals too!!
Leon seems to get the sulks too often and drifts out of the game when we need him the most. Having said that no-one can question the contribution he has made to the team this year,I just think that Guy has been more consistant.

 

[bhaexpress]

Apart from the debarcle or Bristol City at home has Butters had a single bad game this season ?

 

[Zebedee]

Just one thought - If Zamora had still been with us this season and had scored 25 goals, would Butters have been awarded the honour of Player of the Season? I'd like to think so but I wouldn't put money on it. However you look at it, I think Knight will be disappointed not to have won the award and must be wondering what more he has to do to win over some supporters. It wouldn't surprise me at all to see him leave at the end of the season.....and I, for on, wouldn't blame him. Let's just hope he's big enough to be up for the game today.

 

[Yorkie]

Just one thought - If Zamora had still been with us this season and had scored 25 goals, would Butters have been awarded the honour of Player of the Season? I'd like to think so but I wouldn't put money on it. However you look at it, I think Knight will be disappointed not to have won the award and must be wondering what more he has to do to win over some supporters. It wouldn't surprise me at all to see him leave at the end of the season.....and I, for on, wouldn't blame him. Let's just hope he's big enough to be up for the game today.

Well, if Knight goes we get compensation money as he has another year of his contract to run. Has anyone even made any enquiries about him?
Scoring goals from the penalty spot isn't necessarily the only contribution made to a team.
Don't get me wrong I've loved the goals he has scored and he is an assett to the team.
I think the biggest contribution to the team has been Danny Cullip and that's who I voted for,

 

[Zebedee]

Scoring goals from the penalty spot isn't necessarily the only contribution made to a team.

Sounds a little harsh Yorkie, especially since Knight was voted by his fellow players in the Div 2 team of the year. I go back to my original point which was that without Knight's goals this year we would have had a very average season. The play offs would certainly have been out of the question. I just wish that Knight had a better rapport with the supporters. I don't think he's as lazy as many people claim. What he has got though is bags of skill and quality which we should be trying to harness and develop rather than stifle with our long ball, hoof it and chase game. With our style of play, it's no wonder he looks so fed up sometimes.

 

[The Large One]

Alan, disagreeing with the choice of Player of the Season has nothing WHATSOEVER to do with not supporting The Albion. Where on earth do you get that notion from?

I wasn't making any reference about not supporting the Albion.

I was only replying to the point that: someone on here thought that the choice of one of the Brighton & Hove Albion players winning Player of the Season - someone who, by anyone's standards, has had an excellent season - was a farce or a joke.

I meant that; we are all on the same side, us fans have chosen - Guy Butters won. Where was the farce? What is it about Guy Butters, or his performances, that some people have such a problem with him winning?

THAT'S the point I was making - probably not all that clearly.

 

[Wozza]

From today's Guardian:

As the government tires to turn fat Brits onto fitness fiends, an inspiration tale from Brighton. Last summer some Seagull fans tried to sell the defender Guy Butters on the Internet: “One centre-half, king size, hardly used. Possible use as a whale simulator”. This week those same fans named butters their player of the year [sic]. “I cannot thank [the manager] Mark McGhee enough,” oozed Butters. “He was given me a new fitness regime which I have stuck with.” Rumours that it involves dangling pies at the end of a treadmill remain unsubstantiated”