After over a week of voting it is time to announce our annual season award winners. What did you choose as the best goal and game from this campaign and who was named your QPRnet player of the season?
Goal of the Season
First is the goal of the season category, you had ten great strikes to choose from only six received votes and out of those it's two that favoured the most attention.
Both of those were scored by Adel Taarabt and both were against Welsh clubs. In the end, by just a handful of votes it's Tarbs' fantastic free flowing goal against Swansea at Loftus Road that wins the prize.
His winner just saw off a close challenge from his equally stunning first effort against Cardiff in April with the Swansea goal taking around 35% of your votes just 3% or so more than the Cardiff one.
Wayne Routledge's January winner against Coventry at Loftus Road came in third with nearly 20% of you picking that one whilst there were also votes received for Simon's wild card choice, Routledge's decisive goal at Reading, Mackie's late, late equaliser at Derby and Taarabt's blaster against Burnley.
So Adel retains the goal of the season award that he also won last year making him the first player to do so in ten years of this feature and only the second player after Martin Rowlands to win this award twice. What's the betting he'll complete a hatrick of wins next season?
December: Taarabt 2nd v Swansea (H)
35.48%
April: Taarabt 1st v Cardiff (A)
32.26%
January: Routledge v Coventry (H)
19.35%
Wild Card: Routledge v Reading (A)
6.45%
August: Mackie v Derby (A)
3.23%
October: Taarabt v Burnley (A)
3.23
Match of the Season
The match of the season vote proved to be a much tighter affair with seven out of the ten games on offer receiving votes. The Welsh clashes again duelled at the top of the poll with the 4-0 thumping on Swansea at Loftus Road in December eventually coming out on top.
That did enough to encourage a quarter of you to vote for it and beat the home win against Cardiff into second place by around 7%.
Our wild card pick, that fantastic 2-2 draw at Pride Park, was a close third just 2% behind whilst the away fixture at Cardiff and the 1-0 win at Reading came fourth and fifth respectively.
December: QPR 4-0 Swansea
25.45%
November: QPR 2-1 Cardiff
18.18%
Wild Card: Derby 2-2 QPR
16.36%
April: Cardiff 2-2 QPR
14.55%
February: Reading 0-1 QPR
12.73%
March: QPR 1-0 Leicester
9.09%
October: Palace 1-2 QPR
3.64%
Player of the Season
Finally it's the player of the season award and five of the six names in the running received votes with only poor old Jamie Mackie ignored.
Kyle Walker did enough in his short spell with the club to impress nearly 3% of you to vote for him, he finishes fifth overall this season.
Last years winner Ali Faurlin takes fourth this year with 10% more than Walker which leaves the top three to be fought out between Shaun Derry, Paddy Kenny and Adel Taarabt.
Frankly they could have finished in any order and no one would have had any right to complain, the trio have all been fantastic throughout the season and in different ways all deserve to win this award. However there can be only one and it's Adel Taarabt who triumphs in the end with 38% of you picking him over this years runner up Paddy Kenny.
Kenny did rather well himself taking 31% of the votes but it just wasn't enough to edge out Tarbs who is a worthy winner after a thoroughly fantastic year. Congratulations to Adel who becomes our tenth QPRnet player of the season and becomes the first player since Paul Furlong in 2005 to take both of our individual awards.
Aug '10, Nov '10, Jan '10: Adel Taarabt
38.36%
Wild Card: Paddy Kenny
31.51%
March '11: Shaun Derry
15.07%
Feb '11, April '11: Alejandro Faurlin
12.33%
Dec '10: Kyle Walker
2.74%
Those results bring our season long awards process to an end for another year, this feature will return next season with a new look and a few tweaks. In the meantime thanks to everyone who took part over the course of the campaign and enjoy the summer!
