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Bluemike
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by Bluemike » Sun Apr 12, 2015 11:22 am
Striker Daryl Murphy was named the Supporters' Player of the Year 2014/15 at the Supporters Club's Player Awards evening in the Sir Bobby Robson Suite earlier this evening, with last year’s winner Christophe Berra second and Kevin Bru third.
Murphy, who also carried off the Junior Blues and Platinum Season Ticket Holders gongs, was delighted to win the main award by a landslide.
“It’s a big honour for me, I think I was second last year and to get it this year I can’t thank everyone enough, especially the fans,” he said.
The 32-year-old, who has scored 23 goals so far this season, says he’s not sure why he’s had quite such a fruitful campaign.
“From last year I scored a few towards the end of the season and I wanted to kick on this year so maybe it was working a bit harder, having a few extra sessions with TC and that,” he added.
Murphy, who attended the event along with the rest of the squad, manager Mick McCarthy and assistant Terry Connor and other staff, says that while a total of 30 goals now seems out of reach, he’ll be looking to add to his total in the remaining matches.
“There are four games left, who knows what could happen, I can bang in a few, hopefully.”
Also amongst the winners at the awards, which were presented by representatives of the Supporters Club branches while Radio Suffolk’s Mark Murphy MCed, was Teddy Bishop, who picked up the Dale Roberts Academy Player of the Year award for the season's best young player.
So pleased for the big man who at times has carried us almost single handedly to the play off race, it was a no brainer in truth and the expected landslide was confirmed.
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Charnwood
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by Charnwood » Sun Apr 12, 2015 12:02 pm
Agreed.
Without his goals we'd probably be in the bottom six and not the top six.
Well done DM, you've most definitely had a fantastic season and deserve your recognition.
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Another couple would be nice and would surely guarantee you to be the top goal scorer in English football this season.
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hallamblue
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by hallamblue » Sun Apr 12, 2015 12:07 pm
Player of the year??? Hes utter crap , innit!
Well done Murph. Awesome season!
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ipswichtownNo1
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by ipswichtownNo1 » Sun Apr 12, 2015 12:59 pm
Useless, gets player of the year? Not scored in how long???
Well done murphy, same again in the prem next year for us please !!!
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arana peligrosa
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by arana peligrosa » Sun Apr 12, 2015 9:53 pm
A deserving honor for Murphy and as others as stated, has been a big factor in our success of this season. Yes I don't think either he can reach thirty goals with four games remaining but would be the first to admit being wrong if that is actually achieved. Yes he's been not as productive in recent games but he's had a great season nonetheless and there's a number of strikers in this league that don't even achieve 20 + goals themselves so he's done well. Has been a valuable commodity for Ipswich since the start of season.
