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Eagles polled 34.8% of the vote to take first place in the vote with striker Martin Paterson second with 22.2%. Paterson scored the goal and, playing up front on his own, gave Jonathan Woodgate and Michael Dawson plenty of difficult moments.
Wade Elliott, again playing in the centre of midfield and even replacing Joey Gudjonsson in the holding role, came third with 12.7% of the vote.
Eagles and Paterson also claimed the top two places in the player ratings. Eagles, again the winner, had a rating of 8.13 out of 10 whilst Paterson was second with a rating of 7.77. Chris McCann took third place with a rating of 7.52.
Eagles wins six points towards the Clarets Mad Player of the Season, and there are four votes for Paterson and one each for Elliott and McCann.
The points have made no difference to the placings at the top of the table but Eagles has now reduced Paterson's lead at the top to just eight points. McCann remains third and Elliott goes above Graham Alexander and Robbie Blake into seventh place.
The current table
58: Martin Paterson
50: Chris Eagles
44: Chris McCann
33: Steven Caldwell & Brian Jensen
31: Stephen Jordan
27: Wade Elliott
26: Graham Alexander & Robbie Blake
18: Clarke Carlisle & Michael Duff
16: Kevin McDonald
9: Russell Anderson
5: Joey Gudjonsson & Christian Kalvenes
4: Steven Thompson