Player of the year: captain Chris Smith joint-seventh (From York Press)

Player of the year: captain Chris Smith joint-seventh

11:28am Saturday 4th February 2012 in Diary By Dave Flett, Sports reporter

BACK-TO-BACK man-of-the-match displays have seen captain Chris Smith move up to joint-seventh on the Player of the Year leaderboard.

Smith drew level with fellow defender Jamal Fyfield after collecting three points as our star man during Saturday’s 2-2 draw at Darlington.

The other points went to Paddy McLaughlin (two) and Ashley Chambers (one) as our second and third-highest rated players respectively.

Smith, meanwhile, finished joint-second in The Press Player of the Month standings for January after also picking up the two bonus points on offer for that contest having received the most man-of-the-match votes for the Darlington game from visitors to our website.

He finished behind Matty Blair in the monthly standings, which represents back-to-back awards for the former Kidderminster winger, who also took the honours in December.

Top scorer Jason Walker was our Player of the Month for August and September before sharing the October prize with Paddy McLaughlin. The November winner was midfielder Scott Kerr.

To be in with a chance of presenting the February Player of the Month with his prize at a City home game, vote for your man of the match from today’s clash with Ebbsfleet online by visiting yorkpress.co.uk

The Press Player of the Year standings (do not include Player of the Month bonus points): Walker 28 points, Blair 23, Kerr 22, McLaughlin 18, Ingham 16, Meredith 15, Fyfield 14, Smith 14, Chambers 13, McGurk 10, Moké 9, Challinor 7, Parslow 7, Oyebanjo 6, Boucaud 5, Pilkington 2, Henderson 1, Reed 1.

January Player of the Month final standings: Blair 13, Parslow 8, Smith 8, Kerr 7, McLaughlin 5, Ingham 3, Pilkington 2, Chambers 1, Fyfield 1.

Goals: Walker 15, Blair 14, McLaughlin 10, Chambers 9, Reed 7, Challinor 3, Smith 3, Fyfield 2, Moké 2, Pilkington 2, Ashikodi 1, Blinkhorn 1, Boucaud 1, Henderson 1, McGurk 1, Meredith 1, own goal 1.

Assists: Chambers 11, McLaughlin 10, Blair 8, Meredith 7, Moké 7, Pilkington 7, Reed 5, Walker 5, Kerr 4, Challinor 2, Oyebanjo 2, Potts 2, Henderson 1, McGurk 1, Parslow 1, Smith 1.

Bad boys: McGurk 8 yellow cards; Smith 6 yellow; Boucaud, Walker both 1 red, 3 yellow; Kerr 5 yellow; Challinor, Meredith both 4 yellow; McLaughlin, Parslow both 3 yellow; Fyfield, Moké, Oyebanjo, Reed all 2 yellow; Brown 1 red; Ashikodi, Chambers, Ingham all 1 yellow.