The 2005 foot.ie awards ideas thread
There was a thread about this earlier on, I ran them last year with an enormous amount of help from A Face and nobody seemed to mind me doing them again this year. I'll have plenty of time for the next month or so anyway, so it's no bother to me.
Last years format seemed to work grand so unless there's any suggestions here it'll be run much the same as then, which was like this. We had a load of categorys (I'll get into those later) and every person got one vote in each category, and could choose which categorys they wanted to vote in so they weren't forced to vote in each one as they may know nothing about it (Like someone who only knows the premier division voting on first division player of the year). So if you wanted, you could vote in only one category or you could vote in them all.
Anyway, the way voting was done was simple. I set up a seperate e-mail account and the people who vote send their votes to that e-mail address and include their username in the e-mail, then they should reply to a thread here and say they've voted so nobody trys to pretend they're someone else. I don't want them PMed to me as my inbox is nearly full and a few peoples votes could be lost, it's easier the e-mail way. If you've any real problem with the e-mail (I don't see why you could but if you do) I suppose you could PM me but everyone should try use the e-mail address way if they can. I'll put it up when the voting starts which will be in the first few days of january.
Now the categorys, here's last years list...
EL Player of the year
Div 1 Player of the year
EL Young player of the year
Div 1 Young player of the year
Most improved team (Div 1 or EL)
Best manager (Div 1 or EL)
Irish international teams player of the year
Best new cap
International young player of the year (Based on performances for any of our teams from U21 down)
Best goal (Can be either EL, Div 1 or international and can be down to anything, weather it was a brilliant goal or a significant one, whatever makes it your favourite)
Best save (Same as)
Best uncapped Irish player
Hero of 2004 (Again, either EL, Div 1 or international)
Villian of 2004 (Same as)
Most under rated player (same)
Most over rated player (same)
Best chant (Same)
Most amusing moment (same)
Moment of the year (Same, can be absolutley any moment that stood out for you for club or country)
What do people think category wise, what would you like to see included and what would you like to see omitted? I would suggest getting rid of the best chant and most amusing moment ones as the spread of votes was too high. Maybe we can put two more in their place, but I don't think we should go for too much more than what we have there. I was considering a user of the year award, what do people think? Could degenerate into a bit of a popularity contest so I don't know how the mods would feel about that.
Last year you were allowed vote for your own team if you wanted, it didn't seem to skew the voting too much, so I think we should keep it like this, but try not to be too biased, it's hardly the nobel peace prize. Again though, if you all think this is a bad idea say it here, if the majority want a change in that policy say it here.
So really, this is just the suggestions thread. The competition wont start until 2006, so any comments/suggestions or complaints from last year you want to make on the competition put them here be they category ideas or whatever. Any good ideas at all could easily be implemented, I haven't set anything up yet.
