First goal against Brighton (look it up) Second goal against Brighton (look it up) Free Kick against Huddersfield (look it up) shall I go on? Perhaps getting your facts correct would be a start.

Are you suggesting Townsend hasn't also been taking set pieces all season? Did you see his attempt direct from a free kick on the weekend?

To approach this as you normally would; Townsend has contributed 2 goals in 2956 mins this season, one of which was deflected, playing as a winger/forward for the vast majority of that - that's a return of roughly one goal every 16.5 games... to suggest he's been better than Luka is not even debatable.

For what it's worth; I would have Zaha as POTY and Loftus Cheek for YPOTY.

Guess assists don't matter at all.....doesn't matter if you have the most assists in the squad or from the entire teams outside of top 6. If you don't score goals you're not a good player. For me, it's actually the players providing assists who do more work than the actual goalscorers. Or at least they are on the same level.

Look at this: Townsend dribbles the defenders, gets a penalty kick for Palace and Luka takes the penalty. Whose contribution is greater? I think Townsend could have also scored a penalty. But could have Luka made that dribbling?

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AWB is easy. It’s not just about what the young player does for the first team but also a mark of progress, he was playing under 23s and stepped up to play against some of the biggest teams in the world and was MOM several times including against Huddersfield.

Zaha for POTY because if his excellent contributions.

Luka second and Tomkins third.

How anyone can doubt the importance of Luka is beyond me, his leadership on the pitch from having the bottle to smash vital penalties, to calming Zaha down and preventing him from being sent off several times, he doesn’t overplay the ball and makes the right decision most of the time.

Taking penalties doesn;t mean the same!! That's why I'm ranting about Luka. He's a good enough player, but he's overrated because he is the designated penalty taker. Without all those penalty goals, people here would've said just "Oh, Luka, oh ok, he's a decent player, pretty good at holding the midfield". But now, people think he's seriously the team's second goalscorer!! Because of penalty goals.

Same for your example of Benteke. Every site I've seen mention 7 assists and 2 goals for Townsend. Maybe the PL one doesn't count obtainning a penalty as an assist (but it should, cause the Huddersfield 2nd goal was mostly his work getting that penalty). Plus, there's 1 more assist in the Cup against Huddersfield (a PL team). So that's 8 assists and 2 goals in 3000 minutes in a season. Maybe not amazing for a winger, but show me 3 more wingers outside the top 6 teams who have done this in 3000 minutes.

Ok, so even if you discredit Benteke's penalty (which is a nonsense argument, but we'll entertain it), that's 2 goals and 5 assists in 2187 mins compared to Townsend's 2 goals and 6 assists in 3000 minutes - the point still stands. Make it 7 assists for Townsend if you want.. It still stands.

I specifically remember you saying that Benteke's cup goals last year shouldn't be 'counted' when people highlighted that he had 17 goals, so to suggest Townsend's cup assist can now count is just more hypocrisy.

Off the top of my head, 3 wingers outside the top six with better numbers;

- Mahrez
- Shaqiri
- Zaha
- Gross (not quite a winger, but comparable role to Townsend)