Central defender Dara O’Shea admitted he hadn’t expected to be named the Town Men’s Player of the Year having been handed his award at last night’s End-of-Season Dinner at Milsoms Kesgrave Hall with Sophie Peskett winning the women’s gong.

O’Shea joined the Blues from Burnley for £15 million in the summer and has made more Premier League starts than anyone else.

“I’m a bit taken aback by it, I wasn’t really expecting it,” the Irish international told TownTV. “It’s obviously lovely to receive the recognition for all the hard work we’ve put in this season.

“I’m really proud of everything we’ve done as a group this season and looking forward to next season now to see what we can do.

“So many lessons were learned this year that would take years and years to come by if we hadn’t been under those circumstances. It’s powerful what we’ve done this season and what we’ve learned.

“It’s such a young group, so little experience in the Premier League, so to compete, which I think we’ve done quite well, maybe results haven’t shown that, but I think from inside the group and what you know, we’ve competed really well this season and it’s something that we’ve all got to be proud of but also learn from and move on forward.”

Forward Peskett, who had previously been named the FAWNL Southern Premier Division Player of the Year having also claimed the Golden Boot for netting 23 times, said: “Really honoured to have received these two awards. Obviously, with the season we’ve had to have contributed to that is amazing.

“I’ve got to give credit to every single player that played any minutes at all this year, all of them deserve all the credit and love.”

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Lukeybluey added 15:01 - May 20 Congrats! On a separate note, ive just heard a rumour on the grapevine that town are looking to add another tier to the west stand in the not too distant future...? Apparently to be done before the cobbold is knocked down and rebuilt... is this true...? Ths club want to get ghe capacity up to then host international games.
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blues1 added 17:50 - May 20 Lukeybluey. Yes, they will apparently be putting another tier over the west stand. Only they can knock down the covbold stand without drastically lowering the capacity while the new stand is built.
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ottovonbismark added 19:12 - May 20 Congratulations Dara well done, hope you stay for next season.
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ArnieM added 20:14 - May 20 Congratulations Dara, our most consistently performing Town player this season . Maintained a regular 8 out of 10 performance most weeks in my view.
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ArnieM added 20:17 - May 20 Yes, a new tier holding 4k fans i believe us to be added to West Stand to enable thise displaced fans in the Cobbold be re housed whilst the cantilever stand is constructed over the top of the Cobbold stand. Can't see them taking down that extra tier either ...
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Linkboy13 added 20:49 - May 20 It had to be Oshea or Delap unless you suffer from favourite player syndrome that most fans do.
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