A TRIO of York City players have broken away from the rest of the field in The Press Player of the Year contest.

Adam Bartlett heads the standings on 22 points, with Kallum Griffiths his nearest challenger on 19 and Jordan Burrow third with 17.

No other player has hit double figures yet with long-term injury absentee Simon Heslop, the departed Russ Penn and Joe Tait all a distant joint-fourth on nine points.

Griffiths closed the gap on keeper Bartlett at the summit by collecting three points as our man of the match during last weekend’s 2-0 defeat at Boston.

But the inroads he made were limited by Bartlett receiving two points as our second-highest rated performer in Lincolnshire.

The remaining point was awarded to Joe Davis as our third-highest rated performer.

Bartlett, meanwhile, picked up the two Player of the Month bonus points on offer towards that contest after attracting the most man-of-the-match votes in our online poll and he is four points clear at the top of that leaderboard, having also taken the honours for November.

The Press Player of the Year standings: Bartlett 22, Griffiths 19, Burrow 17, Heslop 9, Penn 9, Tait 9, Moke 8, Wright 8, Newton 7, Bray 6, Parkin 6, Allan 4, Ferguson 4, Langstaff 4, Davis 3, Digie 3, Harris 3, York 3, Hawkins 2, Law 2, Dyer 1, McAughtrie 1.

The Press Player of the Month standings for December: Bartlett 9, Burrow 5, Griffiths 4, Bray 2, Moke 2, Davis 1, Harris 1.

Goals: Burrow 11, Langstaff 5, Newton 3, Parkin 3, Ferguson 2, Harris 2, Tait 2, Wright 2, York 2, Hawkins 1, Heslop 1, Moke 1.

Assists: Burrow 6, Harris 5, Ferguson 3, Langstaff 3, Parkin 3, Bray 3, Bartlett 2, Griffiths 2, Law 2, Allan 1, Digie 1, Heslop 1, Newton 1, Tait 1, Wright 1.

Discipline: Heslop, Wright both six yellow cards; Griffiths, Newton both four yellow; Tait one red, two yellow; Bencherif, three yellow; Davis, Law both two yellow; Penn one red, one yellow; Allan, Ferguson, Hawkins, Kempster, Langstaff, McAughtrie, Moke all one yellow.