Supporter's Thanks Day 2010 / Okazaki Player of the Year

Barry writes:

Players singing in drag, embarrassing President Obama impressions and photos with players. Another year another Supporter's Thanks Day. Yesterday myself and fellow UK Ultras Yujiro and Susie trooped off to Shizuoka's vast Twin Messe event complex for the annual festival of all things S-Pulse.

Aside from the various attractions and things to do we also got to meet our line up for 2010, hear the result of last year's player of the year vote, and generally pass a thoroughly pleasant closed season Saturday afternoon. This year around 6300 fans turned out, 500 more than last year, making it by far our most successful Thanks Day event.

As for the player of the year, the result was as follows:

3) Johnsen

2) Iwashita

1) Okazaki

No surprises there, then. Iwashita was immense in 2009 and visibly grew as a player over the season. Okazaki was always going to be the winner though, and I'm sure the vote wasn't even slightly close!

As for the rest of the day, I'll let some pictures do the talking.

Thousands turned out
Mr Hayagawa and half the team
The other half
This year's shirt
Gorgeous!
Ono
Nishibe, Edamura and some English fella

Only six weeks till the new season, and we now know we have a friendly to help pass the time, so I'll see you all down Nihondaira on Feb 28th, then?