Just off the top of my head Mick McCarthy won it 3 times, Glavin won it twice & Neil Redfearn won it early in his Reds career. As Archer said AP won it last year, and I'm positive there's a load more others. So that's your theory down the drain ...
https://www.barnsleyfc.co.uk/club/history/awards-winners There is only DKD worthy of joining the list. It should be a Putin election level of a landslide victory.
Not for me. Mael has had plenty of good games for us. Last season he got about 5 man of the matches in a row. I've seen about 3 good games in total for Mccarthy