I have to agree with J-Axe. Brilliant goals can simply be moments of individual brilliance, but i think it can also be a peice of team brilliance. Particularly the passes right before the goal have to be taken into consideration in my view. If you pull off a sensational chipped one-two and volley into the top corner it has to be deemed better than say a corner and a volley. Or 5 or 6 one-touch passes that sythe through a defence for a neat finish has to be considered a great goal too.

Nevertheless, it's something you really have to decide upon.

Oh, and just a little suggestion on Aussie_Liverpool_Fan's suggestion - maybe people could nominate a top 10 in no particular order, and the 10 with the most votes go into the poll. If people nominate one goal, isn't it basically just voting for their favourite and technically the person with the most nominations should win anyway (although it wouldn't work out exactly like that, as people who voted for goals that didn't make the cut would have their votes free).

As Cesc says, "A pass that makes a goal, can be as good as a goal."

With most goals, they wouldn't have been goals if it weren't for the build up play or the assisted pass. So it should all be taken into consideration.

Yeah, Conner's just had a Frank Spencer moment there. Forgive him

Yeah me too. I was a real classy finish. It looked like the sort of goal Henry would score when he was full of confidence, because of the way his body was positioned to hit it hard and low, but he then changed it at the last minute, and floated it over the 'keeper in such a classy way. I was surprised the commentators didn't get more excited about it. I'm sure if Henry scored it they would've.

Hmmmm betty!

hmm betty .. Well i guess you all have a point , but its just that whenever i have watched Match of the Day they never mention anything about the team play when doing the goal of the month competition . It is not called `team` goal of the month . The actual `goal` is the thing that matters ..an example is if a team ..Liverpool .has a lightning counter atttack and a cross is floated into the box ...up jumps Pter Crouch to head the ball ...however it hits him on the shoulder and goes in the net ....goal . Now would you all qualify as a goal of the month because of the superb movement leading up to it .. ?

Another example is a defender makes a tackle on a player heading towards goal , the ball is deflected to a midfielder ..who blast the ball 25 yds into the net ....great goal or not much cop because the shot was only the result of a deflection ...

To me the goal is the deciding factor ....not how we got to it ...the player is the one who is going to win the award ....not the team ...

Conner, who won the BBC MOTD Goal of the Season last year?

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Why? Because it was a great counter-attack and great team play up to the goal which was comfortably finished by Rooney.

Was it a better strike than van Persie's screaming volley against Charlton, that gave us a 2-1 away win? No. They voted it the winner because 1.) they're biased, 2.) they went for team play, despite forgetting the fact that the team play for the van Persie goal was also better!

If Arsenal had won the league then Van Persie would have got it

Aye, but he should have got it regardless.

ok fair enough if that is how they choose it , i want to make sure we all understand how to narrow down the goals we nominate .. i guess it has to be a good goal as well as the build up ...like i said i dont think a simple tap in would qualify ..

elano,diaby or van persie

Ronaldo vs Wigan

Nothing special. One pass from Pique set Rooney through and he squard it to Ronaldo for an easy tap in.

Good flowing goal but not a contender.

has to be goals from october ...please indicate the matches if you can as it makes it much easier for us to remember the goals then .

Van Persie against Sunderland/Gordon so far for me.

Oh how I wish Chopper was still around.

Tevez 's goal was fantastic......superb skill and sccuracy of the shot!!!!
A great buy for the team....let hope he can keep up the good work!

so then just RVP against sunderland - first goal

elano, diaby and van persie are the pick so far.

Diaby scored in September.

Well, i don't think goals that have amazing build-up play but to be finished by a deflection or flukey way can be nominated. It has to be a combination, i.e. fantastic flowing football finished with a clean strike would suffice (it doesn't have to be a magnificent strike, as the overall goal is what it'd be voted for, rather than an individual peice of play). So either that, or an amazing goal by a single player. One or the other really.

But i do prefere the individual peices of brilliance - for example, using the goals J-Axe mentioned with Rooney and Van Persie. Rooney's was a fantastic bit of team play, but Van Persie's volley was out of this world, and those sort of goals are very rare to come by.

I guess a lot of it's personal preference.