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Peter Cumiskey - Marine
Steve Watts - Fisher Athletic
Craig Hughes - Newport County
Byron Bubb - AFC Wimbledon
Matt O'Halloran - Kings Lynn

After another weekend of FA Cup football which saw 40 teams take one step closer to the First Round Proper - as well as netting £5,000 from The FA Cup prize fund - TheFA.com can reveal the five latest nominations for The FA Cup Player of the Round Award, in partnership with E.ON.

Walter Gammie of The Times has nominated Marine striker Peter Cumiskey who scored twice for Marine in a 3-2 home win over Stalybridge Celtic, the first a header, the second a penalty. Cumiskey joined Marine initially on loan from Vauxhall Motors in March 2006.

He played for four successful seasons with the Motormen scoring 90 goals in 200 appearances, and counts Leigh RMI and Prescot Cables amongst his former clubs.

Nick Horler, Managing Director Retail of E.ON UK has put forward another striker, Steve Watts of Fisher Athletic. Fisher are managed by former Spurs full-back Justin Edinburgh and Watts scored a hat-trick in the 6-1 demolition of Metropolitan Police on Friday evening. Goal machine Watts scored 37 goals last season gaining the Ryman Player of the year award in the process.

The Daily Telegraph's Ricky George has nominated Newport County's Craig Hughes.

Newport beat Bishop's Cleeve 4-2 to avoid an upset, with Hughes scoring twice. His first was a header from a Damon Searle cross in the fifth minute, his second on 62 minutes, racing onto a through ball to bring the home side level, after they had gone 2-1 down.

BBC Radio Five Live reporter Mark Clemmit has plumped for AFC Wimbledon's midfielder Byron Bubb. Bubb was a handful all afternoon for Evesham's defence and opened the scoring with a brilliant half volley into the top corner.

David Watters, Editor of the Non League Paper concludes the nominations for the Third Qualifying Round, by putting forward Matt O'Halloran of Kings Lynn. The Norfolk side had failed to score in over nine hours against Halesowen Town, but two goals from O'Halloran put the Linnets through to the Fourth Qualifying Round, despite a late penalty for Haleswoen from this season's first Player of the Round, Matt Lewis.