Cardiff boss Barry-Murphy and defender Lawlor win awards

Cardiff City head coach Brian Barry-Murphy has won the League One manager of the month award for August, while defender Dylan Lawlor has been named EFL young player of the month.

Barry-Murphy's side won five of their six league games in August and drew 0-0 at Port Vale.

The Bluebirds are the only unbeaten team in the division and they lead the table, level on 16 points with Doncaster Rovers but with a game in hand.

Cardiff have also kept four consecutive clean sheets and rounded off the month with a 4-0 win over Plymouth Argyle.

Barry-Murphy was appointed in June following Cardiff's relegation from the Championship.

The 47-year-old Irishman left a coaching role at Leicester City to take charge at Cardiff, having previously worked at Rochdale and as a Manchester City academy coach.

Graham Alexander (Bradford City), Grant McCann (Doncaster Rovers) and Alex Revell (Stevenage) were also nominated for the award.

Lawlor has started all six of his side's league matches this season having made his first ever appearance in senior football as recently as February.

Having impressed in Cardiff's unbeaten start to the season the 19-year-old from Caerphilly has since delivered a man-of-the-match performance on his international debut in Wales' 1-0 win over Kazakhstan last week.

And as CIty prepare to return to league action this weekend at Stockport County Lawlor has shown his confidence stating Cardiff's players want to "annihilate" League One this season.

Cardiff goalkeeeper Nathan Trott was nominated for the League One player of the month award which went to Doncaster midfielder Owen Bailey.