Quote Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee View Post
I bow to the judgement of the likes of you, TOBW etc who watch the youngsters play. I'd read comparisons, probably unfairly, with Crole and Alan Shearer. Yes, such hype is best avoided, but it wasn't so long ago that he was getting some very good plaudits. There's a big difference stepping up to the first team at times, but I wonder what has gone wrong (if anything has)?
I don't know what happened this season. He came on at Blackburn in the cup in September so must've been on Bulut's radar but the loan move to Queen's Park in January is as underwhelming as it gets, maybe TOBW can think of something relevant that happened in between but I'm not aware of it. He got injured playing for Queen's Park reserves a week or so into the loan and that's the last I've heard of him.

If ever there was a time for another Simon Howarth to break through it's now but it's looking increasingly unlikely that it'll be Crole, as far as I can make out.