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Sorry but this is just plain wrong. I think I watched the same game as you but I am not sure now. Firstly, we won the game. Secondly he came on at a time when we were under severe pressure and with him on the pitch we closed the game out and took the three points. In the last five minutes or so we kept Boro at arms length and this in no small part was due to the subs who came on. It wasn't time for silky skills, it was time for chasing and working hard to keep them out and I remember him doing plenty of that.
It will be interesting to see what happens to Colwill under the next manager - if he continues to play as you suggest above them you might be right (I'd be surprised though) but if he returns to the player that we saw lots of glimpse of last season then I'd suggest that you are well wide of the mark.
If I was a betting man I'd say the latter, but we'll see soon enough.
With a decent manager he'd be the first down on the team sheet and you would build a team around him
What do you think constitutes a Championship quality player? You won't find many of them without any weaknesses to their game - that would make them Premier League quality (and there are plenty of players in that division with weaknesses). What members of the current City squad do you rate as Championship quality?
I sngled him out because he's become the poster boy for many on here. People are saying we should build the team around him, he's being 'held back' by the manager, we'll lose him to another club, Morison should have gone because he wasn't treating him fairly, etc, etc,.
He's OK, but I'm not alone in those who I go to the games with, that he's just too slow and ponderous, lacking aggression, and currently isn't a shoe-in for selection.
Interesting point this, it's a comparison I'd been thinking about myself. I was actually sad enough to go back to April 2017 on here (around page 930) to check it out and the mixed views on Whitts as he came to the end of his time here were very similar to those on Colwill now. I wondered if the same posters were sticking up for both and the previous two posters in this thread both popped up. Older Blue started a thread defending Whitts and JR Hartley was calling Warnock an 'utter c**t' for subbing him against Newcastle.
Out of character but I said something quite interesting, looking back. I pointed out that Whitts had been tried in a number of positions in the previous season or two without really convincing in any but when he got criticised for a poor performance posters would jump in and say it was because he was being played out of position. It seems to be a recurring theme with Colwill now too. There were the same 'lazy/ lethargic/ half-hearted' criticisms aimed at both players by some posters too.
I'm not sure how a lad just out of his teens can be seen in the same way as a man in his thirties coming to the end of his career but, both positively and negatively, there do seem to be some similarities here, to be fair to Sneggy.