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Re: Colwill
Agreed, I couldn’t believe it when I saw yet another Colwill thread starting - Eric, can you knock up a list showing the number of minutes played by City players per thread on here pretty sharpish please, I can tell you already who’ll be at the top of it, by miles.
Did anyone else watch the Wales v Scotland under 21 game eight days ago? Colwill played for all but a few minutes of added time in very warm conditions. It did look like he was struggling a bit towards the end, but his lack of match time has to have been a factor in that. The commentators were Scottish and so they concentrated on their own players, but the only Welsh player they talked about was Colwill. Clearly, his eight full caps alerted them about him (how’s he managed to do that and create a largely positive impression at international level if he’s so useless?).
Wales won 3-0 and played really well, they were well worth such a big win and the commentators raved about Colwill, they thought he was a cut above. Now, I accept Colwill has done little this season to justify a starting place every week for City and I think he blew a big chance when Lamouchi brought him on to play as a number ten in his first game in charge against Luton. Similarly, it was disappointing to see him not really grab his chance on Saturday, but this season he’s coming on usually when we’re playing poorly and losing.
It’s a fair point to say we don’t see him in training every day, but, going into the last month of the season, only goal difference is keeping us out of the relegation places, we’ve got a pathetic scoring record and a naturally talented young creative player (as well as two other youngsters who created a good impression last season) has barely had a kick - we must have a few far more regular first team players who are brilliant in training every day because they’re not doing much on the pitch every week when they play!
I can’t say whether how Colwill’s career will end up, but, watching him run the game last week, I couldn’t help thinking that City have failed completely to fully utilise the talent he has.
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Did anyone else watch the Wales v Scotland under 21 game eight days ago? Colwill played for all but a few minutes of added time in very warm conditions. It did look like he was struggling a bit towards the end, but his lack of match time has to have been a factor in that. The commentators were Scottish and so they concentrated on their own players, but the only Welsh player they talked about was Colwill. Clearly, his eight full caps alerted them about him (how’s he managed to do that and create a largely positive impression at international level if he’s so useless?).
Wales won 3-0 and played really well, they were well worth such a big win and the commentators raved about Colwill, they thought he was a cut above. Now, I accept Colwill has done little this season to justify a starting place every week for City and I think he blew a big chance when Lamouchi brought him on to play as a number ten in his first game in charge against Luton. Similarly, it was disappointing to see him not really grab his chance on Saturday, but this season he’s coming on usually when we’re playing poorly and losing.
It’s a fair point to say we don’t see him in training every day, but, going into the last month of the season, only goal difference is keeping us out of the relegation places, we’ve got a pathetic scoring record and a naturally talented young creative player (as well as two other youngsters who created a good impression last season) has barely had a kick - we must have a few far more regular first team players who are brilliant in training every day because they’re not doing much on the pitch every week when they play!
I can’t say whether how Colwill’s career will end up, but, watching him run the game last week, I couldn’t help thinking that City have failed completely to fully utilise the talent he has.
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