Rubin Has Had His Chances

[life on mars]

Looked at some stats ..

22 / 23 he played 26 games ,

23 / to date has played 36 times

Since Jan 21 played 58 times and scored 6 goals in all competitions .. inc Welsh full Internationals not U21 ??

https://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=137673&season_id=155

This makes interesting reading https://footystats.org/players/wales/rubin-colwill , seems to say he is a good dribbler and crosser ,hasn't provided many assists

Average City wage is 880 euros , Rubin allegedly on half of that 446 ???

https://m.aiscore.com/salary/player-rubin-colwill-zrkn6in92w6i0ql

Market value is £ million

Rubin Colwill is a Midfielder who has appeared in 32 matches this season in Championship, playing a total of 1362 minutes. Rubin Colwill gets an average of 0 assists for every 90 minutes that the player is on the pitch. See how they rank against other Championship Players.

Rubin Colwill scored a total of 1 goals so far this season in the Championship ,places him at 11th in the Cardiff City squad's Top Scorers list.

Scores a goal every 1,362 minutes , No Assists, No Bookings


For me should have done or shown more with the opportunities handed to him at such a tender age

[Cleve van Leef]

Re: Rubin Has Had His Chances

It’s a witch hunt.

[B. Oddie]

Re: Rubin Has Had His Chances

Yes.

I don't understand why, either.

Give the boy some encouragement.

[Tuerto]

Re: Rubin Has Had His Chances

Yes.

I don't understand why, either.

Give the boy some encouragement.

Go on Rubin, You can do it.

[City123]

Re: Rubin Has Had His Chances

Oh great, another Colwill thread

Can we start some kind of counter?

[North Cardiff Blue]

Re: Rubin Has Had His Chances

Yes.

I don't understand why, either.

Give the boy some encouragement.

He's still got plenty of time, he has some talent and he is improving, he can learn from Ramsey who I hope will do some coaching here and with a few better players next season will hopefully come on leaps and bounds.

[Tuerto]

Re: Rubin Has Had His Chances

Oh great, another Colwill thread

Can we start some kind of counter?

You'd be all over it if he was playing really well on a serious note, yup, it's nonsense, there's nothing more to say that hasn't already been said.

[Der Kaiser]

Re: Rubin Has Had His Chances

Not his biggest admirer, but we're going to need a Rubin Colwill dedicated alternate forum at this rate. Pretty sure there hasn't been an original thought posted about him on either side for weeks now.

[Jimmy the Jock]

Re: Rubin Has Had His Chances

Disappointingly it seems to be the way for some.
Put down your own .
Looks something special to me , the fact he has come through the ranks is a Brucey bonus .
But fill your boots .

[Wash DC Blue]

Re: Rubin Has Had His Chances

I think a loan is clearly the way.
He’s clearly got a lot of ability but seems so clumsy with the fundamentals.

We all want him to do well, but I don’t see him improving here as things stand.

[Dave Blue]

Re: Rubin Has Had His Chances

I feel for anyone in our team who is not a goalie or central defender.

[Garth Blue]

Re: Rubin Has Had His Chances

Disappointingly it seems to be the way for some.
Put down your own .
Looks something special to me , the fact he has come through the ranks is a Brucey bonus .
But fill your boots .

This. Haters got to hate.

[Wash DC Blue]

Re: Rubin Has Had His Chances

This. Haters got to hate.

I’m not sure that he fits into the haters category
He has been compared to Peter Whittlingham ffs.

The fact is, he’s not done enough with the opportunities that he’s been given.
If he had, this discussion wouldn’t be happening especially given our lack of quality on the ball.

As I said, send him on loan and see if he becomes a player.

[the other bob wilson]

Re: Rubin Has Had His Chances

Being the token striker or creator in modern day Cardiff teams is a tough, perhaps impossible job. A target man type striker is stuck up front by himself with no support except for the token creator sometimes and, especially under this manager, a pair of “wingers” who are told to play in a manner that most wouldn’t recognise as wing play of the sort we grew up watching. The striker barely gets a cross to feed off from open play and yet is told score us twenty goals a season.

It’s similar with the player saddled with the team’s creativity who is told it’s up to you to provide the service for our striker to score the majority of his twenty goals a season. Who has been a successful creator in City teams in the fairly recent past? Nearly twenty years ago, Jason Koumas was, but I’d argue that we were a different type of team back then - for a start we had what I’d call proper wingers and he had two strikers to work with much of the time.

Harry Wilson actually had a twenty goal a season in his team to work with, but I think his stay here has to be seen as a failure because the target was very much the top six in 20/21 and by the end of the season there were times when Mick McCarthy was leaving him on the bench - Wilson rather falls into the too good for the Championship, but not good enough for the Premier League group, but if he struggled anyway in the Championship, it was at Cardiff, why was that I wonder?

The only player in the modern era who successfully carried the weight of the teams creativity on his shoulders was Lee Tomlin for a few months during 19/20 under Neil Harris - Tomlin was the biggest single reason why we made the Play Offs that year, but before and after Harris he was a bit part player here and I would say that was because NMessts Warnock and McCarthy never trusted him.

I’m trying to give up Rubin Colwill threads in the same way others try to give up smoking, so I’ll just say that, like all players of his type who have represented modern day Cardiff City teams, he has been set a very high bar because the outlook under nearly all of our recent managers has been so defensive from open play - others who are better than Colwill have tried to clear that bar and not succeeded.

[North Cardiff Blue]

Re: Rubin Has Had His Chances

I think a loan is clearly the way.
He’s clearly got a lot of ability but seems so clumsy with the fundamentals.

We all want him to do well, but I don’t see him improving here as things stand.

Could he go to Wrexham on loan and become famous?