Hudson on Colwill

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Re: Hudson on Colwill

Who cares about the future of Welsh football at this moment. Just an improvement on our crap team would do.

Aye bollocks to Cymru for a year

[2b2bdoo]

Re: Hudson on Colwill

Page said it as well, that's 3 managers, maybe there is something in it?

Strange how many think it's some conspiracy or something

Did Page say it because they said it? Let’s be honest Page has no clue what’s going on, he was a fringe player for a few weeks. I meant another manager about their players. Unless this is specific to him and he has rare growth spurts.

Might be genuine for sure.

[Pedro de la Rosa]

Re: Hudson on Colwill

Page said it as well, that's 3 managers, maybe there is something in it?

Strange how many think it's some conspiracy or something

James Rowberry also said it on EJFOF. It isn’t bollocks

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

Re: Hudson on Colwill

How times have changed. Back in the day, a young player growing was seen as a positive, it meant he was getting bigger and stronger.
Now it's being looked at as some kind of hindrance to his development.

Hudson said:
"It's our job to get him firing on all cylinders. Then, well, what a player we've got."

To me that statement is a bit premature. He'll need to improve his decision making (Colwill) during play and get help from some running coach to try and improve his speed.

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

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James Rowberry also said it on EJFOF. It isn’t bollocks

What is EJFOF?

[Bobby Dandruff]

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Excuses galore from City and yet Wales don’t have a problem with picking Colwill in squads for major tournaments and he’s now played in a World Cup. We’re hearing talk about Colwill not fulfilling his promise and that may turn out to be true, but for now he’s not getting the chance to prove it one way or another.

We’re in the ludicrous situation where some pundits are seeing Colwill as the future of Welsh football after the era ending World Cup and yet his relegation struggling club, the lowest scorers in their division, seem determined to give him as little game time as possible. Another consideration in these financially troubled times is that he should be our most saleable asset, yet the way he’s being treated means his value is depreciating by the game.

Quite.

It is all very strange.

[Bobby Dandruff]

Re: Hudson on Colwill

Colwill has started two games for Wales. There is a big difference between playing regularly in the Championship and making cameo appearances off the bench in international football. Anyone who thinks he is the future of Welsh football at this point in time needs their head examined.

Don't you find it A BIT strange that he seems to be able to get into the Wales side (including a WC team) and yet struggles to get picked regularly for his (relegation threatened) club?

Because I do.

[NYCBlue]

Re: Hudson on Colwill

How times have changed. Back in the day, a young player growing was seen as a positive, it meant he was getting bigger and stronger.
Now it's being looked at as some kind of hindrance to his development.

Hudson said:
"It's our job to get him firing on all cylinders. Then, well, what a player we've got."

To me that statement is a bit premature. He'll need to improve his decision making (Colwill) during play and get help from some running coach to try and improve his speed.

Back in the day we sent kids up chimneys and down mines. What point are you trying to make?

[61adb]

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What is EJFOF?

Elis James Feast of Football podcast.

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

Re: Hudson on Colwill

Back in the day we sent kids up chimneys and down mines. What point are you trying to make?

Your analogy is quite poor. I'm talking about player development and you're talking about sending kids up chimneys?

I'll just leave it there.

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

Re: Hudson on Colwill

Elis James Feast of Football podcast.

Ah, thanks!

[splott parker]

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How many 20-year-old footballers who play for a Championship club have over 100 first-team appearances?

This is a 20 year old though who’s being touted as our salvation, he’s made 55 appearances as it is, since his debut season the City have played, maybe, 125/130 games in that period. The excuses for him being unavailable seem bizarre yet the national team include him, even took him to the last Euros shortly after his City debut. So, yes, there aren’t many 20 year olds with Championship clubs who’ve over 100 appearances under their belt but, equally, there aren’t many, if any, 20 year olds with Championship clubs who’ve been to a Euros and a World Cup yet haven’t made a full breakthrough at their (19th placed) club. It is a strange situation.

[John Buchanan]

Re: Hudson on Colwill

This is a 20 year old though who’s being touted as our salvation, he’s made 55 appearances as it is, since his debut season the City have played, maybe, 125/130 games in that period. The excuses for him being unavailable seem bizarre yet the national team include him, even took him to the last Euros shortly after his City debut. So, yes, there aren’t many 20 year olds with Championship clubs who’ve over 100 appearances under their belt but, equally, there aren’t many, if any, 20 year olds with Championship clubs who’ve been to a Euros and a World Cup yet haven’t made a full breakthrough at their (19th placed) club. It is a strange situation.

Maybe it is also, in part, an indication of the desperation of the Welsh management to get some "youth with promise" embedded into their squad structure before the old guard finally step down.

[the other bob wilson]

Re: Hudson on Colwill

I'd guess Colwill was fifteen or sixteen (possibly a little younger) when I saw him for the first time - he's always been one of the tallest players on the pitch in any match I've seen him play. Occasionally, I'd by with the poster called Lormaski watching him and we once simultaneously likened him to Jason Fowler one time - in my case, I was thinking in terms of someone of a certain size who is a completely different type of player than you might expect him to be.

We're not talking some Scott McTominay type ten inches in two years type transformation here. Go back just under two years and Mick McCarthy was talking about how big Colwill was then. I've always been convinced that this had a part to play in McCarthy's willingness to play him in the first team at eighteen. I'm sorry,, but having seen him play just three days ago, I still don't see any evidence of Colwill having shot up since he first started appearing in City's senior side during the 20/21 season.

I'm struck by the contrast we see from City when it comes to Colwill and someone like Joe Ledley. I watched Ledley playing for what would have been our reserve team at the age of sixteen at around this time of year and then noticing the big difference in him about eight months later when I saw him at the start of the 04/05 season. All of a sudden, Joe had shot up a two or three inches and looked ready to play men's football - the transformation in Ledley in those few months represented more of a "growth spurt" than anything we've seen in Colwill since last season.

Yet, Ledley was in the first team within about six weeks of the 04/05 campaign starting and never looked back - he was in the side week i, week out for the rest of that season. In fact, although he suffered from injuries more as he got older as most players do, Ledley was barely ever injured while he was at City.

Mark Hudson talks about Colwill not trusting his body any more. Is that really too surprising when he is being forever told he has to take things easy because of these so called growth spurts he's supposed to be suffering from? Your typical nineteen/twenty year old does not have the confidence to tell medical men and women they are wrong and is far more likely to go along with what they are being told. I'm not saying that he should be told to pull himself together or anything like that, but City do seem to be cossetting him somewhat.

[the other bob wilson]

Re: Hudson on Colwill

Hudson is Morison 2.0 without the attitude it seems. Loves a stat more than Eric. 47% of sessions, 120 point checklist before he can touch the grass, regaining trust in his own body. etc

Get on with it ffs. Sink or swim.

Completely agree, management by numbers from Hudson.