I dread the response on here when Rubin has a bad game this season, seems some people are missing having a moan about him lately so they're inventing hypothetical reasons to criticise him now :hehe:
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I dread the response on here when Rubin has a bad game this season, seems some people are missing having a moan about him lately so they're inventing hypothetical reasons to criticise him now :hehe:
Bulut and riza know nothing about football, hence why we are in league 1. I’m a huge Bellamy fan. I wanted him as city boss on various occasions. I was more than happy to have him as wales boss. But not picking Rubin for this squad is not justifiable given the incredibly limited options we have for a squad, and this afternoon Bellamy did not justify it. He won’t pick him - does not fancy him or issue with him?
Why do you have to post such nonsense? People are reacting to Bellamy not including Colwill in the Wales squad, and i think that nearly everyone in this thread disagrees with Bellamy, so we-they are trying to work out Bellamy's reasoning behind his decision. Nobody is being critical, this is a good thread, with some good theories.
Bowen on the bench, mainly as an unused sub, for Solihull Moors of the National League who havenÂ’t won a game this season. He was playing well for them last year but change of manager who doesnÂ’t really fancy him. Dont think the manager will be there much longer mind they finished the season badly and started the new season even worse.
When he broke into the team under Mick, along with several others, Bellamy did an interview on the youngsters and he said of Bowen something along the lines of him operating on a high football level in how he reads the game and how he could go and train with Liverpool and he wouldnÂ’t look out of place.
LetÂ’s hope the likes of Kpakio and Lawler donÂ’t suffer the same fall after getting such high praise from Bellamy.
As he’s gone down the leagues he’s had to adapt his game and not really for the better to be honest. He was operating as an 8 and sometimes 10 last season rather than a deep lying midfielder who could control the game. He’d probably look better in this City team in League 1 than he does in the National League. He’d have more time on the ball.
Different year, yes, but while he was over a year younger than Bowen and Spence he's only a few months younger than lads like Isaak Davies, Kieron Evans and Joel Bagan, who were all regulars, and older than Mayembe and Eli King. He was older than Tankiewicz is now and he's playing u-21s so I wouldn't use it as an excuse for him not making a big impact but maybe that's unfair.
Here's a report from earlier in the year about where Bellamy's squad is now.
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/...youth-31267766
Yeah, jason was quick. He always caused me problems when he was at Swansea. There was another kid who went to Southampton (same age) Lee Powell, from Newport, I couldn't get near him for pace, so i'd just stay as close as possible to him, just spoil, not play..... :hehe:
It's fair enough to assume there would be a significant difference between being a first or second year 'scholar' in that set-up, yes. As I've said though, he wasn't the youngest there by any means. Bellamy was throwing 15-year-olds in and even Ashford got on at 14 so Colwill needn't have felt intimidated in any way, I'd have thought.
The other thing is, regardless of his age, that he had the skill-set and physique that made you feel he should have been imposing himself on those games but it never quite happened. And that's something that's been said about him regularly ever since.
This season, at last, people are saying that the other team couldn't handle him and I said to my eldest on Tuesday night that he's finally turning into a Tomlin type maverick that's great to watch and almost unplayable.
But that was against Cheltenham. Bellamy has to decide whether Rubin has just found his level or has he turned the corner and is now developing into a top-class player that could be a real asset for Wales. I'd have thought it was a great chance to call him up, watch him train, talk with him etc and get a feel of where he's at but there you go. Surely it's only a matter of time.
I was confident SamBowen would make it all of the way into the first team on a regular basis. Mick McCarthy clearly rated him, but, he got an injury to his Meniscus around the time Mick was sacked and his career just stalled under Morison who I thought resented his injury for some reason (or at least that’s the impression I got). Morison’s attitude towards Bowen was strange given he was a mainstay of his under 21s when he would often control games, but you think of what he said about Isaak Davies at Bournemouth that night and the way he often used to talk about Rubin and wonder what he was doing in that job,. To be fair, Morison was probably good for the career of Bagan and King, but I’d never put him in charge of teenage footballers if I was his boss - in fact, I wouldn’t hire him full stop. I notice Sutton, run by that bloke who wants to take us over, are in the bottom four of the National League having lost three straight matches, so maybe Morison won’t be there much longer?
as we are playing Canada just remembered the talk back in May this year regarding Cardiff born Gabriele Biancheri who is eligible to play for Wales or Canada who as played at under 19 level for Wales already but accepted an invitation to join up with the Canadian team back then
Just looking at there squad announced a few days ago look like he's not involved . Was at Man Utd back then is he still now ?
https://news.canadasoccer.com/canmnt...er-fifa-window
Interesting comments from Ryan Wintle yesterday about Colwill. This from the BBC:
One player who has been a big part of the new, youthful Cardiff City has been attacking midfielder Rubin Colwill.
The Wales international, 23, has - according to Wintle - been given more freedom by Brian Barry-Murphy.
"I spoke to the manager partly about him when he first came in and I said with Rubin, he's got all the ability in the world, he should be in the Premier League, but he's not quite had the right coaching to say, 'this is what you have to do'," Wintle said.
"With this manager, he's kind of given him a freedom, but he's said to him, 'this is what you've got to do and this is how you'll get good numbers and this is how you'll win games and you'll look even better'. And he's been doing it so far so, hopefully, it continues.
"He's 6ft 6in and probably the best mover on the ball I've ever seen. I always compare him to Morgan Rodgers [of Aston Villa] and people like that. He's got that ceiling and he's got to be looking at that now and especially with this coach, he's only going to take him higher and higher, hopefully with us. So hopefully, he can get there."
Biancheri's in the Wales under 21 squad.
https://dragonsoccer.co.uk/newsite/index.php?id=1112