Quote Originally Posted by Loramski View Post
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.
That's not quite how I remember Whittingham's last seasons with us. From memory, the big dilemma was that he delivered from set pieces, even if not scoring any more from direct free kicks, but from open play he no longer did much.

I recall Whitts first few seasons with us. He divided opinions then. Allegedly Forest bid £2m for him and I reckon half of our supporters would have taken it. Then Dave Jones put him on penalty duties and give him a freer role as an attacking wide man. All of a sudden Whitts became (rightfully) a legend.

Colwill is too young to have firm opinions on. It is certain that, unless he produces moments of brilliance on some sort of regular basis, he will divide opinion. Having a moment of magic is fantastic if it happens every game. Every 3 games is great. Every 10, less so, and so on. If one of your specialisms is creating moments of genius but you have little else, those moments need to be regular.