Quote Originally Posted by Rjk View Post
Why is Rubin Colwill held to this weird set of standards that don't seem to apply to other players?


oyu can say something relatively innocuous like, I'm looking forward to watching him in league one, and i hope he can develop into the player we've all seen the potential of etc and someone will inevitably pop along with some other player who has achieved more by that age.
Players develop at different rates - Jamie Vardy was playing in non-league at the age of 23 - he went on to become an elite level striker.
Kieffer Moore was playing as a defender in the national league at 23.

Even if Rubin achieves nothing more in his career he will have done more in the game than most teenagers that are snapped up by premier league clubs, so it isn't really a sensible argument.
Your first sentence, you need to read back some of the absolute Hyperbolic bullshit written on here about Colwill over the seasons by people who should really know better, and it will start again after a few promising performances from him. You would have thought that they had seen enough football, seen enough young players who have been hyped to hell and back, which is unfair and borderline irresponsible in my opinion, but there we go. I recall someone on here, after witnessing Alves and Mannsverk for the first time, saying that they were premier League players in waiting, absolutely bonkers. As for Colwill, I think that he will do well this season, a lower level, more time, he won't be punished as much for mistakes, and opportunities will come his way. He also has ability, just depends on what the new manager wants from him, not us