COLWILL WELL DONE

Taken a lot of stick off fans but answered a few hatrick well done lad keep it going bluebird.

He was brilliant today, MOTM by a mile. Pleased he had the moment of scoring the winning penalty.

But I don't think anyone has ever questioned whether he can put in performances like that.

It's the fact he has no consistency whatsoever, which he should do by his age.

He puts in a few performances like that a year but doesn't follow them up.

That's why I'm critical and, as good as he was today, my opinion is unchanged.

He was brilliant today, MOTM by a mile. Pleased he had the moment of scoring the winning penalty.

But I don't think anyone has ever questioned whether he can put in performances like that.

It's the fact he has no consistency whatsoever, which he should do by his age.

He puts in a few performances like that a year but doesn't follow them up.

That's why I'm critical and, as good as he was today, my opinion is unchanged.

You’re right Worcester. He had a great game today, wish he could play like that all the time. But for me he needs to stay on the bench for Tuesday. As he won’t perform like that for another few months unfortunately.
Hopefully does his confidence a world of good and he can go out and prove me wrong Tuesday.

Taken a lot of stick off fans but answered a few hatrick well done lad keep it going bluebird.

Spot on Monty

And is 22 yrs old 126 appearances for the Mighty Bluebirds

How many other of Our Accademy players play that many ?

On average 0-3 games then finished

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Taken a lot of stick off fans but answered a few hatrick well done lad keep it going bluebird.

Totally agree, Monty

My Man of the Match (Rubin not you)

Taken a lot of stick off fans but answered a few hatrick well done lad keep it going bluebird.

Spot on Monty

And is 22 yrs old 126 appearances for the Mighty Bluebirds

How many other of Our Accademy players play that many ?

On average 0-3 games then finished

But still only 14 goals in those appearances. Won't be a top player without that consistency.

MOTM by a mile today but needs to do it regularly, that's always been my issue.

Unfortunately I expect him to go back to his old ways in the next game.

He is not premier class (yet), but he makes the game look easy at times.

Interestingly, having a monster backing in with long arms and aggression as the center forward creates more space coincided with Colwills best game for a while.

He is not premier class (yet), but he makes the game look easy at times.

Interestingly, having a monster backing in with long arms and aggression as the center forward creates more space coincided with Colwills best game for a while.

Salech definitely helps create space for him. Robinson is not a lone striker, he doesn't make the runs. But the runs that Salech makes, clearly help players like Colwill find space.

Manage him then
ramsey could be an influence on Colwill

Taken a lot of stick off fans but answered a few hatrick well done lad keep it going bluebird.

Totally agree, Monty

My Man of the Match (Rubin not you)

Back in the day i might have been man of the match ,
but happy just to sing my head off these days.

He is not premier class (yet), but he makes the game look easy at times.

Interestingly, having a monster backing in with long arms and aggression as the center forward creates more space coincided with Colwills best game for a while.

Exactly, although I definitely wouldn’t call Salech a monster.

Colwill just oozes class.

Taken a lot of stick off fans but answered a few hatrick well done lad keep it going bluebird.

To be honest Monty I don’t hear a lot of fans at games giving him stick at all. Maybe other parts of the ground you hear that?

Just a few on here in my experience.

Taken a lot of stick off fans but answered a few hatrick well done lad keep it going bluebird.

To be honest Monty I don’t hear a lot of fans at games giving him stick at all. Maybe other parts of the ground you hear that?

Just a few on here in my experience.

A lot on the forum have.

His first touch, his drop of the shoulder, his half turn, his gliding into space, his strength on the ball (sometimes), his passing and shooting are occasionally so so so very good. Like prem class good.

As Worcester says it happens so rarely. 120 odd games but how many minutes in those games.

Every single City fan wants him to succeed. With the stuff he shows he’s a real player. He just needs to show it more often.

His first touch, his drop of the shoulder, his half turn, his gliding into space, his strength on the ball (sometimes), his passing and shooting are occasionally so so so very good. Like prem class good.

As Worcester says it happens so rarely. 120 odd games but how many minutes in those games.

Every single City fan wants him to succeed. With the stuff he shows he’s a real player. He just needs to show it more often.

Spot on.

As has been said he has taken a lot of criticism from fans. People have said he won’t make it at a higher level. I think exactly the opposite he is the type of player who would flourish with class around him. Let’s remember he is in a team scrapping for points and survival.

Go Rubin

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I think the issue is people expect things that aren't his strengths. He's 6ft 5 so there no way he can move in the same way Cian Ashford can or even Robertson.

When he came into the team against Plymouth, Portsmouth & Norwich he was excellent and was involved with the majority of the goals.

Teams then made plans to stop him and he was unable to have the same impact. Yes that's for him to work out but surly it must also say something about his talent that opposition make plans to stop him to then stop us.

He's got a long way to go but he definitely has talent. He's also a late developer so he may hit his prime in his mid to late 20s.

Glad he had a brilliant impact today and if you can't enjoy a homegrown talent doing well then support man city or chelsea, as all players at Cardiff's level, have lots of areas to improve.

Taken a lot of stick off fans but answered a few hatrick well done lad keep it going bluebird.

To be honest Monty I don’t hear a lot of fans at games giving him stick at all. Maybe other parts of the ground you hear that?

Just a few on here in my experience.

A lot on the forum have.

To be fair to most on here, it’s a vocal few who bleat on about Colwill; the same ‘few’ who simply must have a ‘boo-boy’ to target their personal frustrations on!

He’s certainly not the ‘finished article yet’ but he’s the best home produced player of his kind since maybe Aaron Ramsey. I can’t think of anyone since!

Manage him then
ramsey could be an influence on Colwill

I've been saying he needs to be consistent & his decision making at times is so so, BUT I have also said he needs to be around Ramsey more & learn from his experience. Nobody wants the guy to fail & we can all see there's a player in there when he shows it. Not sure why people think saying when he has a bad game is tearing him down?

When he's having a good day like today he is fantastic but the last game he had like that that I can remember was against Southampton when he also ran the match, which was when?

I'm 100% sure everyone here wants him to be the next Ramsey (I know I do), but he's not as consistent as Ramsey was at the same age.

I think the issue is people expect things that aren't his strengths. He's 6ft 5 so there no way he can move in the same way Cian Ashford can or even Robertson.

When he came into the team against Plymouth, Portsmouth & Norwich he was excellent and was involved with the majority of the goals.

Teams then made plans to stop him and he was unable to have the same impact. Yes that's for him to work out but surly it must also say something about his talent that opposition make plans to stop him to then stop us.

He's got a long way to go but he definitely has talent. He's also a late developer so he may hit his prime in his mid to late 20s.

Glad he had a brilliant impact today and if you can't enjoy a homegrown talent doing well then support man city or chelsea, as all players at Cardiff's level, have lots of areas to improve.

His player profile states he is 6ft 2 I have stood next to him and he does not look 6ft 5 He was not a great deal taller than myself and i am 6ft 1

I think the issue is people expect things that aren't his strengths. He's 6ft 5 so there no way he can move in the same way Cian Ashford can or even Robertson.

When he came into the team against Plymouth, Portsmouth & Norwich he was excellent and was involved with the majority of the goals.

Teams then made plans to stop him and he was unable to have the same impact. Yes that's for him to work out but surly it must also say something about his talent that opposition make plans to stop him to then stop us.

He's got a long way to go but he definitely has talent. He's also a late developer so he may hit his prime in his mid to late 20s.

Glad he had a brilliant impact today and if you can't enjoy a homegrown talent doing well then support man city or chelsea, as all players at Cardiff's level, have lots of areas to improve.

This is not true.

People don't criticise him because he doesn't play in a certain way. We're critical because he has zero consistency.

He turns up two or three times a year and that's not good enough I'm afraid. He put in a great performance yesterday but we've seen him do that before, Bristol City at home last season is another example.

However he never follows it up with consistent good form.

I would love him to kick on after yesterday and put in performances of a decent standard on a regular basis - I just can't see it happening unfortunately.

Nobody is expecting a performance from him like yesterday every week but just a decent standard on a regular basis, with the odd high quality performance like yesterday.

We all want him to succeed but I'm not going to lie and say he's been brilliant for us because the consistency means he hasn't.

Compare that to Ashford, who has consistently been a decent player this season.

I criticise a lot of our players - Daland, Chambers, El Ghazi, Ng, Meite etc I've all been critical of this season.

I don't think Colwill should be a special case and exempt from criticism.

I think the issue is people expect things that aren't his strengths. He's 6ft 5 so there no way he can move in the same way Cian Ashford can or even Robertson.

When he came into the team against Plymouth, Portsmouth & Norwich he was excellent and was involved with the majority of the goals.

Teams then made plans to stop him and he was unable to have the same impact. Yes that's for him to work out but surly it must also say something about his talent that opposition make plans to stop him to then stop us.

He's got a long way to go but he definitely has talent. He's also a late developer so he may hit his prime in his mid to late 20s.

Glad he had a brilliant impact today and if you can't enjoy a homegrown talent doing well then support man city or chelsea, as all players at Cardiff's level, have lots of areas to improve.

This is not true.

People don't criticise him because he doesn't play in a certain way. We're critical because he has zero consistency.

He turns up two or three times a year and that's not good enough I'm afraid. He put in a great performance yesterday but we've seen him do that before, Bristol City at home last season is another example.

However he never follows it up with consistent good form.

I would love him to kick on after yesterday and put in performances of a decent standard on a regular basis - I just can't see it happening unfortunately.

Nobody is expecting a performance from him like yesterday every week but just a decent standard on a regular basis, with the odd high quality performance like yesterday.

We all want him to succeed but I'm not going to lie and say he's been brilliant for us because the consistency means he hasn't.

Compare that to Ashford, who has consistently been a decent player this season.

I criticise a lot of our players - Daland, Chambers, El Ghazi, Ng, Meite etc I've all been critical of this season.

I don't think Colwill should be a special case and exempt from criticism.

I really like your posts and agree with a lot you say but you can't tell me the criticism Colwill recieves is fair. Ashford hasn't been consistent all year and happy to dig out post where people were saying another failed academy player, and he's welsh league level.

In all fairness I didn't read you giving Robertson the same criticism in our poor 9 game run. A player I really rate but still all players will struggle.

I won't get carried away with Ruben's performance yesterday. In my opinion if you put him in the Leeds team or Middlesbrough team where they have wingers and a 9 with pace you would see a far higher level of consistency.

We haven't had pace in our attacking areas since NW.

To be fair to Riza he looks like he's identified this with his January business.

I think the issue is people expect things that aren't his strengths. He's 6ft 5 so there no way he can move in the same way Cian Ashford can or even Robertson.

When he came into the team against Plymouth, Portsmouth & Norwich he was excellent and was involved with the majority of the goals.

Teams then made plans to stop him and he was unable to have the same impact. Yes that's for him to work out but surly it must also say something about his talent that opposition make plans to stop him to then stop us.

He's got a long way to go but he definitely has talent. He's also a late developer so he may hit his prime in his mid to late 20s.

Glad he had a brilliant impact today and if you can't enjoy a homegrown talent doing well then support man city or chelsea, as all players at Cardiff's level, have lots of areas to improve.

His player profile states he is 6ft 2 I have stood next to him and he does not look 6ft 5 He was not a great deal taller than myself and i am 6ft 1

Had this debate amongst my friends and the big man himself confirmed that he is 6’5”

I think the issue is people expect things that aren't his strengths. He's 6ft 5 so there no way he can move in the same way Cian Ashford can or even Robertson.

When he came into the team against Plymouth, Portsmouth & Norwich he was excellent and was involved with the majority of the goals.

Teams then made plans to stop him and he was unable to have the same impact. Yes that's for him to work out but surly it must also say something about his talent that opposition make plans to stop him to then stop us.

He's got a long way to go but he definitely has talent. He's also a late developer so he may hit his prime in his mid to late 20s.

Glad he had a brilliant impact today and if you can't enjoy a homegrown talent doing well then support man city or chelsea, as all players at Cardiff's level, have lots of areas to improve.

His player profile states he is 6ft 2 I have stood next to him and he does not look 6ft 5 He was not a great deal taller than myself and i am 6ft 1

Had this debate amongst my friends and the big man himself confirmed that he is 6’5”

Well if he says he is then must be Next question why is he not scoring more headers lol

I think the issue is people expect things that aren't his strengths. He's 6ft 5 so there no way he can move in the same way Cian Ashford can or even Robertson.

When he came into the team against Plymouth, Portsmouth & Norwich he was excellent and was involved with the majority of the goals.

Teams then made plans to stop him and he was unable to have the same impact. Yes that's for him to work out but surly it must also say something about his talent that opposition make plans to stop him to then stop us.

He's got a long way to go but he definitely has talent. He's also a late developer so he may hit his prime in his mid to late 20s.

Glad he had a brilliant impact today and if you can't enjoy a homegrown talent doing well then support man city or chelsea, as all players at Cardiff's level, have lots of areas to improve.

This is not true.

People don't criticise him because he doesn't play in a certain way. We're critical because he has zero consistency.

He turns up two or three times a year and that's not good enough I'm afraid. He put in a great performance yesterday but we've seen him do that before, Bristol City at home last season is another example.

However he never follows it up with consistent good form.

I would love him to kick on after yesterday and put in performances of a decent standard on a regular basis - I just can't see it happening unfortunately.

Nobody is expecting a performance from him like yesterday every week but just a decent standard on a regular basis, with the odd high quality performance like yesterday.

We all want him to succeed but I'm not going to lie and say he's been brilliant for us because the consistency means he hasn't.

Compare that to Ashford, who has consistently been a decent player this season.

I criticise a lot of our players - Daland, Chambers, El Ghazi, Ng, Meite etc I've all been critical of this season.

I don't think Colwill should be a special case and exempt from criticism.

I really like your posts and agree with a lot you say but you can't tell me the criticism Colwill recieves is fair. Ashford hasn't been consistent all year and happy to dig out post where people were saying another failed academy player, and he's welsh league level.

In all fairness I didn't read you giving Robertson the same criticism in our poor 9 game run. A player I really rate but still all players will struggle.

I won't get carried away with Ruben's performance yesterday. In my opinion if you put him in the Leeds team or Middlesbrough team where they have wingers and a 9 with pace you would see a far higher level of consistency.

We haven't had pace in our attacking areas since NW.

To be fair to Riza he looks like he's identified this with his January business.

That's because Robertson is consistently a 6/7 out of ten.

I'd say Colwill's performance yesterday was around 9. But most of the time, the fact that he goes missing means his performances are below 6.

I want all our academy players to be successful. I may be more critical of Colwill than most but that's to balance things out, most on here seem to talk about him as if he's unplayable every week.

But in general, Colwill gets an easy time compared to others.

There's always an excuse for him - he hasn't grown properly, he doesn't have the right players around him, he needs a run in the team etc.

We've heard it all before and nothing changes.

So much talent needs to add goals and assists consistently.Always thought he would suit continental Europe football more

I think the issue is people expect things that aren't his strengths. He's 6ft 5 so there no way he can move in the same way Cian Ashford can or even Robertson.

When he came into the team against Plymouth, Portsmouth & Norwich he was excellent and was involved with the majority of the goals.

Teams then made plans to stop him and he was unable to have the same impact. Yes that's for him to work out but surly it must also say something about his talent that opposition make plans to stop him to then stop us.

He's got a long way to go but he definitely has talent. He's also a late developer so he may hit his prime in his mid to late 20s.

Glad he had a brilliant impact today and if you can't enjoy a homegrown talent doing well then support man city or chelsea, as all players at Cardiff's level, have lots of areas to improve.

His player profile states he is 6ft 2 I have stood next to him and he does not look 6ft 5 He was not a great deal taller than myself and i am 6ft 1

Had this debate amongst my friends and the big man himself confirmed that he is 6’5”

Well if he says he is then must be Next question why is he not scoring more headers lol

His biggest supporter wouldn't defend his heading!!

I think the issue is people expect things that aren't his strengths. He's 6ft 5 so there no way he can move in the same way Cian Ashford can or even Robertson.

When he came into the team against Plymouth, Portsmouth & Norwich he was excellent and was involved with the majority of the goals.

Teams then made plans to stop him and he was unable to have the same impact. Yes that's for him to work out but surly it must also say something about his talent that opposition make plans to stop him to then stop us.

He's got a long way to go but he definitely has talent. He's also a late developer so he may hit his prime in his mid to late 20s.

Glad he had a brilliant impact today and if you can't enjoy a homegrown talent doing well then support man city or chelsea, as all players at Cardiff's level, have lots of areas to improve.

This is not true.

People don't criticise him because he doesn't play in a certain way. We're critical because he has zero consistency.

He turns up two or three times a year and that's not good enough I'm afraid. He put in a great performance yesterday but we've seen him do that before, Bristol City at home last season is another example.

However he never follows it up with consistent good form.

I would love him to kick on after yesterday and put in performances of a decent standard on a regular basis - I just can't see it happening unfortunately.

Nobody is expecting a performance from him like yesterday every week but just a decent standard on a regular basis, with the odd high quality performance like yesterday.

We all want him to succeed but I'm not going to lie and say he's been brilliant for us because the consistency means he hasn't.

Compare that to Ashford, who has consistently been a decent player this season.

I criticise a lot of our players - Daland, Chambers, El Ghazi, Ng, Meite etc I've all been critical of this season.

I don't think Colwill should be a special case and exempt from criticism.

I really like your posts and agree with a lot you say but you can't tell me the criticism Colwill recieves is fair. Ashford hasn't been consistent all year and happy to dig out post where people were saying another failed academy player, and he's welsh league level.

In all fairness I didn't read you giving Robertson the same criticism in our poor 9 game run. A player I really rate but still all players will struggle.

I won't get carried away with Ruben's performance yesterday. In my opinion if you put him in the Leeds team or Middlesbrough team where they have wingers and a 9 with pace you would see a far higher level of consistency.

We haven't had pace in our attacking areas since NW.

To be fair to Riza he looks like he's identified this with his January business.

That's because Robertson is consistently a 6/7 out of ten.

I'd say Colwill's performance yesterday was around 9. But most of the time, the fact that he goes missing means his performances are below 6.

I want all our academy players to be successful. I may be more critical of Colwill than most but that's to balance things out, most on here seem to talk about him as if he's unplayable every week.

But in general, Colwill gets an easy time compared to others.

There's always an excuse for him - he hasn't grown properly, he doesn't have the right players around him, he needs a run in the team etc.

We've heard it all before and nothing changes.

As much as you doubt his consistency people will also see his potential.

All players are different. Rooney matured at 16, Colwill was still growing at 20.

Yes some people give him more rope than others, that would be the same at any club. You're always going to give homegrown talent more support as they're local players who play for the club.

He's got the talent to make comments like these age terribly but you may also be right an he may never reach his potential. I have a feeling with new signings and Isaac Davies coming back there will be a lot of pace around him and you will see further game impact.

I think the issue is people expect things that aren't his strengths. He's 6ft 5 so there no way he can move in the same way Cian Ashford can or even Robertson.

When he came into the team against Plymouth, Portsmouth & Norwich he was excellent and was involved with the majority of the goals.

Teams then made plans to stop him and he was unable to have the same impact. Yes that's for him to work out but surly it must also say something about his talent that opposition make plans to stop him to then stop us.

He's got a long way to go but he definitely has talent. He's also a late developer so he may hit his prime in his mid to late 20s.

Glad he had a brilliant impact today and if you can't enjoy a homegrown talent doing well then support man city or chelsea, as all players at Cardiff's level, have lots of areas to improve.

This is not true.

People don't criticise him because he doesn't play in a certain way. We're critical because he has zero consistency.

He turns up two or three times a year and that's not good enough I'm afraid. He put in a great performance yesterday but we've seen him do that before, Bristol City at home last season is another example.

However he never follows it up with consistent good form.

I would love him to kick on after yesterday and put in performances of a decent standard on a regular basis - I just can't see it happening unfortunately.

Nobody is expecting a performance from him like yesterday every week but just a decent standard on a regular basis, with the odd high quality performance like yesterday.

We all want him to succeed but I'm not going to lie and say he's been brilliant for us because the consistency means he hasn't.

Compare that to Ashford, who has consistently been a decent player this season.

I criticise a lot of our players - Daland, Chambers, El Ghazi, Ng, Meite etc I've all been critical of this season.

I don't think Colwill should be a special case and exempt from criticism.

I really like your posts and agree with a lot you say but you can't tell me the criticism Colwill recieves is fair. Ashford hasn't been consistent all year and happy to dig out post where people were saying another failed academy player, and he's welsh league level.

In all fairness I didn't read you giving Robertson the same criticism in our poor 9 game run. A player I really rate but still all players will struggle.

I won't get carried away with Ruben's performance yesterday. In my opinion if you put him in the Leeds team or Middlesbrough team where they have wingers and a 9 with pace you would see a far higher level of consistency.

We haven't had pace in our attacking areas since NW.

To be fair to Riza he looks like he's identified this with his January business.

That's because Robertson is consistently a 6/7 out of ten.

I'd say Colwill's performance yesterday was around 9. But most of the time, the fact that he goes missing means his performances are below 6.

I want all our academy players to be successful. I may be more critical of Colwill than most but that's to balance things out, most on here seem to talk about him as if he's unplayable every week.

But in general, Colwill gets an easy time compared to others.

There's always an excuse for him - he hasn't grown properly, he doesn't have the right players around him, he needs a run in the team etc.

We've heard it all before and nothing changes.

As much as you doubt his consistency people will also see his potential.

All players are different. Rooney matured at 16, Colwill was still growing at 20.

Yes some people give him more rope than others, that would be the same at any club. You're always going to give homegrown talent more support as they're local players who play for the club.

He's got the talent to make comments like these age terribly but you may also be right an he may never reach his potential. I have a feeling with new signings and Isaac Davies coming back there will be a lot of pace around him and you will see further game impact.

Well you're sort of proving my point here.

He will succeed if this happens, if that's happens.

That's all people have said for years about him.

But he hasn't done it and there's always an excuse.

By the way it's not about me doubting his consistency, that's just a fact.