NATHAN BLAKE ON RUBIN COLWILL: IT'S MY FEAR, TOO
Thu Mar 31, 2022 5:03 pm
Nathan Blake: Colwill will be a top-four Premier League player
Former Cardiff City and Wales striker Nathan Blake believes that Rubin Colwill will go to the very top of the game in this country.
Colwill has enjoyed another positive season, top scoring for his club and earning international honours - as well as notching his first Wales goal against Czech Republic on Tuesday night.
He has caught the eye on more than one occasion this term and Blake believes the 19-year-old will eventually end up at one of the best clubs in the country.
"I can see him at a top club - a top four or five team," he told the BBC. "He has a football intelligence. He is a smooth player, he does and sees things other players do not.
"So just keep playing him. If he can come and produce this kind of performance at international level, you can't tell me he's not good enough for the Championship."
Steve Morison has been reluctant to play the teenager week in, week out, believing there is more than one way to aid a player's development. Morison has previously cited Phil Foden's progress at Manchester City and how he was managed by Pep Guardiola.
While there are still things, especially off the ball, Colwill can work on, he keeps producing moments and displays which make him impossible to ignore. Speaking about the player's performance at Cardiff City Stadium for Wales earlier this week, Blake added: "I'm always impressed with him - but it was a really good performance that will boost his confidence.
"I just hope when he goes back to his club, the manager gives him that confidence to go on because the boy can produce absolute wonders. I don't like to see this clipping of wings with young players. He's a good size, a good stature, can score goals. You have to play him - let him play."
Former Cardiff City and Wales striker Nathan Blake believes that Rubin Colwill will go to the very top of the game in this country.
Colwill has enjoyed another positive season, top scoring for his club and earning international honours - as well as notching his first Wales goal against Czech Republic on Tuesday night.
He has caught the eye on more than one occasion this term and Blake believes the 19-year-old will eventually end up at one of the best clubs in the country.
"I can see him at a top club - a top four or five team," he told the BBC. "He has a football intelligence. He is a smooth player, he does and sees things other players do not.
"So just keep playing him. If he can come and produce this kind of performance at international level, you can't tell me he's not good enough for the Championship."
Steve Morison has been reluctant to play the teenager week in, week out, believing there is more than one way to aid a player's development. Morison has previously cited Phil Foden's progress at Manchester City and how he was managed by Pep Guardiola.
While there are still things, especially off the ball, Colwill can work on, he keeps producing moments and displays which make him impossible to ignore. Speaking about the player's performance at Cardiff City Stadium for Wales earlier this week, Blake added: "I'm always impressed with him - but it was a really good performance that will boost his confidence.
"I just hope when he goes back to his club, the manager gives him that confidence to go on because the boy can produce absolute wonders. I don't like to see this clipping of wings with young players. He's a good size, a good stature, can score goals. You have to play him - let him play."
Re: NATHAN BKAKE ON RUBIN COLWILL: IT'S MY FEAR, TOO
Thu Mar 31, 2022 5:07 pm
I agree whole-heartedly with Nathan Blake and whilst I trust Steve Morison's judgement on his players, I do have reservations over such a prodigious talent being used so sparingly
For me, Rubin Colwill is class and will get even better with experience
Rumours of a 'bust up' persevere and I just hope we don't lose him for relative peanuts before he has a chance to be the Bluebird legend I believe he could be
For me, Rubin Colwill is class and will get even better with experience
Rumours of a 'bust up' persevere and I just hope we don't lose him for relative peanuts before he has a chance to be the Bluebird legend I believe he could be
Re: NATHAN BKAKE ON RUBIN COLWILL: IT'S MY FEAR, TOO
Thu Mar 31, 2022 6:21 pm
We have no idea if Steve Morison has enough nounce to work out how to get the most out of Rubin.
Its quite obvious that he doesn't fit into SM's 532. He is not a CM, he is not an inside forward as he isn't quick and doesn't graft enough, he is not a second striker because he can't stretch the defence if played with a target man and he isn't a target man and we need one with Flint as centre half.
I am hoping that SM realizes he just can't start Rubin with the current squad as we need a target man as we can't really craft much and prefer the 40 yard smack down field to either of the two monsters we play up front and they need a whippet with them to stretch the defence, so he has nowhere to start.
To me he is a centre forward but not an old fashioned 9. I would play Harris and Davies either side of him with Ralls, Wintle and Doyle (hopefully) in a 3 with Perry and Bagan as fullbacks with McGuiness and A N other in a 433. It would be no point knocking it long unless its over the fullbacks head for the whippets to chase.
We may start to play football again
This is for next season as i doubt Drameh will be with us, if he is we'd have to change as he is class.
Its quite obvious that he doesn't fit into SM's 532. He is not a CM, he is not an inside forward as he isn't quick and doesn't graft enough, he is not a second striker because he can't stretch the defence if played with a target man and he isn't a target man and we need one with Flint as centre half.
I am hoping that SM realizes he just can't start Rubin with the current squad as we need a target man as we can't really craft much and prefer the 40 yard smack down field to either of the two monsters we play up front and they need a whippet with them to stretch the defence, so he has nowhere to start.
To me he is a centre forward but not an old fashioned 9. I would play Harris and Davies either side of him with Ralls, Wintle and Doyle (hopefully) in a 3 with Perry and Bagan as fullbacks with McGuiness and A N other in a 433. It would be no point knocking it long unless its over the fullbacks head for the whippets to chase.
We may start to play football again
This is for next season as i doubt Drameh will be with us, if he is we'd have to change as he is class.