S.T.U cgull
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Nonsense. He was/is a very technically gifted footballer who didn't adapt quick enough to the physicality of English football and therefore didn't suit Hughton's plans.
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Nonsense. He was/is a very technically gifted footballer who didn't adapt quick enough to the physicality of English football and therefore didn't suit Hughton's plans.
turienzo's lovechild
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lucky you!
JBenno
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What a strange thread.....
I managed to sleep through the 93/94 season, just wondering if anyone could update me on the progress of Stewart Kerr and Jeff Minton?
I managed to sleep through the 93/94 season, just wondering if anyone could update me on the progress of Stewart Kerr and Jeff Minton?
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toko looked a beast against lewes in a pre season friendly and i was really excited for the season
sometimes i need to remember that friendlies against non league sides are rarely a good indication of a players ability
i thought colunga looked ok and had good technique but pretty slow and small...hughton definitely didn't rate him and he was off pretty sharpish
sometimes i need to remember that friendlies against non league sides are rarely a good indication of a players ability
i thought colunga looked ok and had good technique but pretty slow and small...hughton definitely didn't rate him and he was off pretty sharpish
Not having this at all. Colunga wasn't slow.
Are you mixing him up with David Rodriguez?
Tomo1794
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Surprised nobody has mentioned the penalty he scored at Fulham away yet. Nonchalant!!!
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he certainly looked slow- maybe he was just a bit lazy
and david rodriguez- there's a blast from the past (i thought his only positive attribute was pace though?)
Colunga was reasonably nippy, and one of those players as quick WITH the ball.
Given how shit we were at the time, Colunga was a massive waste.
Brian Fantana
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I was thinking the other day that given how we play now, Colunga wouldn't be a bad option in the Baldock role.
Gullflyinghigh
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I quite liked Colunga, Toko...did he even make a senior appearance?!
Yes. Away to Burton in the League Cup.
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Colunga was simply a bang average player. Probably would've done alright in L1, but a Championship player he was not. Just one of those obscure bargain-basement foreign nonentities that Burke had a fixation with.
Forgot all about Toko tbh. It feels like he may just have been a figment of my imagination.
Forgot all about Toko tbh. It feels like he may just have been a figment of my imagination.
I'm not sure he was all that cheap.
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Thats depressing then.
Betfair Bozo
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Completely disagree on Colunga. He might not have been suited to the Championship but not because he was L1 standard. There can't be many league one forwards who could manage 7 in 16 for a poor La Liga side. He would have been fine in the right set up but isn't a CH type of player and no-one was going to shine under Sami.
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Gullflyinghigh
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Ah, I don't feel too bad not knowing that. I'll assume it wasn't a glorious flash in the pan, Razak-style.
He played 45 minutes, made two tackles, and misplaced three passes. Not spectacular.
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I'm sorry, but he was pretty poor. Not suited to the Championship ? We weren't asking him to play aussie rules. Its still football, and good footballers adapt. At what point do we stop making excuses for a players shortcomings and just admit that he's not much kop ? Why is it always a case that "we're not using him right" or "he's not suited to the game over here".
A player I liked a lot was Teixeira, and one of the main reasons I liked him was because he adapted. He started well, then had a spell where he went right off the boil, became anonymous and often got bullied off the ball. But he came back and had a storming end to the season (till he snapped his leg in the last game). He adapted to the pace and the physicality of this league and proved he was up for it.
Never saw that from Colunga. You could argue he didn't get enough of a chance, but from what I saw of him, he didn't look worth persevering with. Managers will have seen him in training as well, and clearly didn't feel he was up to it either.
Betfair Bozo
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I wasn't making an excuse for him as I don't think he needs one tbh. He "might not have been suited" because we never gave him a chance to prove it either way. I was responding more to your view that he might have done ok in League 1. It's funny you mention Teixeira as he was the one who showed exactly how we could have used Colunga effectively when the pair of them ripped Bournemouth's defence apart for Colunga's goal in the 3-2 away defeat. Sami's reaction to a fine performance away to the team who went on to win the division? Drop him. Given that this was only the 2nd goal any of our strikers had managed up to that point of the season, and the manner of it (defence splitting pass, perfectly timed run and cool finish) one might have thought we could try persevering with this pair in tandem.