He needs dropping for a few games in my opinion, if Disasi or Badiashile made that mistake last night I think the forum might have crashed.

11 minutes ago, timetowaste said:

He needs dropping for a few games in my opinion, if Disasi or Badiashile made that mistake last night I think the forum might have crashed.

I think its reasonable to judge the 26 year old, £40m signing with over 300 senior appearances differently to the 21 year old freebie with 1/3 of the experience. 

3 minutes ago, Ukraine Bolt said:

I think its reasonable to judge the 26 year old, £40m signing with over 300 senior appearances differently to the 21 year old freebie with 1/3 of the experience. 

It isn't the first game he's let us down though, he's been poor over this past couple of months and he seems to be the only CB that's not getting the deserved flack. I actually like Colwill, but you can't play like he has recently and face no consequences for it, regardless of his age or Cobham background.

He’s been reminding me of a much less talented David Luiz! You know there can be a big clanger or two in some games!

8 minutes ago, timetowaste said:

It isn't the first game he's let us down though, he's been poor over this past couple of months and he seems to be the only CB that's not getting the deserved flack. I actually like Colwill, but you can't play like he has recently and face no consequences for it, regardless of his age or Cobham background.

He was easily our best defender when he was playing centrally in the back 3 in the build up. Now he's back to being forced to defend wide spaces and chase wingers, which he's uncomfortable doing because our hipster manager wants Cucurella stood next to Palmer for some reason. Inverted nonsense is the death of football. 

2 hours ago, Shweaves said:

You could argue the same thing about Jackson... But I don't think you will 😂

I hope Colwill comes good, but he's been below average and managing to get away with it for a while now. 

You must have missed the bit where I went on to give my view that Colwill possesses the skills and attributes to become a good player, perhaps a top player, in his given position.

Jackson on the other hand is a turd, a dud, a liability, a donkey. etc etc....

Therefore, the balance of probabilities suggests that it isn't the lack of experience and time that is hindering Wacko - but rather the fact that HE IS RUBBISH

50 minutes ago, Ukraine Bolt said:

He was easily our best defender when he was playing centrally in the back 3 in the build up. Now he's back to being forced to defend wide spaces and chase wingers, which he's uncomfortable doing because our hipster manager wants Cucurella stood next to Palmer for some reason. Inverted nonsense is the death of football. 

I'm not one to defend Maresca's tactics because they're horrid, but if he isn't performing the way he should be then that's grounds to drop him. We've rotated everyone else to see who can play alongside him, maybe we drop him for a hit to see if he's the problem? As I said bear in mind I like Colwill? I've actually defended him against friends and family about whether he's good enough, but if every other player is in danger of being dropped when underperforming, Levi has to deal with this as well.

3 minutes ago, timetowaste said:

I'm not one to defend Maresca's tactics because they're horrid, but if he isn't performing the way he should be then that's grounds to drop him. We've rotated everyone else to see who can play alongside him, maybe we drop him for a hit to see if he's the problem? As I said bear in mind I like Colwill? I've actually defended him against friends and family about whether he's good enough, but if every other player is in danger of being dropped when underperforming, Levi has to deal with this as well.

That would be akin to dropping Caicedo after he doesn't play well at RB

Weak at times but then over physical at other times like the Bowen incident just before we scored.

Needs to learn when to use his brain and when to use brawn.

Too much complaining to the ref as well IMO.

Adjust these things and he’ll be a top player.

9 hours ago, nonotnowjim said:

They are also all more experienced and older.

VVD, Dias and Gabriel were all developed big money signings. Saliba is the closest - but still has a couple of years on Levi. 

The point was showing what the standard is.

I have all the patience in the world with Colwill, but it's a glaring weakness in his game and it's something that he needs to recognize and progressively work on. 

 

26 minutes ago, Ukraine Bolt said:

That would be akin to dropping Caicedo after he doesn't play well at RB

So you want Maresca to change his entire system to suit an unproven 21 year old centre back? 

Just now, timetowaste said:

So you want Maresca to change his entire system to suit an unproven 21 year old centre back? 

I would expect Maresca to alter his system to suit his players, yes. 

Who is this current system actually suiting? Palmer was better when he wasn't tag teamed by two holding mids every game. Wingers are ineffective. GK has been laughable. Gusto went from one of the most exciting full backs in the league to a joke. 

Its maybe suited cucurella but he showed for Spain he can play as a touchline full back just as well. 

he got bullied by HAALAND  last week, and decided he wasnt going to get bullied by Bowen....BUT HE WAS BRAINDEAD AND LUCKY TO GET AWAY WITH THIS

https://www.skysports.com/watch/video/13302880/ref-watch-analyse-chelseas-levi-colwills-barge-on-west-hams-jarrod-bowen

1 hour ago, nonotnowjim said:

Jackson on the other hand is a turd, a dud, a liability, a donkey. etc etc....

Therefore, the balance of probabilities suggests that it isn't the lack of experience and time that is hindering Wacko - but rather the fact that HE IS RUBBISH

UNFORTUNATELY THE YES MAN LOVES HIM AND IT MUST HAVE HURT HIM TO PULL JACKSON OFF

10 minutes ago, Ukraine Bolt said:

I would expect Maresca to alter his system to suit his players, yes. 

Who is this current system actually suiting? Palmer was better when he wasn't tag teamed by two holding mids every game. Wingers are ineffective. GK has been laughable. Gusto went from one of the most exciting full backs in the league to a joke. 

Its maybe suited cucurella but he showed for Spain he can play as a touchline full back just as well. 

Well again, I'm not gonna argue in favour of Maresca's tactics because I think they're sh*t. However, if he's going to change them, it wouldn't be to suit Colwill who's massively replaceable. If he was dropped in favour of Chalobah would it be really noticeable? I don't think it would be.

The only "fix" I can think of is moving James to LB. 

Regardless if the fullback is inverted or performs as a traditional touchline fullback, the CB is going to find himself in situations where he will be in isolation covering the space the fullback leaves. Chalobah and Colwill are the only CBs we have who can cover ground that well, the disadvantage for the latter is that he's easily bullied off the ball when attackers pin against him. 

If James is LB, this allows him to perform as a LCB on the ball with Gusto bombing forward as a fullback. This has Colwill playing as the sweeper with Tosin/Chalobah as the outside RCB. Can also squeeze in Nkunku for good measure. 

 

Jorgensen

Tosin Colwill James

Caicedo Enzo

Gusto Palmer Nkunku Sancho

Jackson

1 hour ago, POCH OUT said:

IT MUST HAVE HURT HIM TO PULL JACKSON OFF

He did what to Jackson?!

1 hour ago, Sconnie Blue said:

The only "fix" I can think of is moving James to LB. 

Regardless if the fullback is inverted or performs as a traditional touchline fullback, the CB is going to find himself in situations where he will be in isolation covering the space the fullback leaves. Chalobah and Colwill are the only CBs we have who can cover ground that well, the disadvantage for the latter is that he's easily bullied off the ball when attackers pin against him. 

If James is LB, this allows him to perform as a LCB on the ball with Gusto bombing forward as a fullback. This has Colwill playing as the sweeper with Tosin/Chalobah as the outside RCB. Can also squeeze in Nkunku for good measure. 

 

Jorgensen

Tosin Colwill James

Caicedo Enzo

Gusto Palmer Nkunku Sancho

Jackson

We need James to fully recover so he can play that role you have Gusto in.

Jorgensen

Fofana Colwill Cucurella

Fofana is a full time sick note so not expecting much there. Funnily enough, Acheampong is perfect for that role, but him and Colwill screams lack of seniority. 

5 hours ago, Ukraine Bolt said:

He was easily our best defender when he was playing centrally in the back 3 in the build up. Now he's back to being forced to defend wide spaces and chase wingers, which he's uncomfortable doing because our hipster manager wants Cucurella stood next to Palmer for some reason. Inverted nonsense is the death of football. 

It's the death of defending, that's for sure. It works in tournament football, like the Euro's or World Cup, but in the league where managers have plenty of time to work on things and find weaknesses in the opposition, it gets found out. We look awful on the turnover of possession after an attack breaks down. Cucurella is sprinting to get back, the shape is all over the place, and by the time Cucurella does get back, he looks knackered and the defenders are running into each others space. Every time we try and clear the ball it's like panic stations.

It works well when Cucarella inverts into midfield, allowing a midfielder to advance, but not when he's the one advancing. Enzo should be in midfield and only going forward when Cucarella covers for him. going forward we lose that snappy annoying spaniel running around midfield, nicking the ball and crunching some tackles in.

Marescas tactics are "me too Pep". He's stifling the teams ability. Cucarella marauding around midfield with Caicedo worked well. The slow boring build up, negates most of the things Jackson does well, Palmer is almost marked out of the game, and only came alive last night when the subs caused him to move out to the right, suddenly he's got space, and can then roam about without 2 or 3 players marking him. as for the defence it's a shambles. Prepare to see Disasi shine under Emri, a manager who plays to his teams strengths, not his inflated opinion of thinking he knows better than anyone else.

 

1 minute ago, Ajbod said:

 Prepare to see Disasi shine under Emri, a manager who plays to his teams strengths, not his inflated opinion of thinking he knows better than anyone else.

 

This the same Emery we're comfortably ahead of and slapped 3-0?

Does need to bulk up a bit, maybe a word with Mudryk’s national team doctor could help him?

1 hour ago, Argo said:

This the same Emery we're comfortably ahead of and slapped 3-0?

Our clubs bragging rights are that we're 6 points above Villa ffs what has happened to my beautiful club. 

2 hours ago, Ukraine Bolt said:

Our clubs bragging rights are that we're 6 points above Villa ffs what has happened to my beautiful club. 

Yeah this standards gimmick doesn't work from someone who has repeatedly hyped up Petrovic.