James Collins

[Des Little]

This is becoming quite a club.  Ivo Stas, David Unsworth, James Collins...

[Dave P]

This is becoming quite a club.  Ivo Stas, David Unsworth, James Collins...

Three very different scenarios there to be fair.

[saunders_heroes]

This is becoming quite a club.  Ivo Stas, David Unsworth, James Collins...

Three very different scenarios there to be fair.

And over a period of nearly 30 years.

[Steve67]

This is becoming quite a club.  Ivo Stas, David Unsworth, James Collins...

Three very different scenarios there to be fair.

And over a period of nearly 30 years.

Irony and/or sarcasm doesn't really work on the interweb does it?

[Fred Crump]

Surprised no-else has commented on this but he was really rather good yesterday in a bald fat James Collins sort of way. Fair play to him, he’s an old pro and he gave it everything although he was breathing out of his arse after 10 minutes. Shame we couldn’t have had him for a few weeks to give Chester a rest but I suppose he’s guaranteed a start at Ipswich. I admire players at his age who still desperately want to play.

[Ads]

I don't know, we could have had 6 or 7.

[Pete3206]

Even with our shit defence, I don't think he would have improved us.

[cdbearsfan]

I had no idea he had signed for anyone before seeing him appear on the pitch on Saturday. He played well, I thought. Certainly better than most of his abysmal teammates.

[PeterWithe]

I thought he did well, a similar performance to Elphicks at the other end, his positioning was excellent, his won most of his aerial battles but struggled with balls down the side of him.

He seemed to be feeling his calf for most of the second half, whilst he did well I don’t think we missed out.

[Pat McMahon]

I thought he did well, a similar performance to Elphicks at the other end, his positioning was excellent, his won most of his aerial battles but struggled with balls down the side of him.

He seemed to be feeling his calf for most of the second half, whilst he did well I don’t think we missed out.

Fully agree with your assessment.

I had no idea it was Colllns himself until the second half when I could see his name on the shirt. I just thought they had a chunky bald left sided defender who was good in the air but sluggish.

[Concrete Tom]

James talks very fondly of his time at Villa on the latest episode of Elis James' Feast of Football podcast:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05cmk38

He believes that he played his best football playing alongside Dunne and under MON. Surprisingly, he came across very well - I'm surprised that he and Hutton are still looking for a club.

[Sexual Ealing]

The story he tells at 39 minutes about his training/mini-contract with us last year will change a few minds, I'd imagine.

[SoccerHQ]

Anything about the bust up with Sid?

[Rigadon]

Is there anything about how he now plans to use his 50p shaped head now he isn’t using it to miss 4-yards-out headers from corners? 

[themossman]

I’d love to know definitively about the Sid thing. Every time I hear him speak he seems sound enough but the Sid stuff is there in the background. How sure are we about it?