James Collins

I just watched the highlights and there is no footage of this alleged miss.

Oddly enough, the game against Preston where he scored a hat-trick is the only game in the last 17 where he's scored from open play.

Subbed off tonight with Luton trailing Brentford.

MacMathuna wrote: unaused sub in a 3-2 comeback today. Is he coming back from injury or out of form?

He's been fit all season. He's been dropped due to poor form.

He won’t win the ballon d’or this year but he always brings his boots

He had a really good effort that hit the side netting similar to one against Bulgaria where the ball came in slightly behind him and he did well to get it near the target. 

Connolly doesn't have the physical strength to play that role. Either Long or Collins has to be starting in with Robinson and or Connolly imo. I would've started Long the other night given his mobility and he could stretch the defence more but Collins who is a journeyman average player for me is a better finisher than Long. One or there other should be picked for the September games as there doesn't seem to be any current alternative for the centre forward role.  

Simply put he isn't a flair player who plays for a less than glamourous club. There are people who see Parrott as an answer but through the prism of his parent club and word of mouth. This is difference to Collins who has had some good bursts of scoring form at club level, and in the championship. His selection in 2019 was reminiscent of the way McCarthy used pick players in the 1990s. If you were playing well, you got in the team. One goal, from three good chances was a decent return, and he is one of the few players who can be the target man, and play with the ball to feet. He emerged with credit from the last few days.