[SoCross]

He struggled a bit in the first half as Barnsley targetted that side for attack, but in the second when you were attacking he pushed into midfield more and looked pretty good I thought.

Thanks for this mate. Pleased for him, first senior start. He’d be buzzing!

 

[Canucantona20]

I like Collyer. The best thing about him is that he’s comfortable on his left and his right foot. He’s still hesitant to play it forward, but that will come with experience.

 

[Ekeke]

First 15 mins it looked like he and Ugarte had a bet of who could get booked first with little to no effort to win the ball and several fouls committed. But as we got the game under control with our goals he grew into the game and did a fine job covering the position and pretty much stepped into a left midfield position when we had the ball with Evans pulling to the left behind him.

 

[surf]

Thought he was OK apart from a couple of fouls given away in dangerous positions and once when the winger beat him on the outside and got a cross in. As the game went on he moved into midfield and looked quite comfortable. Good experience for him.

 

[Ekeke]

Collyer turned 20 in January. Secondly, playing him at LB when he's a DM isn't gonna be helping him in his development in the first team.

Of course it does. He's playing first team football against adults

Another good example is Hinshelwood who is one of the best young English midfielders and Brighton have used him at rightback on most occasions last season and leftback this season. He will do a job for them there and might be able to spray one of his passes from the position but he'll be a midfielder. He is in fact who Brighton would have been hoping Collyer would be able to emulate, if he had stayed instead of leaving for United.

 

[bb8]

So how did he actually play? I missed the game sadly.

Did he overlap a bit, or was he asked to move to the centre as we now do with our full backs when we have the ball? Was he always open to receive a pass, not afraid ?

Unfortunately, I'd say he flat out struggled. I just watched the 90 in 20 on MUTV (had only see the highlights before), and holy cow was he bad defensively. Got beat badly 3-4 times near the box, one for nearly a penalty and a couple for wide open crosses, and I don't think another defensive player got beaten the entire game. Granted, he's a midfielder, not a defender. But still, against a League One side you expect better. Showed a little more in possession but still several turnovers and no notable passes/carries that I recall.

I don't see him starting meaningful games this year, at the very least. Needs a lot of work. Should be emergency depth.

 

[bb8]

Think he’ll be a decent squad player. I actually think he’s almost a direct replacement for McTominay in his sort of limited ability with good physical attributes whilst having great heart sort of way .There’s nothing wrong with that either - to be a squad player at Utd means you’ve done very well in your career. Good luck to him.

McT's much taller (obviously) and shows a lot more attacking ability. I think Toby will have done extremely well for himself if he ever gets sold for anything near £30M. That's probably a very high end outcome for him.