Hugo Colace

Was browsing LinkedIn earlier, and I came across Hugo Colace's page, and noticed now he is working in Argentina's 'only cafe on wheels'. Some step down.... decent player for us who unfortunately thought he was bigger than the club

https://www.linkedin.com/profile/vi...e&authToken=cZxD&trk=prof-sb-browse_map-photo

 

Normally pestering folk on Twitter for a trial.


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No doubt people will be on here saying he was **** and rubbish but I'll admit I liked him. I thought he was a decent player, just a shame he got a bit too big for his boots but what footballer doesn't these days?

I'm a bit surprised he can't get a team somewhere in South America.

 

Good for 1 season, disinterested in his final season.

 

There's got to have been something else going on with him, looked more than capable of playing in the Championship, yet his career was effectively over at 26/27.

Probably believed his own hype a bit during the good season he had for us but he went from being one of the first names on the team sheet to Sunday league in the space of a Summer.

 

He had the one great season with us, was player of the year and we had 'Pure Colace' t-shirts in the club shop. He then had his head turned in the summer with a potential move to Swansea, which after a while never materilised and he returned to us but had missed most of pre-season so was way behind the rest and never recovered the form of the previous season. Maybe his confidence went because of being off the pace.

 

Also, just remembered this: He was the captain of the Argentina U21 side that included Tevez and Mascherano and I don't have an unhealthy obsession with Hugh Colace.

 

Lets hope his sandwichs have more bite than his tackling otherwise his buisness will last as long as his football career

 

We ain't half signed some duds over the last few years

 

One player I truely, truely hated. What an awful player. Couldnt pass, head and the way he neshed every physical challenge infuriated me.

He had that one season where everything he hit seemed to go in but it was so obvious it was a purple patch, very much the same feeling I got last year with Hourihane.

I am surprised however he cant find a club at some level.


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Wasnt it Crystal Palace?


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Yes it was. He allegedly jumped in a taxi in London back to Barnsley to sign a new contact, expecting I think to be treated as a hero.

It was a poor side that year under Robins and he won POTY by the virtue that he's scored a few goals.

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remember when nipper was mascot (under davey) he wasn't in the squad, think he'd been injured but was in the changing room pre match, he was sat in the corner head down texting the whole time we was in there, don't think 1 team mate spoke to him, not sure what his english was like then though,
mind, luke steele had a face like a smacked arse too

 

For me, the most overrated player we've ever had. We've had worse players, but Hugo Colace made over 100 starts and won player of the year. I haven't been soured by that final season when he really was terrible; I thought he was nearly as bad in the previous season, it's just that his performances were masked by those 7 goals.

Fully expect Ben Pearson to win POTY this season, who reminds me of Colace in all sorts of ways. It's not that I don't get the position they play; I loved Darren Sheridan, but he really could tackle and more often than not he passed the ball forward, to a Barnsley player.

 

I agree with all of that. I also think he won POTY by default as pretty much every other player had large periods of time out of the squad whilst for some reason he got picked every week

 

Hugo

Hugo Speer?...wern't he on the Full Monty?

 

Clever player, read a game better than most, always seemed to be in the right place at the time which was good cos he was a bit soft.

Shame a poor last season left things on a sour note.

Played that midfield role as it should be done, accurate early passes out to the wingers. Bet Hammill remembers him fondly

 

I thought he were *****

 

Oh he read the game alright and definitely made sure he was in the right place at the right time. He read it and knew where the ball was going (like most in the stands do every week) to be fair and made sure he was just far enough away that by the time he got to the player with the ball (which made it look like he was trying) the ball had just been played. He was either A. The most unlucky player in the history of football by arriving a split second too late 50 times every week or B. A weak ******* who deliberately positioned himself so that he would arrive just too late and then not have to make a tackle.

Hint: its b

 

Disagree.

Good player in his first two seasons for us.

We've had plenty of headless chickens over the years play that role but Colace could read a game, a bit like Lawrence did on Saturday against us