Singh 6.5
When on song, what a player, but when he's not, he gets carried. He's a player with all the potential in the world, he just needs to learn how to take control of a game on a regular basis. Famed for his long range shooting, that didn't happen for him this year which was disappointing. Needs to develop a little more mongrel as well.
Its backed up statistically too. The guy is only 19, yet his stats don't look out of place among the league's best attacking midfielders - 5 goals, 8 assists, 35 key passes, 80.1% passing accuracy. For reference these are the comparative stats for some of the league's biggest stars from big market clubs:
Keisuke Honda - 7 goals (4 pens), 6 assists, 33 key passes, 84.5% passing acc.
James Troisi - 5 goals, 8 assists, 33 key passes, 75.1% passing acc.
Diego Castro - 7 goals, 5 assists, 38 key passes, 82.3% passing acc.
Milos Ninkovic - 2 goals, 6 assists, 27 key passes, 83.3% passing acc.
Riley McGree - 7 goals, 4 assists, 30 key passes, 80.2% passing acc.
Roly Bonevacia - 7 goals, 7 assists, 30 key passes, 81.4% passing acc.
Regardless of whether he was patchy at times, the kid had a massive season.
I guess this answers my question of how to judge Singh- on results!
Rudan was probably a) making him keep up the effort to improve and b) hoping to have him come on fired up at 0-0 with 40 minutes to go, against a tired defence.