Until the last 3 games Krishna had looked decidedly ordinary.
See I completely disagree with this. I don't recall the games where he was poor at all. I thought the reasons most wrote him off was because we just didn't see him - Merrick pulled him out of the eleven last season when he had initially played well and looked good, and had just extended his contract. I got excited from what I saw and my opinion was set at that moment, and then he basically disappeared. Merrick has claimed that this was done because he needed to get fitter and stronger to make the jump to professional football, but just because we weren't seeing him week in week out didn't mean he'd become crap. I was waiting to see him again and now we have.
A lot of people assumed that because he wasn't being picked, he mustn't be good. I understand that and don't begrudge that opinion at all, but I do begrudge people saying he was sh*t and only got good just now, I just don't think that's true.