Rubin Colwill targets improvement after ‘enjoyable’ injury break

Since returning as a substitute in the 3-1 home win against Luton last month, Colwill came off the bench in the 5-2 defeat by Plymouth before starting last weekend’s 4-0 win at Doncaster as a striker.

Cardiff were top of the league when Colwill was injured, and remain top now he’s returned.

“I think when you’re coming back into the exact same environment you left, the standards are still really high, the levels and training are still really high, the performances on the pitch are the exact same, and I think that’s credit to everyone really.

“People always say the competition and stuff is really important and it definitely is, but I think it’s got to be healthy. I think we’re in a place right now where we’re all competing against each other.

“Of course everybody wants to play, but we just turn up every day, give our best and the manager picks who he picks. We’re all almost accepting of that so I think there’s no animosity between anybody.

“It’s like, ‘I’m gonna do my best today, if it’s enough I’ll play, if it’s not I won’t and I’ll support everybody else who is playing,’ so I think it’s a really, really healthy environment at the minute.”