He did get quite a lot of criticism but recently he has begun to step up to the challenge, knowing a good season and he could be off to S.A. You can tell he's getting better due to the general concern and singing of his name when he went down(not saying people would be happy for any of our players to be injured) and the fact that people i've spoken are concerned whether he'll be back for next weekend.
Like with Lescott, it's only fair that if they begin to push forwards and up their game, then they should get some recognition.
Slowly but surely we're getting a decent back 4 together. The only annoying thing is now its disrupted by the injuries to both full backs and once they get back, Kolo will be off to the ACON :s