For me, this post alone says why we shouldn't give a ****. Giacc will be dynamite next season, Jack will remain solidly average, forever.
Good player & better than Bridcock & Larsson but if he goes to Newcastle then I will lose all respect for the lad.
Colback had 4 years to impress and didn't ....... we haven't really seen Bridcutt so some people will wait and see before making a judgement. In any case they play in a totally different way.
Not easy stepping up a league mid way through the season into a team doing extremely badly. Has shown promise, and I for one think he'll be consistently good next season
So colback didn't impress at all then? & I seen Bridcock play loads of times & I don't rate the lad at all.
What a nightmare scenario for the lad ......... new team mates, new area and a bunch of players who'd already forced one manager out. We were on the brink of relegation and the supporters were dissecting his every move The players must have thought he was 'teachers pet' and wondered why Poyet had signed him.
Not too bothered if JC goes but you also have to remember that the last 4 goals we scored against the scum he had a hand in 3 of them - personally I think if he goes to the animal botherers and does not start well they will get on his back and he will have to do a runner
Can't blame the lad. The chance to play for a bigger and better club has come along. No need to act like a bunch of stroppy tarts over it.
Not posted on this thread until now because quite frankly i could not give a flying ****, see ya fire knackers, your career ends here, doesnt matter where he goes, nowt more from me!
Can't blame the lad. The chance to visit the board of a bigger and better club has come along. No need to act like you're not a stroppy tart.
In June 1995 Newcastle United messiah Kevin Keegan successfully prised £6million striker Les Ferdinand away from Queens Park Rangers to continue his Geordie revolution. The fee was just £1million off the British record at the time. Six summers later Sir Bobby Robson spent big on Craig Bellamy and signed the hotly tipped striker for £6 million. Even Sam Allardyce got in on the early summer action when he signed Joey Barton from Manchester City for £5.8 million in June 2007. Though generations apart, the trio of big budget transfers were celebrated on Tyneside as examples of the club’s ambition. Fast forward to 2014 and the Magpies are allegedly days away from unveiling another June transfer but in very different circumstance. If the transfer of 24-year-old central midfielder Jack Colback is confirmed, the player will become Newcastle’s first permanent signing for 18 months, on a free and from local rivals Sunderland. So starved of any investment, the Toon fans will likely celebrate Colback’s low-key transfer as much as any marquee signing over the years, such is the desperation to get anyone ‘over the line’. In securing Colback’s signature, the Toon have allegedly beaten off competition from Premier League rivals West Ham United *– who supposedly offered the player £50,000 a week – Aston Villa and Sunderland, who were keen to keep hold of the midfielder. Magpie’s fans are forever being told by the club’s hierarchy how we cannot compete with our rivals and in doing so have missed out on players such as Swansea hitman Wilfried Bony in the past. Depressingly, this transfer suggests the club is setting the bar far lower. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve got no preconceptions against Colback before he’s even officially signed, let a lone kicked a ball in anger. Colback was born in Tyneside, is a Magpie’s fan, and was purportedly keen to sign for his boyhood heroes. He is an experienced Premier League player who has shown versatility by successfully deputising at left back. But is a player described on Sunderland’s own website as someone who ‘takes no prisoners’, is ‘economical in possession’ and has a ‘superb tackle’ really going to provide the attacking football Pardew talked of returning to St James’ Park as part of his summer squad overhaul? It’s difficult to see what Colback, who has scored just four goals in more than 100 appearances in the league for Sunderland, will offer to the Toon midfield other than as a deputy for defensive midfield pair Vurnon Anita and Cheik Tiote. As such it’s hard not to feel underwhelmed by new Managing Director Lee Charnley’s first foray in the transfer market. Colback’s signing signals substitution, not revolution, on Tyneside.
Can't understand why this thread is still going. We aren't bothered if he comes or not, he'll be a squad player, not a regular. You aren't bothered allegedly because you've got better players. Just let it lie and see what happens. Much ado about nothing.
Because he's still our player regardless of ability. Bet you lot still mention Perch and Gosling and they don't even play for you. Why do you mention Perch and Gosling? Not there anymore, Much ado about nothing.
I don't think Colback will go to Newcastle & sit on the bench like. By the way, who are the better players what play in his position?
