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Who's judging him on 90 minutes a week? The lack of leadership on the field is only part of it, and a pretty big part as it happens. 'Everything else', man. The guy's been our top earner for 5 years, our captain for 18 months and would gladly walk away when we need him most. If that's leadership in your eyes you need to get out and experience a bit of the world, or look at every club that's consistently won things over the past 3 decades and take a look at who leads them out.

Mick imagining posts again, not like him.

A poor captain could have a negative effect if he was disruptive, I probably over simplified what I said. I still don’t think being a captain these days is much other than being a figurehead. Every player on the pitch should be talking to each other, one person can only do so much. I've seen nothing to make me think that Coloccini is anything but a good captain other than his current personal problems which don't seem to be doing anything to his game. I have no complaints about his on the field captain duties, but you can't find any fault at all in a captain who wants to jump ship in the middle of a relegation fight and doesn't communicate (about this) with the fans..? Not to mention the obvious leadership void on the pitch.

Heard it all before, man. Every single person who defends Colo's leadership invariably mentions screaming like an idiot. There's a lot of scope there to achieve a balance.

You attack Pardew at every given opportunity for the lack of cohesion and morale on the pitch; Coloccini not organising as he should is part of that. Great player but a poor leader.

Either way, there's no excuse for this shit when he hasn't communicated with our fans directly or indirectly for over 6 months. Some captain.

He has 10 top flight goals for us in the 9 years since he made his first PL start. 3 of those came under Pardew, btw. Next.

Charlton fans wouldn't agree with that one, like. Still, everyone wants us to fail. Fuck them.

Urgh.

My dad - a very good player in his time who was on Everton's books for a while - was one of those who would swear he would never see better players than Best and Maradona. I insisted he start watching Spanish football, which he eventually did. He now says without hesitation that Messi is the best player of all time by a mile.

Routledge tracks back well enough. Haven't seen enough of Hernández in this league to judge. Routledge pins teams back with his pace. 4-3-3 is perfect for him. Yes. You'd think the same would apply for Obertan but I haven't seen anything to suggest it's the same for him. Obertan's just not as good, it's that simple sadly.

Routledge tracks back well enough. Haven't seen enough of Hernández in this league to judge. Routledge pins teams back with his pace. 4-3-3 is perfect for him.

Tino v Boro 1996 albeit from the bench Cisse's debut goal was lovely On Marv, he's not defensively minded enough for Pards and while I may disagree I think realistically Pards will either play him central or not at all. He does not like playing wingers who don't track back much no matter how skillful. "Wingers" ffs. better tell Chelsea that Mata and Hazard are not wingers and best sub them..... He wouldn't be a "winger" anyway its possible to play someone outwide and him not to be stuck on the touchline all game. By this logic we shouldn't play Ben Arfa either because he's not a winger either. Sorry, like, but this post suggests you've not seen Marveaux play. He's nothing remotely like any of those players.

Dyer chinned himself?

Yeah, he has such a great track record of doing that, giving the ball away time after time. Gouffran will work his bollocks off out there, make space for Cisse and be a goal threat. Wish people would stop trying to be clever with square pegs in round holes. We've had enough of that from Pardew.

You would rather play Jonas, Obertan or Sammy? it's not like he's incapable of playing there anyway and quite frankly by far our best option until Ben Arfa comes back. I'd rather play Obertan there than Marveaux, yes. Marveaux will just be wasted and get isolated out there.

I'd go with Cajun's team till Hatem comes back like. I want Marveaux playing the Dyer role in midfield.

AVB asked for that. Managerial inexperience.

Probably helps that the players that in theory should be pushed out of the team by the arrivals are worse than shit and have been killing our ability to play football for years.

It was Gerald Ashby, was it not? He's dead now, anyway.

Good assessment. It kinda fills in the blanks (if you'd never seen either of them play) while also being a bit of a contradiction in terms. Robert made the difference in games far more often, and he (along with Bellamy) totally transformed an average side into one of the best 3 in the country, so he gets the nod ahead of Ginola for me.

Poor Aaron. Age has really caught up with him this season.

I'm confident we'll finish above Norwich.

Should just offer them Shola, Jonas and Simpson.