Ash

He is extremely undiciploned to be fair.

I wish I could see what you constantly harp on about regarding Colback. To me, he looks absolutely bang average, 6/10, areet but nothing special at all. That's all well and good but when he's going to be keeping a terrific player like Anita on the bench because of our dinosaur manager, I fail to see your optimism regarding the deal. Well okay, I'll try and pinpoint the main issue, for me. For some time now, we have had a very dysfunctional midfield who struggle to create much on the deck. They have either lacked confidence or lacked ability in passing and receiving the ball. We often see passes designed to keep the ball rather than use it. It goes sideways or backwards, often behind the receiver because the passer isn't confident enough to play it into someone's stride. The result is that the opposition find it very easy to put pressure on us, the ball finds it way back to the keeper or the back four, who then have no choice but to hoof it long because the entire team is on the back foot, with no-one in space. What Colback does, better and more consistently than any of our other midfield players, is he's able to lift his head up, if necessary switch direction, and pass the ball forwards into the receiver's stride. Nothing spectacular or particularly eye-catching, but the momentum of the team is then forwards rather than backwards, mobile and not static. That is why Pardew is playing him, and Allardyce and Poyet wanted him. He's a decent tackler too. The bit in bold perfectly describes what Colback does. Anita is probably the only player we have who is capable of doing what you say we need in central midfield.

I do like how you've accused everyone saying something about Colback of working at Tesco. Thing that cracked me up most is that Stifler works/worked at Sainsbury's.

He puts Colin to shame, 180k followers ffs.

He's constantly saying it but he does fuck all about it. He just lies to try and appease people who are stupid enough to believe what comes out of his ringpiece.

100mins of half-decent football in pre-season doesn't justify all of the other shite he's produced for us over the last 3 years. He's turboshit and is nowhere near good enough for this Club.

Another year at Barça B; he's just spent a season there, and playing at Liga Adelante it's a fairly good level for a lad his age. He looked pretty assured today, mind, but it's just a friendly. Hoping to see him get at least a few first team games this season before stepping up next. Still absolutely stand by this too : He impressed me and many others, including coaches and scouts, massively. He will be a world-class player, mark my words. He's my favorite young player at Barça (even more than Deulofeu), I'm really looking forward seeing him in our midfield in the years to come. From the bits I've seen of him over the last year, he looks so composed. I really wouldn't be surprised to see him displace Busquets over the coming years.

Another year at Barça B; he's just spent a season there, and playing at Liga Adelante it's a fairly good level for a lad his age. He looked pretty assured today, mind, but it's just a friendly. Hoping to see him get at least a few first team games this season before stepping up next. Still absolutely stand by this too : He impressed me and many others, including coaches and scouts, massively. He will be a world-class player, mark my words.

He's probably a lovely bloke but he talks utter shite.

Negative tactics like this in pre-season, what hope do we have? Has Perez even touched the ball yet?

That is actually one of the worst pieces of defending from a team I've ever seen.

Watching this makes me delighted that I gave up my season ticket. Utterly shite.

Steven Taylor already back to pointing at other people for his own errors.

Anyone else had an email with an 'exclusive' offer for a half-season ticket?

Likely to be before the start of June.

Looks like Rugby League's Magic Weekend is going to be held at SJP next year... @Chrisirvine More a question now of precisely when for Magic Weekend @NUFC in 2015 #GeordieMagic #rugbyleague

If we were willing to spend that much money on somebody, it should be going on Aubameyang or Grenier.

Tom Huddlestone had his awful penalty saved and then somehow managed to hit the bar from 2 yards out on the rebound in Hull's Europa League qualifier tonight.

There's baggage because he plays for a club that isn't us. What a fucking clown, man.

Here's an outlandish idea: use a colour that would make them easy to read.

Mark Douglas ‏@MsiDouglas 1m Lacazette blow for #nufc. Sounds like Lyon have made him an offer he couldn't refuse... Where now? More here: http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/newcastle-united-suffer-blow-alexandre-7537322 … Yesterday he was banging on about how he wanted to sign for us. They know absolutely fuck all.

That's completely redundant now. Is it? I thought he had a tiered release clause? He apparently does but with today's news it becomes pretty irrelevant. Not if QPR want to hang onto him it doesn't. TRon's said what I was going to.

That's completely redundant now. Is it? I thought he had a tiered release clause? He apparently does but with today's news it becomes pretty irrelevant.

That's completely redundant now.