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Colo has regressed the past two or three years.  However on his day he can produce fab performances as yesterday. And we look far better with him in the side.

 

2-3 years? It's only 2 yars ago he was in team of the season for the PL is it not?

 

So? The season we came up was his best season for us in MY opinion so the 2-3 years after that in MY opinion he wasn't as good as the previous so in MY opinion he has regressed.

 

He was voted in the best PL team for our 2nd season up when we finished 5th!

 

I know he was but that really doesn't mean he wasn't better the season before that does it?

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I was being sarcy mate. Your entitled to your opinion but you are wrong. He was brilliant in the season we finished 5th.  That's the best season for the majority of our players.

 

Im not saying he wasn't. Im saying he was better the season before. I can only really think of the Bolton bollocking where he wasn't good.

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I was being sarcy mate. Your entitled to your opinion but you are wrong. He was brilliant in the season we finished 5th.  That's the best season for the majority of our players.

 

Im not saying he wasn't. Im saying he was better the season before. I can only really think of the Bolton bollocking where he wasn't good.

 

That doesn't mean to say he regressed the following season because he wasn't making games look as easy as he was in the championship. He had a great season against far tougher opposition? Beyond me how that's regressing :lol:

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I was being sarcy mate. Your entitled to your opinion but you are wrong. He was brilliant in the season we finished 5th.  That's the best season for the majority of our players.

 

Im not saying he wasn't. Im saying he was better the season before. I can only really think of the Bolton bollocking where he wasn't good.

 

That doesn't mean to say he regressed the following season because he wasn't making games look as easy as he was in the championship. He had a great season against far tougher opposition? Beyond me how that's regressing :lol:

 

I'm not talking about the fucking Championship season am I?

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I was being sarcy mate. Your entitled to your opinion but you are wrong. He was brilliant in the season we finished 5th.  That's the best season for the majority of our players.

 

Im not saying he wasn't. Im saying he was better the season before. I can only really think of the Bolton bollocking where he wasn't good.

 

That the game he was getting mullered by Johan Fucking Elmander so he gave him a cheeky elbow to the bracket? :lol:

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I'm not talking about the f***ing Championship season am I?

 

Regressed last 2-3 year. 4 year ago we were in Championship so just assumed that's when you thought the peak was and he hasn't been the same since? Sorry if i judged that incorrectly. Can see what you mean now reading your other posts, not that i agree still, with CD on this one :)

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I was being sarcy mate. Your entitled to your opinion but you are wrong. He was brilliant in the season we finished 5th.  That's the best season for the majority of our players.

 

Im not saying he wasn't. Im saying he was better the season before. I can only really think of the Bolton bollocking where he wasn't good.

 

That the game he was getting mullered by Johan Fucking Elmander so he gave him a cheeky elbow to the bracket? :lol:

 

Yep :)

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http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/neil-cameron-coloccini-williamson-newcastles-6746901

 

Neil Cameron: Coloccini and Williamson are Newcastle's odd Couple - and they can't do without them

26 Feb 2014 11:23 Neil Cameron believes Alan Pardew must give Fabricio Coloccini and Mike Williamson the rest of this season to establish an already superb partnership

 

Share on printShare on email Getty Images Fabricio Coloccini and Mike Williamson They were not supposed to play with each other at all this season.

 

As it happens, Newcastle United don’t function properly when they are not both on the field at the same time.

 

Fabricio Coloccini and Mike Williamson are to some degree an odd couple.

 

The captain is a superstar. He’s going to the World Cup. His country might even win the thing. He has played for AC Milan and made 214 appearances in Spanish top-flight football.

 

The other is a (supposed) journeyman centre-half who began his career at Torquay United and won’t be going to the World Cup.

 

Although that last factoid is increasingly looking silly. On Sunday against Aston Villa, Colo and Willo, to allow them their nicknames, were partnered together in the Newcastle United central defence for the first time since January 1.

 

It was a million miles from a mere coincidence that it was only the second clean sheet recorded since the Argentinian picked up an injury. In total, they have played together 13 times this season, 12 in the Premier League and one cup match, a 2-0 home win over Leeds United back in September 25.

 

Newcastle have won eight, drawn one and lost four of those games. This period saw 13 goals conceded in these 13 matches.

 

A goal a game is not brilliant, but consider the following. Coloccini disappeared after the New Year’s Day defeat at West Brom before reappearing on Sunday. During that time, Newcastle conceded 13 times in just six league matches. Williamson played in every one, but could you really point the finger of blame at him in any of these matches?

 

He wasn’t great at Chelsea or in the derby, but he was one of the few to get pass marks. He was eventually run ragged in the Spurs game, an awful 4-0 home defeat – but again to lay any fault at his feet would be wrong.

 

Incidentally, the Capital One Cup tie was Williamson’s first outing of the season – because he was supposed to be the fourth-choice defender.

 

Someone you could risk in a cup game that didn’t matter.

 

Heaven forbid you would need him for a Premier League fixture. But a fixture is what Williamson has become. Thankfully.

 

Much talk has centred on who Alan Pardew will play at the other end of the pitch over the final 11 games of the season.

 

However, who starts at the back is just as important, and surely Coloccini and Williamson must be allowed to see out the campaign, if the skipper’s body holds up.

 

Coloccini is the leader, albeit a silent one. He steadies the ship, begins attacks and reads the game, thus refusing any pesky striker an inch of space. Williamson is old school. He wins his headers and makes tackles, although to suggest he’s not much of a footballer is ridiculous.

 

They complement each other, if not perfectly, then certainly extremely well.

 

And much of this success must be put down to Williamson, who has hardly put a foot wrong all season.

 

Did anyone really expect him to play much, if at all, in the Premier League?

 

Pardew’s hand was forced somewhat when he found his team three goals down at half-time at Goodison Park. Everton walked off the park after 45 minutes wondering how they hadn’t managed to score more.

 

Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa was given a torrid time – he’s arguably not yet recovered – and the £7million signing was taken off for Williamson, only on the bench because Steven Taylor was injured, came on and helped settle Coloccini, who himself was having a bad evening, and no more goals were conceded.

 

Indeed, Newcastle scored twice and came closing to nicking an unlikely point. From this moment on, the derby match aside, things went really well with these two guarding central defence. This is when most of the good work was done by United.

 

Chances are that Coloccini will try or at least hint about a return to South America in the summer.

 

However, if he does stay, and remember Newcastle don’t need to sell him, then these two could be the leaders of Newcastle’s defence for a couple of seasons.

 

Coloccini was a bit rusty against Villa, but his mere presence makes that back four better.

 

Williamson was terrific. Again.

 

His superbly-timed tackle on Christian Benteke not only prevented a goal, it set up a chance at the other end, and lifted his team-mates and the entire stadium.

 

There will be worse centre-halves in Brazil than Williamson. Some will be with England.

 

That doesn’t seem fair.

 

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MYM went on to put in 2 top quality performances versus Chelsea and Spurs, man. He recovered just fine, he was then dropped back down to the bench, and when Colo went back down he should have slid right back into the team with Mike Williamson.

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http://www.nufc.co.uk/articles/20140228/coloccini-to-miss-hull-trip_2281670_3691566

 

Newcastle United captain Fabricio Coloccini will not be involved in Saturday's Barclays Premier League fixture at Hull following a family bereavement.

The centre-back has been allowed to return home to Argentina to spend time with family rather than make the trip to the KC Stadium.

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http://www.nufc.co.uk/articles/20140228/coloccini-to-miss-hull-trip_2281670_3691566

 

Newcastle United captain Fabricio Coloccini will not be involved in Saturday's Barclays Premier League fixture at Hull following a family bereavement.

The centre-back has been allowed to return home to Argentina to spend time with family rather than make the trip to the KC Stadium.

Yanga has to come in then, Taylor has had his chance and we conceded goals for fun.

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