Jack Colback (now a free agent)

[TaylorJ_01]

:lol:

[Stifler]

The guy has been goaded for years by his friends at school and others. At school he was a Newcastle fan, went to a fair few games (him and his friends invited me to go with them to the Chelsea FA Cup match when Kluivert scored the winner). He always got stick for playing for Sunderland, he always got asked why he didn't play for us and his story was always that he had a trail for us but Newcastle never took up the opportunity to sign him. One time he came in with his Sunderland shirt on just to wind his friends up, always has been a Newcastle a fan though.

 

Sunderland brought him up in the footballing world, the time when he has celebrated and when he did the gesture to me is just to wind his friends up, nothing more. it's funny how no one mentions that when Newcastle have scored the winner against Sunderland he didn't have a disappointed reaction like his teammates.

After he left school he was dating one my old bosses daughters, my boss was a Sunderland fan and Jack used to wind him up about how Sunderland had get Geordie's to play for them because people from Sunderland couldn't play football.

 

Having known him I know that he really is a Newcastle fan, fair enough in my mind he isn't good enough for the first team squad, but he's good enough for the squad and I know this is the move he has always really wanted and I know that back in school he was one of the canny lads, always down to earth and never got carried away with himself, always tried his best at school and had a good level of knowledge about football. Because of this I wish him the very best and I hope he goes on to prove a lot of people wrong because a lot of people are judging him harshly without really giving him a chance.

[aussiemag]

The guy has been goaded for years by his friends at school and others. At school he was a Newcastle fan, went to a fair few games (him and his friends invited me to go with them to the Chelsea FA Cup match when Kluivert scored the winner). He always got stick for playing for Sunderland, he always got asked why he didn't play for us and his story was always that he had a trail for us but Newcastle never took up the opportunity to sign him. One time he came in with his Sunderland shirt on just to wind his friends up, always has been a Newcastle a fan though.

 

Sunderland brought him up in the footballing world, the time when he has celebrated and when he did the gesture to me is just to wind his friends up, nothing more. it's funny how no one mentions that when Newcastle have scored the winner against Sunderland he didn't have a disappointed reaction like his teammates.

After he left school he was dating one my old bosses daughters, my boss was a Sunderland fan and Jack used to wind him up about how Sunderland had get Geordie's to play for them because people from Sunderland couldn't play football.

 

Having known him I know that he really is a Newcastle fan, fair enough in my mind he isn't good enough for the first team squad, but he's good enough for the squad and I know this is the move he has always really wanted and I know that back in school he was one of the canny lads, always down to earth and never got carried away with himself, always tried his best at school and had a good level of knowledge about football. Because of this I wish him the very best and I hope he goes on to prove a lot of people wrong because a lot of people are judging him harshly without really giving him a chance.

 

Look at me! Look at me! Im friends with Jack Colback! .....................................pathetic

[Interpolic]

Sunderland brought him up in the footballing world, the time when he has celebrated and when he did the gesture to me is just to wind his friends up, nothing more.

 

He must be very, very thick then, if he didn't think NUFC supporters outside his group of friends would see it as a wind-up.  Especially if he's always wanted to play for us.

[KaKa]

Hmmm ... see I could see him doing that to wind his friends up, and being turned down by Newcastle, its clear he never thought he'd have a chance to play for the club. It still wasn't smart for him to do what he did.

 

I don't know. Just typical young man behaviour really. He just needs to get his head down and play his best really. Find it hard to be too mad at him. I think maybe it's because those Sunderland trouncings made Pardew look the oaf that he is.

 

All my rage is being spent on Pardew. I have no more left to dish out. Well, except towards Shola who is still managing to ruin my life.

[Stifler]

The guy has been goaded for years by his friends at school and others. At school he was a Newcastle fan, went to a fair few games (him and his friends invited me to go with them to the Chelsea FA Cup match when Kluivert scored the winner). He always got stick for playing for Sunderland, he always got asked why he didn't play for us and his story was always that he had a trail for us but Newcastle never took up the opportunity to sign him. One time he came in with his Sunderland shirt on just to wind his friends up, always has been a Newcastle a fan though.

 

Sunderland brought him up in the footballing world, the time when he has celebrated and when he did the gesture to me is just to wind his friends up, nothing more. it's funny how no one mentions that when Newcastle have scored the winner against Sunderland he didn't have a disappointed reaction like his teammates.

After he left school he was dating one my old bosses daughters, my boss was a Sunderland fan and Jack used to wind him up about how Sunderland had get Geordie's to play for them because people from Sunderland couldn't play football.

 

Having known him I know that he really is a Newcastle fan, fair enough in my mind he isn't good enough for the first team squad, but he's good enough for the squad and I know this is the move he has always really wanted and I know that back in school he was one of the canny lads, always down to earth and never got carried away with himself, always tried his best at school and had a good level of knowledge about football. Because of this I wish him the very best and I hope he goes on to prove a lot of people wrong because a lot of people are judging him harshly without really giving him a chance.

 

Look at me! Look at me! Im friends with Jack Colback! .....................................pathetic

Knew him at school, don't think he would recognise me now.

[aussiemag]

The guy has been goaded for years by his friends at school and others. At school he was a Newcastle fan, went to a fair few games (him and his friends invited me to go with them to the Chelsea FA Cup match when Kluivert scored the winner). He always got stick for playing for Sunderland, he always got asked why he didn't play for us and his story was always that he had a trail for us but Newcastle never took up the opportunity to sign him. One time he came in with his Sunderland shirt on just to wind his friends up, always has been a Newcastle a fan though.

 

Sunderland brought him up in the footballing world, the time when he has celebrated and when he did the gesture to me is just to wind his friends up, nothing more. it's funny how no one mentions that when Newcastle have scored the winner against Sunderland he didn't have a disappointed reaction like his teammates.

After he left school he was dating one my old bosses daughters, my boss was a Sunderland fan and Jack used to wind him up about how Sunderland had get Geordie's to play for them because people from Sunderland couldn't play football.

 

Having known him I know that he really is a Newcastle fan, fair enough in my mind he isn't good enough for the first team squad, but he's good enough for the squad and I know this is the move he has always really wanted and I know that back in school he was one of the canny lads, always down to earth and never got carried away with himself, always tried his best at school and had a good level of knowledge about football. Because of this I wish him the very best and I hope he goes on to prove a lot of people wrong because a lot of people are judging him harshly without really giving him a chance.

 

Look at me! Look at me! Im friends with Jack Colback! .....................................pathetic

Knew him at school, don't think he would recognise me now.

 

just winding you up tbh i feel nothing about the signing. Decent squad player, but if he is starting more than 10 games we are in for a rough season.

[Jack Flash]

If he always harboured hopes of playing for us then why do those gestures at all? If you look at the way he binned Sunderland off to join us (judging by their statement) it seems like he always wanted to join us one day. He's now made life much harder for himself as he'll be under the microscope so much more and every little mistake will be magnified 100 times.

 

If he was a great player it probably would get swept under the carpet but he's a 'ten a penny' kind of player.

 

He probably though he had no chance of ever playing for us because he knows he's not good enough and never will be, so he tried to gain favour with the mackems by pissing us off. He'll have known that we haven't signed a sunderland player in 20+ years because we've always had the best team and haven't needed to degrade ourselves by going to our biggest rivals for players, like they have with us quite a few times.

 

But then Pardew happened.

[Wullie]

I'm always winding my Newcastle mates up after they get beat by the mackems, they hate it lol

[Toondave]

He knows he's shit, he knows the fans will be on his back and consequently Pardew's back as soon as he puts his foot wrong, which he inevitably will. He's come to rid us of Pards.

 

A true geordie hero.

[Guest Howaythetoon]

I object to him being a dick to Newcastle fans, emphasis on the latter.

 

It's not a part of the game in my eyes. I know i couldn't do it, neither could Lee Clark, who put in a transfer because he couldn't wear their shirt against us. A "Newcastle fan" mocking us on derby day on their behalf? Astonishing to me that anyone will give him a single second of support. In footballing terms, he's the lowest of the low.

 

He's also s****, which we shouldn't forget.

 

 

This this and this.

[Foluwashola]

A year ago a player was refusing to play for us in an attempt to engineer a move away. This player is now afforded the highest praise by many of our fans. If Colback manages to string a couple of passes together, we'll conveniently forget his inoffensive gestures.

 

Providing he gives 100% when he pulls on the shirt, and I'm fairly confident he will do, he'll get nothing but support from me. Until he puts in a string of terrible performances of course. Then he reverts to disgusting ginger mackem mode.

[Thomson Mouse]

One time he came in with his Sunderland shirt on just to wind his friends up, always has been a Newcastle a fan though.

 

A complete contradiction in terms.

 

If he was wearing it to play in as his job, fair enough, but doing that in it.....aye, always been a Newcastle fan though.

[Darth Crooks]

More bothered about the possibility that under pardew he'll be about as much use a spelk in the jap rather than any prior stupid gestures. I don't take the derby defeats and nonsense that surrounds it lightly either. Showed some over the top celebration in support of the team he played for which was a bit antagonistic. We've bigger problems mind, like the fatman and tampon brains.

[Numbers]

Hes not as bad as some people make out on here like. Hardly a world beater but about our level now sadly.

[Shearergol]

Hes not as bad as some people make out on here like. Hardly a world beater but about our level now sadly.

 

That's the problem; he's starting at our level. Once Pardew gets him he'll be worse.

[Cajun]

Hes not as bad as some people make out on here like. Hardly a world beater but about our level now sadly.

 

He offers nothing we don't already have though.

 

Its like buying a spare, spare tyre. It might come in useful eventually but when your clutch is fucked, your wing mirror is hanging off, the central locking is gone and you're already on a limited budget it's a pointless purchase.

[Guest palnese]

Runs into the box, based on the last few games I watched.

 

We had Gosling doing that, but he's awful.

[Guest neesy111]

Hes not as bad as some people make out on here like. Hardly a world beater but about our level now sadly.

 

He offers nothing we don't already have though.

 

Its like buying a spare, spare tyre. I

 

I what?

[Cajun]

Hes not as bad as some people make out on here like. Hardly a world beater but about our level now sadly.

 

He offers nothing we don't already have though.

 

Its like buying a spare, spare tyre. I

 

I what?

 

-Robot.

[Guest Alyosha]

Hes not as bad as some people make out on here like. Hardly a world beater but about our level now sadly.

 

That's the problem; he's starting at our level. Once Pardew gets him he'll be worse.

 

Once you get to a critically low level of quality the Pardew effect is inversed. Ryan Taylor, Williamson, Perch, Best and the Ameobi brothers all showed improvement under Pardew's tutelage.

[Tiresias]

There is a lot of low expectations going with that. Williamson granted has proven better than believed and Best worked very well with Ba, but Ryan Taylor is only really good at one thing, Perch was never that great to be honest basically functional and Shola only improved in the sense that he got closer to death. Sammy has shown promise in spurts but no less sure he's not being held back.

[Jack Flash]

Runs into the box, based on the last few games I watched.

 

We had Gosling doing that, but he's awful.

 

If he does he's even worse than I thought, considering he's only scored about 4 goals in his career.

[Willow]

Shola only improved in the sense that he got closer to death

 

[Dave]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/newcastle-west-hams-bizarre-transfer-3672136

Newcastle were locked in an extraordinary row with Jack Colback’s representatives before his £50,000-a-week move to St James’ Park.

 

Mirror Sport understands confirmation of the 24-year-old’s free-agent defection from arch-rivals Sunderland was held up for over two weeks - because he staged a u-turn and asked to be allowed to go to West Ham instead.

 

The Magpies and Hammers had been in a straight fight for Colback’s services when it became clear that he was ready to quit the Stadium of Light.

 

It appeared the battle had been won when Colback initially chose a move to his native Tyneside.

 

It is understood, however, that the Toon were left stunned after being told the player had had an overnight change of heart - possibly sparked by concerns over the reaction on Wearside - and now wanted to move to the Upton Park club.

 

A remarkable week of wrangling then ensued in which Colback’s representatives allegedly tried to backtrack - only to be told by Newcastle that they had already reached agreement and the club were not willing to go back on it.

 

At one stage, they did offer to actually SELL Colback to West Ham for £5million.

 

It was when the Hammers declined the audacious move that the player’s move to Newcastle was confirmed.

 

Good lad. Always wanted to play for us.