Tiresias Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 Championship midfielder through and through, amazed how many people he's fooled Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallsendmag Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 When looking at people to blame for this monumental fuck up of a season he's down at the bottom of the list. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
U2 Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 When looking at people to blame for this monumental f*** up of a season he's down at the bottom of the list. But the decision to consider him good enough to be our main CM is at the top... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 4 points in 3 games from those he hasn't started Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marmoset Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 No, a lot of venom for him comes from how little he stacks up against Cabaye, the man he has effectively replaced. As you say, he's a squad player at very best and even then I reckon there's a dozen Jack Colbacks knocking about the Championship who could do that job. Yet the powers that be deemed him good enough to be our main man in midfield. And just look at where we are. Disgusting. I know, I said that in the post. Maybe not very clearly I'll give you. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
olliemort Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 I think today was his worst performance yet for us and that's saying something. We would have being honestly better off playing with ten men. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wullie Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 Hate the use of the word "average", it's an exaggeration of his ability. He is shit. He's very lucky that he came through the academy of a Premier League side that happened to be garbage so he could get a foot in the door. If he was playing for a League One side, he wouldn't stand out in the slightest. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
54 Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 When looking at people to blame for this monumental fuck up of a season he's down at the bottom of the list. Yes but that list is like the amount of annoying people on Game of Thrones, with Colback being Roose Bolton, he's one of the lesser cunts but you still want to stab him in his face and him to suffer a slow and painful death. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marmoset Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 Hate the use of the word "average", it's an exaggeration of his ability. He is s***. He's very lucky that he came through the academy of a Premier League side that happened to be garbage so he could get a foot in the door. If he was playing for a League One side, he wouldn't stand out in the slightest. Hyperbole IMO. He hasn't been the worst performer this year, hasn't been the best, hence average. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 Colback's goals and assists contribution comes to 10. That's more than Sissoko, Abeid, de Jong, Anita, Raylor and Tiote combined. I don't particularly like him but when you start apportioning blame there are plenty of players ahead of him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klaus Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 The odd times I saw him play for Sunderland he came across as an energetic box to box type of player, with a decent eye for a pass or goal. I have seen very little of this since he came here. I will give him the benefit of the doubt for this season due to Pardew being s*** and Carver being shitter. A lot of decent players have regressed massively under the coaching at this club. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest n4e Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 Hate the use of the word "average", it's an exaggeration of his ability. He is shit. He's very lucky that he came through the academy of a Premier League side that happened to be garbage so he could get a foot in the door. If he was playing for a League One side, he wouldn't stand out in the slightest. Watched him for a full season and I still don't know what he's supposed to offer or what his 'strengths' are meant to be. He's like some sort of shit box to box midfielder who doesn't have the physicality, ability or the intelligence to play the role. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubaricho Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 When looking at people to blame for this monumental fuck up of a season he's down at the bottom of the list. This. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEMTEX Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 He gets over the top venom because he is representative of everything the club stands for right now. He's a bargain basement PL midfielder who will never play for a team north of 15th place. Doesn't mean he's the worst player in the squad (sadly), but he's still pretty fucking poor. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozy Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 If the sports direct brand was a footballer, it would be this guy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
midds Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 He gets over the top venom because he is representative of everything the club stands for right now. He's a bargain basement PL midfielder who will never play for a team north of 15th place. Doesn't mean he's the worst player in the squad (sadly), but he's still pretty fucking poor. Bingo. He's Ashley's poster-boy signing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 He gets over the top venom because he is representative of everything the club stands for right now. He's a bargain basement PL midfielder who will never play for a team north of 15th place. Doesn't mean he's the worst player in the squad (sadly), but he's still pretty fucking poor. Bingo. He's Ashley's poster-boy signing. Subservient, inadequate and cheap. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
midds Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 He gets over the top venom because he is representative of everything the club stands for right now. He's a bargain basement PL midfielder who will never play for a team north of 15th place. Doesn't mean he's the worst player in the squad (sadly), but he's still pretty fucking poor. Bingo. He's Ashley's poster-boy signing. Subservient, inadequate and cheap. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEMTEX Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 Ginger too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 Will probably get slaughtered for this but the reason many don't hate him is that he has contributed more in goals and assists than most this season, and he's had a lot of OK performances. He's just an average player, would be fine as backup if we had properly replaced Cabaye. Obviously he's had a lot of awful performances too but so have all of them, and he goes missing way, way too often, but I think that's down to a lack of ability/nous than intentional hiding. Think a lot of the venom for him comes from his bellendery at Sunderland and the fact he HAS been our Cabaye replacement, and he can't even begin to compare. And he was a Pardew fave. Not from me it hasn't, I was dismissing the criticism for the same reason when he signed, I couldn't really give a toss what he did when he was a Sunderland player. My main criticism has been that he is not an athlete and in today's premier league a midfield that doesn't have legs gets overrun. The same was true of Cabaye to be fair, I said the same about him albeit he was a much better player. The assists and goals stuff means fuck all tbh, if we'd played Marveaux in every game last season he would have had a hatful. A centre mid has to be involved all the time, that is why for me Tiote and Abeid are streets ahead. Say what you like about them, no one would ever accuse them of hiding. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
toontownman Posted May 17, 2015 Share Posted May 17, 2015 Has he played even average for us this season bar a couple of half decent games near the start? Absolute shit house. Certain still not in the raylor league of shit but needs to never start ahead of Abeid.. or err..anyone. Pathetic today yet again. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marmoset Posted May 17, 2015 Share Posted May 17, 2015 Well he's our second top assister, joint third top scorer, and in the league he's second only to Cisse in terms of goals+assists, so yeah even though stats don't tell the whole story especially in a position like cm he's clearly contributed more than most. There's more to playing cm than goals and assists obviously but the idea that he's 'league one standard' is just a bit of a dumb exaggeration. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 17, 2015 Share Posted May 17, 2015 When looking at people to blame for this monumental f*** up of a season he's down at the bottom of the list. This. Nah. We've got one of the worst first-choice midfielders in the league. He's right up there in the blame game for me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marmoset Posted May 17, 2015 Share Posted May 17, 2015 More to blame in the blame game than the people who decided not to invest further in our midfield then? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikon Posted May 17, 2015 Share Posted May 17, 2015 If we had a manager able to coach positive fluid football then Abeid and Anita instead of Raylor and Colback would make us much much better! (even with Carver) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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