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Sassy. It's not a particularly bold opinion tbh. Anita is normally massively underwhelming.

 

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/frank-de-boer-backs-vurnon-1369506

 

Find me a similar article showing the importance Colback had on a renowned European side. Being praised by a former Ajax and Barcelona legend please.

 

Anita hasn't turned out the way I personally hoped. But his pass and move style of football atleast brings some fluidity to our midfield, other players can bounce passes off him and know they always have an outlet. On the other hand, Colback is a mediocre jack of all trades, literally. He does nothing well, he is just average at keeping it neat, running around, with the occasional tackle.

 

Anita clearly has something about him, he just can't show it in this system under Pardew, and to believe Colback is a superior option is nothing short of moronic.

 

 

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Colback looks a tidy player because he does tidy little passes while strolling around the pitch. Tiote is called worse than s*** here but at least he has the balls to carry the ball forward in midfield. That's partly because he's got the legs to do it as well mind. If Colback tried to carry the ball he'd be clattered and dispossessed within a second because he'd be moving like a turtle and the opposition would run him down every time.

 

Heard it all now. Since when has Tiote carried the ball forward like Colback did against Chelsea - for both his first-half chance and the second goal? Tiote moves in ever decreasing circles, taking a touch or three too many in trying - often unsuccessfully and at the cost of the team - to hold off/beat a man and convince us he is a footballer. 

 

He didn't carry the ball for the first goal, for the second he picked it up on the break took a couple of paces forward into the empty space before releasing a good pass. He's Nicky Butt reincarnated but a bit slower.

 

Ironically, Colback's derby goal did for your Tiote theory. Had time and loads of room to take the ball forward,  bottled it with a nothing (but characteristic) square pass and that was that.

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Anita regularly looks less effective than Colback when given an outing.

 

He's not given enough time. He's also not in a system that suits him. In Ajax they obviously value possession of the ball and possess CB's comfortable on the ball to distribute it into a CM who drops in to collect the ball- this has never been possible with Williamson playing behind him. For example, in the derby last year all we did was launch it up to Shola, non-stop. This rendered players like Anita and Ben Arfa totally useless. He's a very clever player and technically excellent. I was talking to one of the strength & conditioning coaches at the club last year and he said he thought Anita was the most athletic player in the side. I find that surprising but even more so that that doesn't work in his favor considering Pardew's values in a player.

 

At Ajax he was up against average players every week and playing in team that dominated their matches. He's never going to get the same time and space on the ball over here as he did in Holland and that's something he's struggled with badly. Wouldn't have him anywhere near the starting XI on Sunday.

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Anyone even contemplating the idea of Colback being 'better' or 'more effective' than Anita needs to ask themselves why they watch football in the first place. Anita is not even in the same league, he's a cultured, technically gifted, intelligent midfielder who, surprise, surprise, lacks 'graft' in the middle, was misused and eventually dropped for one of Pardew's prodigal sons who gave him a boner when he shushed him in the last derby.

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Anyone even contemplating the idea of Colback being 'better' or 'more effective' than Anita needs to ask themselves why they watch football in the first place. Anita is not even in the same league, he's a cultured, technically gifted, intelligent midfielder who, surprise, surprise, lacks 'graft' in the middle, was misused and eventually dropped for one of Pardew's prodigal sons who gave him a boner when he shushed him in the last derby.

No he isn't.

He's a crock of shit used to playing in a crock of shit pub league where Luuk De Jong can score a 41 minute hat trick.

 

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2881035/Alan-Pardew-spices-Tyne-Wear-derby-rubbing-Jack-Colback-Newcastle-prepare-host-Sunderland.html

 

They've put his photo, with his hand on his heart, on the front of tomorrow's programme.

 

I don't think that's a good idea. There's pressure enough on the lad as it is. He seems good at handling pressure, but why make it even more difficult.

 

PS - and with all the talk beforehand about calming the atmosphere down between the two sets of supporters, this doesn't seem like a sensible gesture.

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Coldback is a traitor

He wears a traitors shirt

When Cattermole goes through you

It's going to f***ing hurt

We were only joking

We'd love to have you back

So we can kick your head in

You f***ing ginger t***.

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They all crow on that 'Catts' has calmed his game down and has improved significantly.

 

It'll be a test of his mentality tomorrow. Thoroughly expecting him to go back to his old ways and kill Colback.

The guy is a thug, I haven't seen him make a fair challenge yet. He hasn't calmed down at all, he's just gone missing in games.
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Coldback is a traitor

He wears a traitors shirt

When Cattermole goes through you

It's going to f***ing hurt

We were only joking

We'd love to have you back

So we can kick your head in

You f***ing ginger t***.

Not bad to be fair.
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