ALAN Pardew thinks that the return of Fabricio Coloccini would be the abig boosta that Newcastle United have to see out their draining enduring fight. Heas right, needless to say. But his point rather begs the issue of where Coloccini has been for the remainder of an attritional plan. Coloccini has performed more than half of Newcastleas group games this season, so why does it feel like heas not been with us for a lot of it? Probably as the fog of divided loyalties seems to have originated over Coloccini at around a comparable time that Newcastleas hard winter started initially to bite. The straightforward truth is that when United have needed leadership this season, the clubas chief a' for just one reason or yet another a' has not always been around to provide it. Consider when Coloccini is around to cause them the facts: Newcastle took greater than a place a game title. It dips to 0.7pts per game without him. For anyone who remembers the quality of his shows against Sunderland, Norwich and Wigan that'll not come as a surprise. He's the class work United have desperately required within their times of need. He is also the sure touch they needed to see Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa through his first half a year in white and black. international defenders and the thinking was that mid-season signing Yanga-Mbiwa could be reduced in to motion with a view to leading the four next year life in the Premier League is not always easy. Coloccinias absence has seen him fast-tracked into the part and in fact he's starting to look somewhat frayed around the ends. For the discussion about Newcastleas play this season, the cause of the problems could be traced right to a fall in their defensive foundations. Some 51 targets were delivered in the whole of last season; in 2013 the counter has recently visited to 60. They want enterprise, authority and experience. Without Coloccini they struggle. The condition is all a cry from 12 months ago, when Coloccini couldn't set a wrong on or off the pitch. The ink hardly dry on a long-term agreement, his title was sung from the stands and he looked immovable within a water-tight Newcastle right back four. Slowly, that power has started to deteriorate. On a couple of occasions it's felt as if Coloccini a' or some body acting on his account a has been playing fast and loose with the thoughts of those Newcastle fans who applied to fete him. The aopen lettera thanking San Lorenzo followers and expressing his frustration at perhaps not going in January, for example, which left a bitter taste in the mouth. Pardew secured him at that moment but was unhappy again when Coloccini appeared on the Argentinian sideas official site performing for his home membership when he was said to be sleeping a back injury. Little things, probably, but hardly conducive to success at a club struggling hitting the heights of last time. Hardly useful to a manager facing the initial episode of serious questions about his leadership. Obviously there's little Coloccini or Newcastle can perform about the harm accident that has blighted this strategy a' and some critical hits have played their part. He's played just over 1 / 2 of Newcastleas games and the timing of his last injury, when United seemed to have built up some momentum following a crucial defeat of Southampton, was harmful for Pardew. But letas perhaps not ignore the elephant in the area a' Coloccinias mid-season demand to return to Argentina was destabilising. A team apparently built around two primary elderly guys a Coloccini being one, Demba Ba another a' has would have to be hastily shuffled for the next 50% of a bad time. It's maybe not Coloccinias fault that off-field dilemmas became therefore urgent in the fall that he felt the need certainly to place the request. Or can it be his challenge that United attended to depend so heavily on him for defensive authority that his absence leaves them so hamstrung. But while the captain of a club like Newcastle United, you are held to higher standards. Just ask Michael Owen, who still seems perplexed about why he therefore raises the hackles of Tynesiders despite a good scoring record. Now no one is evaluating Coloccinias stint as leader to Owenas, but there might be little doubt that he now owes Newcastle a effectiveness a' or four. Perhaps he should pay attention to his predecessoras share in East London this weekend. Kevin Nolan was referred to since the agreatest captain mind actually enjoyed undera by one skilled Newcastle campaigner and his target a' just when West Ham required one a' helped push the Irons closer to safety. United have moved on from Nolan, we're told. Maybe they have. But how they could do with a dash of his know-how right about now. Signal Coloccini, providing he is able to clear his head of most other distractions.
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