The Johnny 'Colossus' Heitinga Appreciation Thread

RFUS · August 11, 2010

Hahaha. A man's man's man.

ijjysmith · August 11, 2010

God I love him. Hope his heart really is with us.

RFUS · August 11, 2010

ijjysmith said:
God I love him. Hope his heart really is with us.

I don't think his heart will ever lie with any club. I think he likes it here; the manager, style, players and so on. I just don't think he's the type of guy to get emotionally invested in a team. He's more interested in being the best he can be; why he moved to England, no doubt.

Neiler · August 11, 2010

I think he could get it.

He still has to develop his game a lot for me to be honest - great potential though.

Dublintoff · August 11, 2010

Neiler said:
Ace wedding pics!

His missus' smalls even say 'mrs heitinga' on them, brilliant!

RFUS · August 11, 2010

Dublintoff said:
His missus' smalls even say 'mrs heitinga' on them, brilliant!

Good eye! (I was too busy looing at Heitinga's guns, I guess)

GhostOfDixie · August 15, 2010

Heitinga Fit?

Why didn't Heitinga play against Blackburn? I know he had a world cup, but so did Torres, Silva, De Jong,

Toffe3m4n · August 15, 2010

Im expecting him back in the fold when Wolves come to town.

GhostOfDixie · August 15, 2010

t0ffe3m4n said:
Im expecting him back in the fold when Wolves come to town.

But why so late? Nigel de Jong was in the World cup final and he played full 90 yesterday. Jonny has not kicked a ball since getting sent off 5 weeks ago.

ToxtethBlue · August 15, 2010

He hasn't been back that long to be fair to Moyes, I can understand why he didn't use Heitinga. He'll probably be involved against Wolves.

tadpole · August 15, 2010

Torres started on the bench today

ToxtethBlue · August 15, 2010

GhostOfDixie said:
But why so late? Nigel de Jong was in the World cup final and he played full 90 yesterday. Jonny has not kicked a ball since getting sent off 5 weeks ago.

Moyes wanted to give him a good break, it's down to choice really, he probably wants Heitinga in the best condition possible, both physically and mentally.

GhostOfDixie · August 15, 2010

ToxtethBlue said:
Moyes wanted to give him a good break, it's down to choice really, he probably wants Heitinga in the best condition possible, both physically and mentally.

Right it just seemed strange really. Given how good he has played last season to not want him back sooner. It's almost like we are not ready to start the season.

I would agree that the world cup would have been an issue, but De Jong played yesterday.

ToxtethBlue · August 15, 2010

We had enough options yesterday to give him that rest and let him get up to speed, sadly the manager and team didn't do the buisness on the day. I don't think De Jong got as long a break as Heitinga did to be honest, I'm not certain on this, but I think he actually played in some of City's games towards the end of pre-season.

Heitinga's a 'winner', he's got that mentality that we need in the side really, he'll be in the side sooner rather than later.

GhostOfDixie · August 15, 2010

ToxtethBlue said:
We had enough options yesterday to give him that rest and let him get up to speed, sadly the manager and team didn't do the buisness on the day. I don't think De Jong got as long a break as Heitinga did to be honest, I'm not certain on this, but I think he actually played in some of City's games towards the end of pre-season.

Heitinga's a 'winner', he's got that mentality that we need in the side really, he'll be in the side sooner rather than later.

Well hopefully. He's needed.