Jack Colback exclusive: QPR under Cifuentes, why I went south; my advice for Chris Rigg

It doesn't happen often, but Jack Colback once made the almost forbidden choice of leaving Sunderland for Newcastle. That "takes a bit of b******s" to quote the man himself, so would he advise other players to do the same? Say, Chris Rigg, for instance, the talented 16-year-old Sunderland player?

"It depends on how long the contract is," Colback deadpans.

"Sunderland fans will hate you for the rest of your life, but it is certainly not something I regret doing," Colback continues, before Tribalfootball.com allows him to turn back to what we are really meant to talk about which is Queens Park Rangers.

His current club, who are finally making some strides in the Championship after the emergence of Marti Cifuentes. Their fourth manager since the start of last season and the Spaniard is off to a very decent start, although he was not a name on Colback's radar before rocking up at Loftus Road.

"But when you hear a rumour in the dressing room a Spanish manager is set to sign, you kind of assume he's going to want to play nice football, so that went down well," says Colback.

The players responded well to the new regime by winning as many points in the first six games under Cifuentes than in the 14 matches under his predecessor, who was the one who lured Colback to QPR in the first place.

"Gareth Ainsworth showed me around the training ground and was a big factor in me signing. He also discussed what his ambitions and plans for the club were. Obviously, it didn't work out but that's football, it's the nature of the beast," Colback continues while shrugging his shoulders as someone who's seen it all before. Which he has.

The QPR supporters never seemed to take a liking to Ainsworth, but one assumes Cifuentes could end up