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Packed my season ticket in the day PDC was appointed. Not returned since and wont until Short is gone.
 
Always find it weird how quickly people turned on PDC. From almost universal approval when he kept us up suddenly loads were coming out with the "madman" stuff. Ultimately I think he was sacked too quickly. He had a shit squad to work with and, after keeping us up, deserved more time. I remember Fulham at home, good performance but they won it with the only touch they managed to get in our box all game, that was hardly damning. Then a point at Southampton which was hardly dreadful. We lost at palace but that was just a typical crap away game for us, then lost v Arsenal having given them a good game, then it was West Brom. The West Brom game was shit, and I'll give you that palace was poor as well but after keeping us up I don't think he deserved to go when we'd played okay in 3 of the 5 league games

Do agree with you to a point, we actually wasted a ton of chances against Fulham, Ji missed a sitter to make it 2-0 down Southampton and we were more than in the game at Palace till O'Shea fucked up for their second goal. I didn't want him sacked at the time but it's not just about on the pitch performances. If he stayed we weren't gonna start picking up points when the players didn't want to play for him.
 
Can not disagree with ANYTHING he says.

Di Canio on sky sport italy: "I did some mistakes at my experience at Sunderland, but THE PROBLEM was and is the board: no rules, no football mentality, no connection club to team, no programmes for future, players that arrived at training late or called to say "I am in the traffic so I cant arrive at training ground". I wanted british players but they bought players from 13 different countries. The only good thing are the fantastic fans, the best expecially for away games in all the League. If no changes inside the club.....will be a disaster for a long time as Nottingham or Blackburn."

BHH
Probably a fair reflection of how the club was at the time. We've made a lot of changes since then though. Shame Moyes came along before those changes could be seen.
I had a lot of time for Paulo. He just needed to rein himself in a bit!!
 
Got a feeling he won't be the last ex manager to open his mouth about the club over the coming months

Correct. And there will be elements of truth in what all of them have to say but they'll embellish for self-perseveration purposes as well.

If Allardyce came out and said something then I'd probably listen a bit more as he would be the one with the least motivation to do a bit of axe grinding
 
like some others did because of the fascist links and press coverage. Lad who sat to me, packed his in because the miners union told him too. I was chuffed to bits because his breath smelt like a sewage drain.
I respect your views ,however the miners union acted like twats in my eyes .Had nowt to do with them .

It's the past now though,we have more to worry about than a miners banner.
 
I respect your views ,however the miners union acted like twats in my eyes .Had nowt to do with them .

It's the past now though,we have more to worry about than a miners banner.

Wow. I was just stating. I though the union should have kept out of it as well. They were Hoppers personal views and threatened to take away the miners union flag from the stadium. As Hopper is now deceased I will refrain from saying anything more on his actions. But genuinely that's why the lad next to me packed in his ticket. I think he came to one more game after PDC was appointed, when he told me his plans and just stopped after that.

You are right though, what is in the past should be remembered but we need to look forward
 
Sadly you can't be strict as a manager these days, you have to play to players egos and PDC was not going to do that.

Tried to instil some discipline and professionalism into the players and the poor darlings did not like it.

Then again it was never going to work as he was round the twist!
Thats not entirely true. You can be strict as long as the players know that you are the boss. Unfortunately we had players who believed they would be here longer than Di Canio.
To me its no surprise that the teams at the top of the league this season are the ones that have the highest work ethic at training, (double sessions etc.)
I think we've had a team that mostly like an easy life and light training sessions with lots of recovery time.
This season I believe we have a had a personalty clash between hard working professionals and easy coasters. Compounded by all the other reason this season we have been turd.
 
Thats not entirely true. You can be strict as long as the players know that you are the boss. Unfortunately we had players who believed they would be here longer than Di Canio.
To me its no surprise that the teams at the top of the league this season are the ones that have the highest work ethic at training, (double sessions etc.)
I think we've had a team that mostly like an easy life and light training sessions with lots of recovery time.
This season I believe we have a had a personalty clash between hard working professionals and easy coasters. Compounded by all the other reason this season we have been turd.

do you know what happened the last day.

I have been given 2 instances of what went on, one from a player and one from somebody else.

I will not say what happened but have alluded to it, and at least one other poster on here alludes to it as well.

PDC may have been a strict manager and have a high work ethic, but he was not a man manager. Ive no doubt he has a brilliant football brain, but like roy keane he needed a good man beside him to reign him in.

What PDC done that day went beyond all what is right.
 
Do agree with you to a point, we actually wasted a ton of chances against Fulham, Ji missed a sitter to make it 2-0 down Southampton and we were more than in the game at Palace till O'Shea fucked up for their second goal. I didn't want him sacked at the time but it's not just about on the pitch performances. If he stayed we weren't gonna start picking up points when the players didn't want to play for him.

Agree jozy looked good too just couldnr cscore, the one ruled out v arsenal makes me mad still

Was hamstrung with 3m net spend

But he fell out with alf, cabral, sold sess, mclean

And his formation v oalace was insane
 
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