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Evening Bennobecause he was an earthquake waiting to happened and shall we say, quite exitable, it does not make him wrong
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
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.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
He said he had the final say on all transfers. Seems like he's a liar
Got a feeling he won't be the last ex manager to open his mouth about the club over the coming months
Evening Benno
Why did you pack it in due to PDC being appointed?Packed my season ticket in the day PDC was appointed. Not returned since and wont until Short is gone.
Why did you pack it in due to PDC being appointed?
I respect your views ,however the miners union acted like twats in my eyes .Had nowt to do with them .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.
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.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.
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.