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Doesn't Conte, guardiola et al do the whole strict diet and expect certain levels of dedication? I know they've done more to have the right to put such restrictions and demands on their players but still it shows he's not a total crack pot.

If he was a bit more less f***ing nuts he could be a very good coach i feel.
 
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

I was at West Brom when the players sabotaged the game ...... without a care for the club or the travelling support.

Managed by hand grenade

Was needed then and still needed now imo.
 
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
Absolutely spot on.
 
I was at West Brom when the players sabotaged the game ...... without a care for the club or the travelling support.



Was needed then and still needed now imo.

Exactly. I'm not going to say things would have been good if we'd kept him but it was far too early to write him off. What we did was confirm that the players would have the power. Di Canio was a bit mad, his methods might not have worked but he deserved a chance and should have been backed at the time instead of giving in to the players and letting them get their own way. At least he was passionate and gave a fuck about his job and representing the club; I've seen precious little of that from anyone else at SAFC since.

Moyes has been awful, and in light of recent comments any support I might have had for him has gone, but in some ways i do feel for him, looks like this set of players have decided not to play for him either. A new bunch of players but the same old issues
 
Di Canio gets a lot of shit because he was a fascist nutter who didn't do very well, but in fairness he kept us up, had only lost 4/5 games in the new season, and just look at the state of this for the squad we started that season with:
    • 20 Westwood
    • 12 Celustka
    • 14 Colback
    • 16 O'Shea
    • 29 Valentin
    • 06 Cabral
    • 07 Larsson
    • 11 Johnson
    • 23 Giaccherini
    • 17 Altidore
    • 28 Sessegnon
    Substitutes
    • 25 Mannone
    • 21 Diakite
    • 24 Cuellar
    • 22 El-Hadji Ba
    • 10 Wickham
    • 19 Karlsson
    • 27 Ji Dong-Won
The same squad that Gus Poyet managed to keep in the league and got to a cup final.
 
Class impact manager, otherwise a total knacker.
 
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.

Yeah good point mate, mine was more of a general point that a lot of players nowadays have to have their egos looked after more than having a hard working ethic.
 
Exactly. I'm not going to say things would have been good if we'd kept him but it was far too early to write him off.
What we did was confirm that the players would have the power. Di Canio was a bit mad, his methods might not have worked but he deserved a chance and should have been backed at the time instead of giving in to the players and letting them get their own way. At least he was passionate and gave a fuck about his job and representing the club; I've seen precious little of that from anyone else at SAFC since.

Moyes has been awful, and in light of recent comments any support I might have had for him has gone, but in some ways i do feel for him, looks like this set of players have decided not to play for him either. A new bunch of players but the same old issues

Suicide note from the club ..... we actually held ourselves to ransom, quite an achievement :lol:

 
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

You need to be careful posting stuff like this that doesn't rewrite history so that it fits your own agenda
 
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.
I think I've got a good idea.
He definitely wasn't a man manager. But by that time the players had long downed tools.
With a team of hard working professionals who wanted to improve he'd be a very good manager. But then I suppose any manager would be.
I still liked the mad bugger though!
 
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