Every pundit I have ever heard has predicted it will kick off behind the scenes, PDC will be gone before the Tinsel comes out and we are in very real danger of relegation. Obviously as a fan I ignore all this but when everyone in the game is saying it you cant help but worry. I hope to God this isn't the beginning of the end for Ellis cause if it all goes pear shaped this time...he'll be off.
If you read the report there are two word in it which make it smell, look and feel like bullshit "Daily" & "Mail"
remember it's being reported by the total ****-stirrers of the daily mail. Colin Young has a big axe to grind and they have it in for us and pdc. i wouldn't believe anything that propagandist bag of ****e paper blurts on about. bunch of ****ing ****ers.
If this in fact true, wtf is wrong with whistling while you work ffs? Unless your an undertaker Just now Sunderland striker Steven Fletcher has been involved in an angry training-ground bust-up with one of manager Paolo di Canio's coaching staff, the Scotland international being told that he could find a new club if he did not want to accept rules against laughing during training sessions. Full story: Daily Mail (print edition)
Context is everything... If I was in a strategy meeting at work and starting cracking a joke and laughing with whoever was sat next to me I'd get a bollocking and have my cards marked as well. It seems clear that tactical work is a big part of training now and quite rightly the coaching staff are demanding the players full attention, and cracking a joke with your neighbour is not giving it your full attention. But of course the media (and especially that piece of sub toilet paper the Fail) like nothing better than to blow something up out of all proportion to fit the narritive of PDC the despotic dictator.
I really hope this is bollocks I understand everyone has a job to do but being told you cant laugh while doing it is total ****e. we will find out in the next couple of days if it is true or not.
One of the brain dead idiots i work with, yes a geordie, came back with this as i was ribbing him about the City game this morning.... just dismissed it as bs.... surely there has to be a perfectly simple explaination. If they are going to caution players for having a laugh and enjoying training its going to be a long long season, and a lot of glum looking players. Not the type of atmosphere you want at all :-/
Bollocks. There is professionalism at work, and having a joke and laugh is well within that - then there is taking the piss and slacking off joking around. Unless Fletch was telling the coach to get ****ed while he gave someone a wedgie whilst wetting himself like a little school girl, i don't believe a word the Daily Fail has to say. Just a bunch of left wing communists wanting PDC the Facist to fail.
If you are carrying on when I`m trying to tell the team something important you get a bollicking. You say sorry and we move on. End of.
If it's by the Daily Mail or if the paper is lying around aand I pick it up to read, I even check my calendar to make sure they're telling the truth
Steven Fletcher. 3 comments By Chris Young STEVEN FLETCHER is on the verge of joining his Sunderland team-mates on the training field, as the striker nears a first-team comeback. As the Echo revealed last week, Fletcher has been doing double training sessions at the Academy of Light in his recovery from the ankle injury which has sidelined him since March. But the former Wolves hitman has so far been limited to working with fitness coach Claudio Donatelli, rather than participating in Paolo Di Canio’s training programme. Di Canio is ready to hand Fletcher the opportunity to join in with the first-team over the next week though, and the head coach believes that will hand the Scotland international fresh encouragement on the comeback trail. “The lad is full of energy and enthusiasm,” Di Canio told the Echo. “Every day he works with Claudio, he’s saying ‘I can score a goal, I can score a goal’. “It’s typical of a hungry player, but that is positive. In the next few days, I’m going to gradually let him join the team for some part of the training session. “That will give him an extra lift. “He needs to be realistic and can’t think too much that he will join the team for all of it. But it’s a good step forward for him. He’s obviously a player who can do a good job for us.” Di Canio is wary of putting a timescale of when he expects Fletcher to be back challenging for a first-team spot. The 26-year-old’s fitness work has understandably been restricted during pre-season after undergoing surgery last April on the ankle ligaments damaged on international duty. But Di Canio believes that the £12million striker has been able to work on other areas of his conditioning during his lay-off, which should speed up his return. “We are very happy with Fletcher,” added Di Canio. “It depends what you mean when you ask if he is close to returning. “But we think that he’s close to joining the team in training, although I don’t know when he can play. “It’s obvious that he’s improved a lot in terms of strength and conditioning. He’s already had some sort of pre-season, although in a different manner because we have had to be careful with the problem in his ankle.”
So by that extent he hasn't trained with the first team yet but he has had a bust up in first team training with someone!! Love it when the mail is shown up to be full of ****
