What by Di Canio? Seems about right bullying, picking out one member of your team to blame. Yup that's gross misconduct to me!
No doubt the club will revert to "safe" mode and life will very dull & boring after PDC. I respect all your thoughts and opinions regardless of how different they are to mine.
Hope we don't go down that route Whatever happens the next manage shouldn't talk about mistakes in public, even if Di Canio wasn't out of order with anything he said publicly its clear he should have kept anything negative about players behind closed doors. It's what turned the dressing room imo Criticise behind closed doors but defend in public
Bullying may be defined as the activity of repeated, aggressive behavior intended to hurt another person, physically or mentally. Bullying is characterized by an individual behaving in a certain way to gain*power over another person. Sounds like Di Canio to me!
He was the Head Coach, how much power did he need............... "Bullying is characterized by an individual behaving in a certain way to gain*power over another person." - I have seen this on this very site, and the victims aren't getting paid thousands of pounds a week to under achieve. If any of us did our job as "well" as the players I think you would be disciplined and rightly so, they have got away with murder and the manager can employ what ever means necessary to get them to play imho - it is offset by their wages. The players do not have the high ground in any shape or form.
I agree mate with that statement and the posters that are bullying should give themselves a shake ...there is no need for it !
All about opinions mate - no point in us getting heated arguing about it - I have full respect for your opinions too even if they differ from mine. It's only football after all!!
How many managers in work places who already have power use that power to bully and belittle the workers under them.bbullying can be abuse of power which Di Canio is guilty of.
Just a recieved a text from my bro-in-law who knows someone to do with the club. Apparently the main players that went to see Byrne was Westy, O'Shea & Catts. Apparently PDC had told the players that he is the best manager in the world and none have them have done anything in their careers.
The more that is leaking out regarding what has went on, the more I'm moving towards Froggy's perspective..To ban ordinary workers at the club from even acknowledging players is not what I want to see at the club I love..
with all these bizarre actions and comments coming out ... makes me wonder if Di Canio is suffering from some kind of psychotic delusional disorder ?
These stories coming out will be exaggerated I wouldn't say he bullied them at all, but his man management skills definitely aren't up to scratch. I wouldn't call that bullying
Lads, we've just dodged a massive bullet with this sacking. In time, far from transforming us into a top team, I honestly believe he would have transformed us into a mirror image of his own paranoid psychotic world and on a dodgy path to certain destruction. Far from a moderniser, he represents the kind of management dinosaur that died back in the 50's. Bullying staff into submission is a well tried and well failed ideology. We are well rid.
If that's true then the bloke really is an Idiot - OK so Catts and Westwood have achieved little - but O'Shea has won every domestic trophy going in this country with arguably the biggest clkub int he world along with the Champions League - as I say - IF that's true - but I truly do think that there's much more to this sacking than meets the eye! As for the bullying and discipline comments - I sing in local pubs and clubs and work under an agent - if I have a bad night (only happened a handful of times in my singing career) - then the Agent will come to me and bollock me/my band (in the past) either by phone or by coming to see me - they will not do it in the Sun or the Mirror or the Daily Mail (or Sky News) - It will just happen in house and if Di Canio had done that then a lot of people on here would be a lot more upset about him going - IMO anyway
For me Cest the players are the problem. Like a cancer leaching off us hard-working fans. 3 managers in 4 years the majority of that first team has been through. That is just not good enough no matter what anyones thoughts on PDC, Bruce & MON are.
The players need to look themselves in the eye and admit they have been a set of twats in all of this for 3 managers in some cases but PDC has only himself to blame for his very quick demise here. A different tact and a more level headed intelligent manager could handle this opportunity far better IMO. We are not a **** club, nor do we have a **** squad. Top quality we may not be but mid table we most certainly are with a better approach.
The difference here is PDC savaged his players in public, after almost every defeat. That gives you fans an insight into how things were behind closed doors, essentially the doors were open for you to all peep through. If he'd have kept his trap shut in public you lot might have been a bit baffled as to the results you've got this season and more importantly why he was sacked. The advantage is that you can put together your own conclusions and that helps justify why it wasn't working. Contrast that to the Geordies and they're all scratching their heads (well most of them are) as to why Pardew is still in a job. The transparency of Di Canio was available to see from day one, some people welcomed it as a healthy change but ultimately as I and others have mentioned for quite a while, you can't do what PDC was trying to do to modern footballers, they've got far more power than the manager nowadays at most teams. They're multi million pound assets and the board of directors would be stupid to let one guy with an ego, or a "Project" diminish the value of these assets because they made mistakes and are struggling to conform to his zero-tolerance, boot camp philosophy.
