A bit on his time here from an interview on the Undr the Cosh pod. https://rokerreport.sbnation.com/pl...ls-on-undr-the-cosh?__twitter_impression=true
So his best shot at bigging himself up is saying fans would say he was great because he stayed with their club once he'd helped relegate it! Says it all really. I never once hated him for what he said, merely because he was ****e on the pitch.
I'm sure that Fans of every Club will be able to come up with examples of players they have signed who came with good solid records then flopped. When moved on these players reverted to their previous good solid level. As far as I know, no fan, pundit, Journo or expert have ever been able to explain this. My favourite example, as far as SAFC is concerned was 'Seamus McDropit'. Seamus McDonagh was here on loan in 1985. He only played a few games and was awfull. But he was a good steady keeper for his other clubs He even returned here as Martin O'Niel's Goalkeeping Coach in time. Mind you we do seem to het this happening to us more than most Clubs.
Basically sums the guy up when he was arrested for D&D preseason and off to the pub every night - really professional! And he couldn't work out why he never was in the first team
I thought he was mint and treated unfairly…… Would’ve scored 50 if he’d been in place of Wyke last season. Oh hang on, I he wouldn’t!!
The stuff about Di Canio made me laugh "he had us in 38, 39 days straight". I get that they require rest days but people in other sports would think nothing of working to that extent. You could summarise that whole section in to "we didn't like him because we wanted to get pissed and he thought we should be training".
Not healthy to train that often though, rest days are literally 50/50 as important as training days. You’d never see the benefits of the training physically, and you’d get major fatigue. Di Canio was mental. This is in no way in defence of Graham mind.
Oh yeah, I get that they need rest days but that doesn't necessarily mean not doing anything. When I used to do a bit more running than I do now, I tried (and largely failed) to follow a training plan from some running magazine website that suggested you should run 3 times a week and then do low intensity stuff like yoga or pilates on the other days. So it doesn't seem odd that they'd be in that much, other than like any other job, you'd want a couple of days off a week.
Say what you like but PDC got the team fitter than I had seen since Roy Keane left. We won games by still being able to compete in the last 15 minutes. I could bear the player moans about training too much if only those players weren't ones that considered alcohol a major source of nutrition in the diet of a professional athlete.
aye but those 38/39 days in would probably only be for 3 to 4 hours each day, which is **** all really, its called part time in any other industry.
We only won 3 games under him and at least one of those (3-0 v Peasants…) certainly wasn’t won late. Absolute myth to be honest. We got blasted 6 by Villa and weren’t 5 of those goals second half?
By competing we were able to hold off attacks so it doesn’t matter if you don't score late on providing you are already leading and stop the opposition scoring. I think it was Emlyn Hughes who was asked in about 2005 if the players of today would cope with the team of his day. He replied 'For 80 minutes they would hardly see the ball but in that last 10 minutes they would wipe the floor with us' Proof positive that to win you needed to compete for the entire match. Yes, we got smashed a few times, but those players were mostly reasonable players who really lacked fitness. They wanted crap food and alcohol more than they wanted to exercise. The result was they needed fitness improving and were worked hard. They decided they knew better so for many games they just didn't turn up and we got smashed. Do you think it was just luck that meant we managed to stay up under PDC?
I’m not saying that mate, but he only won 3 games. There was an element of how bad the teams were around us. We lost 60% of games under him. We were absolutely appealing in the vast majority of those. He was on the right track he was just too severe with it.
Haven't read yet but I have a real dislike of DG, an absolute charlatan and waster of the highest order who I think deliberately missed chances to score - i'm sorry but that 'miss' from under the crossbar in the cup home game early last season can't be explained any other way.
Or it could translate. I’m a professional you lot are lazy piss heads who if I had my way I would shoot the f ucking lot of you, but some Sunderland fans prefer to blame me.
"it was constant abuse. There were punters having a go at me in my local pub." "I like to go out and socialise but I wasn’t even going to my local pub because 3 weeks before someone had said something." Maybe don't spend so long in the pub then Danny! Also, was any of that abuse "drink up Danny, the match starts in 30 minutes"?
