MoN would be our saviour. His knowledge and experience would surely get us to where we all feel we should be. Almost everyone welcomed him with open arms. But we didn't anticipate what would happen and he soon lost the fans. PDC came in under a media storm. But we got behind him and 2 results, the mags and Everton reinforced our position that our own messiah had truly arrived. We eventually survived by just the length of a gnats dick. An aggressive summer signing approach led us all to believe that we had a new regime who knew just what they were doing, that they'd done their homework and were getting just who they wanted and needed. Pre-season was short but seemed to offer some promise of potential progress. The season started with a loss but don't worry, it'll get better. Then a train of further losses and 1 draw, but, it'll get better. A shocking 70 minutes against MK Dons but hey, we won 4-2 so alls well that ends well. I suggested that some frustrations expressed on here were premature, that everything will work out. Just give it time. Keep the faith! Question. Was I wrong? Do I see what I want to see and not what really is? Are the TV pundits right? Does Ellis REALLY know what he's doing?. Am I still looking through rose tinted glasses? Whilst I'm still trying to be positive, I'm just starting to struggle for justification in doing so.
A factual summary ,nothing to be added apart from a very hard time for our chairman in the forth coming weeks if it shows no signs of improvement, not the points tally but the displays , fletchers miss was out of character for him and then to go down to ten the game was lost ,we were making inroads to this point and i had thoughts of a goal coming , but we know the rest
Take it you aren't on the red wine yet then mate? Things are looking very bad if I'm honest its not that we are getting beat it's getting beat by teams we thought we should get something from, the teams that will be there or thereabouts the bottom at the end of the season. As one of the lads said earlier today it would be typical of us to take points off Liverpool and Man U and the nags then get beat off Hull.
You were talking sense earlier mate you must have got a quick one down the range now With you 100% my intoxicated friend where do we go?
Talc. We can go nowhere! It's our team. Not Short's, not PDC's... It's (unfortunately) ours. And people complain about one win for England since '66. We deserve better. x
Mate, as much as I initially welcomed his appointment then became disillusioned by the performance of his team, Martin O'Neill had/has the know how in the Premier league
he did! noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
PDC, I'm not saying he was any good, please don't misunderstand me. Bruce, Keane, O'Neill, and even McCarthy knew how to set teams up in the Premiership, at the moment DiCanio hasn't shown that he does, please don't try to patronise me with your stupid post by leaving your finger on the 'o' button to emphasise your point, I assume you are a grown up as you are a moderator, try to act like one please.
Looking like another season of poop, but we have to stick with the team and PdC. Way too many changes of manager lately and we need the stability that came from giving Peter Reid a chance, even after relegation.
The one certainty is that if the fans turn against the team and manager during games it will make things worse not better..What we need right now is for everyone to be pulling in the same direction.. I remember Reid getting hammered for some of his early selections, and getting us relegated. However, by either look or good judgement he eventually hit the winning formula with Quinn and Phillips up front supplied by two great crosses of the ball.
PDC ain't no Peter Reid mate. Nowhere near as good. Reid protected his players and defended them in bad times, he didn't cane them in public. PDC has had his Phil Brown moment in the papers and it's come back to bite him as it did Brown. He is now managing at a level that befits his ability and that's where di Canio belongs. I just hope we don't get dragged down with him.
I remember Peter Reid giving players a public lashing on a documentary filmed nationwide..He was also spat at by Sunderland fans at an away game and slated for his negative tactics..He eventually got it right, but I still believe it was luck rather than judgement with the Quinn/Phillips combination, and I hope that Di Canio can also get a bit of luck which in my opinion could still rescue this season..
He also said in subsequent years that he absolutely regretted allowing that camera team inside the dressing room. His berating of his players in that dressing room is fine and nothing those players will not have expected. Coming into press conferences and doing it is beyond the pale. Also. Reid was not addressing or managing £30k a week players on that film.
I agree that there are differences between the two managers ans scenarios, but I can also see some similarities as well..
