Di Canio about Danny Wilson in his 2000 Autobiography

[Samdy Gray]

Thank fuck for that.

[OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR]

Sold Greer. Sold Austin.

Simple really in my opinion.

Yes. Because football really is as simple as that. Thank fuck for you Divina. You're one smart mother fucker.

[DiV]

Yes. Because football really is as simple as that. Thank fuck for you Divina. You're one smart mother fucker.

Yes, yes it is.

[Spencer_White]

Its difficult to quantify the effect those 2 sales had on the rest of the squad.

Pretty big I rekon. Especially Austin. You can imagine most of them looking at Dossevi up front on his own and thinking, we're fucked.

[Arriba]

fucking hell.this is now the site for dragging old shit on and on and on.

we lost key players which were the reason we were at the right end of the table the previous year.we then lost the key player that despite playing in a terrible side,was scoring enough goals to keep us up.he left and we couldn't score enough.the defence and midfield was as shit as it was all season.
players wanted to go,the chairman wanted players to go,wilson brought in the wrong players.3 key reasons.shared blame.

[OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR]

fucking hell.this is now the site for dragging old shit on and on and on.

we lost key players which were the reason we were at the right end of the table the previous year.we then lost the key player that despite playing in a terrible side,was scoring enough goals to keep us up.he left and we couldn't score enough.the defence and midfield was as shit as it was all season.
players wanted to go,the chairman wanted players to go,wilson brought in the wrong players.3 key reasons.shared blame.

Just let go arriba. Move on.

On another note, I don't know if anyone else had heard about this, but I read somewhere that Di Canio was a Faschist. Anyone know anything about that? 

[jayohaitchenn]

Don't you mean fashist?

[mrverve]

In which case he was clearly so heavily reliant on two players that he was useless without them

Greer was a lot more than just a individual player. He was the voice of the back four the previous season. He was the team captain. Cuthbert (a young, inexperienced) centre half was miles better alongside Greer than he ever was next to Morrison.

It's not easy to find a quality centre half, Brighton had to come and offer Greer a 3 year deal and a substantial transfer fee for him. It's never easy to find a replacement. Why didn't we offer him a new two year deal in the June? If we did he wouldn't have gone. Intead we told Greer he had to wait until October..

[BANGKOK RED]

Greer was a lot more than just a individual player. He was the voice of the back four the previous season. He was the team captain. Cuthbert (a young, inexperienced) centre half was miles better alongside Greer than he ever was next to Morrison.

It's not easy to find a quality centre half, Brighton had to come and offer Greer a 3 year deal and a substantial transfer fee for him. It's never easy to find a replacement. Why didn't we offer him a new two year deal in the June? If we did he wouldn't have gone. Intead we told Greer he had to wait until October..

It doesn't matter what Greer was, we were still far too heavily reliant on him. Our relegation would surely confirm that.

People keep on forgetting that lots of others teams managed to do OK on a fraction of the resources we had and without Greer. Even a reasonable replacement would have done, we couldn't even manage that.

Besides

I've already suggested we went down because we sold Greer and Austin AND Wilson fucked up. It seems that many seem to want to absolve Wilson of all responsibility.

[mrverve]

Of course Wilson is to blame aswell. The board is also. The player too. It's a collective fuckup.

We went into the new season far too confident and naive.

It's the same in any team. If you lose key players, it messes up the balance of the team, it's like a snowball effect, once you sart conceding goals, you keep conceding. When your can't score a fucking goal, you can't buy a goal from anywhere. All about confidence. When the rot started to set in Wilson failed to halt it.

It could have been prevented.

 

[leefer]

Of course Wilson is to blame aswell. The board is also. The player too. It's a collective fuckup.

We went into the new season far too confident and naive.

It's the same in any team. If you lose key players, it messes up the balance of the team, it's like a snowball effect, once you sart conceding goals, you keep conceding. When your can't score a fucking goal, you can't buy a goal from anywhere. All about confidence. When the rot started to set in Wilson failed to halt it.

It could have been prevented.

 

Not a lot a manager can do when all his better players are sold on a regular basis,when we got to Wembley that was a platform to invest in the team and kick on,alas we did what countless past Swindon managers have had to contend with in the past,sell,sell.....oh and sell.
Yes we brought a few loanees in and the odd signing like Benjon
Fact is you can huff and puff about what the reasons are but to me it is blatantly obvious.

So now we start the snowball rolling again,find a gem of a manager,a few star players,they will be gone in a flash and we all will be scratching our heads thinking...............derrr whats happened

[DiV]

I've already suggested we went down because we sold Greer and Austin AND Wilson fucked up. It seems that many seem to want to absolve Wilson of all responsibility.

Wilson's major fuck ups last season we're not adequately replacing Greer and Austin - which wouldnt have been an issue if we hadnt of sold Greer and Austin.

[BANGKOK RED]

See

Any chance to defend a manager who was largely responsible for quite possibly the worst season in our history.

There were 24 teams in league 1, 20 of which were not relegated.

Only one of those teams had Gordon Greer and none had Austin. Many had little or no money to spend. But still we managed to finish rock bottom and even managed to finish below a team that was given a 10 point deduction...........

But still, some still refuse to accept that manager had anything to do with it.

[BANGKOK RED]

Wilson's major fuck ups last season we're not adequately replacing Greer and Austin - which wouldnt have been an issue if we hadnt of sold Greer and Austin.

But we did.

And I still don't understand how people expected us to keep Austin.

[DiV]

Its quite simple really.

When a club, in this case Burnley come in with a bid - we turn around and get this, say no.