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LADIES AND GENTS!!

A Petition has been created with the aim to see Paolo Di Canio and his team brought back to the club and take us to the Championship.

We can sit here all day debating why this and that happened but the act is, I don't believe all I read in the Papers or what one former Board of Director has to say. During Paolo's time at the Club, he brought us success, passion and desire. He took nothing less than perfection in the way the team operated professionally and played each game. Without resurrecting Brian Clough, I can't imagine where the next Paolo type manager will come from. Paolo has started something here... I believe we should all we can to bring him back to finish what he has started.

I urge all Swindon Town fans, if you want to see Paolo return and deliver Championship football to us, then PLEASE sign the petition...
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/bringpaoloback/  (http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/bringpaoloback/)

I can imagine this will bring debate to whether you want Di Canio back or not but you cannot deny.. When he was here and playing decent attractive football.... It was the appointment we've all been awaiting for since Hoddle!

BRING BACK PAOLO DI CANIO!

No.

No.

No

No

 :doh:

Its up to him. I'd like him back but I'm not begging for him.

No

No

No thanks.

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Me too.  

A massive lost opportunity for STFC and Poalo

But it's over, sadly

No.

But in the interest of democracy, would be grateful if you could set up another begging him to keep away, and keep quiet.

Hi Paolo,  :bye:

No. Just no.

Sorry no can do. I want to see this club reach the Championship as back-to-back Champions rather than dissolve into League One play-off contenders next season

nah

OK. Good luck then. This thread seems to be doing the job for me.

 :sheep:

Move on.

I have nothing to add to the previous comments.

do you really think that this petition will achieve anything at all?

No. Move on for goodness sake  :doh:

I've signed it.

It has potential but what I can't wrap my head around is why so many people are dead against Di Canio returning.. I'm shocked at the level of negativity after all he achieved...

Painfully out of touch with the real world and the power an online petition could ever hope to hold over it.

not massively against him returning but he can fuck off if he thinks I am begging

If you had done this within the first 24 hours, you would probably have had a favourable response.

We've simply all moved on.

Incorrect

Yes he achieved a lot in his time in charge but for a chap who called for loyalty etc from his players showed fuck all to us just before a huge game away at Tranmere. He has left and that is that.

So what's changed? Andrew Blacks seriously slanted views?

Fuck off cunt

Ha! You're Jeremy Wray aren't you?

For me its about leaving us in the shit when previously preaching about "running away" and showing the door to anyone who has shown less than 100% commitment. Well the same applies to him, if he doesn't want to be here then do one.

Now if he comes out, explains himself, wants to come back and *the players want him*. Then fine. But as far as I know he hasn't.

It's the same with everything in life. We've simply moved on, too much water under the bridge. Look forward, not back.

The fans did their darnedest to pack out Hartlepool and duly sang his name. He still resigned three days later whilst knowing full well that the takeover process was out of the hands of the club.

So it's no cap in hand from me.

Gratitude for the last 20 months but nothing more.

What exactly do you plan on doing with this if you get a lot of signatures? (You won't and are woefully out of touch)

How many have signed?

He turned his back on us. We move on...

Just Paolo and Jeremy so far, and TheTownEnd twat from Twitter.

34 apparently

The time will come. I've been reading these forums for years and every time something like this.. People make their minds up without hearing all the facts. This time you might not want Paolo back based on current events but do you lot honestly believe Paolo wanted to walk out? Something clearly was wrong here and had to make a statement about it. When the time comes and the other side comes out.. It will be too late and everyone wishes they would of acted differently. Try and imagine what it would have been like.. Patey communicating fuck all, his players being sold off at half market value without any official notice.. When you're in that situation.. What do you do? Di Canio has already previously stated he would have left a long time ago if it wasn't for the fans so something must of SERIOUSLY gone wrong here...

Only started in the last hour so hardly given a chance to be judged as of yet.

You seriously suggesting that something seriously went wrong, seriously?

:D

In all seriousness, if singing his name every single game over and over isn't enough to keep him here, then a petition isn't going to work.

Be serious about this..

I would happily have him back, no need for a petition though.

cringe

This...and I would like to know how much PdC's advisor/agent has taken out of the club in 'fees', in the last 18 months.

Yes, the ride was great, but I wouldn't like to say how much he cost us in players contracts which we had to pay off.

Youre a prominent poster on thisis arent you.

Safe to say you are not the full ticket

Agreed.

He left us when we arguably needed him most. There can be no doubt how much he has done for STFC but I think all bridges have been burnt. Time to move on.

It's not a case of choosing one side or another.He's gone,we've moved on and if he came back,any trust has simply evaporated between all parties.

Down with this sort of thing.

We know from official FL stats that the club paid over £450K in agent fees last season - unheard of for a Div 2 club ?  PDC's salary is subject to speculation but people placed to know indicate that it was closer to £500K pa than the tabloid stated  figure  £850K - still way in excess of any other Div 1 manager. Has anyone yet explained the illogical deadline that he set for the new consortium to get the FL to agree to the sale ?

no

And where is his fucking tattoo.

.. and the £30K contribution from his own pocket ?

I don't think we have seen the end of the PDC saga quiet yet. A big part of me would love him back he is irreplaceable but a bigger part of me thinks what a c**k for walking out on us with such a big game approaching. He preached loyalty then showed none

(It's "have" not "of"). What went wrong was that the twat set a deadline that the new Board had no control over and he left. Nobody made him. The new Board had already agreed a new contract with him. Paolo put the deadline in the contract so obviously he wanted out.

He's gone. Leave it at that and start supporting whoever comes in to replace him.

Between Paolo and Phil Spencer we're looking at more or less a million quid. Doesn't matter how good he was as a manager - that's madness to be throwing that amount of money away.

Well if we paid fees at a similar rate this season, that's an extra £300k, and a total of £750k. That's more than we got for Ritchie.

It'll be interesting when the accounts are published for last year.

Especially at a L1/2 side.

If you read these forums you knew that I wanted him to come back, but am totally pissed off with him for what he did.

You'll also know that I wondered if there wasn't a bit of a campaign to discredit him, or at least not much effort made to keep him.

But your above statement, how can I blindly sign a petition to bring him back. Surely I'd need the facts first...

Honestly Batch, I too am annoyed that Di Canio walked out after banging on about loyalty so much for him to then walk out himself yes ok.. It appears to be double standards. On reflection, why would Di Canio invest so much of his time and effort to get us to where we are and simply walk out over something trivial.. That just doesn't make any sense to me.

Regardless, we have a new board in charge and the rules will have changed. The new chairman has refused to rule out Di Canio returning but I just feel from everything I've read and heard from the people involved.. We are missing the last piece of the puzzle for it all to make sense. Of course, we are not going to know all the little nitty gritty details but for those to listen to Black on his own and take it for gospel are naive. The past is the past but Di Canio is the one to push us to the next level. He is the only man to do it. Anyone who wants Tisdale needs shooting or an injection of passion.

FOR YEARS! I have read fans demanding the manager be passionate, bold enough to throw a player out the club for not following the ethos.. Make the players train at 5am when they don't perform.. Drag players off when they ain't performing on the pitch.. WE ALL wanted a Manager with a set of balls and knew how to use them. We got that. We got Di Canio and EVERYONE still says it great memories yet 5 pages of negativity because of money he was given to spend was spent, he left because he felt like he had no other choice..

But surely, the fact the players have turned around and said we are so well drilled we know what to do. We know how to train, we know how we want to play.. We don't want a new manager to come in and change our mindset.. SURELY that is not the biggest hint of it all that even the players have backed the way Di Canio does things is the right way.......

Come on Guys!

PDC in 2011:

"People who talk that way don't know me. I am calm, as I said, and more mature and I am really happy. The board, the players and the fans are fantastic. They all have enthusiasm, commitment and a real bond with the town. I say again, we're like a family. Our ambition may take years to achieve, but I honestly believe that this club is capable, eventually, of promotion to the Premier League."

Where is that man now?

I really can't see how anyone could want him back now to be honest

Cos he's a bit of a cunt

Where is the board that gave Di Canio the job and made the promises of being backed..? Biggest difference is Di Canio delivered, the last board didn't achieve what they set out to do in any sense.. If anything, we went backwards before we went forward again!

Most know how i feel....i would love him back.
Many only look at his mad moments and cringe.....i look at the bigger picture which for me is automatic  promotion,probably champions with him at the helm......playoffs at best with out him i feel.
Some players can't get on with him but this happens to all of the best managers.

He wont be coming back though....and that makes me sad because he wanted us in the Championship and he wouldv'e got us there and soon.

Just my opinion.

They did back him you bellend. Probably too much.

Are you Paolo Di Canio?

The fans loved Paolo, they sang his name and backed his bizarre outbursts. He talked alot about loyalty and showed none when the fans needed it most.

All this talk of it being fair cop because of off field issues is bollocks, ok so he had some difficulties and frustrations, he was still getting paid handsomely with a team at the top of the league and new board iminent, welcome to football management Paolo it's not always a breeze.

So just when the fans needed to see some grit and loyality what did he do? Walked away showing no loyalty.

I thought he had bigger bollocks.

I don't think fans have turned on him or doubt how good he was for us, or even how much they enjoyed his tenure. I just think they are let down by the way he left.

He walked... STFC moves on.

I don't know anybody who is failing to recall the good things Di Canio has done at Swindon.

The bigger picture is that he's gone... and there's nothing anyone can do about it.

Sorry i was just replying to the thread title......call me old fashioned.

Think there is more to it than him bottling it and walking out in a hissy fit. Not signing a petition though I'm afraid.

Agreed.

A cunt that wins football matches.

I still think he's the best man for the job however an online petition is worthless.

In 20 years time we'll still be looking back at the day he walked out and wish it never happened. A lot of you have moved on but the football club will most probably move backwards without him.

it will if we keep two players as joint boss.

Couldn't agree more

One thing I was hoping to get confirmed today at the Press Conference is the Di Canio situation.

Is there any communications with him and is there any chance he is coming back?  If so it needs to be now!
If its 100% dead in the water, fine, but let us know so we can put a end to all these threads and discussions

I think it will regardless.

I don't think there is another manager out there with a work ethic like Di Canio's. I mean obviously the players can play a bit but I believe our success is built mostly on hard work, dedication, fitness and unity.

How many of our players would you say are the best in there position in all of L1. I'd say 2 if that. All the qualities that have got us where we are were bought in and kept in check by the man who is now gone.

Those standards will slide no doubt.

DV for manager.

A cunt who walked away at the first sign of difficulties.  All fine and dandy while uncle Andrew's cheque book was open and he has West Ham and Paolo fanatic Jeremy in charge.  When asked to work within a budget boy did the toys come out the pram in some style.  

Will Paolo Di Canio go on to win trophies as a manager at the highest level ... Maybe.
Will Paolo Di Canio go onto manage a football club bigger than STFC who wont tolerate his constant slagging off his employers, his insesant demands for more money, and him constantly falling out with player who will be more expensive to move on .... Certainly

That prize bafoon Claridge was blithering on, on the FL show about how Di Canio has never been higher ... Really?  A league title, a team in the plays offs, a wembley cup final and beating 8 teams from higher divisions in cup games ... An impressive CV, no doubt higher teams chairmen looking on with envy .... So why not a single approach?

With Paolo it will never be purely about events on the pitch because Paolo has to be the centre of attention, its Paolo's way or the highway ...We sort of admired it when he put his foot down with Clarke, Caddis etc.  But the gutless manner in which he walked giving an ridiculous ultimatum to the club has rubbed a lot of people up the wrong way.

I work with a lot of WHU fans, most of whom dread Paolo taking over.  They say they can tell he learnt of Harry with his incessant spending.

Maybe in 20 years time I will be eating humble pie and Paolo will be the greatest manager ever .... More likely he will be remembering his time at STFC as the best it got and he'll regret walking away.

Ha, wouldn't even want it. It's a no win situation this season..

Did'nt someone mention earlier that jed had them in the pig on the hill today :pint: :hmmm:

I'd never call him a cunt, in the nasty sense. A bellend for walking out on us but he's not a cunt.

I need tans to back me up on the CUNT thing!

I find the notion that ONLY Paolo Di Canio can do anything this these players slightly odd. It's not as though we're 10 points clear - Di Canio has been on par with Wilson, Johnson, Flynn, Moore et al. That's what the table suggests anyway and we have 'stronger' squad than some of the others too.

This is crazy but perhaps a new manager can take this squad to the next step?

Most of us would have preferred the last fortnight to have not happened and yet, here we are.

I am 99% sure that PDC knew how the fans felt about his tenure but walked away just the same for all the other reasons which will eventually come out in time, so a petition is a nice try but not going to cut much ice imho.

 :no:

I believe that he had become used to having everything his own way and threw his toys out of the prem when he realised that things would be tougher than he had become accustomed to.
So, what is preventing him from producing all of these revelations that make us realise he's so misunderstood?

You roll your sleeves up, work even harder and achieve what you've set your heart on depsite the adversity, then move on with pride.

Like almost all I've enjoyed the circus and would be like many would be fairly happy if he did come back to finish the job but I think he's acted like a spoiled kid and certainly won't be begging for his return.

Paolo Di Canio is a bottling cunt.

There you go.

Part of me wouldn't be surprised if this was his first and last foray into management.

This x100.
And all you stupid fuckers who don't want him back, I hope you enjoy the lower divisions because that's where we'll stay.

He's gone. Deal with it.

I don't think he has the right badges

I think it's about time we played in the Conference, we've never played there before.

the backroom staff might be pissed off in that case

 :D

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Doesn't the Blue Peter badge count?

I picture him and his staff all living in the same house. Fabrizio sitting there getting blasted by Paolo for burning toast.

With a slightly broken dugout instead of a settee, and some new pictures on the wall

All on the money! And to all those that would welcome Di Canio back but don't see the point.. This is for Jed to keep track of and see the support. If we stand together and ask for communication on this issue then we get clarity. Jed even said in the press conference today that Paolo returning is not ruled out and still a possibility. Sign it and unite! http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/bringpaoloback (http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/bringpaoloback)

he's probably sat at home signing the petition over and over again

I don't think agreeing that people who don't share the same view as you are "stupid fuckers" shows any form on unity.

 8)

First sign of difficulties :hmmm:

Selling your best player without your consent is a good starter for ten.


Some people cant see through the shit that is spouted........he then gave the new board ample time to show there colours....one of the new board thought it more important to talk to Banbury fans than meet up with the current boss and fill him in on there plans.

Naturally the boss saw this as a sign that they didn't give a shit and walked.

Anyway your on the wrong thread.......this is Pro Di  Canio only so jog on :D

Stuff like this will surely add to the validity of the petition.


Name: Jeremy Wray on Feb 25, 2013
Comments: Paolo 4 president

Name: Paul Caddis on Feb 25, 2013
Comments: I cannae say no

Name: Paolo Di Canio on Feb 25, 2013
Comments:

Name: Leon Clarke on Feb 25, 2013
Comments: I'll run for ya Big man

Name: Andrew Black on Feb 25, 2013
Comments: Now that I've gone, you can come back and spend someone else's money.

Name: Sir William Charters Patey CMG on Feb 25, 2013
Comments: I'm sorry I lied xxx

I signed it for me and Sonic Youth :o

Maybe you're just stupid then... ;)

Was that you?

Dunno,are you going to go mental about it?

There's a difference between 'GRR HE'S A CUNT' and 'moving on'.

I'm within the latter.

Personally, I just don't see the point in focussing on PDC now. However I do appreciate that as long as the new board take their time on the new appointment, PDC's name will remain.

What 'shit' is that?

Di Canio gave the new consortium a deadline that was beyond their control. The fans forum at Banbury was on 2nd February which is over 3 weeks ago. Jed has stated that he tried to contact Paolo, this has been contradicted by Di Canio - we do not know which story of events is true - and frankly we'll all in the fucking dark about their plans!

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

not at all, just curious who it was!

unless it's that cunt from Starsailor.

then yes,it was me!

I hope a lot of planes crash and ruin your night.

Paolo wanted to take us to the championship and makes no sense what so ever to walk away, if the new board can't match his ambitions then it would be very easy to make it difficult for him. Is it a fact that the football league was holding up the takeover because at one point late into the deal they were waiting for more info from the new owners. Paolo and his team didn't come here and do what they did to then walk away. If Paolo called Jed today and said he would come back and manage for free this new lot wouldnt be able to get their phones out quick enough and to me that explains the real reason Paolo is at present not with us.

Paolo is many things....a liar is not one of them.

I didn't say he was a liar.

FWIW I think the truth is probably somewhere in between what both parties are saying, so neither are lying, just have completely crossed wires.

PDC never said that there was no effort to contact him. (after he quit) Just that he hasn't spoken to anybody.

Jed has said he has tried to make contact.

There's your something in between

"despite them knowing the deadline there was no attempt to contact me or my representatives to extend our agreement"

That's a direct quote from his statement released to the Adver.

http://www.thisisswindontownfc.co.uk/news/10245019.Di_Canio_upset_by_Town_statement/

I added (after he quit) to my post when you were quoting it.

According to Jed he was under the impression everything was fine and therefore no reason to call PDC before the deadline that Jed was, allegedly, unaware of.

ah right.

Sounds like a case of crossed wires then, although that doesn't bode well.

I still think the majority would have him back.

I would welcome him back with open arms.
Sadly I am not confident he will come back but this is PDC we are talking about.

The tombstone will one day be ajar and the emperor Di Canio will again lead the masses
Onwards to the sacred Championship.

If he wanted them to contact him to extend the agreement why did he put a deadline in the first place FFS?

Based on...

No.

This deadline would of only made sense if Paolo knew it was in fact the owners who were holding up the takeover and by setting a deadline and the deadline passing only confirmed to him how much they wanted him to stay. Maybe Paolo threatening to resign gave them all the encouragement they needed to let the deadline lapse.

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

As some have said if he wanted to return and the players allowed it then he'll come back...I think he does owe us an apology though for the way he walked out before a huge game, the preaching of loyalty and then bottling it, not getting the STFC tatoo he promised and other things I can't remember right now...but yeah, I don't think he'll come back now. We and he have both moved on it seems and there has been nothing from him to say he wants to come back.

maybe you should of itemised all the lies Paolo has told before you put: Based on...

I think He's probably fucked off to Italy anyway. The only way he could come back now would be with an apology to the fans and mcCormack, a pay cut, and a swindon tattoo on his forehead. Ciao Paolo.

Sadly, there is alway going to be one dickhead in the bunch. Amusing to some but a lack of respect to others who wish to use it as a form of showing a common voice. Such a shame some people feel that they have to act like a child to belittle others. I feel sorry for whoever wrote those entries as they are simply pathetic.

count the no votes on the preceding pages and you'll find you've got your consensus. or does democracy only count when the majority agrees with you? move on.

a pig was flying by when he made that quote.

No. Bottling cunt.

This.

There's 3 sides to every story. Aggrieved party A, aggrieved party B, and what actually happened.

A non-TEF friend just sent me his take on the PdC era. I think he's got it in a nutshell:


 ;D

Maybe I missed it but I didn't see any of the players commenting on Paolo going, definitely nothing of the "he's a really great boss, we wanted him to stay, we're gonna miss him" type comments you normally get when a well liked manager leaves.

Been a few somewhat negative comments coming out from the players though.

Again, maybe I'm wrong but I get the impression they're kind of relieved he's gone but are being diplomatic about it.

....he hasn't because at no point did it mention winning.

Players are all busy having a pre match warm up with Jed at the Pig On the Hill  :pint:

I think he meant the bit about entertaining to include the winning. Don't worry if you didn't get it. He won't be upset.

If the players are relieved that the "pressure's off" then I'm not sure that's a good thing. Hopefully the players can look back on his time and realise it was that relentless drive for perfection in every aspect of their preparation that has delivered the club from League Two to the pinnacle of League One. If they can remain disciplined and committed to that work ethic they have a chance of getting themselves over the line this season, which would be fantastic. I would actually love to see the players self-govern themselves to promotion, so they can take all the credit, but if they start to think "Paolo's not here to bollock us, we can relax" then we'll need a manager (and a good one) quick-smart.

Winning never becomes tiresome.

Wasn't there a thread on here towards the end of last season where somebody actually stated they were bored with us keep winning games 1-0 and 2-1? don't remember who it was but I would happily keep winning games in a boring way!

There is enough experience in the squad to make sure standards don't drop, I would imagine they want to ditch the whole "Paolo Di Canio's Swindon Town" and prove its about the players on the pitch not manager who got us challenging for the top 2.

There absolutely no reason for a drop in performance because someone different is giving the pre game team talk

losing does though, eh?

Why would he need to apologise to McCormack?

A player sent home from training for being ill and then jumping onto a golf course a few hours later then not coming in for training the next day.

Don't believe everything you read.

Nail, head, hit.

Although for you it must be because you never go.

How did you get to 100 posts flying under the radar? Have you changed your moniker or are you a virulent new strain of the Balkan faction on here? Or might you be the return of Coca Fola?

Exactly the sort of behaviour that crept in every time Di Canio's back was turned. This is why the players must maintain the discipline and resist the understandable temptation to blow off some steam until May. Otherwise they lose the right to self-govern, and as I said before I would love to see them make that work.

Got to be CF. Obviously we missed the clues in his previous name!

Not for me, he preached loyalty and then threw his toys out the pram seemingly wanting a bigger slice of the pie

I don't beleive that he would want to return now, I'm sure he willget another job and would have taken this as a huge learning curve

I don't beleive he wanted to leave he wanted Jed & Co to beg him to stay when it didn't happen he got upset due to what he has created at the club and was convinced the club couldnt do without him went back to get his memorbillia and after that episode that was the point of no return

So....

No Phil your client can move elsewhere

He was Bukkake Regiment before.

Enough about Coca Fola. What about Di Canio?  :D

I saw a COCA FOLA TO RETURN PETITION! and couldn't help it.

Well he's another one on here that needs to provide a written explanation of both his old and new names. Same goes for ghanimah, and er, a few others...

See you at Coventry.

Has Pericarp reinvented himself?

I miss that idiot.  Seemed a decent guy just dopey beyond belief.

Wasn't he very bright at maths, went to university and discovered girls, drink and the rest, and disappeared up his own Archimedes?

Yep.  What the wife calls text book bright. Totally lacking in all common sense

Who wouldn't take Paolo back after that performance!?

BRING DI CANIO BACK! LET'S START PLAYING FOOTBALL AGAIN AND WIN THIS DAMN LEAGUE!

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/bringpaoloback/

Nope. I won't pander.

Thanks anyway.

Still a no from me.

Nay

This is getting tiresome-why would he come back anyway?

Dream on - not going to happen, sadly.

Yes, but it won't happen

PDC is the reason we have this dilemma.  If he cared so much about the club/fans, he would have staged his one man sit in at the end of the season.  His Ego wouldn't allow him to take this course of action, nor his ridiculous wage demands...

He's not fucking coming back. Get over it. But yes, we need a new manager in before Saturday. The board need to get their arses in gear.

Roy? Is that you?

Glory hunter, only in it for the big games.

Big game, my arse.

A nothing game with we will lose 1-0 to a Leon Clarke goal...

Spot on!

Its not a one man sit in, its an entire back room staff walk out. Even more damaging.

Yeah because we never got beaten at home by some piece of shit side that we should have hammered under the sainted paolo did we? That FA cup exit to fucking Macclesfield happened in some parallel universe where Andy King was still in charge.......

Seriously, your post seems to suggest that we were sweeping everyone aside up until two weeks ago, when anyone looking at the results can see that the last two games actually are in line with the pattern of recent results.

Since that incredible run of form over Xmas and the new year finished with the 4-0 against Carlise , Town have played 9 times. Six of those games have been 1-1  or 0-0 draws, and one 1-0 victory against Colchester. The Tranmere and Shrewsbury games have been the exceptions, not the rule. The pattern has been low scoring relatively tight games .

Sooner or later someone was going to come to the CG with the intention of kicking lumps out of us and defending like bastards, somehow nick a goal, and hang on for the win.

All Town fans missed last night was PDC jumping up and down screaming and biting the side of the dugout, and then making some inappropriate remarks about his player / the FA / the opposition / the oppositions fans / the Pope  in his post match press conference.

The person that might have made a difference to the result last night would have been wearing the 10 shirt and playing on the wing. Perhaps, if the clubs management hadn't pissed the best part of £1,000,000 up the wall over the last year on fees and wages for loan and "permanent" players that barely fucking kicked a ball for the club, we would have been able to afford to keep him.

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You took your time.

Well the twats that appointed the fucking loon had to be completely gone as well.....

Hear, hear. Has anyone yet come up with a cogent justification for the deadline PDC set the new owners relating to something outside their control ?

Just got off the phone from Phil Spencer.. Without him going into too much detail he said that the position that Paolo was put under made his job untenable, hence the reason why he left. This to me suggests that the new board did not make enough effort to keep Di Canio at the club. That is crazy!!

The club have been informed of the petition and will continue to monitor it accordingly...

SIGN THE PETITION AND START BUILDING THE PRESSURE! WE WANT DI CANIO BACK!

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/bringpaoloback

No we don't

Oh do fuck off.

Did this really need a new thread?

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Thanks for merging threads, pointless new post IMO.

Quite frankly PDC can go fuck himself.

He spent a lot of time preaching loyalty yet showed us none. I don’t for one second dispute the fact he did a great job here but he has stitched us up for his own gain.

My club is “Swindon Town” not “Paolo Di Canio’s Swindon Town”

Unbelievably naive if you think he's stitched us for his own gain.. What has he gained from the current situation?! We've all lost in this situation.. It seems you've all made your mind up without waiting to hear the other side of the story. Should be ashamed of yourselves. All you negative bastards - Call yourself Swindon fans? Fickle to the bone!

And you haven't?

If only Paolo had made a statement to the press to enlighten us.

Fixed it for you.

Should I just applaude PDC for walking out on us? Should I support his decision?

:D

So you Say People Have Made Up There Minds without Knowing the Facts




You then Claim to have spoken to Phil Spencer and make a General Statement rather than presenting any Facts and expect us to support your petition

Sorry No signing for Me

I Support SWINDON TOWN and as far as I'm concerned, like the others who have said NO it's time to Move on and Bring in a New Manager who wants to Manage the team

I played Subutteo once, a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, does this give me any chance of being a successful applicant?

Signed

The sad thing is, he seems to actually think this might work...

Dear International Robin

Next time you speak to Phil Spencer please can you ask him why Paolo set a deadline of 5 o'clock on Monday last - the day before a massive away game at Tranmere having put forward proposals to the new board that they had accepted. It seems to me that there seemed to be a virtually unworkable relationship between manager and employer since the "obsessed" Jeremy Wray left town but whatever our misgivings about the new board they did seem shocked about the manner of Paolo's exit. I agree with you that everyone loses in this situation and I can't see anyone else taking over Di Canio's team and getting them promoted but he set the deadline that meant that this didn't happen.

Considering the response so far it's more likely to do his cause harm than good.

You obviously don't remember the performances against Orient and Colchester at home !!!

And next time you speak to Phil Spencer, ask him to justify all the agents fees that have been charged to the club in the last 20 months.

And his own £50k salary he drew.

Also, next time you speak to Phil, could you ask him what his favourite cheese is.

Cheers.

..and does Kirsty prefer anal.

The worrying thing is that looking on Twitter and the forums there are a lot of people who seem to have been brainwashed into thinking this club is doomed without PDC.

I saw one person on twitter this morning slagging people off and calling them fickle off for not wanting PDC back, yet openly admitting they left at half time last night.

No. No. No. No. No.

To cheese?

wow.

Tim Sherwood in at 6/1 based on the fact he was there last night.  YOu could throw a small tissue over the top 3 in the betting which translates as the bookies havent got a fucking clue!

Have you not had that dilemma Paul?

Not lately, no. Although it would put the stink in stinking bishop I suppose.

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Exactly. All we've heard so far from Paolo is a lot of whinging and moaning about the Board making false promises and that the statement made when Patey left was untrue.....and that he would be telling us fans the real truth.

I wish he'd get on with it. The suspense is killing me.

I think last nights performance spoke a thousand words for Paolo.

He dosn't need to explain himself really does he.

Do you remember the Orient and Colchester games at home, earlier in the season, when PdC was in charge?

I do. They were two out of the many games that Paolo were in charge. Admittedly they were poor but were more than made up for by pretty much the majority of the other games. Of the two games we've had Ward/Miller in charge for they've been at a similar level to the two games you mentioned. Leefer's point stands.

History........WE WERE TOP OF THE LEAGUE WHEN HE LEFT.....I CARE TO REMEMBER THE CUP RUNS AND BRILLIANT PERFORMANCES THAT GOT US TOP.

And all you can do is bring up two matches we lost....explains a lot.

NO WE WEREN'T, WE WERE IN 6TH PLACE

Paolo left us. He wasn't forced out, he didn't even go to another job. He just couldn't be fucked with us anymore.

This.

Some would have you think he was dragged away kicking and screaming.

I don't think he couldn't be fucked with us anymore. On the brink of a 2nd consecutive promotion when he left, he would have been very foolish if that was the case. Atm leaving us is to the detriment of his own managerial career so I'm still convinced there are pretty good reasons behind it.

Yeah, he's a fucking twat who's a bit mental. Those be the reasons. Better off without.

Abso-bloody-lutely

Some people are acting like was cruely sacked for no reason.  He walked when the going got tough and used a feeble timescale, that neither old or new board had any control over, as his excuse.

He was bloody superb manager for us but he has proven to be a quitter.

Whatever his reasons, they aren't going to change. I just hope when we do eventually get a new manager it ends the Paolo to return nonsense.

Evidently, on the basis of the last two performances. For all his flaws I wish people could grow a set and admit that we were where we were largely because of what he did for us ON the field.

Conversely, we're also where we are OFF the field in no small measure because of the effect he had there too.

This 100%

Can everyone that thinks that PDC's behaviour was completely justified and that he can do no wrong consider a few facts:
- he's not the first STFC manager to have had a player sold against his will at a key stage of the season - Hoddle saw a promotion push in the old Div2 completely fucked by the board selling top scorer Duncan Shearer to our closest rivals for a play-off place one season, and had David Kerslake sold from under him in the same way the season after. He stayed and finished the job, and he didn't get to have an 18 month £4m spending spree in the lead up to it.
- the hypocritical bastard fined, rubbished in the press, or drove out of the club a succession of players for being late or missing training when they were ill, or had family issues, but for some reason it's fine for him, who leads the bloody sessions to miss three days of training because he was having a tantrum.
- and in what way exactly did his position become untenable? What had been done to him that was so terrible? He still had a contract. All his staff were still in place, the new board had accepted the terms of his new contract that he's dropped on them as an ultimatumn before they'd even got their feet under the desk, and they's agreed to pursue the transfer targets that he'd identified. It was hardly their fault that the takeover was delayed a bit. Frankly this might have been the quickest takeover of a football club I've ever fucking seen, so what was the problem?

I'll speculate, seeing as everyone else has. My guess he hasn't been happy since the new chairman was appointed and he stopped being the supreme dictator of all things at the County Ground. He's probably worked out that this is the way things will be in the future, and that the open checkbook, Paolo calling the shoots era is over. So he's stamped off to his room to sulk.

Deep down didn't we all know it was going to end something like this?

Oh and one last thing. Play off spot in League One challenging for promotion doesn't take a messiah. In the last ten years the slightly more prosaic talents of Andy King and Danny Wilson have both managed it, without anything like the "warchest" that PDC has had. There's nothing that Paolo has achieved at the club that others haven't done better before him. Running a tight disciplined ship that delivered a Championship in the bottom league? Macari did it better. Playing sexy attacking football? Ardiles and Hoddle did it better. Giant killing run in the League Cup? Danny Williams of course. Fuck me even McCunt managed to win the championship in this bloody division!

Swindon Town legend? For spending a fortune to bring the club back to where it should have been anyway? I don't think so.

Despite nobody seemingly knowing his official reasons it hasn't stopped the majority forming an opinion and slating the guy for the last week and a half.

Indeed, and if I could have kept one of Black or PDC I know who I would have wanted for the long term good of the club.

In fairness, I don't think either of them come out of this well

We are where we are OFF the field because Paolo spent money GIVEN to him by Black. It was Black's fault if he wasn't regualting Wray's control of PDC properly. I don't remember Black being forced to sign any of these cheques at gunpoint. Paolo was spending money that as far as he was aware was freely available to him. I'm sure we would all have done the same in his position. It amazes me how Black stated that he wasn't comfortable with Wray being chairman, yet he had no other option. If he was that concerned maybe he should have raised his own involvement levels.

That's all absolutely true. As I said just above, I don't think any of the main players come out of this well, including and perhaps especially Black

Fair enough. I just find it incredibly naive that so many people on here blame PDC for what was spent. If the money wasn't there he should have been told that was the case, not led down the garden path to be exposed to some of the vitriol & bollocks I've seen directed at him on here lately.

It's not so much what was spent, just how it was spent. A lot was wasted signing players we didn't need or use, and his falling out with players has cost us a lot, although I accept with his style of management there will always be some casualties.

I agree some of his signings weren't great but that has been done to death. Every manager makes bad signings though - a quick search on Arsene Wenger's transfer dealings will back that theory up - so that kind of isn't the point. The general consensus on here seems to be that we were at the foot of the administration door due to PDC'S spending, which isn't the case. He was given money that he was, I'm guessing, told was freely available to spend. He was hardly going to go and open an ISA was he??

Let it go.

If results are not similar it won't.

PDC was given a huge budget which he spent, yet he kept asking for more.

I am not surprised people dont want PDC back , ( i would personally ) i am not surprised there is disappointment in the way he left , but what staggers me is the seeming amount of hatred for him , its as if some people kept quiet during the good times on the pitch building up there anger for when something like this happened . The success he brought has been rubbished / forgotten.

NO-one seems to know exactly what went on behind the scenes but on the pitch he has been a success , please people remember that even if you are glad he's gone.

Oh fuck off, you're the exact sort of person who'd have a go at the moaners for the last year and a half. Now you're saying that we can't moan because we didn't do enough moaning. Fucking moan police. Moan.

Bullshit.

No-one has forgotten the success on the pitch and are glad that he's gone but he has gone. Most are just saying MOVE ON. He has left, get on with it. No good crying about and setting up a petition etc as he already knows that we (the fans) wanted him to stay as the H'pool game and basically every other game has shown that.

IMO if he wanted to still be manager of this club, he would. He isn't in charge, so find someone else who wants to be.

This.

Good post PlymRed. It was Di Canio's decision to walk, he has, lets move on and get someone who wants to manage the club in! (Hopefully as soon as we can after last night's showing)

This.

i have moved on , as ive said i understand people not wanting him back . Read through the posts u will see the people belittling what he has achieved , thats what im getting at .

Precisely how I feel.

 

just cant understand  the negativity toward him . That is all .

He preached about loyalty etc and showed none to us when is mattered which I imagine is what has caused the negativity amongst people towards him (certainly what pissed me off). Also, the last two weeks have been fucking shit (Tranmere aside) so if people want to moan about PDC then fair enough in my books as it's better moaning about someone who is no longer part of our club than moaning about the players/new board etc - they are the ones who need our support.

COYR

But then people preach about moving on and then constantly moan about what he's done . ( not  you , but alot off others , thats what im getting at )

I can't understand the positivity towards him. I think a lot of people will support Swindon whatever happens, and have got so used to defending the gobby fuckprick, that they can't stop even now that he's finally and inevitably ran away throwing toys everywhere in full toddler style strop.

It's like a County Ground Stockholm Syndrome.

Quite...

What a strange thing to say on a STFC football forum .

you dont like di canio , we get it , move on , twats

Why? It's not a healthy mindset is it? There are a lot of things which are far more important than football, and if you artificially inflate the importance of a football club then you're not going to be able to look at these things with any objectivity.

Yes , how could i have not seen this before

No worries, no trouble admitting you're one of the more challenged out there. We can all move on now.

Can people please move on from saying "Move on"? Getting sick of it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-l91O9VxN0

Not really? Just the sort of thing that might be said by someone with a sense of proportion and a reasonable set of priorities.

For me, and Ben I guess, appointing a fascist was enough to make us say "fuck it there are more important things than STFC". I'd hope there are things you feel strongly enough about to make you do the same.

Maybe Town bought out by the Bin Laden family and turned into the first Islamist football league club? Alcohol banned, hijabs required for all female members of staff, that kind of thing. Still be a supporter then?

....or alternatively this far more succinct and timely response.....

PDC has spoken.

Here endeth the petition.

But if enough people sign it then he might change his mind!

I just bought up 2 similar games under PdC as a comparison.

And yes we were 6th when we left...and he's not coming back.

It was great while it lasted, but we move on.

Grr
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-l91O9VxN0

There's plenty more fish in the sea.

Tales of PDC, with a bit of poetic licence, from Harry Redknapp. Quite amusing but unlikely to move people between the yes and no camps .....

[url][http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=hgAbu4zOxg4/url]

Well, there we have it. I watched the interview myself and soon as I saw the news of it coming on, I feared it would be the end of the petition haha!

Thank you to all those that signed it and to all those that bitched about it, don't hate me for it! :P

I'm proud of myself in terms that I achieved over 250 signatures.. But the time has come where I accept Di Canio is not returning and listening to both sides of the story, I blame:

Andrew Black for choosing and planning to sell the club in the middle of the season (what was the fool thinking?!)

Sir William Patey for have no communication skills and having no care for the club

The new board for not picking up the phone and attempting to persuade PDC to sit tight

And finally, I blame Di Canio for not being understanding in the situation and instead becoming frustrated and making rash decisions.

Overall, who is the winners? No-one and that is the saddest point of all. It's left a bitter taste in everyones mouths, whichever view point you hold.

To sum it all up - Gutted.

Apart from the notorious black sheep of the family, the Bin Laden's are a successful business family with interests in construction and other businesses across Saudi and the Middle East. They've got deep pockets and since they built the worlds tallest tower, the could almost definitely do the redevelopment of the County Ground. I would be delighted if they bought the club.

So how did the petition go?

Move on...

aah someone just got themselves their first girlfriend ? 

Can somebody pick me up a Sports Almanac while they are back in 2011 please?

Ta

You can probably find one online...... now a 2014 almanac, that would be worth inventing timetravel for.

I'm not going to explain to you why this is fucking retarded.

I'd still be laughing about this back in 2011.

You mock the above, but maybe he's going to go back to 2010 when he gets it....sitting...waiting...The very next post on this thread could be by the worlds richest Berniman, new owner of STFC.