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Snippet in the Sunday  Mirror today from Micky Adams now of Port Vale fame commenting on Di Canio’s appointment.

It was quite patronising with old Micky going on to say that as Paolo’ first appointment it was make or break and that it will be “interesting” to see if the foreign lads settle.  Usual crap about wet Tuesday nights etc..

He rounded the interview off with how competitive the league will be with lots of emerging talent such as Ex-Town player Mark Marshall being one to watch.

Fuck them all.

They can keep doubting us all they like. It reeks of fear.

It reeks of bullshit. Until a few weeks have passed its all bullshit - the pro and the anti.

How the hell Mickey Adams is well placed to judge any lower league manager I'll never know. A couple of decent seasons is ll he's ever offered. Give me Lou Macari passing judgement and I may be inclined to listen. MUG

Micky Adams is a cunt

Micky Adams = Over-rated manager.

Remind me, just how long did he last as Sheffield United manager?

I mentioned on another forum that I though Di Canio would probably have us as the fittest sqaud in the division.

Port Vale fans told me Micky Adams would definitely have them as the fittest in the league and has a reputation for it (since when?)

Then the icing on the cake - if our players are fitter than Port Vales then we've spent too much time on fitness, as if a footballer can be too fit!?

As for the topic at hand who gives a fuck about what Micky Adams thinks about anything?

Adams has done nearly 600 games and won more than he's lost, so he must know a bit about lower league management.

Some get awfully tetchy on this subject.

Outsiders are entitled to their opinion and people like Mickey Adams have the experience to have an opinion.

I really, really hope that the gamble pays off for us but you know what, it might not.

Constanza's right - Adams has every right to give his opinion on the competition. It just happens that he's come out with a load of nonsense, given that the vast majority of our squad are quite used to cold Tuesday night football. The mistake everybody is making is thinking that we have a load of prima-donnas who can only perform in perfect conditions, and ignoring the amount of experienced lower league players we have.

Looking at yesterdays teams sheets just goes to prove how inaccurate peoples assumptions are. The amount of British players on the sheet far outweighed those from overseas.

As the great Don Corleone, amongst others, said, "Overestimate your enemies and ensure they underestimate you."

Because 4 of the imports have already gone lame....and we haven't played a meaningful game yet.

The Italians we've signed are from Italian lower leagues, where they're used to playing in tin pot little three sided stadiums. In fact, they're used to playing in snowy conditions, whilst the game would be called off over here.

Yawn. So I guess you didn't see the sheet that consisted of the entire squad?

Don't bother answering, I already no, sorry.... know.

Fuck the lot of them, we are Di Canios Red & White Army

From today's Observer :

Swindon are real wildcards - Paolo di Canio has signed a clutch of unknown foreigners. Anything could happen.

They've also said that PdC have worked them like dogs this summer. 11-1 to go up.


And they've made Crawley favourites....

Just watched Di Canio's speech he made at the open day. The bloke is a legend.

He mentioned greedy agents and how he has Swindon best interests at heart by not wasting the fans money.

Love him.

Will come in handy in March

Jealousy is a terrible thing, I would say they are worried

My point is I'd sooner listen to a Winner judge my tea/club than a loser. Entitled to an opinion, yes. Whether it counts for anything is another matter altogether. See you in May, Micky... When you are still picking your toenails as Paolo picks up the silverware.

Help me out with Crawley.

I see a team with a spine made up of undoubtedly 1 or 2 decent players that should be playing at a higher level, a few journeymen and a scotch of non-league chaps albeit with some potential.  They’re managed by Mr. popular Steve Evans who as decent as anon-league manager he is he’s hardly a class above and has a real bully boy reputation that usually results in toys out of pram.

I don’t see anything beyond what other squads have to offer Town included.  If anything while we have a smaller squad and a few wildcards in the foreign players and manager.

I don’t see anything there whatsoever that indicates they will walk the league or even get auto promotion.  They’ll be in the mix but as will Rovers, D&R and Shrewsbury followed by a chasing pack including the Pox but I cannot see why Crawley are being given so much credence

In all fairness if any other team had appointed PDC the majority here would have probably been saying the same things Adams' said.

The game is all about opinions.  The day PDC was appointed i thought it was a terrible move, now i think it was an inspired choice.

Finally someone said what I have been thinking. I don't really know anything of Crawley, but have been continually scratching my head about why everyone seems to have them down as favourites. Bar Tubbs, I can't think of a single player in their team I consider as being anything special. And yeah, their manager is a tosspot with far from a glowing rep.

Crawley have plenty of league standard players and "money" if they need to enhance their squad.

It would be silly to write them off purely because you don't know much about them. As if we'd ever do that...!

I think alot of people expected Crawley to spend more than they have done this summer.

By all accounts they have the financial backing, dodgy or otherwise...but have they even spent anything so far?

They have a few league standard players, and a few I know nothing about. They looked fairly handy last season it must be said. BUT, how will Evans react if they start to struggle? Will it be positive or detrimental? And another question would be whether or not they have enough strength in depth... If they lost Tubbs and/or Torres for any length of time what impact what that have on their results?

I certainly wouldn't write them off, but favourites to win the league? I'm not so sure.

From the outside, you could make some adjustments to that and it would be Swindon Town.

Again, I'm not touting anyone for the championship outright, just a promotion push.

All this talk about Crawley reminds me of when Carlisle was supposed to storm Div 2 (old Div 3) after the takeover by Michael Knighton.

They got relegated (in fact they were bottom 4 all season) and we pissed the league.


By the way, I see not many have mentioned us to be in the shake-up in this review, but it seems Crawley management think they're going to walk it after reading what their supporter thinks...

http://theseventytwo.com/football-league/championship/2011/08/01/the-seventy-two-unfortunates-football-league-season-preview/

a bit odd in the intro to that review they mention us as one of 4 clubs that they hope don't go under for financial reasons (yet in our section the author gives ourselves an 8 of 10 rating for financial stability)

Carlisle bother me. Not only did they stitch us up with Perricard, shit midweek fixtures and nick JPM, they still owe us for lending them Jimmy Glass just so he could bail them out with that goal.

Boo hiss Carlisle.

Not saying creepy Crawley are a weak side but can't see them maintaining a high enough level week in week out against plenty of teams with much more experience than them. Think a lot of people are going by the last couple of seasons success for them.I know it's league two but it's still a step up from what they have been used to playing. We have been written off for not having the players with div two experience but they are favourites ? !

There is something not right at Crawley. When Wes Thomas signed for them from Cheltenham the Cheltenham chairman was quoted as saying Crawley offered Thomas wages that even top league 1 clubs wouldn't have been able to match.

There is no way in hell their wage bill is 55% of their turnover, without massive amounts of money being poured into them. I also seem to remember reading that last summer Crawley spent more money on transfers than the whole of league 2 combined.

After watching Crawley and Evans at the CG last year they are a bunch of cheats on and off the pitch in my opinion, They won't be an easy team to beat next season.

With players like Tubbs, Akinde, Torres, Thomas etc they certainly don't have a weak or or inexperienced team.

I've always been bothered by the fact that Carlisle was known as Luguvallium in Roman times....struck me as being an amalgam of lugubrious meaning mournful or sad and vallium, which I'm sure some of our readers will know has its uses.

John Gorman, was a Cumbrian's stalwart