Anyone read Duncs book yet?


davek said:
He was a bit part player in that cup run, who's contribution was an inconsequential 4th goal in a 5-0 rout of Norwich in the 5th Round.

There were plenty of hero's for the kids of the early to mid 90s to look to besides him. That 'only hero we had' myth needs nailing.
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Do you ever read over your posts again? Ffs mate we all know you don’t like him which is fine but who are you to tell people they could have had another hero rather than their actual hero.
 
Finished reading it and my thoughts are:

It could have been a lot shorter if we take out the repeated words such like
  • Explaining his dad is tough, hard man, a working man. We got it Dunc the first time!
  • Retro bar and Matthew street
  • Saying he liked and got on well with everyone talked about in the book.
Obviously a lot on his stay in Prison, which was interesting enough. He does come across as naive and immature at times. Bad with money, which for an aspiring manager is not great, as we would call that missing attention to details.

Thought there were going to be no revelations, however towards the end we do get a few, when he talks about his relationships with Bill, DBB, Brands and Moshiri.

Overall not the best book I've ever read but by no means the worst. Banged it out within a couple days so had to be okay.
 

The binman chronicles said:
Finished reading it and my thoughts are:

It could have been a lot shorter if we take out the repeated words such like
  • Explaining his dad is tough, hard man, a working man. We got it Dunc the first time!
  • Retro bar and Matthew street
  • Saying he liked and got on well with everyone talked about in the book.
Obviously a lot on his stay in Prison, which was interesting enough. He does come across as naive and immature at times. Bad with money, which for an aspiring manager is not great, as we would call that missing attention to details.

Thought there were going to be no revelations, however towards the end we do get a few, when he talks about his relationships with Bill, DBB, Brands and Moshiri.

Overall not the best book I've ever read but by no means the worst. Banged it out within a couple days so had to be okay.
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Got it on Spotify and it is...interesting. Especially his stories of the 'Big House'. But trying to keep up with his accent (he narrates) makes it just a wee bit difficult BUT it does the job and sent me to sleep. So all good, Big D.
 
As a fan of the last club he managed, the latest media round and the reports of what he’s said in his book hits a little different.

He was an appalling manager, he just doesn’t have it. He played terrible, blunt football, with no cutting edge. Horseshoe passing around the pitch, inability to win a game or even get shots on target were the main characteristics of his tenure. He played players out of position, his tactics were negative and he continually made excuses about why results didn’t go his way - he complained about referees, plastic pitches, other teams ‘downing tools’. His signings were poor overall and he seemed to use them randomly- he gave a couple of guys their first starts during the relegation play offs, which was slightly odd and he released several of our best and most experienced players.

The really galling thing about him was the gap between the Big Dunc persona and the reality. He was negative and moany, continually complaining. When we were facing admin, he said that if we were deducted 15 points we were certain to go down. Well, we were deducted 15 points, lost several players, went through a season playing half a team of 18 year olds and didn’t go down and were miles better than we were under him. He clearly didn’t fancy it when the matey interviews ended and he had to do his job.
 

I'm about halfway through. Tbh I actually feel a bit sorry for him. He was never particularly mates with any Everton players, certainly early on anyway. Had a few close mates who were locals but otherwise seems to have craved acceptance and love from people. Admits he's skint because he's given all his money away or made bad decisions with it. Invited tonnes of hangers on by just paying for everything for everyone.

There's lots to love about him, but I've found myself feeling a bit sad for him at times.

Also not a great book so far if I'm honest, but I've read far worse.
 
toffeeblue9 said:
I'm about halfway through. Tbh I actually feel a bit sorry for him. He was never particularly mates with any Everton players, certainly early on anyway. Had a few close mates who were locals but otherwise seems to have craved acceptance and love from people. Admits he's skint because he's given all his money away or made bad decisions with it. Invited tonnes of hangers on by just paying for everything for everyone.

There's lots to love about him, but I've found myself feeling a bit sad for him at times.

Also not a great book so far if I'm honest, but I've read far worse.
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I've finished it now and share some of those sentiments, he obviously worked very hard to get acceptance at a coaching level but there was a theme in the book that he was trying to justify that he must be good but he got on well with koeman, Carlo etc., you also got the sense that he wasn't sure himself if he actually was a good coach or just got the jobs cos of being a club legend

Similar with management, I'm just not sure he is good at it, he didn't do well at FGR or ICT and seemed to have plenty of excuses combined with only getting jobs at clubs that were really struggling - especially reading the ICT fans view above

I feel like he would be much better in a club ambassador/media type role, he's a warm personality who seems to get on well with people and all his interviews recently have been really good
 
ICTChris said:
As a fan of the last club he managed, the latest media round and the reports of what he’s said in his book hits a little different.

He was an appalling manager, he just doesn’t have it. He played terrible, blunt football, with no cutting edge. Horseshoe passing around the pitch, inability to win a game or even get shots on target were the main characteristics of his tenure. He played players out of position, his tactics were negative and he continually made excuses about why results didn’t go his way - he complained about referees, plastic pitches, other teams ‘downing tools’. His signings were poor overall and he seemed to use them randomly- he gave a couple of guys their first starts during the relegation play offs, which was slightly odd and he released several of our best and most experienced players.

The really galling thing about him was the gap between the Big Dunc persona and the reality. He was negative and moany, continually complaining. When we were facing admin, he said that if we were deducted 15 points we were certain to go down. Well, we were deducted 15 points, lost several players, went through a season playing half a team of 18 year olds and didn’t go down and were miles better than we were under him. He clearly didn’t fancy it when the matey interviews ended and he had to do his job.
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Those Evertonians who wanted him to get the FT job at this club should read this post and cringe.

He was nowhere near good enough for Inverness CT, never mind Everton.

What an appalling misjudgement to want him as our manager.

Those that wanted him know who they are.
 

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