Big Duncan DVD

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Because he was a thug.

Sent off on numerous occasions for assaulting fellow professionals .

Lay on a injury table more times than anyone else in our turbulent years.

Complete and utter waste of money.

I've watched the man's whole career, nothing changed in him. He was always a thug on the pitch.

He was a legend to so many because he played in the worst Everton team in recent memory. Who else was going to be your hero during those days ? Paul Rideout ? Daniel Amokachi ?

Dixie Dean would be turning in his grave if he knew this guy was mentioned in the same breath as him.
 

Yes he was a thug, maybe some of us like that in a player, rather them take no [Poor language removed], than dive and ponce around like some players do these days.

Yes he was injury prone, thats not his fault surely?

And its wrong to compare him to Dixie, Dixie was a footballing legend, a true great of the game.
 
MikelsGoat said:
Yes he was a thug, maybe some of us like that in a player, rather them take no shit, than dive and ponce around like some players do these days.

Yes he was injury prone, thats not his fault surely?

And its wrong to compare him to Dixie, Dixie was a footballing legend, a true great of the game.
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Bold 1 - 1st Bold. So it was quite alright for him to throttle Steffen Freud, and to lay a punch into the midrift of Paul Scharner because he doesn't put up with rubbish ? To lay a head butt on a fellow professional because he didn't want to stand for any [Poor language removed] ? Give me a break, he is supposed to a PROFESSIONAL footballer. Someone that young kids will look up to, not someone that the local thug element can have as a new hero.

Bold 2 - I didn't compare him to Dixie. I'm not the one calling Ferguson a legend.... you are. So if anyone is comparing, it's you. That's why i said Dixie would be turning in his grave.
 

Nar was only joking, ofc i dnt like to see players hurt, anyway we all have our views on Dunc, i agree with everything that has ever been written about him, he was injury prone, he was a thug, his temper did drop us in the [Poor language removed], but he was our thug and he was at times the only player that had any real talent. Its a shame that the world never saw it fully. And he had an Everton tattoo. :D
 
by no means a legend in the classic sense but certainly a cult hero..

especially to us young evertonians who never saw the eighties teams..
 
theboywho said:
by no means a legend in the classic sense but certainly a cult hero..

especially to us young evertonians who never saw the eighties teams..
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I would agree with that, a cult hero. Like him or not there was a buzz about the team when he came on the pitch and his influence , IMHO, got things done. A thug? quite possibly but then again could we not put that down to wanting to win badly at all costs.
 

Ferguson a thug just because he did not stand for [Poor language removed] from opponents? I dont think so. Yes, he was injury prone but was that Duncs fault? No. Look at David Batty, Lee Bowyer, Dennis Wise, Joey Barton, they are the real thugs. Big Dunc got Everton out of the [Poor language removed] more times than he let the club down and that is a fact. Legend, maybe not but a true blue if ever you saw one who gave his all for this great club. He will always be held in the highest of regard by myself.
 
steevie said:
Ferguson a thug just because he did not stand for [Poor language removed] from opponents? I dont think so. Yes, he was injury prone but was that Duncs fault? No. Look at David Batty, Lee Bowyer, Dennis Wise, Joey Barton, they are the real thugs. Big Dunc got Everton out of the [Poor language removed] more times than he let the club down and that is a fact. Legend, maybe not but a true blue if ever you saw one who gave his all for this great club. He will always be held in the highest of regard by myself.
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Punching someone for no reason? That's taking no [Poor language removed]. I don't think so, that's being a thug.

It's not a fact either to be honest, he probably let us down more than he helped us. It's very debatable anyway.
 
If some of our current players had the same sort of passion Dunc had, we would not be in this [Poor language removed] we find ourselves in. I would bring the lad back now to be honest, at least then Arteta could aim his set-pieces towards a reallistic target rather than hitting the first man all of the time.
 
steevie said:
If some of our current players had the same sort of passion Dunc had, we would not be in this [Poor language removed] we find ourselves in. I would bring the lad back now to be honest, at least then Arteta could aim his set-pieces towards a reallistic target rather than hitting the first man all of the time.
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It's a myth that he was passionate to be honest.

He was for about 6 games a season, in other games he didn't look arsed. It was almost like he didn't want to be there, probably the reason why he'd delibratly get sent off.

Alot of his fans forget to mention that to be honest, he wasn't always passionate and he let us down alot.

He had alot of talent, he was a waster. That's a fact. I was very dissapointed with him, he could've been so much more.
 
Very much in the modfather and ToxtethBlue camp myself, and I'd be very surprised if there were many over thirty odd who weren't.

Sad reflection on some very bleak years for the club that a certain generation felt (and apparently still feel) this way about the man.
 

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