Duncan Ferguson

[Howards tipple]

Apparently he's a very mellow chap off the pitch! Him being in the dugout makes me feel a lot better.

Mellow unless you break in to his house!!! Legend!

 

[chrissyjack]

Bobby obviously rates him . Good enough for me

 

[emb]

The club have just confirmed it on twitter. Starts Monday, everyone else staying put.

 

[davek]

Speaking of whom....http://www.thejournal.co.uk/sport/sport-opinion/don-hutchison-getting-tough-players-6720893

Interesting Ferguson related story from Don Hutchison yesterday:

Afterwards, Walter went for me verbally in the dressing room. I knew I’d played well but he was accusing me of all sorts, claiming I’d not done my job and that I was responsible for us not winning the game.
I sat there thinking ‘Stay cool, don’t say anything’ because I knew as soon as I responded all hell would break loose. But this rant went on and on and on and I couldn’t hold my tongue. I snapped back at him telling him he was completely out of order and he’d got it wrong. Walter – who was a big man – grabbed me and had me by my shirt up against the dressing room wall. I told him where to go and his response was forthright. “Get in the shower, get your stuff and go – you’ll never play for me again,” he yelled.

I was in the shower when his assistant Archie Knox poked his head around the corner and said the gaffer wanted to see me in the boot room. As I walked to the little room I prepared for a fight, to be honest. I was thinking, ‘I’ll let him have one punch because he’s the manager, but if he punches me twice I’ll have to react.’ Walter sat me down and asked me if I was all right. ‘No,’ I said. Then he asked me whether I thought Duncan Ferguson was a hard man. Yes, I replied. He asked me the same about Dave Watson and David Unsworth. ‘They might be hard men but they didn’t stand up for you in there,’ he said. ‘I’m impressed you did stand up.’ He decided to take the club captaincy off big Dunc that day and give it to me because he wanted to see a reaction: he wanted a character who stood his corner and fought. It didn’t go down too well with Duncan but I walked away feeling like a million dollars.

 

[fozzy]

in the everton tv interview he did he said his ambition is to manage everton so its great to see.

also hopefully he will work with our strikers straight away as rom and co could learn crap loads from him on how to use their body to shield the ball ect...

 

[Elong]

Great news, well in Dunc.

 

[davek]

in the everton tv interview he did he said his ambition is to manage everton so its great to see.

also hopefully he will work with our strikers straight away as rom and co could learn crap loads from him on how to use their body to shield the ball ect...

He's going to have to prove himself elsewhere if he wants to do that.

 

[Raymondo077]

Great news, cant see big Dunc with a headset and note pad, can you? Nah, thought not!

 

[fozzy]

He's going to have to prove himself elsewhere if he wants to do that.

whys that dave?

 

[davek]

whys that dave?

Because he'd have no experience at managing.

 

[Bluerover]

Brilliant news if true.

Some steel to go with the sexy football.... and in time for the league run in and the Cup QF v the Gooners.

 

[fozzy]

Because he'd have no experience at managing.

so no one ever has been given a managerial job with no experience and not been successful then?

 

[Lee Smith]

Because he'd have no experience at managing.

Like Tim Sherwood?

 

[deipnosophist]

Bobby's a scalpel...we need a machete as well. Dunc?

 

[davek]

Like Tim Sherwood?

Has he proven himself?

I'm not saying a coach cant be promoted, I'm questioning the wisdom of doing it.