Duncan Ferguson: I'm addicted to coaching

Look at Roy Keane and Paolo Di Canio as examples.

Dear oh dear, really Dunc, if RM is so good why oh why have we had such a bad season? Shite results shite football.

Who is next to spin the spin doctor’s philosophy? Tony Hibbert, Darren Gibson, the manager is a genius, his expertise in physiotherapy has me feeling like the bionic man. I’ll be back next season and it will be like having a new signing.

Here’s a bit of advice for Dunc on what to do when your keeper is glued to his line as per Howard. When facing very good headers use a zonal defence plus have a defender on each post.

That would do for starters – oh, and have them communicate with each other.

From the Ferguson quote about Martinez being the most detailed manager he’s worked with, we could also ascertain this. So I think you could well be right that by trying to focus on too many things some of the more basic stuff may have been neglected.. The neglect of defending from set-pieces is an obvious one that springs to mind, for me.

I would hope that with Martinez being a relatively young manager he’ll learn from experience when to use the array of tactical knowledge I have no doubts he has. Barring the exception of Villa I would hope that recent results are to starting to bear this out.

I think a lot of this also comes down to time management - with him only having so many hours with the players training in the week. I get the impression he’d have the players living at the training ground if he had his way. I seem to remember in his vision of a redeveloped training ground there would be accommodation for players to stay overnight.

As for ’Big Dunc’. I enjoyed reading his interview. He seems a man of very few words so to hear his own vision of the game which is very adventurous and unlike the one I imagined him to have. It gives me optimism that he can offer more than just being a cosmetic appointment based on his legend status.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion about the team and manager but it does annoy me when every item or article, even positive ones, are twisted and used as ammunition for more negative comments.

Duncan Ferguson has been through a lot in his life both on and off the pitch. He is a very experienced professional who has worked under a number of different managers and various clubs. I was happy when David Moyes invited him back into the fold and with his subsequent progress under RM. DF has obviously put in a huge amount of work himself too. If he says he is happy and enjoying life under RM then that is good enough for me.

I don’t think I was taking a positive and turning it into a negative. I was looking at the words that Duncan used and extrapolating from it a reason why we may have underperformed during this campaign. I stand by what I wrote.

Roberto may lose sight of the basics because he over thinks the game – simplicity in most fields is usually the most successful. Think Lennon and McCartney in music, for example.

Can’t we congratulate Ferguson on his passion for Everton, his attempts at intelligently dealing with the mistakes he feels he’s made and having a little hope that maybe, just maybe, his passion for our club might have further affect on some of the less passionate staff we have?

I doubt that (as suggested) DF’s appointment to 1st team coach was solely RM’s decision, but he’s doing the right thing by praising his boss, even if it’s just to achieve an eventual goal of having the job he occupies.

At the arse end of what has been a disappointing season, I’m looking for some positives and I think seeing a true supporter of the club, who seems to feel he owes it something, come out in the national press, when he hates giving interviews, and talk the way he is might just be a small positive!

Couple of years later and we signed him and Iain Durrant on loan under Mike Walker (?) I remember watching them away at Palace, not sure if it was their debut, but Ferguson did nothing, Durrant was just shocking. (Did we terminate his loan early?)

Already blanking the press, when asked by an Echo journalist if he’d make the move permanent he barked "No way pal. I’m a Rangers man". He was yet to be bitten by the bug.

First goal against Them, at Goodison, and he was in the Blue hearts. The shambles with his prison stay, even more shambolic reception on his release merely confirmed to him what we already knew.

Tellingly when he was sold to Newcastle, he agreed to give an interview to a fanzine (not the local press mind). The excited scribe asked "So what’s it like to have signed for Newcastle?". "It’s shite" was his less-than-expected reply, going on to explain to the open-mouthed fan that he was only there because Everton didn’t want him.

How many players down the years, through the ages, have we heard similar stories from? Ball, Kendall, Young, latterly Cahill – none were from Liverpool or had any connection to the club until they signed on the dotted line.

I also count the words of our most successful manager to mean something when he suggests that Dunc would be a good manager, even if most seem to dismiss anything he says, although I’m not confident enough to think it would be the right step to take after Martinez as he would need to prove himself at another club first before taking on such a massive job.

Signing Big Dunc up as manager would suit Kenwright down to the ground though as he tends to go for people who are trying to prove themselves from lower leagues and in my opinion are more easily controlled. The last two are from the Championship and you can bet your bottom dollar he’s got his eye on Eddie Howe but who knows, maybe one day he’ll stumble on a top manager and it could be either of the above for all I know.

Enough said for me.

A Sunday league manager wouldn’t let this happen without putting a man at the near post to flick the ball on.

It’s so fucking embarrassing, it’s a joke. Especially since yesterday was game 36, and we have been doing the same thing since game 1.