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Viking Chat => Viking Chat => Topic started by: Draytonian III on September 21, 2018, 07:30:24 pm
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Looks like he’s going to be joining St Mirren
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I really enjoyed seeing DC in the hoops. Still one of the best set piece specialists I've seen at the Keepmoat, He was very much a bright spark during difficult times, and I often wonder how great he would have been in our halcyon Championship days. His crosses were excellent and he wasn't too shabby at finding the net either. I wish him well. :scarf: :scarf: :scarf:
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A big part of a special team. That 2012/2013 team is something I’ll never forget.
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I'm glad to see he's getting sorted out. Too good a player to be without a club.
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I've never seen any Rovers player strike shots from distance so hard and so accurately. And that includes Glynn.
He was phenomenal in that promotion season.
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A player of absolute quality, the likes of which we haven't seen since.
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It's funny, I remember him getting dogs abuse on here and in the stadium for supposedly being a lazy Kitson.
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Nothing is surprising in the minds of football fans. I know someone who thinks Copps is shite!
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One if those players who did nothing for 85 minutes, then either scored a worldie or would drop a 40 yard pass right on the money to give us a goal.
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Lived next door to him during his time with us. Read all sorts on here but found him quiet, polite and just a young decent fella. Bloody car used to make me jump every day tho!!!
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It's funny, I remember him getting dogs abuse on here and in the stadium for supposedly being a lazy Kitson.
He was a lazy Kitson. But when you can do the sort of thing he can do to win a game in an instant you kind of earn the right to be a lazy Kitson.
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I've never seen any Rovers player strike shots from distance so hard and so accurately. And that includes Glynn.
He was phenomenal in that promotion season.
Glynn took some beating from dead ball situations, 20 yards out was like a penalty for him, but Cotterill was as good, bone idle, but as good, also better at crossing, but IF we were to compare them Glynn was the better all round player.
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One if those players who did nothing for 85 minutes, then either scored a worldie or would drop a 40 yard pass right on the money to give us a goal.
That game at home vs Colchester springs to mind..
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One if those players who did nothing for 85 minutes, then either scored a worldie or would drop a 40 yard pass right on the money to give us a goal.
That game at home vs Colchester springs to mind..
Wasn't that Saunders' last game in charge? We were pretty mediocre that day but up popped Cotterill with a piece of quality to win us the game.
I'll never forget his debut goal at Walsall. Never in a million years thought he'd score from there but he did.
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One if those players who did nothing for 85 minutes, then either scored a worldie or would drop a 40 yard pass right on the money to give us a goal.
That game at home vs Colchester springs to mind..
Wasn't that Saunders' last game in charge? We were pretty mediocre that day but up popped Cotterill with a piece of quality to win us the game.
I'll never forget his debut goal at Walsall. Never in a million years thought he'd score from there but he did.
Aye. Don't think he scored again (that season) after that. Think he still got a few assists though.
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Saunders said something that was near-genius insight about Cotterill in a radio interview.
He said that Cotterill had underperformed everywhere because managers had told him to focus on improving his weaknesses. He said that when he signed Cotterill, he told him to forget about his weaknesses. He told him to concentrate on his strengths and let Saunders build a team that accommodated his weaknesses.
That was a brilliant piece of management and it produced the most ruthless machine of a Rovers team that I have ever seen.
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I was doing the Rovers Player commentary the second half of the League One title season, and there was a stat I kept trotting out because it amazed me everytime; in that Cotterill had been involved half of all Rovers league goals.
In the end of the 62 goals Rovers scored in League One that season, Cotterill was involved in 30 of them; 10 goals and 20 assists. That's a frankly phenomenal return in any season, let alone a title winning one.
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Oh why not, it is a match day after all...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBvohThYWYA
That first goal just made me giggle. Brilliant.
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I think I remember him making a tackle once
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He didn't have to make tackles. There were plenty in that side who could tackle for two.
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It's funny, I remember him getting dogs abuse on here and in the stadium for supposedly being a lazy Kitson.
He did 50% of the time .
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Nearly all of those goals are top class.
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I remember the one he lashed in a Elland Road when we won 2-1.
A top quality finish.
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Article on the BBC today about his struggles with depression.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45579754
Horrible illness, hope he manages to get through it.
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A very good article, depression should not be taken lightly, just think of Garry Speed, Clark Carlisle. If my memory serves me right I think DC was also going through a divorce when at Donny but I am not sure about that, life's tribulations, no one is exempt.
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This is a really interesting read and is far more prevalent than people realise. What David talks about is similar to what players are telling me during my research interviews.
I count 8 current football league or premier league players who have spoken about mental health publicly this year. I wonder how many more we get before Christmas
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He isn't wrong with anything he says with regards to clubs/managers needing to do more and the amount of footballers who probably have a problem with anxiety/depression or some sort.
An angle he doesn't touch on is how footballers who are released at 16-18, some of whom go from being the next 'big thing' to absolutely nothing overnight, suffer as well. There is almost no support in place for them and they're left to pretty much fall by the wayside.
Rigo, there was another good article on BBC the other day about George Green who was tipped for big things at Everton, he now plays for Chester after some struggles the last few years.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45476430
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He isn't wrong with anything he says with regards to clubs/managers needing to do more and the amount of footballers who probably have a problem with anxiety/depression or some sort.
An angle he doesn't touch on is how footballers who are released at 16-18, some of whom go from being the next 'big thing' to absolutely nothing overnight, suffer as well. There is almost no support in place for them and they're left to pretty much fall by the wayside.
Rigo, there was another good article on BBC the other day about George Green who was tipped for big things at Everton, he now plays for Chester after some struggles the last few years.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45476430
I read that artical he said he will have blown half a million so far , something needs to done to help young kids from going from £500 a week to 10k and they should not feel embarrassed to say they need help
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He isn't wrong with anything he says with regards to clubs/managers needing to do more and the amount of footballers who probably have a problem with anxiety/depression or some sort.
An angle he doesn't touch on is how footballers who are released at 16-18, some of whom go from being the next 'big thing' to absolutely nothing overnight, suffer as well. There is almost no support in place for them and they're left to pretty much fall by the wayside.
Clubs sign up numerous “promising” young lads and build them up to be the future of their clubs.
Although many of them are little more than just being promising, they get into the mindset that they have all but secured their futures as pro footballers and then can’t handle it when they are shown the door.
I have known quite a few young lads who have given the game up totally after being released.
Sometimes when the Rovers parade dozens of young lads around the pitch I wonder how many of them even stay in the game after the age of 18.
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Oh and the other thing I forgot to mention are the numbers of parents who delight in telling me that their lad plays for Leeds or the Rovers or Sheffield Weds etc.
When I ask what level they play at and they tell me that the lad is ten years old I just have to let it go.
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David Cotterill has just announced his retirement from professional football.
https://mobile.twitter.com/cotterill_david/status/1052578049949126656?p=v
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A very eloquent and dignified statement from Cotts.
I'm chuffed that his achievement with Rovers ranks highly in his list of treasured memories.
I wish Cotts the very best of luck for the future, and thanks for providing some magic moments for me as a Donny fan.
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A very eloquent and dignified statement from Cotts.
I'm chuffed that his achievement with Rovers ranks highly in his list of treasured memories.
I wish Cotts the very best of luck for the future, and thanks for providing some magic moments for me as a Donny fan.
* From his agent!
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A very eloquent and dignified statement from Cotts.
I'm chuffed that his achievement with Rovers ranks highly in his list of treasured memories.
I wish Cotts the very best of luck for the future, and thanks for providing some magic moments for me as a Donny fan.
* From his agent!
Unnecessary of you. It's a little retirement post, why would he have his agent write it? And anyway, what does it matter?
Best of luck to him in whatever he does next, he was a great player for us and the way he's brought his mental health issues to light recently will help the discussion and movement towards destigmatising depression and related illnesses in our society.
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He isn't wrong with anything he says with regards to clubs/managers needing to do more and the amount of footballers who probably have a problem with anxiety/depression or some sort.
An angle he doesn't touch on is how footballers who are released at 16-18, some of whom go from being the next 'big thing' to absolutely nothing overnight, suffer as well. There is almost no support in place for them and they're left to pretty much fall by the wayside.
Rigo, there was another good article on BBC the other day about George Green who was tipped for big things at Everton, he now plays for Chester after some struggles the last few years.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45476430
I read that artical he said he will have blown half a million so far , something needs to done to help young kids from going from £500 a week to 10k and they should not feel embarrassed to say they need help
Spot on Rigo, being friends with Sean Thornton I have heard first hand exactly the same from him. Being from Ireland and a young kid he was given a mountain of luxuries but no one there to help him understand what it was all about, what he was supposed to do, how he was meant to cope with it all. He openly admitted he wished someone like Sir Alex was at Sunderland when he made his big move to nurture him....if he had done that then no doubt he would have played in the PL for years to come. Sadly he met drink and that took over his life (along with a missus who played with his emotions) and sadly he spent the latter of his career playing in Wales and back home in Ireland.
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He isn't wrong with anything he says with regards to clubs/managers needing to do more and the amount of footballers who probably have a problem with anxiety/depression or some sort.
An angle he doesn't touch on is how footballers who are released at 16-18, some of whom go from being the next 'big thing' to absolutely nothing overnight, suffer as well. There is almost no support in place for them and they're left to pretty much fall by the wayside.
Rigo, there was another good article on BBC the other day about George Green who was tipped for big things at Everton, he now plays for Chester after some struggles the last few years.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45476430
I read that artical he said he will have blown half a million so far , something needs to done to help young kids from going from £500 a week to 10k and they should not feel embarrassed to say they need help
Spot on Rigo, being friends with Sean Thornton I have heard first hand exactly the same from him. Being from Ireland and a young kid he was given a mountain of luxuries but no one there to help him understand what it was all about, what he was supposed to do, how he was meant to cope with it all. He openly admitted he wished someone like Sir Alex was at Sunderland when he made his big move to nurture him....if he had done that then no doubt he would have played in the PL for years to come. Sadly he met drink and that took over his life (along with a missus who played with his emotions) and sadly he spent the latter of his career playing in Wales and back home in Ireland.
Did he not have any family to keep an eye on him?
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Class act. Thoroughly enjoyed watching him play for us 👍😀
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He isn't wrong with anything he says with regards to clubs/managers needing to do more and the amount of footballers who probably have a problem with anxiety/depression or some sort.
An angle he doesn't touch on is how footballers who are released at 16-18, some of whom go from being the next 'big thing' to absolutely nothing overnight, suffer as well. There is almost no support in place for them and they're left to pretty much fall by the wayside.
Rigo, there was another good article on BBC the other day about George Green who was tipped for big things at Everton, he now plays for Chester after some struggles the last few years.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45476430
I read that artical he said he will have blown half a million so far , something needs to done to help young kids from going from £500 a week to 10k and they should not feel embarrassed to say they need help
Spot on Rigo, being friends with Sean Thornton I have heard first hand exactly the same from him. Being from Ireland and a young kid he was given a mountain of luxuries but no one there to help him understand what it was all about, what he was supposed to do, how he was meant to cope with it all. He openly admitted he wished someone like Sir Alex was at Sunderland when he made his big move to nurture him....if he had done that then no doubt he would have played in the PL for years to come. Sadly he met drink and that took over his life (along with a missus who played with his emotions) and sadly he spent the latter of his career playing in Wales and back home in Ireland.
Did he not have any family to keep an eye on him?
Of course, because everyone knows youngsters take heed of every piece of good advice given to them by caring family members.