Dunne in bust up with Houllier & McAllister on Friday - NOTW

[pedro25]

Laursen was far better than Dunne.

[WALTERS WARRIORS]

Think we are being very harsh with Dunne. Yes he is off form but not that long ago we were saying he was a revelation. A couple of weeks of hard training and better focus and he could return to the excellent player he was ...........

[Ian.]

He should be in shape now, half way through the season and he's that big is taking the piss. He was great last season. Loss of form I understand but being fat when your a professional football player is wrong.
Imagine if you was in the West End and watching Swan Lake and one of them main characters came out on stage out of position, slipping over and having bits of wobbly fat hanging out their tutu, well it would not be on would it?

[PaulMcGrathsNo5Shirt]

Richard Dunne can go for all i'm bothered. He was decent last season when he had something to prove. This season he's been 'Billy big bollocks' - overweight and underperforming. Ship up or ship out

[1958Villan]

May I point out that Richard Dunne is a top class centreback. Also he has been playing since just before the humiliating 7 - 1 Chelsea game last season with injury. Yes he has been off form this season but, he has played on when he shouldn't have because we have had no one to replace him with. The man needs probably two or three months to get over his injury, it might even be longer than that if he needs an operation in the end.
How soon people forget, RD was immense for us last season, even after the Chelsea game.
Get over yourselves people, RD has been playing and training in football for probably twenty years and, if, I say if, he has criticised the training regime at VP as being out of date, you can bet your bottom dollar that it is. 

[myf]

He should be in shape now, half way through the season and he's that big is taking the piss. He was great last season. Loss of form I understand but being fat when your a professional football player is wrong.
Imagine if you was in the West End and watching Swan Lake and one of them main characters came out on stage out of position, slipping over and having bits of wobbly fat hanging out their tutu, well it would not be on would it?

Isn't he meant to be carrying an injury?  Couldn't this have affected his form and weight?  If this is the case it could be argued that he has been putting his body on the line when we have been short at the back.

I find it hard to accept that someone who has been a good and reasonably consistent player in the past can experience such an major drop in form.  He's either injured and/or not willing to perfom for the new management team.  I would be concerned if it is the latter, as GH seems to have a habit of needlessly pissing people off, including us fans.

[PeterWithe]

May I point out that Richard Dunne is a top class centreback. Also he has been playing since just before the humiliating 7 - 1 Chelsea game last season with injury. Yes he has been off form this season but, he has played on when he shouldn't have because we have had no one to replace him with. The man needs probably two or three months to get over his injury, it might even be longer than that if he needs an operation in the end.
How soon people forget, RD was immense for us last season, even after the Chelsea game.
Get over yourselves people, RD has been playing and training in football for probably twenty years and, if, I say if, he has criticised the training regime at VP as being out of date, you can bet your bottom dollar that it is.

Evening Richard, good to see that you can keep your fingers out of the the biscuit barrel long enough to type that post.

[Irreverent ad]

May I point out that Richard Dunne is a top class centreback. Also he has been playing since just before the humiliating 7 - 1 Chelsea game last season with injury. Yes he has been off form this season but, he has played on when he shouldn't have because we have had no one to replace him with. The man needs probably two or three months to get over his injury, it might even be longer than that if he needs an operation in the end.
How soon people forget, RD was immense for us last season, even after the Chelsea game.
Get over yourselves people, RD has been playing and training in football for probably twenty years and, if, I say if, he has criticised the training regime at VP as being out of date, you can bet your bottom dollar that it is. 

Top class I think not!. McGrath, Cannavaro, Nesta, Baresi, Vidic ...they are/were top class.

Did that injury lead Dunne to start comfort eating?

[gervilla]

Well the bottom line is that he has been terrible this season. Wheather its down to injury,weight ( considerable), billy big bollocks syndrome. boozing or not seeing eye with the management I dont care. He shouldnt be playing at the moment and thank god he was dropped yesterday.
Hopefully he will have a few weeks on the sideline to sort his shit out because he was superb for most of last season . We can't carry passengers.

[Shrek]

May I point out that Richard Dunne is a top class centreback. Also he has been playing since just before the humiliating 7 - 1 Chelsea game last season with injury. Yes he has been off form this season but, he has played on when he shouldn't have because we have had no one to replace him with. The man needs probably two or three months to get over his injury, it might even be longer than that if he needs an operation in the end.
How soon people forget, RD was immense for us last season, even after the Chelsea game.
Get over yourselves people, RD has been playing and training in football for probably twenty years and, if, I say if, he has criticised the training regime at VP as being out of date, you can bet your bottom dollar that it is. 

Sorry mate, we have had Cuellar and Davies (till recently) to replace him.

He has been playing terrible all season, I have less respect for someone who will play through injury just too keep his place in the team, that's a lack of respect to us fans because he has clearly not been 100% be it injury or lazyiness.

[richard moore]

May I point out that Richard Dunne is a top class centreback. Also he has been playing since just before the humiliating 7 - 1 Chelsea game last season with injury. Yes he has been off form this season but, he has played on when he shouldn't have because we have had no one to replace him with. The man needs probably two or three months to get over his injury, it might even be longer than that if he needs an operation in the end.
How soon people forget, RD was immense for us last season, even after the Chelsea game.
Get over yourselves people, RD has been playing and training in football for probably twenty years and, if, I say if, he has criticised the training regime at VP as being out of date, you can bet your bottom dollar that it is. 

I think you must have a very very different definition of 'top class' to me.....Beckenbauer was 'top class' just to give you some idea....

[JJ-AV]

Dunne is a top class defender when on form. As a centre half in the modern game? I'm not so sure.

Great at last ditch defending and getting his body on the line, but he doesn't do enough for me to be a centre back for an aspiring top club.

Keeping the ball is the greatest form of defence, we've not enough players capable of doing it.

[peter w]

Out of sorts player rants at new coach, blames him for everything. Never happens.

Hopefully this is the start of Phase 2. Tha G-Dogg has worked out who the wrong-uns are and feeds them to his cat

Why can't your news reports by of this ilk?

[BannedUserIAT]

[old man villa fan]

May I point out that Richard Dunne is a top class centreback. Also he has been playing since just before the humiliating 7 - 1 Chelsea game last season with injury. Yes he has been off form this season but, he has played on when he shouldn't have because we have had no one to replace him with. The man needs probably two or three months to get over his injury, it might even be longer than that if he needs an operation in the end.
How soon people forget, RD was immense for us last season, even after the Chelsea game.
Get over yourselves people, RD has been playing and training in football for probably twenty years and, if, I say if, he has criticised the training regime at VP as being out of date, you can bet your bottom dollar that it is. 

If he had an injury from the time you say, he had the summer to get over it or have an operation.  Why hasn't he.