Brock Manson 0 Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Thought they were meant to have overtaken us by now? Aye, no longer only 7 points behind now as that helmet posting on here last week was so gleefully pointing out. Where's the mackem cockiness gone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SloopJohn 0 Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 It puzzles me how much the media absolutely worship O'Neill despite the fact his teams play horrible football, his transfers are awful and a lot of his success at Sunderland has owed a great deal to dumb luck. He's not the most graceful character either. tbf to MON he's a lovely bloke away from the game...met him a few times and got nothing to say bad about him as a manager, well, he's done pretty good jobs you can't begrudge him that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 13877 Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Thought they were meant to have overtaken us by now? Aye, no longer only 7 points behind now as that helmet posting on here last week was so gleefully pointing out. Where's the mackem cockiness gone? It'll come back when they beat QPR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toonotl 2431 Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 The wheels are falling off. MON out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 13877 Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 It puzzles me how much the media absolutely worship O'Neill despite the fact his teams play horrible football, his transfers are awful and a lot of his success at Sunderland has owed a great deal to dumb luck. He's not the most graceful character either. tbf to MON he's a lovely bloke away from the game...met him a few times and got nothing to say bad about him as a manager, well, he's done pretty good jobs you can't begrudge him that Really? I wouldn't say he did well at Villa & neither would a Villa fan, for the money he spent he got little real return and he left them with a lot of debt. Scotland is Scotland but I suppose I can doff my cap to his job at Leicester, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howay 12460 Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 Thought they were meant to have overtaken us by now? Aye, no longer only 7 points behind now as that helmet posting on here last week was so gleefully pointing out. Where's the mackem cockiness gone? Blackburn are 9 behind them and we're 10 ahead of them. They have to win 4 more games than us in the last 9 I'm confident that wont happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitman 2188 Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 Where would we be without the race for Top Dogs, eh? In Europe, hopefully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SloopJohn 0 Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 It puzzles me how much the media absolutely worship O'Neill despite the fact his teams play horrible football, his transfers are awful and a lot of his success at Sunderland has owed a great deal to dumb luck. He's not the most graceful character either. tbf to MON he's a lovely bloke away from the game...met him a few times and got nothing to say bad about him as a manager, well, he's done pretty good jobs you can't begrudge him that Really? I wouldn't say he did well at Villa & neither would a Villa fan, for the money he spent he got little real return and he left them with a lot of debt. Scotland is Scotland but I suppose I can doff my cap to his job at Leicester, Didn't spent crazy money at Villa from what I can remember? Ashley Young was a fantastic signing, so was Milner.. I don't think he spent anything like what Liverpool have and they were 5th for two consecutive seasons if I remember correctly... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJS 3984 Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 O'Neill appeared before a parlimentary committee to defend spending 130m at Villa - most of his defence was it was "only" 70m net. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest CabayeAye Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 O'Neill appeared before a parlimentary committee to defend spending 130m at Villa - most of his defence was it was "only" 70m net. What I'd like to know is that if he was such a runaway success at Villa, why isn't he still there winning silverware? He certainly spent like a trophy winner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitman 2188 Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 The main thing I recall about O'Neill's punditry is that he's bat shit crazy. I suspect he gets less effective as time wears on, but we'll see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 34598 Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 (edited) The best thing O'Neill ever did was congratulate Robbie Williams on forging a successful solo career cos "I've gotta be honest, I thought it was over for you when you left the band. " Edited March 21, 2012 by Gemmill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 14624 Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 I don't think he's shite, but he is vastly overrated. His big chance was Villa, given a huge wedge and couldnt get them above 5th. Should make him a shoe-in for next Liverpool boss though. He got Celtic to a UEFA cup final....McLaren's was a bigger acheivement at Boro when he did it a couple of years later but I don't see any journo's wanking themselves off at his acheivements. It's because O'Neil is a part-qualified lawyer, football journo's think thats great and want to bask in his reflected fabbiness, the fuckin bell ends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Carr's Gloves 3206 Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 O'Neills football is atrocious. His main tactic is get an early goal and defend it. His first moves at Celtic were to ensure they stopped shipping goals. he then got Hartson and Sutton and managed to win some stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigWalrus 0 Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 O'Neill's football style is not the most attractive, but I think it's clear he's had a positive impact there. Agent Bagpuss had the same core group of players but wasn't getting any results, and the football was hardly anything to write home about. MON has come in and galvanised the team and made them all work for each other. In terms of putting the opposition under pressure (when SAFC don't have the ball), they're one of the best teams in the league. However, this requires a ridiculous amount of effort, week in, week out, and will no doubt cause fatigue injuries. Once the work rate dips, there is a lack of genuine quality to get them out of jail. They're not relegation fodder, but I don't think they're good enough for the top 6 just yet. MON's signings so far (Wayne Bridge and Kyriakos [sp?]) don't really instil any fear in me. If I was a mackem, my worry would be that O'Neill will bugger off when there's no money to spend. He seems to a little bit mentally unstable and I could see him "doing a Keegan" resulting in separation of toys from pram. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Carr's Gloves 3206 Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 (edited) Was Gordon Strachan not more successful at Celtic than Martin o'Neill with half the transfer budget and a third of the wage bill? Edited March 21, 2012 by Kevin Carr's Gloves Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howay 12460 Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 His tactics at Sunderland are trying to keep an extremely high work rate for 90 minutes and hope to nick a goal, fair play to him the players responded and put the work in but they look absolutely paggered now and they've got 3 more games in the next 10 days whereas we have 1. They also look very inept without Sessegnon who he'll probably have to buy a replacement for in the summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 13877 Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 All off Messi's Barcelona goals.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFfag4cF8QQ&feature=player_embedded Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 9008 Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 Nasri just rattled the cross bar and Chelsea look positive; could be a good game this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 Arsenal move above Spurs in the "as it happens" table. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToonMarshy 2 Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 Arsenal first blood Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 13877 Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 It's been quite poor so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SloopJohn 0 Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 come on QPR! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChezGiven 0 Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 Everton denied 3 goals all incorrectly ruled offside? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 13877 Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 Just one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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