Richard Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 As I posted in the other thread. Feel sorry for him or whatever reason it didnt work for him and he may have reached the time when his abilities diminish Another manager may unfortunately be able to turn their results around Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R.Bear Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 Hahahhaha. You bitter old clearing in the woods. Found out for what you are, a mediocre manager with no tactical sense, terrible signings record and insipid football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dont_do_it_doug. Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 Adam Johnson, right now he's looking like a massive hype job. Is it another case of a shit O'neill signing? he was never anything at City, fact they replaced him with Scott Sinclair shows the level City regarded him as. Except Arjen Robben ive never seen a more predictable winger Not sure if serious...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dont_do_it_doug. Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 Things can't get a whole lot worse for Sunderland. I'm never one for sacking a manager this late on in the season, but in this particular case it can't do them any harm. They were going down as it stood. I hold no grudge against O'Neill, not really, never have. But I shan't be shedding any tears either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flamingsombrero Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted March 31, 2013 Author Share Posted March 31, 2013 O'Neill the genius Of course, Sunderland will now have their tails up. None of this can be considered good news for Villa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 This is not good news at all. It would've been extra sweet if he got sacked after we beat them at VP and condemned them to relegation. Now they might just survive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CI Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 Chelsea away next. Can anyone else see Chelsea screwing us over yet again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 If he is such a shit manager and person I am amazed that people are still so pissed off he left us. Very little objectivity regarding him Not that he left us, HOW he left us. word removed. You mean when he got sacked? You don't get compensation for walking out. We never sacked him. Exactly, and that is the whole point. He quit ( and a pretty shitty point) so left with nothing. Then after discussing with his lawyers decided to make a case for compensation. Anyway, that's very old news. Wish they'd have kept him a few more weeks if I'm honest but pleased he's getting a but crap this morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstonMartin82 Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 £30m on Fletcher, Johnson and Graham. I'm so happy these days are behind us. So happy. A+ prices for C grade players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MMFy Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 (edited) Hearing the MON news last night has given me a spring in my step this morning. It's going to be amusing watching his media friends commentary on how it was not his fault, how the restrictions put in place by Ellis Short's communist regime prevented him from doing his job, and all the other inevitable bullshit that will follow, bar actually reporting that he has done a pretty lousy job up at Sunderland. MON is a cheque book manager who has paid over the odds for players and, with the assistance of John Robertson, has managed to get the best out of them. John Robertson goes, MON is very average. Buying players and not playing them was odd, but not as odd as hoarding wingers and playing them all across your midfield. It's been suggested on here that the making of Milner into a central midfielder could have been a fluke - I strongly agree with this. He has played wingers all over the team at Sunderland as well. However, I believe, and I've said this many times before, Martin O'Neill's downfall is that he can't manage a squad. He can't manage tactical substitutions. With the assistance of John Robertson, he could set up 11 players and a pretty good team, but with the physical demand of today's game, they will always burn out around February/March. Which is incredibly coincidental, as MON's only real credentials is winning League Cups. In February. If those cup finals were in April/May, he would never have had a sniff at them... Edited March 31, 2013 by MMFy 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AValon Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 Not happy about this at all. They were on a fast-track to the Championship with THEIR run-in and watching him take them down would have definitely had some kind of bitter sweet irony. Not sure that will happen now. And 3 points against them now becomes a priority! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 STAN Collymore, who played under O’Neill at Leicester, is among those who believe the Northern Irishman had missed having Robertson at his side.He told talkSPORT: “Martin O’Neill is a dictatorial manager in the style of a Sir Alex Ferguson or a David Moyes – in other words he deals with everything.“He knows the cost of everything, he wants total control of everything.“John Robertson was the conduit between player and manager. When I was at Leicester I would go out and do the training with Steve Walford and everything would be quite jovial.“John Robertson would watch training, perhaps go in a couple of times to see the manager who probably wouldn’t even come out until the last 10, 15 minutes of the session where everything got much livelier because it was unusual for the gaffer to come out and oversee training – like Sir Alex Ferguson or like David Moyes - and what John Robertson would do would be to report back.“Who’s looking sharp, who’s not looking so sharp and I think in terms of this season Martin O’Neill just hasn’t looked himself.“He hasn’t had that sounding board with John Robertson, Robbo decided not to make the trek up north and from what I understand JR almost had enough of the modern-day footballer.“I think that has had a massive impact.” interesting from Stan http://www.sunderlandecho.com/sport/...tson-1-5540809 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CI Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 Collymore has nailed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted March 31, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted March 31, 2013 If he is such a shit manager and person I am amazed that people are still so pissed off he left us. Very little objectivity regarding himNot that he left us, HOW he left us.word removed. You mean when he got sacked? You don't get compensation for walking out.Yes you do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MMFy Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 Don't start this shit again... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCforever1991 Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 Sunderland hire Di Canio. Get the popcorn out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimzk5 Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 di canio isnt a motivator, just a nutcase that will threaten the players with being kicked out of the club if they dont play well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morpheus Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 di canio isnt a motivator, just a nutcase that will threaten the players with being kicked out of the club if they dont play well. Sounds familiar that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieFacE Posted March 31, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted March 31, 2013 (edited) As I posted in the other thread. Feel sorry for him or whatever reason it didnt work for him and he may have reached the time when his abilities diminish Did you also feel sorry for Houllier or McLeish when they were sacked here? They did the exact same as MON did. They all failed and got paid a lot for the privilege. Edited March 31, 2013 by PieFacE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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