Martin O'Neill

[Wylie Coyote]

I liked O'Neill and have no hard feelings but he had to be sacked and overall his record at us was poor. We played some horrendous stuff even for us and he was poor in the transfer market

Obviously he could have kept us up if he wasn't sacked but we looked in free-fall and I think it is far more likely that we would have gone down if we kept him in charge

 

[ferryhill mackem]

Good. Absolutely inept for us after a quality start. We were warned by Villa fans and took no notice but at the time he was sacked we were sleepwalking our way to the Championship.

Some of us said the same but were shot down. I've never understood the obsession our fans have with o'neill

 

[SebastienELLISbexter]

He wasn't a fan though was he? He listened to a few games as a kid when he loved Charlie Hurley. Means nowt in the grand scheme of things.

Honestly can't get my head around why he's so liked. Pepe saying he's judged harshly is ridiculously ironic.

Yes he was. Even at Brian clough's memorial thing at derby he mentioned it, to thousands of people.

Don't start about the pedantic differences about being a supporter or a fan. Martin o neill supported sunderland. End of.

 

[Euro Plums]

"Past it" (apologies if SEB)

 

[alexsafc4]

which point ratio? his good 5 months spell when he joined, or the rest of his time here?

When he was sacked we had 31 points from 31 games but had only picked up 2 since January so supports either point in a way

 

[Mowgli]

Yes he was. Even at Brian clough's memorial thing at derby he mentioned it, to thousands of people.

Don't start about the pedantic differences about being a supporter or a fan. Martin o neill supported sunderland. End of.

Okay then, I'll give him that for arguments sake. He was still f***ing awful for a year and gets off very lightly with out fans compared to other managers. Poyet had nowhere near the financial backing o'neill did and did a better job. Yet he's given plenty stick.

 

[SebastienELLISbexter]

Okay then, I'll give him that for arguments sake. He was still f***ing awful for a year and gets off very lightly with out fans compared to other managers. Poyet had nowhere near the financial backing o'neill did and did a better job. Yet he's given plenty stick.

O neill ultimately was awful, and he would be a bad appointment for Leicester. The lack of stick by some is because we like him as a bloke and because he was a sunderland fan. Simple really, just gutted it didn't work out.

 

[fletcher]

christ, he's so antiquated

 

[Leicester Fan]

Unfortunately. £12m...
Graham for £5.5m

They look an awful waste of money.

At Leicester he originally made some brilliant buys in Lennon, Izzet and Elliot but never repeated that afterwards and most of his signings were average at best after that.

I remember us beating Sunderland 5-2 in a brilliant Leicester performance when Heskey and Collymore ripped you to shreds. sadly he was gone soon after and Peter Taylor came in and destroyed the club. It's taken us over a decade to recover.

 

[taffy]

Big move for him in the betting markets for Leicester job.

You know what they say Never go back

 

[Leicester Fan]

I can't decide whether to put this cockring on ignore because it's Jarvis, or keep watching him making a twat of himself

Put me on ignore please, I'd rather not listen to your moaning and watching your sheep mentality.

You know what they say Never go back

O'Neill said it himself as he's been linked with the Leicester job every time it comes up.

I'm hoping he'll listen to his own advice.

 

[MakemIndo]

So will he job share with the Ireland job and bring in Keano as well?

 

[Scootsie]

I've got absolutely no problem with the bloke at all. I still like him and it's a real shame it didn't work out for him here.

 

[Chugger]

Who amongst us realised that it wasn't O'Neill we needed, but O'Neill with John Robertson? I certainly didn't.

Robertson didn't want to uproot his family to come up here. As he still lives in the midlands he probably would join O'Neil at Leicester.

 

[Billy Batts]

Wouldn't have gone down based on his points ratio.

Tbh, didn't think we'd pick up another point until the end of the season while he was in charge, we were god awful and hardly crossed the halfway line. Imo.

 

[Tex]

Yes he was. Even at Brian clough's memorial thing at derby he mentioned it, to thousands of people.

Don't start about the pedantic differences about being a supporter or a fan. Martin o neill supported sunderland. End of.

Where's the evidence for this?

O Neil was rumored to be in the frame to manage Sunderland off and on for a long time, and all during that time the debate went on as to whether he really was a fan of SAFC. When he didn't come to us, the general consensus seemed to settle down that he was a fan of Hurley and thus would look out for our scores, and that was about it.

Then when he finally became our manager,suddenly history was revisited and he was deemed to be a life long fan with a black cat tattooed on his arse, etc.

AFAIK all of the above is SMB conjecture as I've yet to see a shred of evidence one way or the other. The most likely scenario is that he liked Hurley and looked out for our scores. End of. Managers bouncing around from club to club can't afford to be too sentimental, and neither should we fans be sentimental about ex players. They're all mercenaries these days. That's why I'm not impressed with the inevitable calls for ex SAFC players to become our manager. More than likely it will end in tears and their accrued goodwill for once being our player will be squandered when it turns out they are a shite manager. It might have worked for Stokoe, and could have for Clough, but those days are over. In any event the correlation between being a top player and becoming a top manager seems to be very weak, so those already getting a semi lob on for Phillips (or even Bally) to one day be our manager should get in the cold shower.

 

[yfc54]

Robertson didn't want to uproot his family to come up here. As he still lives in the midlands he probably would join O'Neil at Leicester.

Martin + Robertson = half a chance of survival
On his own = no chance

 

[PTR]

Good. Absolutely inept for us after a quality start. We were warned by Villa fans and took no notice but at the time he was sacked we were sleepwalking our way to the Championship.

Crazy how exactly right the Villa fans were tbh.

They lined it out exactly as it would happen.

 

[GordonMuchallNo1Fan]

he'd take you down no bother

 

[bedlington mackem]

Would be no great surprise. Ireland out of the running re their qualification