Alex Neil - New head coach confirmed

[Madmartigan]

Clean slate. Give him a chance, back rhw team ans let's see how he does.

 

[deleted user 785]

Where's this 12-week contract thing come from like, fatty?

 

[Sallycinamon]

Might as well have kept Johnson

Who’s never had a promotion in his life? Good idea…

 

[hank williams]

Playoffs are not a lottery mate. If they were we would have won them by now.

We always lose our tickets

 

[Sunderland2022]

He did do that although its ancient history now. It ended badly with us and indeed Ipswich.
As a manager his record i

He did do that although its ancient history now. It ended badly with us and indeed Ipswich.
As a manager his record is poor

This time yesterday there was the potential for hope. If a bottom half league 1 side appointed Alex Neil nobody would bat an eye lid. We needed someone to set standards and the drag the whole club up. Today we have a man who spent his career playing for airdrie, Mansfield and Hamilton.

 

[Super Ted]

I am underwhelmed and deflated like never before.

I can't even remember the last time I was chuffed with an appointment, it was probably Keane first time round, maybe slightly happy with Coleman at the time.

Just the 12 managers since, stretching back to 2006

 

[NorthumberlandMackem]

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I'm in. Good luck, Alex!

 

[Bear]

They were a basket case who reneged on the agreed budget. They sacked him and then chewed through managers and kept on sinking and are currently in a far worse case than us.

Keane was shite there he admits this himself

Again no other clubs in for him he’d only return for his beloved Sunderland

 

[Karl]

And you get the reward for the first fan to send out the usual 'back him or piss off' and we saw that in the Summer and that at its core is why we really are a hopeless club.

We're not hopeless but a ton of shit decisions throughout the years have landed us in this position, and hopefully we've finally got an owner and a set-up that might get us out of it but there wont be any magic bullets. This isn't FM. I personally believe that appointing Neil over Keane was the right decision to make. I simply cannot see the basis for people preferring the contrary, apart from nostalgia.

 

[Upthere]

People were saying it was done. Not saying you were one of them, but that was quite clearly shite.

There was definitely a verbal agreement, obviously you expect these things to get sorted and ironed out, but when people said Andy Reid was going to be his assistant I went against that

 

[Farfrom Athletic]

There’s a few on here who genuinely hear things and pass that on. Doesn’t always come off but I for one appreciate it and hope they ignore the spunktrumpets giving them shite and keep it up.

The people posting fake info intentionally can get to fuck though.

 

[riffraff]

I'm just not pissing my knickers over appointing a decent manager. Who would you have preferred out of interest?

“New member” marra.

 

[Dredd]

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I'm in. Good luck, Alex!

He doesn't mention pitch philosophy. Neil out

 

[NorthumberlandMackem]

He doesn't mention pitch philosophy. Neil out

 

[Red]

Why? We will always be down in league 1 if this is the attitude. “Let’s just accept it and support him”, how about we do something about it and drive the owners out and not accept being a league 1 also-ran?

Magesque behaviour from a probable mag.

 

[Onlyfoolsrushin]

If Alex Neil isn't a success, it won't be him getting the flak this time IMHO. Those who have appointed him should be the ones under most scrutiny and target of the fans.

 

[CraigyLee]

If Neils got anything about him he will be revelling in the opportunity to swing his dick get us promoted and say Roy who

 

[LineTrash]

Who should we have got in your opinion ? Which magical manager out there would come to Sunderland in league 1 and get us instant promotion?

I don’t think appointing Alex Neil is the problem…it was keeping Johnson after last season. If Neil comes out Saturday and has the team pressing and playing a high tempo, in your face kind of game…who’s not gonna enjoy that?? At the very least it will be something entirely different than what the last 5 managers provided!

 

[suddick mac]

We're a League 1 club getting Alex Neil, why are people spitting their dummies out? Surely this is a rather ambitious appointment? People's judgements are massively clouded by Keane falling through, for reasons unknown to us all. Back our Baldy master or piss off permanently, please?

Very much this for me. I wanted Keane to come in but deep down knew it was a massive risk as he is so volatile and been out of the game for so long.
More than happy to give Neil a chance as I think he'll surprise a few people.

 

[Super Ted]

We're a League 1 club getting Alex Neil, why are people spitting their dummies out? Surely this is a rather ambitious appointment? People's judgements are massively clouded by Keane falling through, for reasons unknown to us all. Back our Baldy master or piss off permanently, please?

People will convince themselves out is good here man, the same above could have been said for Lee Johnson, that ended well.