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Martin O'Neill

Said it on here before, but I saw MON give a talk in about 2006, before he managed Sunderland, and he said he grew up with one dream, to play for Sunderland. Definitely a MLF. But I'm still not sure why??

As for his time at Sunderland, we were never good, but he got lucky early on, and then the luck ran out. XG stats would have shown it for what it was.

The other thing about that talk in 2006 - he said he never studied the opponents at all and that his tactics only depended on his own team; he never thought about the opposition. Which even in 2006 seemed outdated.

I watched the match today with hearts fans and gutted for them, but pleased for MON.
 

superhans1 said:
Said it on here before, but I saw MON give a talk in about 2006, before he managed Sunderland, and he said he grew up with one dream, to play for Sunderland. Definitely a MLF. But I'm still not sure why??

As for his time at Sunderland, we were never good, but he got lucky early on, and then the luck ran out. XG stats would have shown it for what it was.

The other thing about that talk in 2006 - he said he never studied the opponents at all and that his tactics only depended on his own team; he never thought about the opposition. Which even in 2006 seemed outdated.

I watched the match today with hearts fans and gutted for them, but pleased for MON.
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Charles Hurley was MON's hero when he was a kid so Sunderland became his team
 
superhans1 said:
Said it on here before, but I saw MON give a talk in about 2006, before he managed Sunderland, and he said he grew up with one dream, to play for Sunderland. Definitely a MLF. But I'm still not sure why??

As for his time at Sunderland, we were never good, but he got lucky early on, and then the luck ran out. XG stats would have shown it for what it was.

The other thing about that talk in 2006 - he said he never studied the opponents at all and that his tactics only depended on his own team; he never thought about the opposition. Which even in 2006 seemed outdated.

I watched the match today with hearts fans and gutted for them, but pleased for MON.
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Actually, that is probably the best way to play football, instead of bothering how you think the other team are going to play, like most managers do these days. The most successful ones more than likely focus on their own squad and playing to their strengths.
I think that is why so many games are boring these days. There’s too much focus on the opposition, and keeping clean sheets.
Arsenal have kept a few this season, but I don’t think that is the reason they are likely to win the league.
 
contrarian said:
We would have gone down the pan without Short
The Irish jolly boys went into debt to satisfy Keane such that when they did one Short inherited over 60m in debt and some awful long term liabilities, all due to RK incompetence
He wore that 60m and continued to underwrite players for ONeil, Advocaat and Moyes. Bruce was only one we made a profit with due in main to Bent
Short was covering wages for over a decade because sky money wouldnt cover it
Yet your sort would have us believe that the likes of Donald and Methven did more for us than short??
Murray fondly remembered now was robbed blind by the stupidity in the transfer market of Reid
Medina, Nunez, Flo .
Should be a statue for Short outside the ground
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Presided over a bunch of horrific appointments throughout the club both on and off the pitch, his handling of the biggest scandal in the clubs history was little short of abhorrent, led us to the 3rd tier of English football for only the second time in 130 years and then his final coup de grace was to sell us to a pair of chancers who couldn't actually afford to run the club.

Can see why the man deserves a statue given all of that.
 
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