Is MoN right when he says


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Think Danny Graham, think Fletcher , think AJ..............Think MON. The only player the club got its money's worth on was Rose..........who incidentally was reluctantly signed on loan by MON.
I should have listened to the Villa fans but I was sure he would be the stabilising factor for our club...........again I was wrong.
 
MoN is a prick.

Maybe if he had turned up for work he'd have had half a chance.

:lol: What the fuck

The biggest myth in SMB history, can't believe people still believe shite like that :lol:

Think Danny Graham, think Fletcher , think AJ..............Think MON. The only player the club got its money's worth on was Rose..........who incidentally was reluctantly signed on loan by MON.
I should have listened to the Villa fans but I was sure he would be the stabilising factor for our club...........again I was wrong.

To say we didn't get our money's worth out of Johnson is a quite frankly ridiculous statement

Complete charlatan

:lol: think you need to look up the definition of that word like marra.
 
'If I'd been given half a chance at Sunderland, I'd have succeeded.'
As reported by George Caulkin in an article today.
Fair comment or rose tinted specs?

I wanted him to succeed here and thought he would. However when we were in the shite in January he bought Danny Graham for £5 million and my faith in him was lost.
 
The job he did when he was here was horrific. Burdened us with some of our worst ever signings, played horrific football, got shite results, came across like a clueless coward. He had literally not a single redeeming feature when he was our manager. Bar Wilkinson he is my most loathed manager in my lifetime, an absolute prick and a shit manager. Our fans to our credit were very kind and forgiving to him, and in my mind he got the mythical 'longer' that he thinks he deserved.

Just imagine another transfer window of premier league proven good solid british pisshead wankers:evil::evil:
 
Well I was in the MON vanguard all along and even I could see that we were wasting away.

But it is true that it wasn't always thus. From the December of his arrival, when most of us thought we were heading down under a lost Brucey, up to around the time when we should have beaten Citeh away, Both of these came after we had been knocked out of the cup by a vastly superior Everton team. For most of this time we were at teams, competitive in midfield and looking as if we would kick on a bit, although we faded at the end as we couldn't score and with Bendtner being our centre forward maybe that was to be expected.

Even the next season, while being nowt startling, we had 29 points at the end of January after beating Wigan away IIRC. What happened after that was appalling, with the side being obviously under motivated and lacking direction. I would love to know what happened there, but it is true that around the February of his first season he had said that he had been at the training ground almost every day, " as the team clearly needed him". His period of absences seemed to begin in earnest around the turn of the year in his second season, and with obvious effects. Soon after then his media interviews were a tell tale sign, mumbling and looking down as he spoke, a huge contrast to his usual posture of bloody minded almost defiance.

Maybe he would have kept us up that year. I doubt it mesell like. They needed the electric shock of someone like DiCanio and that wasn't coming with the set up as it was.
Looking back his transfers were awful and maybe it is little wonder that the owner, staggered by years of the outward flow of cash for no return, decided ( really cack handedly as it happens) to implement a DOF strategy which MON would clearly never work under.

We are not an easy club to manage it is easy to see. But I don't think MON can have any real complaints.
 
What's all this not turning up for training stuff? Is this documented or just Chinese whispers?

I think i saw a few things that pointed to it at the time, eg players saying 'the the gaffa was here on tuesday' in interviews. However, im sure Fergie used to do the same, its not too much of an issue if the team is playing well and you have a trusted coaching team, got a feeling it may be a generational thing.
 
What's all this not turning up for training stuff? Is this documented or just Chinese whispers?
Was common knowledge he allowed the coaching staff to run training, Steve Walton mainly iirc, whilst he would only turn up on the Wednesday and Thursday. This may have had alot to do with his ill wife, mind.
 
No, some of his signings were baffling, they were mostly overpriced, mostly huffy or useless, O'Neill looked lost without his second in command, tactics were hopeless, we looked like we were playing for a 1-0 defeat at times. Some of the worst football I have ever watched at any level. Soul destroying. Martin you're past it at club level.

Bollocks....
 
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