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Jarrared
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Stop living 20 yrs ago man , he's a totally inept dinosaur who will suit u lot like I've said before u will be fighting relegation again , your saving grace last season was fast attacking football but oneill will put pay to that n relegate you lot I hope ,cos u pathetic lot got far too big for ur boots last season !
OohBaldyBally
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I am still genuinely gutted that it didn't work out for MON at Sunderland.
I really hope he goes there and relegates the bastards.
I really hope he goes there and relegates the bastards.
seahamstar
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Exactly what happened at Boro with Tony Mowbray.
Most people (including myself) thought "Mogga" was the answer , and to be fair he did start off well .
But , when it went badly pear-shaped he was allowed to stay for far too long and we really were nose-diving towards relegation (after being top a few months earlier).
His "legend" status came so close to being disastrous.
This is what I cannot understand,when Martin was manager off leicester in the 90's,we were very attacking,Our midfield of Lennon,Izzet and Robbie Savage all complimented each other.
So why did he go all negative with you guys,was the team not good enough,formation change,I'm intrigued to know.
So why did he go all negative with you guys,was the team not good enough,formation change,I'm intrigued to know.
Howard the Duck
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I haven't read the thread so it's probably been mentioned but Sunderland was his first job without Robertson, it may have been the balance and influence that he brought that was missing.
Alternatively it may have just been the players at his disposal, though I'm not sure I'd buy that, he had money to spend to address it if that was the issue and we had the likes of Johnson and Sessegnon.
Gaz
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I honestly think a lot of it was not having his right hand man with him. That and his wifes illness & not being at training etc enough
I like him and really thought he'd be the one to progress us. Didn't work out though
Is he still a good choice for you, who knows. Could go either way imo
palm 1
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I was desperate for O neil to succeed at Sunderland however the football we were producing at the end of his spell was woeful .
I remember at the time it was becoming a chore to go to the match and many fans were beginning to reconsider their attendance at the games.
There is no doubt in my mind that we were heading toward the championship had Short not stepped in.
I remember at the time it was becoming a chore to go to the match and many fans were beginning to reconsider their attendance at the games.
There is no doubt in my mind that we were heading toward the championship had Short not stepped in.
Pepe
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You are in the wrong place to be fair. We are/were shite. He brought us out of that for a short period and despite the players we knew were not very good, he had them playing above themselves for a period.
We lost to Everton in the cup and it was like a pin going in a balloon. It was downhill from there and the quality of the football the next season wasn't the best, although I would point out that we were not very good, which is a fairly big factor in the football being not very good.
He was then completely undermined by Short (as any manager would be) and the rest is history. This talk of him going to Leicester, circumstances don't look great there either as your board has been out there buying players and he won't like that should he be in post.
Every dog has its day, his has probably gone, nothing to do with how he was at Sunderland though. We were shite before he came and have arguably (on occasion) been worse since he left. Frankly it is the two bald men fighting over a comb argument.
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MakemIndo
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Hope he goes there and confirms the drop
Still like and respect MON. I wish him every success (except against us). Same with Poyet for that matter. The only one I can't stand is the fat Mag charlatan bunt won't be seeing him for a while. Am baffled that he kept his job given the money he spent to get Hull relegated.
AC Mack
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Didn't you get a bit of reputation for playing decent stuff at times last season?
We were more gung-ho,you score 2 we score 3,it worked in the end though we got a bit of luck(very late goals again West Ham and WBA)
By the time we played you at the end we came for the point we needed and it showed,I have to say as games go,the matches against you were awful spectacles.
Ale taster
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Congratulations, your first sensible post on PF in what seems like a year but is probably much less.
mux
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We didn't mate. We mentioned Saha. Louis Saha,
SAFC Wilks
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Didn't have Robertson by his side, it was like Brian Clough without Peter Taylor at Leeds (admittedly, the failure wasn't of the same magnitude).
Oh, and the fact his wife was ill and was reportedly only in training twice a week probably didn't help as such - he might have done that at Leicester & Villa with Robertson taking training, but we didn't have Robertson.
I still like him, I'll never forget his famous celebration of jumping in the air and giving a little fist pump. I don't think he, like numerous others, can have any complaints about being sacked though. Was right for both parties.
AC Mack
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Yeah. This won't happen under O'Neill.
samaistonsrightfoot
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I'll never forgive him for the way he set us up and has us play in that game
GK
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He played exactly the same tactics but the game has moved on. He didn't have Robertson there to do the day to day and being a bone idle **** he didnt do it either. Rumour has it he would see the players once or twice a week.
It started off great but nosedived into absolute negative old school tedium.
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