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Martin O'Neill


Blodwyn Pig said:
Not me marra I was a welder for Austin & Pickersgill.
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Yes, football legend Charlie Hurley frequently wore a poppy for Remembrance Day. Hurley, the iconic Sunderland AFC defender famously dubbed "The King", played during an era when players consistently wore poppies on their shirts around Armistice Day to show their respect for fallen soldiers. [
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While he is sometimes confused with other high-profile Irish players who took principled stances against the emblem (such as James McClean), Hurley's history as an Irishman playing in English football did not prevent him from wearing the poppy to honor veterans
 
Chewit said:
I appreciate you are saying he had positive intent. But they were his appointments, be it football or executive and it was him that had to agree the vision and the strategies to achieve it. It was him that had to hold people accountable.

Ultimately it wasn’t the footballers or managers who failed him it was the senior executives he gave responsibility to. They were the common thread. Unlike the likes of Moyes or ONeil these people where not qualified to be doing the job they were doing.
You are only as good as the team you build around you and his was incompetent… that’s down to him.
The idiot even said when Sslmon pants and Eastleigh started cutting costs, that perhaps he should have employed them…. He was clueless
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There is the possibility he let others hold other people accountable, after he had questioned Roy Keane on footballing matters, to be told he knew nothing about football.
Again, it was his play thing, he didn’t need the club as a cash generator.
You don’t become a billionaire by being clueless.
 
hawaymadlad said:
There is the possibility he let others hold other people accountable, after he had questioned Roy Keane on footballing matters, to be told he knew nothing about football.
Again, it was his play thing, he didn’t need the club as a cash generator.
You don’t become a billionaire by being clueless.
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Well he did … but of course the clueless applies to the running of a football club not a hedge fund.
 
Gentwo said:
It was more what he had achieved, versus what we actually got from him.

Parkinson I knew was shite.
MON is underwhelming because he was a big name at the time.
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Interesting comparison.

MON felt like the beginning of something. A proven top flight manager. Parkinson felt like a real "we're League One now" appointment.

Plus, people are praising O"Neill for winning Celtic the league. I wonder are they giving Parkinson praise for the job he is doing at Wrexham?
 
Black Cat Gypsy said:
Interesting comparison.

MON felt like the beginning of something. A proven top flight manager. Parkinson felt like a real "we're League One now" appointment.

Plus, people are praising O"Neill for winning Celtic the league. I wonder are they giving Parkinson praise for the job he is doing at Wrexham?
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It would be a full time job keeping track of all of our previous managers marra
 
Doesn't look like O'Neill is staying on by the sound of his interview after the cup final.

Robbie Keane is the favourite and has resigned as head coach of Ferencvaros.
 
Gentwo said:
Most disillusioned I’ve ever felt as a Sunderland fan when he was in charge.

Too stubborn, negative and conservative.

I remember a game where he was screaming, and I mean literally screaming at Seb Larsson for running into the opposition half.

Please note I said disillusioned not outright the worst.
Jurassic Parkinson wins, which is ironic because we certainly f***ing didn’t under him much.
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First season (well, half from when he took over) with him was really enjoyable.

After that it was very apparent that he was too stubborn and fixed in mentality to give us what we needed at the time and he had no heart for the fight we were fighting
 
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