Martin o'neill


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Said when we got him he's a f***ing joke u only have to look at the money he went thru and players he signed at villa and people were happy with 6 th! when he was spunking 9 million on players all over the shop!
 
His net spend in 208-09 season was 45 f***ing million man and he finished sixth! That was after finishing 6 th the season before!
 
If your Manager spent 30 million on reo coker Fabian delph and Curtis Davies you wouldnt be worried?
 
Aye it's called retirement. :lol:
I'm not castigating him for it, I'm just saying, it's hardly fair to call him the genius of the piece when he's never proved himself outside of the O'Neill pairing. There's no need for one of them to be the real brains here, after all.

More than likely they're both made better by the presence of the other.
 
Why has this Johnson clownshoe got his nose so far up O'Neill's arse?

When he was appointed MON was most fans dream appointment but he took the piss out of the club: wasted a fortune on average players then complained he had a lack of true quality, the dullest football since Durban, rarely at the AOL and entrusted the team to two dinosaur coaches who saw nothing wrong in training only once or twice a week, the establishment of midweek drinking clubs etc.

Speak to any Villa fan and they will tell a similar story...spent them into oblivion then walked out on the club five days before the start of the season because the chairman wanted to recoup some of his waste.

To then listen to this egotistical dinosaur prat play 'look at my medals' with two of the greatest players the game has produced is quite frankly laughable.

"Bibs and Cones" I believe the two coaches were known as at Villa.

Exactly right mate.

Absolute joke. To think he was on a fortune. 3rd or 4th highest paid manger in the league IIRC. I have never ever watched a team that tried to contain all the time. Even at home to f***ing Norwich :lol:

Who were down to 10 men for almost an hour, yet in the 2nd half they still looked the more likely side to score.

Really enjoyed the counter-attacking football we played for the first 3 months under him, God knows what happened after that Everton game which made O'Neill go into his shell the way he did.
 
I'm sick to death of these threads.

I like him

No he was shite

Yeah but I still like him

But he was shite

But he's a nice fella

Aye, a nice fella who made millions out of our club by destroying the match day experience and phoning it in as a coach

Well I still like him

If there's one thing I could add, it would be all these people who say that they wish it had worked out for him more than any other manager :confused:

Are they Sunderland fans or Martin O'Neill fans?

I'd have his babies if he'd got us to finish 6th two seasons in a row.

Well he couldn't do it with a team which had Champions League aspirations, so he was never really likely to do it with a club which survival aspirations was he?
 
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I agree yeah it didn't work out, and he should of got better coaching staff in 100%, it didn't go well in the end. He went and that's the end of it, why all the anger though? All this rubbish about him being lazy, is just made up shite.
The players also were lazy, the same players who then went to Stamford Bridge and Old Trafford and kept us up.

I bet I can guess who the champagne buying player is.
Of course you can guess, why would anybody take that bet?

But do you know? No.
 
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I'm not castigating him for it, I'm just saying, it's hardly fair to call him the genius of the piece when he's never proved himself outside of the O'Neill pairing. There's no need for one of them to be the real brains here, after all.

More than likely they're both made better by the presence of the other.
Maybe. However Robertson was the man on the training ground, we now know that O'neil was a bit of a part timer. If O'neil was the brains behind the partnership you'd think he'd be a success with any number 2.
 
Maybe. However Robertson was the man on the training ground, we now know that O'neil was a bit of a part timer. If O'neil was the brains behind the partnership you'd think he'd be a success with any number 2.
I'm not suggesting MON was 'the brains', I'm saying it doesn't need to be that simple.

For instance, let's assume both succeeded (or failed) separately, with different assistants/managers...would that scenario tell us anything at all about who 'the brains' was?
 
there was too much water under the bridge by the the time he came to us...he was an excellent manager but after his wife's illness he was spent, also no Robertson. Shame, if we'd binned Reid and got martin after the relegation we would have have been very successful.
 
there was too much water under the bridge by the the time he came to us...he was an excellent manager but after his wife's illness he was spent, also no Robertson. Shame, if we'd binned Reid and got martin after the relegation we would have have been very successful.
Agree with this entirely except that we should have got Martin from Leicester before that relegation, not after.
 
I'm not suggesting MON was 'the brains', I'm saying it doesn't need to be that simple.

For instance, let's assume both succeeded (or failed) separately, with different assistants/managers...would that scenario tell us anything at all about who 'the brains' was?


All we can go off is what we know, assumptions are pointless. With Robertson O'neil is successful without him he has failed. The simplest conclusion is also the most obvious one.
 
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