We’ll never know, but I reckon O’Neill would have taken us down. We were out of gas and ideas under him. One thing is for sure in my mind, we’d never have beaten the Mags the way we did under PDC. That match was pure PDC influence. His pre match slap of Pardew changed the mentality of the derby in an instant. We showed we weren’t being dicked around by that lot any more
Yeah I agree the 3-0 smacked of new manager bounce.
But in retrospect wouldn’t O’Neill have only needed 4 points from 7 games or something to keep us up?