ewerk 31229 Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 O'Neill will get them organised and make them a difficult team to beat. I can't see him taking them to European spots though. I think that 9th/10th is the best he could possibly do. Though that's still a very good finish for a club like Sunderland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McFaul 35 Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 Martin O'Neill has agreed to succeed Steve Bruce as Sunderland manager, BBC Sport understands. O'Neill, whose last managerial job was at Villa Park, has been regularly tipped for vacant posts at high-profile teams in the last 12 months and was the bookmakers' favourite. Mebeez that was the clincher, mebeez he didn't want a high profile job and this is how we've got this mornings outcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayatollah Hermione 14069 Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 Saw something today about how O'Neill's reputation seems to increase the longer he's not in a job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 The mackem at work (really) is pretty underwhelmed by the notion of O'Neill. He's canny sensible though in fairness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 46093 Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 Didn't he sign an awful lot of shit for an awful lot of money at Villa? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angrysteve 0 Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 he's surely the best they could hope for and he'll do a decent enough job I reckon. Talk of Europe is utter pie in the sky though and unless they sign someone who can stick the ball in the back of the net I sense a lot of hard fought draws for them till the end of the season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 31229 Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 The mackem at work (really) is pretty underwhelmed by the notion of O'Neill. He's canny sensible though in fairness. I can't see how they could have expected anyone better. Who was he looking? Ancelotti? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 14013 Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 A lot of them were - Ancelotti or Hiddink. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 The mackem at work (really) is pretty underwhelmed by the notion of O'Neill. He's canny sensible though in fairness. I can't see how they could have expected anyone better. Who was he looking? Ancelotti? He's not a deluded type. He would have liked to see them go with someone who might have new ideas, like Paul Lambert or Lee Clark or someone like that (alhough he accepts the latter wasn't really an option under the circumstances). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 31229 Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 Didn't he sign an awful lot of shit for an awful lot of money at Villa? Mixed bag I think. They turned a good profit on Milner, Young and Downing but there's also the likes of Harewood, Reo-Coker and Curtis Davies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monroe Transfer 0 Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 Do they actually have mods on RTG? Never seen such a mess of a forum in my life. Instead of a couple of threads on O'Neill, they've got about 30 and rising. Half of them saying the same thing. I know this board has a lot less members but it's taken over 6 years to accrue twice as many pages of threads as they've created since October this year. They're fuckin nobs man, at the stop of the site there's a big sticky "po-al fwoah oo we wunt uz manajur" then below there's 3 or 4 people starting threads "we nead t dee a poahl t see oo moast of us would tak". There's not one way possible you could look down your nose more at mackems more than I do. They are the most incredible bunch of tramps you've ever seen, maybe scousers are very marginally more trampy, but scousers have a deluded belief they're someones, mackems accept deap dewn they're not. So you don't mind Mackems really? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 (edited) Didn't he sign an awful lot of shit for an awful lot of money at Villa? Mixed bag I think. They turned a good profit on Milner, Young and Downing but there's also the likes of Harewood, Reo-Coker and Curtis Davies. Was going to mention those 3. Spent a lot of money on Cuellar too iirc. Spent a lot of dosh there either way though. Edited December 2, 2011 by alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 71 Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 Villa fans whined incessantly that he prefered a cd as the right back for most of the season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 22186 Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 good appointment for them tbf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayatollah Hermione 14069 Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 (edited) The club itself needs some sort of model that isn't just spunking money about on a revolving door of players who aren't good enough or plain mercenaries. Bringing O'Neill in isn't going to fix that. Edited December 2, 2011 by Ayatollah Hermione Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbyshinton 59 Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 I will piss mesel laughing if they lose the next two games Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 71 Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 good appointment for them tbf He's cash hungry though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayatollah Hermione 14069 Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 good appointment for them tbf He's cash hungry though. The fact he's taken the job suggests he's been offered a decent kitty in January as well. Looks like Short and Quinn aren't going to learn. I think he'll make them hard to beat but then again, how hard is it to beat a defence with Wes Brown and Bramble in it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 71 Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 good appointment for them tbf He's cash hungry though. The fact he's taken the job suggests he's been offered a decent kitty in January as well. Looks like Short and Quinn aren't going to learn. I think he'll make them hard to beat but then again, how hard is it to beat a defence with Wes Brown and Bramble in it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeazesMag 0 Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 quite a few people on here advocated the appointment of O'Neill and Lerner's 6 year "plan" ie contract for him at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 43115 Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 I will piss mesel laughing if they lose the next two games Aye, how long before the six fingered masses turn on their 'earoah? Looking forward to their banners- " OhN'eel Out!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetleftpeg 0 Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 I quite like/rate O'Neil. He's not the messiah and he's done nowt really but he is very good at getting the best out of average players. However, he's also got history of spitting his dummy out if he doesn't get what he wants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney 0 Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 I think we'd have all been happy if MON was appointed here. Saying that, I don't think he knows what a decent centre midfielder is, so he'll be chuffed with Cattermole and the rest of the shite he has there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Kelly 1260 Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 I would have been over the moon with O'Neill here in the past and I still think there are a lot of worse managers about but I do think his time has been and gone and he sounds more and more like he's lost it all the time recently. Certainly on paper he looks like he should be the best manager they will have had in the last 20 years (doesn't mean a hell of a lot with them lot like) but my gut feeling is he while I don't think he'll be a spectacular failure, he won't make any massive strides forward with them either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 71 Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 I would have been over the moon with O'Neill here in the past and I still think there are a lot of worse managers about but I do think his time has been and gone and he sounds more and more like he's lost it all the time recently. Certainly on paper he looks like he should be the best manager they will have had in the last 20 years (doesn't mean a hell of a lot with them lot like) but my gut feeling is he while I don't think he'll be a spectacular failure, he won't make any massive strides forward with them either. It's good that it's MON as expectations will be sky high and the comedown will be hysterical.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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