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Post by RedAndWhiteArmy Sun Jan 01, 2012 4:55 pm

What a win. Solid defending a bit of luck and great counter attacking.
We look much sharper in both attack and defence.
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Post by aunshi Sun Jan 01, 2012 4:57 pm

Considering your starting line up, much respect is due to Mr O Neill and the Sunderland team today.

Ferguson never suffers setbacks alone it seems.

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Post by RedAndWhiteArmy Sun Jan 01, 2012 4:58 pm

Did you see our defence.
2 midfielders, a right back at centre back and someone who hasnt played in the EPL for 2 years!
Yet they can keep out the best attack in England.
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Post by NiallQuinnsdiscoPants Sun Jan 01, 2012 4:59 pm

(Opta Sports): 10 - After taking 11 points in their first 14 matches, Sunderland have accrued 10 points in 5 games under Martin O'Neill. Boost.

Most attacking team in the league comes to play, so we start with only 2 defenders and loose one of them.

Very Happy The sunderland way
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Post by RealGunner Sun Jan 01, 2012 4:59 pm

amazing performance. Cattermole was excellent
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Post by halamadrid2 Sun Jan 01, 2012 5:07 pm

o'neill>>>>>kean+mcleish combined
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Post by Art Morte Sun Jan 01, 2012 5:14 pm

He's a good manager.
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Post by Patrick Bateman Sun Jan 01, 2012 5:30 pm


O'Neil :bow:

2 nd best manager in the EPL after the great Steve Kean ofc :bow:
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Post by Dnmac4 Sun Jan 01, 2012 6:37 pm

I didn't really pay much attention to why he didn't get a job sooner but I was surprised as he made Villa a real competitor for Europe every year. HE even had them in the hunt for 4th some years but ran out of gas near the end of the year due to lack of depth.

Did he turn jobs down, is he a pain in the ass, does he ask for too much power? What happened that took him so long to get another position especially when so many jobs have opened up?
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Post by Bellabong Sun Jan 01, 2012 7:17 pm

dnmac4 wrote:I didn't really pay much attention to why he didn't get a job sooner but I was surprised as he made Villa a real competitor for Europe every year. HE even had them in the hunt for 4th some years but ran out of gas near the end of the year due to lack of depth.

Did he turn jobs down, is he a pain in the ass, does he ask for too much power? What happened that took him so long to get another position especially when so many jobs have opened up?

Personal reasons I think
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Post by Great Leader Sprucenuce Sun Jan 01, 2012 7:19 pm

Wanker, and they were lucky as hell or was it just me?

Must of been the strongbow in me obviously.....
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Post by RedAndWhiteArmy Sun Jan 01, 2012 7:21 pm

dnmac4 wrote:I didn't really pay much attention to why he didn't get a job sooner but I was surprised as he made Villa a real competitor for Europe every year. HE even had them in the hunt for 4th some years but ran out of gas near the end of the year due to lack of depth.

Did he turn jobs down, is he a pain in the ass, does he ask for too much power? What happened that took him so long to get another position especially when so many jobs have opened up?

His wife had some problems so he had to look after her
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Post by Zero Sun Jan 01, 2012 8:01 pm

Citeh falls too. Hail O'Neill. :bow:
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Post by NiallQuinnsdiscoPants Sun Jan 01, 2012 8:05 pm

He left Villa because they were selling all his best players. Barry, Milner etc and Lerner wasn't really giving him funds to replace them.

Since he left Villa there wasn't really any suitable jobs for him. If Kenny hadn't been so involved with Liverpool he probably would have gone there, had been heavily linked with the job for a long time.

Newcastle he face palmed and loled at. City already had Manchini in mind when they sacked Hughes.

It was the Celtic job he left to look after his wife when she was ill. We originally approached him prior to appointing Keane manager but his wife was still to ill.

If you look at his managerial record its actually pretty immense,

At Leicester he turned a moribund team into two-time League Cup winners and at Celtic he did even better, winning the league on three occasions and guiding the Bhoys to the 2003 UEFA Cup final.
His move to Aston Villa almost instantly turned an underachieving side into a Premier League force with three top-six finishes.


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Post by RED Sun Jan 01, 2012 8:06 pm

Congrats Sunderland fans. What a result!
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Post by Great Leader Sprucenuce Sun Jan 01, 2012 8:09 pm

Newcastle he face palmed and loled at.

Yh right you keep thinking that, he rejected us because his wife had cancer at the time and it didnt make geographically sense no other reason.......

Also by your reasoning he would reject sunderland aswell, considering the joke that you are.......

Oh and we have never gone after O'Neill he left Villa, we went after O'Neill before he joined Villa :facepalm:
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Post by NiallQuinnsdiscoPants Sun Jan 01, 2012 8:31 pm

When is he supposed to have rejected newcastle
Prior to :-
Robson
Souness
Roeder
Allardyce
Keegan
Kinear
Shearer
Hughton
or Pardews appointment.

You might have had a few good months recently but prior to that you were the laughing stock of English football and a career death trap. No decent manager wanted anything to do with you, hence you ending up with Pardew. A championship manager who had been sacked by West Ham, Charlton & Southampton.

Compared to Sunderland who were much more attractive to him, with a decent, respected Chairman & Owner.

Stop being so bitter mole and stay off the alco pops wile on the internets.

The bookies odds for when both clubs needed new managers shows the difference between the 2 clubs.

Prior to Bruce we were linked with the likes of Steve Bruce, Gordon Strachan, Sven Goran Eriksson, Slaven Bilic, Frank Rijkaard, Mark Hughes, Jurgen Klinsmann Avram Grant, Roberto Mancini, Claudio Ranieri, Gerard Houilier.

Similar names post Bruce

Newcastles best odds were for the likes of the likes of Beardsley, Kinear, Shearer, Ant and Dec, championship managers.
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Post by Dnmac4 Sun Jan 01, 2012 8:38 pm

GyansDancingBoots wrote:He left Villa because they were selling all his best players. Barry, Milner etc and Lerner wasn't really giving him funds to replace them.

Since he left Villa there wasn't really any suitable jobs for him. If Kenny hadn't been so involved with Liverpool he probably would have gone there, had been heavily linked with the job for a long time.

Newcastle he face palmed and loled at. City already had Manchini in mind when they sacked Hughes.

It was the Celtic job he left to look after his wife when she was ill. We originally approached him prior to appointing Keane manager but his wife was still to ill.

If you look at his managerial record its actually pretty immense,

At Leicester he turned a moribund team into two-time League Cup winners and at Celtic he did even better, winning the league on three occasions and guiding the Bhoys to the 2003 UEFA Cup final.
His move to Aston Villa almost instantly turned an underachieving side into a Premier League force with three top-six finishes.



Got it, I didn't know his wife was sick. As for a suitable job for him, there have been a lot of jobs open up just in the last year not to mention the year before.

By my count and correct me if I'm wrong these jobs have all been open in the last year, Blackburn, Chelsea, Fulham, Liverpool, Newcastle, West Brom, Birmingham City and Sunderland.

All of them are pretty much equal to Sunderland IMO
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Post by Great Leader Sprucenuce Sun Jan 01, 2012 8:39 pm

We were crap between Sir Bobby's sacking and now, where have i denied that?

But you are no better, granted he does support you...... iam not bitter btw and not drinking Very Happy my comment earlier was about when i was at the pub watching the game.....

We have made some shocking choices yes, but the only time we tried for O'Neill was before he was at Villa......

I will agree about the career death trap thing tho and i dont agree with you about Pardew btw......

He's pissing me off atm due to a few reasons but hes done an outstanding job in his first year, also t West Ham they were a top 10 side and got to a cup final and then the Tevez and Mascherano thing was shoved in his face and at Charlton they were practically down when he got the job......

He's definitely a premiership manager.
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Post by halamadrid2 Mon Jan 02, 2012 11:28 am

GyansDancingBoots wrote:
Newcastles best odds were for the likes of the likes of Beardsley, Kinear, Shearer, Ant and Dec, championship managers.

LMFAO

they wouldnt do a bad job you know...

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Post by BarcaKizz Mon Jan 02, 2012 12:57 pm

Great manager. I rate him really highly. Probably the best English manager around. Its a wonder why he hasn't been given a go at a bigger club yet. I thought he should have gone to Liverpool, but Kenny has done a great job.
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Post by S Mon Jan 02, 2012 1:08 pm

Martin O'Neill isnt English mate..

You can easily make out through his accent..
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Post by halamadrid2 Mon Jan 02, 2012 1:17 pm

Barcakizz probably meant British Surag

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Post by S Mon Jan 02, 2012 1:18 pm

...FAIL..


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Post by halamadrid2 Mon Jan 02, 2012 1:20 pm

northern Ireland is part of Britain you know
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