DOL - Putting the #### into Scunthorpe?

[eastie]

Strange - a manager who got us to within a whisker of the Champions League is loathed and roundly abused whereas on another thread there's no hard feelings towards one who almost got us relegated and   was responsible for some of the worst football since we were playing on Aston Lower Grounds. Well, not strange if you know the two individuals.

True but that's because we are 'an honest bunch of lads '

[Damo70]

I'd be more surprised he would be interested in the post  .

Not as surprised as he was when his batphone actually rang.

[paul_e]

The fickle label means he deserves everything he gets, giving every other fan in the country a stick to beat your supporters with is about as bad as it gets in terms of setting their opinion of you.  Best yet, despite taking the piss every other fan knows how much of a c**t he was to do it.

He's the only ex-manager that I really dislike, I think others have done a lot of damage to the club at times but no one else targeted the supporters like that.

[dave.woodhall]

The one thing I will never understand about O'Leary is that given the feelings towards Doug at the time he didn't have to say a word and he would have had everyone on his side; press, fans, the lot. He didn't even have to be like Gregory and get us onboard with a series of merry quips and witty one-liners - just keep his gob shut. Instead he seemed to go out of his way to alienate everyone.

[Mister E]

The one thing I will never understand about O'Leary is that given the feelings towards Doug at the time he didn't have to say a word and he would have had everyone on his side; press, fans, the lot. He didn't even have to be like Gregory and get us onboard with a series of merry quips and witty one-liners - just keep his gob shut. Instead he seemed to go out of his way to alienate everyone.

Which, I think, speaks to a smugness and arrogance in the man.
I have a mate who's a good friend of O'Dreary: his comments about the time are that Doug's paranoia about expenses very quickly alienated O'Dreary who couldn't basically handle the relationship at all. It was not helped by the fact that the manager was commuting from the White Rose Republic. Contrast this with the relationship he had with the crook-chairman at Leeds during their heyday - close, built on mutual respect (well, until O'Dreary decided to publish "United on Trial", which blew everything).
It was a torrid time for both, I suspect, even if some of what was done on the pitch by the pug-nosed one was definitely not all bad.
O'Dreary, it seems to me, has a fundamental inability to empathesise and build rapport  - a pretty significant deficit in the job he was in.

[paulcomben]

Sorry for lowering the tone but it's a headline writers dream.  They wouldn't actually give him a job, would they?

http://www.scunthorpetelegraph.co.uk/Aston-Villa-manager-Leeds-United-manager-David-O/story-20112923-detail/story.html

What is a HORP and is it something rude, then?!

[Matt C]

I've always thought he was from Scunthorpe

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Hope we draw them at home in the League Cup next season. (They are already out the FA Cup).
Reserve my seat, Lower Trinity, Row A near the half way line. 

[Ads]

I remember leaving the Riverside absolutely convinced we were going to finish 4th.

[Leighton]

Oh how the mighty have fallen.

Mighty as in mighty twat!

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Oh how the mighty have fallen.

True. This would be represent one hell of a fall from grace for the mighty Scunthorpe.

[eamonn]

I remember leaving the Riverside absolutely convinced we were going to finish 4th.

The folly of yoof.

[eastie]

Scunthorpe has dismissed the idea that dolly is in the running for  the job saying its utter nonsense.

[Damo70]

Scunthorpe has dismissed the idea that dolly is in the running for  the job saying its utter nonsense.

I saw the official statement last night. They seem very keen to kill any talk of it happening. So keen it made me LOL.

[Fred]

The one thing I will never understand about O'Leary is that given the feelings towards Doug at the time he didn't have to say a word and he would have had everyone on his side; press, fans, the lot. He didn't even have to be like Gregory and get us onboard with a series of merry quips and witty one-liners - just keep his gob shut. Instead he seemed to go out of his way to alienate everyone.

I think that. I also wonder if he had resigned as soon as the season ended in 2006 would he have got a job with another club the following season? Would the general thought have been that he did his best with Doug and deserved a chance with a mid table top flight club?