The Martin O'Neill thread (with added sacking #2188)

[eastie]

Neil Moxley

Extremely good article.

[wozwebs]

Superb article, sums up my feelings exactly.

[The Left Side]

Superb article, sums up my feelings exactly.

Me too

[Percy McCarthy]

Credit to Moxley, I've said on here many times that him and Stuart James are the only ones to have consistently shown they have a clue.

Modesty forbids revealing who they get their 'word on the street' from.

Yours, Huggy Bear.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

A very good article. As regards the comparisons with Little and Atkinson their teams were also both more entertaining, Atkinsons by a country mile. O'Neills teams are more akin to Gregory's and even Mcleishs for entertainment and have always been so. We had a reminder of his `style of play` on view last Saturday,

[Percy McCarthy]

Oh come on. Has a TSM team ever scored 70-odd goals in a season? Sir Brian's and BFR's teams I'll give you (most of the time) but I can also remember lots of good games when MON was manager.

[PeterWithesShin]

I reckon Moxley robbed one of my posts for the basis of that article, the teal leaf!

[damon loves JT]

If journalists ever robbed their articles from H&V, they would just be full of shit puns about fish

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Oh come on. Has a TSM team ever scored 70-odd goals in a season? Sir Brian's and BFR's teams I'll give you (most of the time) but I can also remember lots of good games when MON was manager.

I am talking about MONs style of play not his win ratio. It's always a good game if you win I will give you that. But his whole approach to the game is a non expansive system not condusive to open attacking football. He was certainly like that in his Leicester years, probably the same in his Wycombe and Shepshed years. It would be interesting to know the views of Celtic fans, he had  success at coming 1st in their 2 horse race but I mean their views purely on the style of football employed. 

[PeterWithesShin]

If journalists ever robbed their articles from H&V, they would just be full of shit puns about fish

And their match reports would mention Reggae Reggae sauce more often.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

If journalists ever robbed their articles from H&V, they would just be full of shit puns about fish

Best stolen by that liberal free thinking rag The Guardian. They seem more at ease using the F word and even the C word than say The Daily Telegraph.

[Sexual Ealing]

Oh come on. Has a TSM team ever scored 70-odd goals in a season? Sir Brian's and BFR's teams I'll give you (most of the time) but I can also remember lots of good games when MON was manager.

 It would be interesting to know the views of Celtic fans, he had  success at coming 1st in their 2 horse race but I mean their views purely on the style of football employed. 

Celtic fans had Henrik Larsson banging in 50 goals a season. They were delighted.

[Percy McCarthy]

Fucking hell, he must have been good if they only counter-attacked. I can just imagine all those teams in the SPL whose game plan was to pour forward at Parkhead and leave gaps at the back for MON's dull Celtic team to get the occasional flukey breakaway goal.

And Bolton, Derby and b-lose must have been all over us for us to score 15 goals in three games only by counter-attacking.

[Sexual Ealing]

Fucking hell, he must have been good if they only counter-attacked. I can just imagine all those teams in the SPL whose game plan was to pour forward at Parkhead and leave gaps at the back for MON's dull Celtic team to get the occasional flukey breakaway goal.

And Bolton, Derby and b-lose must have been all over us for us to score 15 goals in three games only by counter-attacking.

I agree with you. There was more to O'Neill than his detractors would have you believe (we're on page 47!). I'm not sure that there is any more, mind.

[Percy McCarthy]

Ditto. Of course, it helped that Villa had meat 'n'potatoes dullards like Young, Gabby, Carew, Milner, Downing and Barry playing out of their skin. But apart from that, yeah, it was really boring.