Where's O'Neill Now?

[Rip Van We Go Again]

This is the Ged that should be managing us.
Takes no prisoners.

[brian green]

He is reputed to be very deeply into famous murders especially those with contentious guilty verdicts which resulted in hangings.   It is said the Hanratty case is one he knows a great deal about so at the moment I imagine he is in his study analyzing this latest move to get the Hanratty case re-opened. 

[freakypete]

oneils a tosser should grow up,he got us into this mess,yet some supporters wont have a bad word said against him......

[Villa'Zawg]

I don't give a shit what people say about O'Neill, or whether he really is a tosser or not.

I do care about the lack of understanding and perspective that causes people to think we should have done better.

How many times have teams outside the Sky 4 reached 60+ points in the last 10 years?

How much time and money have Man Utd, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool, Spurs and Man City spent on building their squads compared to us?

How much do those teams spend on wages compared to us?

I hate the soap opera version of football where every manager and player is endowed with a fictional character, when in reality we know almost nothing about them. Who cares what they are like if they're getting the results?

[eastie]

O neill did a decent job here , not a great job and not a shit job, he established us as a top 6 club and left some great memories along the way , including 2 wembley trips.

We had a real chance to crack the top 4 but failed to take that step, it was time to call it a day and I think he had taken the club as far as he could- he should have gone last may and the timing of his leaving has tarnished his image somewhat.

I was one of the people who felt his tenure should end but I do not think he did a bad job and some of the criticism levelled at him seems a bit extreme, he did ok but he could have done better.

Football is a game of if onlys and I wonder had dowd done his job and we had won the league cup where we would be now- a trophy could have made things so very different.

[ez]

he let us down, but he also let himself down big time

Yes. I wonder if he looks back and thinks "Perhaps i didn't need to do that".

[LeeB]

he let us down, but he also let himself down big time

Yes. I wonder if he looks back and thinks "Perhaps i didn't need to do that".

I doubt it very much.

[eastie]

Wouldn't surprise me if mon is in the frame for the spurs job next year if Harry gets the England job.

[ez]

Perhaps its not gone unnoticed by chairmen that ONeil walks out on clubs.

[achilles]

I had a lot of time for MON but the biggest thing that let him down was his ego!

He just always thought that he was better than anyone else and was never wrong!

All very sad really as he was nearly the perfect manager (although I didn't have much time for his assistants)!

[DB]

oneils a tosser should grow up,he got us into this mess,yet some supporters wont have a bad word said against him......

He dropped us in the shit. But the memories of beating SHA 5-1, putting to rest our awful run at OT, a cup final (which we should have won if it wern't for that twat Dowd). It wasn't all bad... We're a long way from any of that now.

[Percy McCarthy]

Perhaps its not gone unnoticed by chairmen that ONeil walks out on clubs.

Tends to happen with managers that no Chairman is daft enough to sack.

[peter w]

Or of a manager who jumps before the inevitable. Or simply doesn't have the stomach for the fight when things get tough.

[Percy McCarthy]

Or of a manager who jumps before the inevitable. Or simply doesn't have the stomach for the fight when things get tough.

Maybe in the case of one of his jobs.

[sfx412]

I fondly remember the good times BL gave me as a fan during his days in the claret and blue and as our manager. I appreciated but didn't like his decision to leave, but his personal circumstances didn't really leave him much choice. He's never reached the heights again.
Being a fan under Saunders managership was one of the best in my 54 years of supporting Villa. He put the pride back he allowed us to hold our heads high and while I understood why he left I always thought he'd made a huge mistake.
He never reached the same heights again.
Unlike the 2 above, Martin O'Neill joined a Villa club who thanks to Randy, had superb finacial backing and little if any boardroom interferance. He had an ideal environment, wasted a fortune on players and wages as he played the big man. Then unlike the others he achieved sweet fa, quit just before the season started leaving a club in crisis, one it has not yet recovered from.
The effects of his mismanagent could hit our club for some time yet, where ever he is I hope he keeps his low profile for a long time yet, but my gut says unlike Little and Saunders who remain revered ambassadors of Villa who have only kind words and memories of the club, that little shit has more aggro in line for the club to come.