Protest? Not in my name...the football match is the main event

[Dave]

Well said Tom. There was malevolence with O'Neill. We have no evidence of that with McLeish

There was malevolence in the end, but at the time that you wanted him out there was nothing more than someone trying his best.

Apart from the obvious thickos hardly anyone on here seems to support the protests - but I don't see any difference between the ones who genuinely don't want McLeish as manager and you when you didn't want O'Neill as manager.

[Dave Clark Five]

Well said Tom. There was malevolence with O'Neill. We have no evidence of that with McLeish

There was malevolence in the end, but at the time that you wanted him out there was nothing more than someone trying his best.

Apart from the obvious thickos hardly anyone on here seems to support the protests - but I don't see any difference between the ones who genuinely don't want McLeish as manager and you when you didn't want O'Neill as manager.

I can't recall disliking O'Neill before he had been rumbled.
Regarding those who genuinely don't want McLeish here, I can't argue with that or change their minds but I am against rabble rousing. Rallying the troops in support is a different matter.

[Dave]

Well said Tom. There was malevolence with O'Neill. We have no evidence of that with McLeish

There was malevolence in the end, but at the time that you wanted him out there was nothing more than someone trying his best.

Apart from the obvious thickos hardly anyone on here seems to support the protests - but I don't see any difference between the ones who genuinely don't want McLeish as manager and you when you didn't want O'Neill as manager.

I can't recall disliking O'Neill before he had been rumbled.

Fair enough, it was only a vague recollection - so I'm most likely remembering wrongly.

[Dave Clark Five]

Well said Tom. There was malevolence with O'Neill. We have no evidence of that with McLeish

There was malevolence in the end, but at the time that you wanted him out there was nothing more than someone trying his best.

Apart from the obvious thickos hardly anyone on here seems to support the protests - but I don't see any difference between the ones who genuinely don't want McLeish as manager and you when you didn't want O'Neill as manager.

I can't recall disliking O'Neill before he had been rumbled.

Fair enough, it was only a vague recollection - so I'm most likely remembering wrongly.

You might be right, I wouldn't swear on oath.

[villajk]

Well said Tom. There was malevolence with O'Neill. We have no evidence of that with McLeish

There was malevolence in the end, but at the time that you wanted him out there was nothing more than someone trying his best.

Apart from the obvious thickos hardly anyone on here seems to support the protests - but I don't see any difference between the ones who genuinely don't want McLeish as manager and you when you didn't want O'Neill as manager.

I can't recall disliking O'Neill before he had been rumbled.

Fair enough, it was only a vague recollection - so I'm most likely remembering wrongly.

You might be right, I wouldn't swear on oath.

I have a better memory, at times, than dcf and the reason we 'turned' on O'Neill was his behaviour at the Moscow dinner.  We  wanted him out from that moment on.

[Legion]

Please elaborate.

[villajk]

Please elaborate.

It has been reported before but I'll tell again.

When he was pompously waffling about the Moscow game somebody in the audience asked why he'd entered us into the inter toto competition if he had no intention of taking being in Europe seriously. 

His snide response was something along the lines of 'oh shut up'.

It may not sound like much on here but virtually everybody there was shocked not only be what he said but also the venom in his voice,

[Legion]

I despise the poison dwarf even more now. Contemptible little man.

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It was a mate of mine who he told to shut up.

[villajk]

It was a mate of mine who he told to shut up.

How did he feel about it?

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It completely turned the entire group who we go away in Europe with against him. I think it became clear that there was little room for anybody in the club with O'Neill's ego.

It was also disappointing as it was the time the varnish rubbed off the revolution. I still backed him mind.

[villajk]

 

It completely turned the entire group who we go away in Europe with against him. I think it became clear that there was little room for anybody in the club with O'Neill's ego.

It was also disappointing as it was the time the varnish rubbed off the revolution. I still backed him mind.

Glad it wasn't just us.  Well, we know it wasn't just us as others we have spoken to felt the same.

One good thing from the evening, O'Neill and the players were on the two tables next to ours. There were a number of bottles of wine on their tables which they didn't drink......................  Hic!

[Clampy]

I think the stick he got over the Moscow team selection was understandbly justified, but there was a logic to it, unlike the disgraceful team Houiller put out in the FA Cup.

[villajk]

I think the stick he got over the Moscow team selection was understandbly justified, but there was a logic to it, unlike the disgraceful team Houiller put out in the FA Cup.

Quite agree and those who did play in Moscow played very well.  Houllier's team selection in the FA cup was baffling.

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There was logic to it and it was seconds away from working. But then the poorest side I think we've ever seen in the league at Villa Park equalised.

I hate Stoke.