O'Neill clearly feeling pressure.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepag...d-if-I-cant-put-this-right.html#ixzz2CWnDh3S0

MARTIN O’NEILL insists he will quit if his Sunderland nightmare continues.

The Mackems boss travels to Fulham today desperate to end a confidence-sapping run of just ONE Premier League win in 18.
That solitary three points came this season and although they have lost just three times, O’Neill’s shot-shy Black Cats have bagged just seven goals.

That’s a pathetic amount considering Martin Jol’s men have chalked up 24 already.

A brilliant initial salvage job last season has failed to ignite Sunderland this campaign.

O’Neill, who joined the club in December 2011 after Steve brice got the boot, is confident he can turn it around and only has to think back to mentor Brian Clough’s poor start to his Nottingham Forest reign.

Old Big ‘Ead struggled badly before landing domestic and European glory.

O’Neill could do with some Cloughie magic right now and admitted: “I want to do really well here at the football club.

“It’s slow but I don’t want it to be a decade because I won’t get the time, but we’ll get there. That is my genuine view.

“There is a timescale because I have a contract. And if I have not lifted the side into a proper position, I will move over and give it to someone else, who would be better equipped. But that hasn’t happened yet.”

Heaven knows what Clough would have thought of the Ulsterman’s current Mackems crop but O’Neill added: “It sounds crazy but before Peter Taylor joined him, he had a year and a half at Forest where he did not improve the team one jot. We may even have gone backwards.

“We were struggling as a mid-table Second Division side until Peter joined up with him and he got renewed vigour.

“We had plenty of bad times and he just told us to stick in together. Lesser managers probably said the same thing, but when he said it, you felt there was something behind it.

“And that is what we must do and we’ll come through it.”

The former Celtic boss, 60, rubbished claims his stand-off management style is to blame and admitted: “It makes me laugh about this myth that I don’t go on the training ground.

“I wish that was so. I allow my coaches to coach but I’m there — there’s no more important time to be there than when you’re having a tough spell.”

 

I regard Alex Ferguson and David Moyes, as probably the two best and most respected managers in the Premiership at this present moment, and yet both of them had very iffy starts with their respective clubs, where some fans were calling for their heads..If Sunderland fans hold their nerve and show a bit of patience, I'm confident that O'Neil could be the next on that list...The big question is, can Sunderland fans hold their collective nerve long enough..

 

I hope so. Needs a couple of wins in the near future to calm people down.

 

I think he may be feeling the pressure.
It will be pressure he will put on himself, as he is a decent intelligent man.
As it can't be nice to see a club you have loved for a long time, under performing under your watch.
Lets give him the chance to turn things the right way.
We aren't getting tonked we are just not firing on all cylinders.
Some of the blame has to go on the players.

 

Managers are judged on results, that's a fact of life & the way it is, .

 

With mr and disco on this. You get nowhere changing managers constantly. Moyes and ferguson were given as examples and two better I can't think of

 

Sorry, mrrawhite gave the example

 

He lost me a few weeks back, but he won me back last week.

There was enough improvement to pull me out of desperation, and I think he'll get us firing.

I withhold the right to retract this in 3 games time mind...

 

I think he may walk if you guys don't win today...

 

At least he's being honest and saying if he can't do it then no point in staying, unlike Bruce who stayed despite being **** and ****ed it up even more for you.

 

I dont think you can really compare it to SAF.

SAF took over when Man U were 21st, he got them to 11th in his first season, 2nd season 2nd, 3rd season 11th, 4th season he had a record of 1 win and 10 draws (ring a bell) the fans/media were calling for his head but the directors seen that he was trying to change the club and they liked what they seen, so he was never in any danger from getting the sack. Obviously the rest is History.

But I do not get this, he has been successful in the past he will be successful here, Scolari was a success, he won the world cup, Chelsea sacked him (mind he did have a 55% win record when they sacked him) but I bet if you look in the history books there have been managers that have been roaring successes at clubs before, but have been abject failures in a new club and got the boot.

Saying that though, it would be a crying shame if he walked/we sacked him now, as I do believe he will come good, but fans are fickle these days, and wins keep fans happy, without them, any/every manager would be getting pressure from some quarters, its just the nature of the game im afraid.