I am 100 per cent behind OâNeil what ever the result Tomorrow. Iâve been a season ticket holder for Sunderland Football for 30 years plus I spend a lot of money every year following the lads all over the country. Let me tell you weâve been through much darker periods than this. I fully believe Martin is the man that will bring greatness to back to Sunderland football club if given the time from the fans after this very testing and frustration period. I understand peopleâs frustrations because I donât understand why he plays Seb centre mid when he has no centre midfield qualities. I donât understand why he doesnât play 442 at home with Wickam getting more game time (might have something to do with missing his right hand man Robertsonâ¦.pure speculation) but we donât see the training, we donât have 50years plus of learning tactics and been managed by the great Brain Clough. We havenât inherited a squad that doesnât have the naturally ability to progress and improve. A lot of people really donât have a clue I mean Iâve seen some posts on here saying we should go 3 at the back ????? Do you think we really have the quality squad members to achieve this? This is not a computer game this is fast paced premiership football. Our aim this year is to stay up. Simple as. Even if we get relegated sacking the manager is not the answer. Sometimes our fans embarrass me asking for the managers heads in little over a year. We arenât Chelsea we can not attract the high profile managers if we decide to sack ours. Martin OâNeil is a proven manager and the best manager we have had at this football club in a lot of years no matter how he is doing at the minute So lets all get behind the Manager and Sunderland Football Club win lose or draw on Tuesday as I fully believe Martin OâNeil is working his socks off to make it work and I for one think he will achieve this but not overnight. KEEP THE FAITH
I have different view regarding MON. I enjoyed reading this though, a very good post with a lot of passion. I hope you post more P.s just to add the point about Robertson is massively important and underrated, ive brought this up several times.
last 2 managers we had with good pedigree took us down, Mcmenamy, Wilkinson. yes they were ****e for us but they did win stuff before being with us. It would not surprise me if over the past 9 months (not counting the new manager effect from last year) they even had better records than MON. Just wondering what would have happened if we had kept them, even though they took us down, disaster or success, same will be with MON, I dont give a crap about what he has done in the past, if he is ****ing up the club I love there is only 1 outcome. But saying that I do think we should give him more time, just not enough to take us down, and **** us over big time, because if we go down it will.
If we had 40,000 + fans with this attitude we would be challenging for honours most seasons...Great post marra..
I sort of admire your stance on MON but can't accept the "everything will be ok" attitude. Like you say we have a very experienced manager with a little bit of pedigree , however what we also have is a manager getting tactics and or formations wrong pretty much on a weekly basis, a manager who is very reluctant to learn by his mistakes and make the necessary changes. I admit that the level of performance has improved over the lat few weeks but at the end of the day this is a result driven business and MON is not delivering. I realy believe that if Reading somehow come here and win tomorrow night MON will not be in charge for the trip to Old Trafford. I also have to stay that I think ( again ) we will win and move out of the bottom 3 and start looking upwards, and the question of MON being our manager will not be an issue.
Thanks Mate. I seem to be the only one who believes in him Everyone I speak too want him gone. But who do we bring in? I think more than anything we need to bring in new young exciting assisstant manager or coach who has an idea of the modern game
I will back the team and manager with everything I've got for the duration of the game regardless of the score or result, as that is what I believe supporters should do. However, by the lack of vocal support the team gets at home matches, I feel I'm in a small minority which is such a tragedy..
I'm very rarely happy with a Sunderland managerial appointment (I wanted Bruce out long before he went) but MON is different, he has been successful everywhere he has been and he will be successful with Sunderland. On this occasion we give him time and dare I say it, take us down and bring us back up again! That contradicts a lot of posts I've made in the past, I've always said sack the manager if you want to stay up, just think this time we stick with MON even through relegation. He is the right man
I fully agree with you MRAWhite. Home games the fans do not get behind the Football club enough for me not like the days at Roker Park. I know we have nothing to cheer about and its dreary football to watch sometimes but that’s not the point. If you love Sunderland football club like I do and the players are showing commitment and passion I will support them through thick and thin May I add at Away games their never seems to be a problem with support. The support is guaranteed win lose or draw like it should be
you do realise that if we go down, the Championship has a pretty strict FFP in place for the league now. We will not keep our better players We will get a small parachute payment from the PL think its about 20 million for the 1st year. But we will lose the 40+ million from competing in the PL All of our players should have a contract that reduces their wages by XX% it still wont be enough to keep them though. We may be OK but it wont be like Newcastle going down and they managed to keep the nucleus of their 1st team and had a very good chance of coming back up we will lose a lot of our players so geting up wont be easy even with MON in charge. really though I am worried ****less that we will go down, fans will dissapear (we dont have 3-10 year packages like the toon had to get full houses) Short may just say **** it (he probably wont but you never know) and like i said, it will be really hard to get back up it will not be a walk in the park.
Most opinions are subjective marra..However, I'm pretty confident that 'things not always changing for the better' is a pretty much nailed on objective statement..
Think I've said exactly the same. People forget how bad things have been - people say "This is the worst I've ever seen sunderland" - well I remember the dark days of the 80's when we got relegated to the 3rd division. And the 15 and 19 point seasons - both much worse performace wise than this season. I'm 100% behind the man - I don;t know if Ellis will be if we lose tomorrow night but I certainly hope he is. I love this club no matter what but people thinking this manager and that manager will come here need to be realistic. We have a top manager where things simply aren't working at the moment - a little bit of luck in each of the last 4 games and we'd have been much better off - Look at the Chelsea game - they have a shot which smacks off the crossbar and rebounds to.... Mata - we have a shot which rebounds off their crossbar to safety - Keep playing the way we are playing and I think we'll be fine
Everyone I speak to is behind MON, I think you must have been speaking to the wrong people. I too have been supporting Sunderland for a lot of years and we have definitely been in worse situations than this.
