All relative, lets not forget you were fresh out the first division. He saved you from relegation to the 2nd division, promoted you champions and then found his side not good enough to compete. Quite frankly, that can happen. His response? Challenge for promotion the season after, and then go up the season after that. Learning from his (the boards) previous mistakes they then finished 7th. Followed it with 7th again. Then had a poor season narrowly escaping relegation. So after 7 years with the club he had progressed them from fighting relegation from the first division, to fighting relegation in the PL. In that time the club had their best strike partnership in goodness know how long, narrowly missed out on Europe, had European Golden Boot winner, two 7th placed finishes in the PL. I don't think its necessary to go on, they knee jerked. Under him you were a cracking side, one which played football the way it should be. You had something to be proud of as a Sunderland supporter. Where has sacking him got you?
Is that a BOOM moment? Seems I know your own history better than your good self. For all I may have mocked him, he is the best manager you have had in my time on this planet. MON may better him, if you don't knee jerk.
Only if you start hurling abuse like a 5 yr old again Then again we don't want another implosion do we?
I'm sure I don't, but Reid was fantastic for you guys relatively speaking. Poor decision to get rid. He had a bad season as a manager, probably his first at the club, made bad signings to try and get out of trouble. However when looked at in the context of his tenure at the club, it was a blip. Imagine where Everton would be now if they'd bulleted Moyes after finishing 17th in his 4th season?
I'm afraid your grasp of our history has only extended to Wiki facts and figures and isn't a true reflection of the real events. You are correct that he stopped the rot and a relegation and then both promoted and relegated us. We lost the greatest game ever play off game at Wembley and still didn't knee jerk. Then the next 4 seasons were a mixture of the sublime and the ridiculous. He did bring 3 consecutive years of the best attacking football I've seen in 39 years but the season before he was sacked, there were signs his reign would end soon. We finished 7th but it was clinging on in the face of a complete slump from the February onwards and he had fallen out and dismantled his once almost seemingly unstoppable team until we were left with a tattered squad. Reid had become bigger than the club having been handed a place on the board with his shares and he started to think he was god. He wasn't of course and the season he was sacked we were dreadful and Reid's magic had gone. He had a great run but it had ended. Had he not become so self opinionated and aloof and had Murray given him a little more finance when he wanted to build on the 1st 7th place finish (he wanted Ibrahimovic from Ajax at the time) then who knows what we could have done but it was no knee jerk sacking. I do agree that MoN could and imo WILL surpass Reids achievements and there is absolutely no doubt that Short will both give him the time and support him as this is HIS man now and HIS first appointment as manager. I also absolutely think we will still finish top 10 this season as well. How confident are you of not being relegated?
Never been mentioned. As for the latter comment, not my forum bud. Nature of a multi team forum. Loads of Sunderland only forums if thats what you're after though?
