Martin O'neill sacked

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st_brendy said:
I can understand the McDermott one more though. They had one game (Man Utd) in the next three weeks. They had time to find a replacement, without it impacting their league fixtures.

Unless Sunderland have been speaking to someone during the international break though, and only in the last couple of days have things been finalised, then why on earth wait until now to do, after the international break.

Like I say, he deserves the sack, and it may well turn out to be THE decision which saves them from relegation. I just cannot understand the timing,.
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They say the appointment will be made in the coming days. Seems they have someone lined up.
 
Beef_Dripping said:
Few rumours going round saying it's Kevin Ball.
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I'd be very surprised. He might be a bit of a Sunderland legend, but he's had a stab at that before, with very poor results. Granted, that season (under McCarthy) they were long gone by the time Ball took over (pretty much around this, from memory), but still didn't pull up any trees.

That appointment certainly wouldn't worry me, and I'm sure Wigan, Villa etc fans would say the same.

Caretaker for one game maybe (is he currently part of the backroom staff?), but surely not all these remaining last seven games.
 
st_brendy said:
Interesting range of odds. 4/1 with skybet. 50/1 with Victor.

Got Cubishley at 25/1. Put £5 on. Quite tempted with Di Matteo now though.
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And from 50/1, Victor have since slashed to 12/1.
 
Odds on McClaren continue to be slashed. 6/5 favourite now. Christ, anyone who got on that 50/1...
 
I don't think the timing is that odd, really. Depending on what Sunderland have been doing.

Sunderland has been terrible, so something needed to be done. Still, firing the manager at this point has to be your last option. So if it were me, during the international break I would have been out vetting candidates. If O'Neill had won today, maybe they might have kept him or maybe this gave the new managers a chance to see the team or maybe whoever they had in mind needed more time to decide.

If they've done their homework and have someone lined up, the timing isn't odd. If it takes them a week to appoint a new manager because they fired O'Neill spur-of-the-moment today then they screwed up badly.
 
Hmm...this one kind of makes sense to me. The way Sunderland are playing smacks of a falling out behind the scenes, the players are all in one giant sulk, if they can sort out the players heads they have a good chance.
 
I can't say that when I think McClaren, 'manager to lead you to survival' doesn't instantly spring to mind as well.

I could be wrong, but I tempted to say that this is the first time MON has ever been sacked. Usually seems to jump ship.
 
The only thing that will save them is the "playing for the new manager" phenomenon that was once so common so maybe not such a daft move.
 
Joe Steinberg said:
This sacking makes sense to me. They've been plunging down the table and clearly O'Neill doesn't have a solution. If they have someone lined up already, then maybe that person will be able to inspire the squad and help them turn it around. They have strikers there who aren't scoring goals, such as Wickham and Graham, and maybe they'll appoint someone who can get more out of them. They were going down under O'Neill, so I can't really see the harm in giving this a shot.
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This.
 
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