Cajun Posted December 9, 2011 Share Posted December 9, 2011 Couldn't have had much of an easier game for his first one, they will be amusing tomorrow if they win. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
quayside Posted December 9, 2011 Share Posted December 9, 2011 Couldn't have had much of an easier game for his first one, they will be amusing tomorrow if they win. Be even more amusing if they don't... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cajun Posted December 9, 2011 Share Posted December 9, 2011 Couldn't have had much of an easier game for his first one, they will be amusing tomorrow if they win. Be even more amusing if they don't... Nah I reckon most of them will just blame Bruce and how Super Martin O'Neill needs to rebuild etc.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sifu Posted December 9, 2011 Share Posted December 9, 2011 Couldn't have had much of an easier game for his first one, they will be amusing tomorrow if they win. Be even more amusing if they don't... Nah I reckon most of them will just blame Bruce and how Super Martin O'Neill needs to rebuild etc.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
quayside Posted December 9, 2011 Share Posted December 9, 2011 Couldn't have had much of an easier game for his first one, they will be amusing tomorrow if they win. Be even more amusing if they don't... Nah I reckon most of them will just blame Bruce and how Super Martin O'Neill needs to rebuild etc.. But you get limited chances per season to play teams like Blackburn at home, fail to take 3 points and without doubt they have issues, MON and rebuilding programs or not. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilko Posted December 9, 2011 Share Posted December 9, 2011 Blackburn are shit but they've proved that on occasion they have goals in them. Scored four a few times, hopefully can do it again. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si Posted December 9, 2011 Share Posted December 9, 2011 Blackburn are s*** but they've proved that on occasion they have goals in them. Scored four a few times, hopefully can do it again. Agreed Blackburn seem to have goals at the minute but Sunderland have nothing up front. Don't think it's cut and dried as people are making out. My preferred scenario is it going to the last game of the season and them staying up due to other results so we can twat the fuck out of them next season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karjala Posted December 9, 2011 Share Posted December 9, 2011 Blackburn are shit but they've proved that on occasion they have goals in them. Scored four a few times, hopefully can do it again. Thats my big hope, after Yak scored 4 last week he must look at that mackem defence and fancy his chances. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cajun Posted December 9, 2011 Share Posted December 9, 2011 Couldn't have had much of an easier game for his first one, they will be amusing tomorrow if they win. Be even more amusing if they don't... Nah I reckon most of them will just blame Bruce and how Super Martin O'Neill needs to rebuild etc.. But you get limited chances per season to play teams like Blackburn at home, fail to take 3 points and without doubt they have issues, MON and rebuilding programs or not. Just got a feeling O'Neill to Sunderland is what Dalgleish is to Liverpool, they worship the ground he walks on, this is their chance, all or nothing, if he can't do it they may as well give up and we have seen how in denial they can be at times. It would be the same if they signed N'Zogbia and he played like Ali Dia for 60 games, it would be the rest of the teams fault and they wouldn't be giving him the right service/runs. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ketsbaia Posted December 9, 2011 Share Posted December 9, 2011 Blackburn are terrible but if they're going to beat Sunderland, now is the time to do it. Scoring for fun. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sifu Posted December 9, 2011 Share Posted December 9, 2011 There's an article in the Times tomorrow called "Martin O’Neill sees vision of Catalonia". Can imagine what that's about Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sima Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 Martin O’Neill will begin his reign as Sunderland manager against Blackburn Rovers this weekend with the aim of transforming the Black Cats into a team playing with the same style and finesse as Barcelona. Sunderland manager Martin O’Neill wants his team to play the Barcelona way but may have to be more pragmatic against Blackburn Rovers O’Neill is aware his bold vision for a club that has never finished in the top six of the Premier League will prompt sniggers, as well as raise eyebrows, but the Ulsterman was not telling a joke. In the 16 months he has spent out of the game following his sudden departure from Aston Villa, O’Neill has spent much of his time analysing different teams and their style of play. And a manager who has sometimes been criticised in the past for playing a bland brand of football has been bewitched by the high octane pass-and-press game of the Spanish and European champions. It is in their image that O’Neill hopes to get Sunderland performing on Wearside, although he admits a side hovering just one place above the relegation zone ahead of Sunday’s home game with Blackburn needs pragmatic rather than pretty football in its current predicament. “I always come back to the way Barcelona play,” said O’Neill when asked what he would like his Sunderland team to represent. “It’s a long way in the future, but you’d love to keep that in the back of your mind and think you could eventually have a team that could come out and play like that. “Over the course of time, people will probably throw that back at me. Over the last couple of years, Arsenal have been very easy on the eye and it would be lovely to play a brand of football that would excite the crowd. “But we need to win some football matches and I suppose at the moment pragmatism has to be the order of the day. We have to win games.” Given the success he enjoyed at Aston Villa as a counter-attacking team, O’Neill might be expected to adopt a similar strategy at Sunderland, but he does not think it is an option open to him. He explained: “We seemed to have a reputation at Aston Villa for being a counter-attacking and when you have the likes of [James] Milner, [Ashley] Young, [stewart] Downing and [Gabriel] Agbonlahor playing in the side, that’s probably quite true. “There was a lot of pace in the side so it was almost natural to play that way, particularly away from home. “I don’t think, from the first look here, that we have that same kind of pace in the team at the moment, so you’d have to adjust accordingly.” Sunderland have won just three times at the Stadium of Light in 2011, a dreadful run and the biggest single reason behind the demise of Steve Bruce as manager. O’Neill has made an improvement in the team’s home form one of his main priorities as Bruce’s successor and a win over Rovers on Sunday would restore the buffer between Sunderland and the bottom three. A defeat, however, would see Steve Kean’s side move above them in the table and O’Neill’s hand ahead of his first game has been weakened by injuries, as well as captain Lee Cattermole’s suspension. Striker Nicklas Bendtner has not trained all week and neither has defender John O’Shea, while full-back Phil Bardsley is troubled by a reoccurring ankle problem. Bendtner has failed to fire so far during his loan move from Arsenal, but he is the most talented forward in the squad O’Neill inherits and getting the best out of the Dane is a must for O’Neill given the lack of alternative goal sources. “It’s paramount to get the best out of Nicklas,” he said. “He has a lot of natural talent, but wasn’t always in the starting line-up at Arsenal. They have allowed him to come up here and it’s an important time for him. This season is one where he can come through and score some goals. “He might have to adapt to a different style of play because Arsenal tend to have the ball all the time in the vast majority of matches, even against the best teams in the league. “With respect, we might not have the ball as often as that. So he’ll have to adjust and readjust during the course of a game. Most importantly of course, he has to get some goals.” Imagine if Pardew came out with that bulllshit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gggg Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 when did Barcelona start pelting long balls at Emile Heskey Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benwell Lad Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 If bullshit equalled points then oniell would be top of any league. The macums will swallow it all again just as they did with Keane and Bruce. They just love magic carpets down there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishmael Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 Haha, 'pelting balls to Emile Heskey' is outstanding prose Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cp40 Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 I see this going well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Haris Vuckic Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 Barcelona Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robster Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 What a bellend. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Haris Vuckic Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 For the rest of his tenure he's going to be Pep O'Neill Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benwell Lad Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 Blackburn must be quaking in their boots at the thought of playing the new Barcelona on Sunday Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Haris Vuckic Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 It's delusions of Steve Kean grandeur. WE ARE NOT LOSING, THE FANS ARE HAPPY Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 Hey Martin; fuck you and your horrible team. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrenBartonCentrePartin Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 Phil Bardsley = Eric Abidal Wes Brown = Gerard Pique Craig Gardner = Andres Iniesta Ji Dong Won = Lionel Messi. You know, I really see the likeness. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mistle17 Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 They'll draw against Blackburn. Take the lead and then concede a late sucker-punch equaliser. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cp40 Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 BARCELOLNA http://www.readytogo.net/smb/showthread.php?t=652804 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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