Anyone else besides be more than a little irritated with MON if he takes the England or Newcastle job, leaving us with Stuanton....:(
i thought he was taking time off to be with his wife.:confused:
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Anyone else besides be more than a little irritated with MON if he takes the England or Newcastle job, leaving us with Stuanton....:(
i thought he was taking time off to be with his wife.:confused:
no1 knows the full story,,,,,dont even know if he was approached by fai etc...
No! I posted this in October last year.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Legend
Martin O'Neill was never going to be Ireland manager because:Quote:
Originally Posted by Superhoops
1. we are a third rate international team
2. O'Neill's ambitions are for success which is not going to be achieved with us
3. we could not afford him and even if we could, read 1 and 2.
Said it from the start on this website, O'Neill would never be our manager, he's British, England or Northern Ireland would be his dream international job. We are much better off with Staunton, at least he's Irish
Anyway, it'll be fun to watch Engerland play the hoof it up, long ball game under O'Neill:D
If he takes the England job, he can then wear the medals he received from the queen on his International blazer.
And if the unthinkable were to happen, like England winning a tournament. We can always say they needed a Derry Man to do it.:eek: ;)
undecided about MoN taking the England job. always dreamed he would manage us,but as mentioned he is a very ambitous manager. Personally also about the hoofing football. I know I wouldnt care as long as we were winning something.
He does not owes us anything. He has not taken the England job so its all speculation.
How do you know he's British? And how do you know England or NI would be his dream job?Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibs4Ever
read posts like that from you before, your just a b0lloxQuote:
Originally Posted by Hibs4Ever
hibs how is he british??
do you know your geography??
Northern ireland is part of the uk not great britain
LOL @ the MON for ireland thing
Patrick Barclay, a Scotsman, wrote the following in the Sunday Telegraph at the weekend, which prompted my post on O'Neill on another thread (in World Football):
O'Neill, however intelligent, witty, charming and able - I have always found him among the most attractive characters in the game - is a Northern Irishman. I think the England manager should be English, just as Brazil's manager is Brazilian, Italy's Italian and so on.
Meanwhile the likes of [the FA's] Richards behave as if they were in charge of a club, star-gazing at O'Neill and pretending he is almost English.
He is not. A footballer cannot be almost English any more than a woman can be half-pregnant and the same is true - morally, if not under the regulations - of managers. Sir Alex Ferguson made that pithily clear when, asked if he would manage England, he replied: "I wouldnae betray my country.'' It is less of a joke in the case of O'Neill, who, though he has long been happily integrated into English life after a republican upbringing in County Londonderry, thought twice before accepting an MBE in 1982. What he would think of the Ulster loyalist anthems belted out by some of England's least edifying supporters is hard to imagine. And how a wider body of the support would react when they came to terms with the likelihood that O'Neill would want as his right-hand man the former Scotland winger John Robertson, who goes everywhere with him, is another imponderable.
Also, does every thread on this board have to be polluted by those intent on just winding people up?
ya exactly, those that cant create constructive discussions/points, but just post a one liner stupid ignorant sentence because they are incapable of doing anything else.
such as most of the posts above.
very good piece stutts, thanks for that.
Olé olé ole olé
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Originally Posted by livehead1
Why??? Watch the name calling and stop acting the hard man behind a keyboard. I've seen people banned for less:rolleyes:
Maybe his British passport:D :DQuote:
Originally Posted by paul_oshea
You celtic lads have to accept it, he didn't want to manage Ireland because it didn't feel right for him, he has NO connection with us WHATSOEVER now he's making public he wants to manage England
Is there any quotes from Martin O Neill to suggest
A) he did nor did not want to manage the Republic of Ireland
B) he did or did not want to manage England.
I dont think there is which suggests that this is all speculation for the moment.
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Originally Posted by NeilMcD
A) The fact he turned it down
B) The fact his agent says he is and has let the FA know he is.
The problem here is that it seems forbidden to have an opinion against him because he managed celtic
A) Where are the facts that he turned it down as in do u have quotes to back this up and secondly maybe he turned it down (thats if he did) for personal reasons rather than professional ones.
B) Again could you provide quotes on this one also/
Also Martin O Neill has proven to be a very good manager at a few different clubs. I woud not be personally fond of the brand of football that his teams play but he is a very very good manager. I dont think his managing Celtic makes him beyond criticism as there are many people who post on this forum that are not too fond of Celtic Football Club.
it isnt important what martin o neill does or doesnt do. what is important is I said Paul Le Guen would be new rangers manager and was laughed at by geysir....methinks I will be proved right. :D
And you know he's a British Passport holder do you?Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibs4Ever
Who knows why MON didn't want to manage us, I don't, and Im fairly certain you don't. Perhaps it was the personal reasons that have been well documented (I think its the anti-celtic lads who have to have a look at their reasoning in this thread)
To say he has no connection with us whatsoever is naive to say the least. He grew up as a Nationalist in the North - there is a connection there whether you like it or not.
Maybe his dream international job is England, more likely to be NI but perhaps its Brazil?
Some of your posts are plain trolling - no need for it really.
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Originally Posted by Junior
So to actually have an opinion AGAINST martin o'neill is "trolling" please explain how?
Hibs are you gong to provide the proof that you have that Martin O Neill turned down the Ireland job and is interested in the England Job. What Junior is saying is that posting unfounded posts regarding Martin O Neill is a form of trolling. he did not say posting anything against Martin O Neill is trolling.
I think he just did. Read his post again.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibs4Ever
find us the quotes then....funnily enough i don't think i'll be banned for my comments about you as i think that the majority of people posting here seems to agree with my summary of you,Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibs4Ever
.....nothing personal though ;) 'mate'.
[QUOTE=Junior]
Maybe his dream international job is England, more likely to be NI but perhaps its Brazil?
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remember reading before that he hoped at some stage to manage NI, and also heard a rumour that he was possibly prepared to do it on PT basis before sanchez took over.
MoN isnt going to take a job on the basis of affiliation to anywhere. Hes to smart for that he will take a job on the basis of whats right for him and his family both workwise and financially. Thats why I could never see him taking the ROI job this time or NI in the considerable future.
This is my uptake of turning it down, he told them before he was even offered it that he wasn't interested:http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/foot...ls/4380094.stm
Still looking for the link to were I read O'Neills agent saying he's interested in England job, this link show one of the reasons he's favourite is because he's British:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/foot...ls/4380094.stm
Here we are, this article says O'Neill wants to talk to both England and Newcastle, and again lets us know he's British
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/mai...4/sfnwin14.xml
for fecks sake lads.
hibs4ever has always said martin o neill wouldnt take the irish job cause he has no affiliation with the irish team. he didnt take the irish job and its well documented that they put out feelers for him and were waiting on a response but didnt get one and approached staunton. now he is heavily linked with english job on every website and newspaper.so its not trolling(. gloating maybe...)which is a ****in stupid allegation anyway thrown out by people anytime they allow themselves to get drawn into an argument they dont want to be in.
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Originally Posted by Hibs4Ever
As I said it was for personal reasons, there is nothing to say that he will not take in the future. Indeed there is nothilng to say that he will take it. We dont know. We dont know if he has more affinity to Ireland or to England. However as Junior said before it would be safe to say that he has more affinity to the Republic of Ireland but that is just guess work. And has been said alread maybe he would look at these things in a purely professional fashion and see that the England job has more career prospects and is better paid. However there is no evidence to suggest this.
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Originally Posted by livehead1
Can you imagine the sleepless nights I'm gonna have now, knowing a little girl on foot.ie pm's other members looking for opinions on people:(
I assume this is how you know the majority of people here think I'm a b0ll0x;) :D
Hey I never got that pm. Whats up Livehead.
can we please talk about the football!!!!!!!!:mad:
im not a celtic fan, i even have a hibs jersey, so what the hell is your point/??Quote:
You celtic lads have to accept it, he didn't want to manage Ireland because it didn't feel right for him, he has NO connection with us WHATSOEVER now he's making public he wants to manage England
The England Job would be quite convieniient for him as he lives
in Berkshire (like Terry Wogan I bebieve), so not much travelling involved.
F**k MON. He can take the England job if he wants. I hope he plays Sutton and Heskey up front for them, Thompson on the left and Steve Guppy on the right. That'll get them places.
The Irish job was his for the taking whaetever anyone on this forum says (I'm sure if he had shown an interest he might have just edged out that world renowned footballing tactical genius Stevie Staunton) and he didn't go for it. I don't know his reasons (nor does anyone else) nor do I care but if he did take the England job I'd hold no additional biased towards him or his team. I'll still as always hope they get beaten every match.
Thats not what I said.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibs4Ever
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Originally Posted by Hibs4Ever
Maybe Im just too touchy, maybe I have too much experience of your anti Celtic bias, maybe posts like this are just based on pure speculation that you haven't been able to back up and IMO you make to purely to wind people up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibs4Ever
I don't think MON was without fault, far from it, in fact some of his football was pretty boring to watch last year.
But hey, so was some of Jack Charltons and what was his connection with Ireland again?
I think we do!Quote:
Originally Posted by youngirish
You had it right when you said it was there for the taking if he wanted it. He didn't. Let's move on!Quote:
Originally Posted by Superhoops
Moderator Warning: I will the leave the MON British comments go for now as don't have time to admin this. Comments clear provocation & not on topic. Anymore comments will be deleted & bans given out.
If that is wishing him well for the future, I dread to think what you would hope for if you were not wishing him well!!!:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by gonzo