Martin O'Neil / Sunderland manager

[Lee]

Ricky Sbragia for a return.

They're going to struggle aren't they.

[-V-]

Sunderland are **** and they don't have the stomach for the fight. I see them going down either way

[Bender]

Sunderland

[little dave hedgehog]

nice save bender

[Bender]

nice save bender

Thanks Dave I really should read the other posts

[Bender]

paolo di canio off to sunderland for talks

[Exiled_red]

Sky saying Di Canio going for talks to take over at Sunderland

[Chazza]

Di Canio off to........oh

[Fredo]

Ridiculous to get rid of O'Neil so late in the season.

[Bender]

Ridiculous to get rid of O'Neil so late in the season.

is it ? so if they got relegated with o'neil you would say we should have replaced him.

[Fredo]

Well chopping and changing doesn't help.

[Bender]

Well chopping and changing doesn't help.

as i said what would you have said if they got relegated with o'neil? we should have changed manager while you still have a chance too

[RichC]

They should really have got rid of him earlier if they were going to sack him, I mean losing to United from a deflected OG & then sacking him seems quite harsh in isolation, you'd imagine they'd been considering it for a bit but 7 games until the end is not long for anyone to come in and get their philosophy across to the team.

[Chazza]

They have been **** virtually all season and should have binned him around Christmas to give a new manager a few quid and the chance to bring in some decent players who were not Danny Graham.

He spent the best part of £30m on Fletcher, Johnson and Graham

[Exiled_red]

3 points from their last 8 games shows they had poor form, if they continued that run of form they'd have gone down. You can't blame them for making the change.