Keep it simple, don't go out of our way to destroy McLeish's legacy too soon.HOOF! THUMP! THWACK! HOOF! BANG! HOOF! THUD! Oh... 0-1, bugger.
Just as long has we play attacking football with effort, desire, and passion I don't mind let's just hope we get the right man to bring this to us.
MON deployed strong defending with fast counter-attacks using both wings and also a focus on set-pieces. The players and he did not always get it right, but basically it worked a treat for Villa's budgetary level. He lacked a goalscorer like Bent and he was too slow to pep things up in the second half of games with substitutions.
In all honesty,Blackpool play some better stuff than anyone and I would love to see Holloway given a decent crack at a bigger club, I think he would treat it as a privilege and do really, really well. In terms of which is best for us, probably Lambert, but if he said no I would offer it to Holloway.
Lambert plays a different formation every week , adapting his team in relation to the opposition (horses for courses) sometimes passing football, sometimes the long ball gameRodgers plays Tic Tac football where you deny your opponents possession of the football by retaining possession even if this means going back or sidewaysMartinez plays a pass and move system which involves overloading the midfield because you are playing three at the backHolloway plays counter-attacking football based on everyone's a defender when you haven't got the ball and everyone is an attacker when you have got the ball
I would love to see a decent, solid back four including a couple of full-backs that can get up to join in attacks, two of holding midfielders and then Ireland behind Bent with wingers out wide. I think that system would require a few signings, though. N'Zogbia on the right could really work in that formation and I'd not be against bringing someone like Matt Jarvis in. Herd has been great in the deeper midfield spot and with a more experienced head in there with him I would fancy us to improve greatly over this travesty of a season. Whoever comes in only needs to field a team with a bit of bollocks, though. I'd be delighted with that.
Of course we would need midfielders who could pick the ball up off the defence and find the likes of Ireland and N'Zogbia in the holes and I don't think we have anyone like that at the moment.