Who should our new manager be?

[hawkeye]

Chris Houghton for me, please not big sam i would not go and watch his team and i think he would turn offf a lot of support

[Cuz]

Chris Houghton for me, please not big sam i would not go and watch his team and i think he would turn offf a lot of support

So would going down much much more

[ExclDawg]

lol Steve Macdonald... it doesn't seem such a bad idea.

Ronald McDonald might be an improvement at this point

[TonyD]

lol Steve Macdonald... it doesn't seem such a bad idea.

Ronald McDonald might be an improvement at this point

Or Ronald Reagan

[l_mckay]

mite not be very attractive under big sam but if he got us the results that would do me fine

[Archie]

Absolutely, Gianfranco Zola, he has  a great experience on how to avoid the relegation of  a team  in claret and blue. . .

[Arsey]

I'd rather Steve Mac that Fat Sam.

[The Walshmeister]

Harry Potter

[Dave]

If people are going to suggest Chris Hughton, can you please spell his name right?

Sorry to be picky, just something that really pisses me off. Thanks.

[PONGO49]

mike bassett

[KevinGage]

I'll get pelters for this, but Mark Hughes.

By all accounts he was the boards first choice in the summer when they first got wind that MON was keen on the Redscouse job. If they were keen then, his currency can't have devalued that much in a few months. I accept  that Fulham aren't a million miles off us at present, but he inherited an inferior squad there compared to the one GH inherited here and he's had a fair amount of injuries to contend with. We could judge him purely on his most recent record since August, but that ignores the job he did for Wales, Blackburn and Man Citeh.

He had the Welsh national side punching above their weight and getting results against big sides, took a struggling Blackburn side and made them regular European contenders (plus sourced gems like Bentley, RSC and Samba for bargain fees) and took Man Citeh to a cup semi final and top 6 when he left them.

He seems to get a decent reaction from his players more often than not and -Robinho/ Elano apart- you rarely heard reports of player revolts.

Were he to come in he might get a decent reaction from some of our existing players, plus -when he had real money to spend at Citeh- he was happy enough to buy largely British based players who were effective in this league.  Players like Given, Lescott, Bellamy and possibly even Barry might be quite happy to work with him again. They'd all improve us no end.

I accept too that the criticism of MON was that his transfer policy was somewhat myopic and focussed on these Islands, so the above might look hypocritical.  Personally I don't mind if most of our players are from Britain and Ireland or have played in the UK for an extended period. It's good to have a solid core to the side. Where I objected to MON's approach was that he seemed completely oblivious to any player playing his football outside of the UK. Hughes has shown in the past that he isn't as limited in his thinking and can source bargains too.

If not Hughes then Jol, but it concerns me that last time he was in England he had a squad as good as Tottingham's struggling around at the arse end of the table.

[Risso]

There was a time under Big Sam when Bolton had the likes of Okocha and Campo that they played quite exciting football.  I certainly didn't come away thinking it was dire when they whupped us 5-2 in the league cup semi.

[ozzjim]

Can't really understand the Hughton thing. (Better Dave?)


He did ok at Newcastle, but for this situation? Or Jol - spent a fortune at Spurs, and got the boot in the relegation zone.

Coyle - offer him big money would be my ideal if being serious. If not him then giving it to Allardyce would be the only option. It would be fucking ugly at times though. Ugly sprikled with some brilliance, he like a skillfull one in there somewhere.

[Mark H]

Jol

Moyes

Coyle

Lambert (Norwich)

Any of the above ...No to Hughton but not dreadfull ...and dreadfull and big no thank you goes to Big Sam

[Dave]

Can't really understand the Hughton thing. (Better Dave?)

Thanks