Who Should be Aston Villa Manager ? Now with new, revised poll

[Ian.]

Well after the dirty sour taste left behind from MON as much as I'm totally unconvinced about AM I would rather have AM in charge of us than MON. I would want this wrapped up now so we can move forward and have a proper pre-season with no major disruptions ready for next season. I hope he will not dither in the market because we have too many issues to resolve.

[Eigentor]

What a mess. Problem is, there's no real alternative out there, at least with Premier League experience.

If your criterias lead you to appointing Alex McLeish, you should revise your criterias.

I'm still hoping that Randy will get cold feet and offer the job to Flores. He's been a relative success whereever he has been, and the fans wouldn't get on his back if the newly-assembled team doesn't gel straight away.

[ormskirkvillan]

Ok, deep breath.  AM is not my choice, but I am an Aston Villa fan, have been all my life and once he signs that contract he will be our manager.  I'm too young to remember 1981/2 and would do anything to see us get back to somewhere near that level. So I will get behind him and the team, he has a big job to do and I don't think Randy has any choice but to give him big backing as he can't afford for this to go wrong.  But if he gets the back 4 sorted and plays more expansive football going forward than he did at villa he COULD be asuccess, fingers crossed.  Randy must be praying we don't get Chelsea, Utd and Arsenal in our first 3 games!!

[hawkeye]

George Graham at Spurs went down well, so i dont see the problem.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

What a mess. Problem is, there's no real alternative out there, at least with Premier League experience.

If your criterias lead you to appointing Alex McLeish, you should revise your criterias.

I'm still hoping that Randy will get cold feet and offer the job to Flores. He's been a relative success whereever he has been, and the fans wouldn't get on his back if the newly-assembled team doesn't gel straight away.

Don't preach to the converted, Eig. (winky)

Restricting our search to the PL or managers with PL experience is just plain wrong. Mourinho and every Chelsea manager since Hoddle, Wenger, Jol, Houllier, Benitez,etc.. none had PL league experience but all managed to do a more than decent job.

As for Flores, you're right, he is a decent shout, though he wasn't too hot at Benfica. If Randy named him tomorrow, the same kind of feel good factor to when he first took us over would return overnight, despite most knows bugger all about him. Being a football fan is after all about more than anything, hope.

[Nev]

George Graham at Spurs went down well, so i dont see the problem.

George Graham didn't take Arsenal down twice, how's that for starters?

[pauliewalnuts]

I can understand the premier league experience thing to a point but not on an 'at all costs' level.

[pottervillan]

Let`s give AM a chance ! I have been a fan of AVFC since 1970 and we have had worse managers IMHO.

[TonyD]

George Graham at Spurs went down well, so i dont see the problem.

The problem is he isn't good enough. 

[Rudy Can't Fail]

I can understand the premier league experience thing to a point but not on an 'at all costs' level.

Exactly, Paulie. Realistically, there are very few decent names that can be put on the list. It really should have been expanded to include non-PL managers but I guess it really comes down to, who our advisors are.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

Well after the dirty sour taste left behind from MON as much as I'm totally unconvinced about AM I would rather have AM in charge of us than MON. I would want this wrapped up now so we can move forward and have a proper pre-season with no major disruptions ready for next season. I hope he will not dither in the market because we have too many issues to resolve.

VERY reluctantly agree.
I've sort of accepted this truly crazy decision.
IF it happens it will be interesting to see who he tries to bring in...defence priority, so if he goes back to the sty for Dann/Johnson/Foster fine. It's any player beyond these that will send out signals.
 

[VinnieChase84]

I've woken up this morning in a strangely positive mood! AM is far far far from
My choice but this is the hand were dealt! I now would love nothing more than for him and the Villa to be more successful than ever, win a trophy cause that would infuriate our neighbours even more!
I'm also led to believe that AM will win his constructive dismissal case and that will certainly piss the unwashed off even more!
I fully expect a couple of their players to join us too along with some new talent!
AM may be better than O'Neill and was only restricted by the shower of shit he was at!? We will all soon find out and from this point on UTV and good luck Alex!

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

Apologies if anyone else has posted similar but i know why RL is about to appoint a bloke from the Glasgow area whose name is Alex...
in 25 years time when we've won a shed load of trophies we'll all realise the genius behind this decision!
(Massive winky smily thing!)

[hawkeye]

George Graham at Spurs went down well, so i dont see the problem.

George Graham didn't take Arsenal down twice, how's that for starters?

sense of humour failure, i was being ironic

[Malandro]

Apologies if anyone else has posted similar but i know why RL is about to appoint a bloke from the Glasgow area whose name is Alex...
in 25 years time when we've won f**ck all trophies he'll  realise he needed better football people around him
(Massive winky smily thing!)