How would you feel if we appointed Steve McClaren?

[hawkeye]

Brilliant

[Greg N'Ash]

Never liked his style of football much, even discounting he's rather a laughing stock among football fans. As an appointment it would be pretty uninspiring. Frankly if he's got the best managerial track record we can attract, i'd rather we took a chance on someone with potential like Martinez. Still hopeful Randy has better targets in his sights though.

[DeKuip]

I remember him on the pitch at Selhurst Park celebrating that goal with Dalian.

Start the season with three straight wins and we'll all be taking umbrellas to game in tribute to our new saviour. "Singing in the Rain" will be the new anthem.

[Damo70]

I never rated him before the brolly and the dodgy Dutch lessons he took. He has a credibility problem that will haunt him.  His best route back into this country is a championship club or a bottom six Prem side.

[willywombat]

I would be surprised and more than a little disappointed. That being said, if he does get the job I'll give him my unequivocal support

[N'ZMAV]

It would be very underwhelming.

[Legion]

I would be surprised and more than a little disappointed. That being said, if he does get the job I'll give him my unequivocal support

Which would be my take on it aswell.

[N'ZMAV]

I don't think people like Curbishley & McClaren deserve to be on this 'interview list' - if there is one. We need to be looking at people with a good reputation in the game, like GH did, which worked in attracting players to the club in Jan. I'd rather have Jol, Moyes or Benitez trying to attract players to the club that McClaren or Curbishley.

[Malandro]

Can you imagine spending £200 million + of your own money and paying Steve Mclaren to run it?

[jonc73]

Why let the facts get in the way of a good debate?He never put on a dodgy Dutch accent, he tried to speak slowly and clearly to a foreign journalist.Winning a title in any league is acheivement-Ajax don't manage it every year for example.He got Boro a league cup and to the final of the UEFA cup, if he'd done this at Villa Park this  would have made him the most successful Villa manager since Saunders.The England job is currently being made a hash of by Fabio Capello, who has one of the best club CVs around.Villa legend Graham Taylor also couldn't manager England.Steve Maclaren could do a good job at Villa, but unless he started well the fans would be on his back so intensely he'd probably fail anyway.The guy is no clown.

[N'ZMAV]

That's a fantastic point, Malandro.

[Jimmy Rimmer]

He's a great number 2. Born to the role. Not for us.

[*shellac*]

Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.  Suffering leads to me throwing the season ticket at him.

[LeeB]

He's a great number 2. Born to the role. Not for us.

That's it for me. He can suck up to players, play the 'good cop', but I can't see him being top man.

And this club is way too big for him, Boro, Twente and Wofsburg are comparitively small clubs in their own leagues.

It's all to easy to picture him standing in front of the dugouts under a blizzard of season tickets as Norwich go 3-0 up.

[PaulTheVillan]

For those who listen to Talk*****, they're talking Villa from 9am.