Who do you want as the next manager? New poll option.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Yup, he's a thinking man's MON.

[PaulWinch again]

Yep, go get him Randy and make up for your horrendous balls up of this season.

[Chris Harte]

Seeing as I'm not permitted to post a new thread on my opinions:

Assuming that the current manager is going to be out of the door after we've played Norwich, and assuming that we aren't relegated, there is something that Randy Lerner must surely do.

Above all else, I would expect to Mr Lerner to at least attempt to get David Moyes as the next Villa manager.

Mr Moyes is a proven Premier League manager with record of running a team on a very limited budget for a long time now. Is it possible that Moyes has had enough of having no money to work with after ten years at Everton?

The cost of relegation from the Premier League would probably be at least £40M. The cost of paying off the current manager, plus four years wages for Moyes (assuming the thought of substantially increasing his current wage appealed to him), plus the cost of compensation to Everton would be substantially less than the cost of relegation.

With various high earners probably leaving the club in the summer (Heskey, Cuellar) there's the probability that Mr Lerner would be willing to bankroll, to a small extent, some spending in the transfer market - a possible further inducement for Moyes to come to B6.

With all this in mind, do you think Moyes would be a sensible appointment?

This club needs to regain its pride. It is a founder member of the football league, but when the masses dismiss us as a small club it really hurts.

I honestly think that David Moyes, together with a sensible budget, could help Aston Villa regain at least a bit of its pride.

[dave.woodhall]

Seeing as I'm not permitted to post a new thread on my opinions:

Could you not come up with something a bit more original?

[Chris Harte]

Seeing as I'm not permitted to post a new thread on my opinions:

Could you not come up with something a bit more original?

Well you locked a thread I started, did you not?

I posted on a whim, and while I might have realised there was a thread covering the broad subject, I hadn't realised for certain that there was. I tend to inhabit Off Topic these days, hence my accidental post in that section initially.

[dave.woodhall]

This thread is currently up to 88 pages and is entitled 'Who do you want as the next manager?' How hard can it be to spot?

[timeoutbigbar]

I just couldn't see Moyes coming here at the moment.  He has Everton playing well (as he does in the second half of every season) and there isn't really any reason he would swap a club financially restricted for one in a similar situation yet further down the league.  He would be a good appointment if we could get him, I just don't think we could as things stand.  I'd definitely look at Paul Lambert though, just depends if he thinks he can keep Norwich on an upwards curve/wants more money.

[Chris Harte]

Like I said, I don't often come in to main discussion. The threads in here have appeared to be static (in terms of subjects, not in post numbers) for a while now, other than the "Brawl at Gatecrasher" or whatever its called thread. Therefore I don't always think about what they are about.

I posted my thoughts on a whim, and initially they appeared by accident in Off Topic. You know this yourself as you responded to the Off Topic version while I was editing to say I'd put it in the wrong place.

I then copy and pasted my thoughts into a thread in main discussion, only afterwards thinking that that may have been the wrong thing to do.

You subsequently, as is the duty of an admin, locked the thread.

I then pointed out that I wasn't going to get my own thread on the subject when I re-pasted my opinion in the correct place.

I ain't claiming to be original. Just not deserving of my own thread on a subject that, unobserved to me, has been done to death already.

[clash city rocker]

Heard Tommy Docherty interviewed the other day regarding Alex Ferguson's replacement.He said that he thinks Fergie will have a big say in chosing his replacement and that he would go for Moyes. Whether the Doc is guessing or whether he knows something remains to be seen but i think our chances of getting Moyes are nil.

[Mazrim]

About the same chances as Moyes being Man Utd manager then.

[john e]

Heard Tommy Docherty interviewed the other day regarding Alex Ferguson's replacement.He said that he thinks Fergie will have a big say in chosing his replacement and that he would go for Moyes. Whether the Doc is guessing or whether he knows something remains to be seen but i think our chances of getting Moyes are nil.

good, i dont want Moyes anyway

[OzVilla]

Why in McGraths name would Moyes come to the Villa in our current position?

It wouldn't make sense.

[john e]

Why in McGraths name would Moyes come to the Villa in our current position?

It wouldn't make sense.

you can see why the current board might like him though.

he is Scottish,
 he is ginger,
  he plays unatractive football,
 he's won nothing in 10 years at Everton, oh sorry thats where the comparison with AM ends

[Chris Harte]

Oh look, the moon is too far away through thousands of miles of space. All that radiation would surely kill the astronauts. And how would we get them up there in the first place?

If the Americans had taken that attitude mankind would never have reached the moon.

Do we now think so little of ourselves that we cannot at least try to get the right man?

[Tom Sawyer]

Seeing as I'm not permitted to post a new thread on my opinions:

Could you not come up with something a bit more original?

Dave gets very tetchy if you mention the resistance to free speech on HandV.