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

[Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle]

There's a smell in the air and by Jove, it's the odour of Roeder.

Cometh the hour, cometh the man.

He has after all won a European Trophy as manager.*










_{*I know it was the Intertoto but they're all the same these days.}

[Duncan Shaw]

My concern with Hutton is a lack of ability!

[mrfuse]

Would anybody fancy Hughton?

Yep he makes a mockery of McLeish's excuses, wouldn't be my first choice but I would like him.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

We all know about Roeder's disasterous spells at West Ham, Newcastle and Norwich, but his earlier career was just as appalling.

Gillingham
 
Roeder spent one season as player-manager of Gillingham, during which time he led the side to 13 wins in 51 games and saw them finish second from bottom of the Football League, escaping relegation after winning against bottom club Halifax Town in the penultimate fixture of the season.
 
Watford
 
After Steve Perryman left to join Tottenham Hotspur, Roeder was hired as the new manager of his former club Watford at the start of the 1993–94 season. However, Watford were fined £10,000 for an illegal approach, and ordered to pay Gillingham a further £30,000 in compensation. In his second season with Watford he almost took the side to the play-offs, eventually finishing just two places outside them. However, he was sacked in February 1996 as the side were struggling at the bottom of the First Division. His replacement, Graham Taylor, was unable to prevent the side from being relegated. During his time at Vicarage Road he signed Kevin Phillips from local Hertfordshire team, Baldock Town for only £10,000.

Burnley
 
Roeder followed his tenure at Watford by taking a season away from the limelight, assuming a back seat role as Chris Waddle's assistant manager at Burnley. The partnership did not prove to be successful and the pair narrowly avoided steering Burnley into the bottom tier of English football. Only a home victory over Plymouth Argyle on the last day staved off the spectre of relegation. Roeder proved to be both an unpopular and controversial figure to the Burnley fans, hitting a low point when he was reported to have said that star-player Glen Little was "not fit to lace the boots" of manager Chris Waddle. Roeder left his role at Burnley alongside Waddle when the pair departed the club after only a single season in charge.

[ozzjim]

I am fairly sure no one would put him forward as manager.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

I am fairly sure no one would put him forward as manager.

I wouldn't put him forward to clean the skidders off the Holte End Khazis.

[PaulWinch again]

I am fairly sure no one would put him forward as manager.

Correct. I'd take Benitiz, Ranieri, Lambert, Rodgers, Martinez, Poyet, Di Matteo, Van Basten or Schaaf. Those are also perfectly attainable targets and should be looked at.

[Simon Jones]

I am fairly sure no one would put him forward as manager.

I thought that about the current incumbent !

[Concrete John]

I am fairly sure no one would put him forward as manager.

Correct. I'd take Benitiz, Ranieri, Lambert, Rodgers, Martinez, Poyet, Di Matteo, Van Basten or Schaaf. Those are also perfectly attainable targets and should be looked at.

I think the attainability will be defined by the budget.  So, if we're looking at another season of austerity, forget the higher profile names on your list.

[NiiLamptey]

Talk sport just said Poyet was believed to be heading to the Midlands to interview with a premier league team...

Cant imagine its villa as Big Eck has not yet been sacked, but the baggies seem to make better moves than us of late with Hodgson & Di Matteo!

[James]

Interesting summer. It may well be that Villa, Boggies, B-Lose and Dogheads all appoint new managers! Has that happened in the same summer before?

[john e]

Talk sport just said Poyet was believed to be heading to the Midlands to interview with a premier league team...

Cant imagine its villa as Big Eck has not yet been sacked, but the baggies seem to make better moves than us of late with Hodgson & Di Matteo!

i heard that,  i am assuming its WBA as they are still in the Prem

[NiiLamptey]

I would like to see holloway... he came across really well in his post match interview last night, not the pain he was the year before in Prem, and I like what he does....

Champagne football on a lager budget!

[Legion]

According to him, we're a half-arsed club that used to be famous. So he can fuck off.

[James]

Unlike him of course, who is a half arsed c*** that's never been famous!