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

[Matt Collins]

As for him piddling money up the wall, well show me a manager who wouldn't spend squillions if a board is mug enough to give it him? He didn't spend the money, Lerner did, so if you've got a beef with salaries and transfer fees have a word with our owners.

Yes but he didn't have to buy Davies, Knight, Reo-Coker, Sidwell, Delph, Harewood, Shorey, Young and Beye for about £50m, and then conclude that none of them were worth playing, before we let them all go for the combined total of about £6m (excluding Delph)!!

[LeeB]

Someone with modern methods and the ability to communicate them please.

And also someone with the intelligence to understand that respecting the clubs tradition and support, and not accepting that we should be also rans, can buy a hell of a lot of time and support in your quest for success.

You'll be paid the best part of £3m a year for the task so it's not too much too ask, is it?

[Toronto Villa]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/may/11/brendan-rodgers-swansea-city

Reading that article considering our current state is tear-inducing.

When you read that you quickly realise why we are where we are. For the best part of 6 years we've had managers who've come to practice, thrown down a couple of cones, and those high jump things and had the lads run around for a bit. MON's advantage being he was able to acquire and work with much better talent than McLeish. Apparently, and this is breaking news, being a successful football manager needs planning and a willingness to adopt tactical approaches from a number of places and perspectives. Our players have been simply starved of that.

We need to hire someone with an entirely new approach as quickly as possible, and as fans understand a d accept that the change we all want won't happen overnight. There will be some pain.

[Dante Lavelli]

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!

It might be because they have a Director of Football (can’t remember his name).  Having someone high up with the club who has studied the game means you're more likely to ask the right questions (i.e. not: "does he have premier league experience?”).  Indeed, it also means you’re less likely to appoint the current flavour of the month, as again, a DoF is more likely to see through a manager’s bull shit.

[curiousorange]

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!

It might be because they have a Director of Football (can’t remember his name), but having someone who has studied the game is more likely to get the right answers as they’ll ask the right question (i.e. not: does he have premier league experience?).

I hope it's the Baggies as I'm not a massive Poyet fan. But if it works out, good luck to them. Well, bad luck, but you know what I mean. At least they're being open-minded in their appointments.

[Risso]

1 win in 16 games.  1 solitary win in nearly half a season of football. 

[eastie]

According to kendrick when asked lambert refused to confirm he will still be at norwich next season saying its difficult to answer that- have we got our man?

[pauliewalnuts]

1 win in 16 games.  1 solitary win in nearly half a season of football. 

When you see it put like that, it really is beyond shocking.

[Ian.]

1 win in 16 games.  1 solitary win in nearly half a season of football. 

Some of the stats I have seen mentioned today from our season are shocking.

[PaulWinch again]

1 win in 16 games.  1 solitary win in nearly half a season of football. 

When you see it put like that, it really is beyond shocking.

2 wins in 5 months as well.

[Steve67]

37 goals in 38 games. 7 wins in 38 games, and yet he still thinks he can turn it around.  Even if he keeps his job, what happens if he gets off to a bad start?  He's just one defeat away from yet another crisis. Useless knob, tatally out of touch with the fan base. Got to go. Martinez, Lambert, Susan Boyle, don't care who, they cannot be as bad!!

[Jon Crofts]

A house plant, it couldn't do any worse.
I read earlier that was our 101st season in top flight football, ruined by that twat & the idiocy of one Randolph Lerner.

[Legion]

No, we'd have survived on GD.

[Mister E]

1 win in 16 games.  1 solitary win in nearly half a season of football. 

Some of the stats I have seen mentioned today from our season are shocking.

Sorry to do it again, but the stats are truly horrible:
- Win ratio of 18.5% for the EPL season.
- Worst points haul since 1986-7.
- Highest number of draws in the division: 33% more than the next team (Sunderland).
- Highest number of draws in a season since 1975-6.
 - Lowest number of goals-scored in the bottom 6 clubs (and only surpassed by Stoke in the whole division).
- Lowest number of goals scored in a season since 1969-70.
- Worst record in the league for losing from winning positions – 22 points lost.
- Conceded more from set pieces than any other team.
- The only EPL team not to score from a corner all season.
- Villa's worst-ever league home record.
- VP crowds down by 9% this season.

On this basis, McLeish should leave the club tonight.

[KevinGage]

According to kendrick when asked lambert refused to confirm he will still be at norwich next season saying its difficult to answer that- have we got our man?

According to Lambert himself, Norwich won't have much money to spend this summer, as they were in a tight financial situation over the past few years and that still hasn't been remedied.

He might look at that, and the fact that his better players like Holt and Morrison are pushing 30 or over  and decide to bail whilst his stock is still high.