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

[hawkeye]

claret and blue blood's post has convinced me so i'm changing tact

Bill McNeil
Venglos
DOL
MON
Mcleish

So on that basis
McCarthy - fuck off
Lambert - fuck off
Rodgers - fuck off
Martinez - fuck off


Going for Di matteo or 'other'

er wise words mate.

[PeterWithesShin]

I'm guessing Mazrim is going for Barbra Streisand this time around after his predictions last year 

[Risso]

I'm leaning towards Rodgers at the moment, just for the way his Swansea team so expertly picked us apart at Villa Park.  We really did have no answer to their passing and moving.  You could almost see our players thinking "what's he doing, he's running....but he hasn't got the ball!"

[Louzie0]

I wonder if anybody at VP has considered Brian McDermott or Nigel Adkins?
Both young*, vibrant and successful managers- I've just googled them so it must be true.

McDermott- Championship, Champ manager of the Year.  But name begins with Mc so probably not for Greg.

Adkins - 2 promotions in as many years, second in Championship.  Not bad!  They sang his name at Scunthorpe...

* compared to Sir Alex.  But then, everybody is.

[Legion]

I'm leaning towards Rodgers at the moment, just for the way his Swansea team so expertly picked us apart at Villa Park.  We really did have no answer to their passing and moving.  You could almost see our players thinking "what's he doing, he's running....but he hasn't got the ball!"

Very true.

[Risso]

I'm guessing Mazrim is going for Barbra Streisand this time around after his predictions last year 

Ha ha!  I think she'd win Maz's choice by a nose.

[CJ]

I think people are being a bit harsh on Di Matteo. Are people saying if Chelsea win the CL (not that they will) then he had nothing to do with it? From what I remember he brought up WBA playing good passing football, was unlucky to get sack probably because WBA wanted to go for safe option when Hodgson was available. My dad is a wba fan and he was suprised as I when he got sack. Oh he's won the F.A cup. He pulled off some brilliant results too, Napoli in C.L? Maybe he let Chelsea play how they want to. But maybe he deserves credit for acknowledging that doing what AVB wanted to do was too extreme in too short of a time.

Di Matteo did great with the Boggies in the Championship, but in his first 25 PL games he only got 26 points. That's McLeish form. And I don't think he's suddenly become a good PL manager since the Olbiyun sacked him last February (?). I think the Chelsea dressing room has made him look better than he is and I'd be worried if he came to us.

[brian green]

Greg, you don't know your tack from your tact but otherwise you are well in tune.

I think I will go for Zola for no other reason than my younger son met him at the O2.   Zola claimed that my boy was sitting in his seat but on production of the correct seat stub by my lad Zola was very apologetic and courteous.   I like courtesy in sports stars so Zola gets my vote.   Also if he came I would claim the bragging rights that my son had actually met the owner and the manager.   It's a bit of a convoluted rationale because I have another son who has met everybody who is anybody.

[paulcomben]

I'm leaning towards Rodgers at the moment, just for the way his Swansea team so expertly picked us apart at Villa Park.  We really did have no answer to their passing and moving.  You could almost see our players thinking "what's he doing, he's running....but he hasn't got the ball!"

Pat Murphy came out strongly in favour of Rodgers after the Radio 5 Faulkner interview. History has been rewritten by the media about that Swansea match.  I was there in January and what Villa did was what they did for many teams this season - gifted them both goals. Massive Warnock howler after a few mins and then sleepiness early in the 2nd half.

[Legion]

I work with the wife of someone who has met Martinez (once) and rates him highly as one of the nicest people in football they have ever met.

[PeterWithesShin]

Be interesting to know what Reading and Watford fans think of Rodgers.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

I think people are being a bit harsh on Di Matteo. Are people saying if Chelsea win the CL (not that they will) then he had nothing to do with it? From what I remember he brought up WBA playing good passing football, was unlucky to get sack probably because WBA wanted to go for safe option when Hodgson was available. My dad is a wba fan and he was suprised as I when he got sack. Oh he's won the F.A cup. He pulled off some brilliant results too, Napoli in C.L? Maybe he let Chelsea play how they want to. But maybe he deserves credit for acknowledging that doing what AVB wanted to do was too extreme in too short of a time.

Di Matteo did great with the Boggies in the Championship, but in his first 25 PL games he only got 26 points. That's McLeish form. And I don't think he's suddenly become a good PL manager since the Olbiyun sacked him last February (?). I think the Chelsea dressing room has made him look better than he is and I'd be worried if he came to us.

Agreed CJ.
If Chelski win the CL I doubt it will have much to do with Di Matteo's suddenly being a brilliant manager, more to do with the players playing the way they want to.

Rodgers for me.

[rob_bridge]

Gone right off lambert. Its the MON thing i guess. Not so much that i think he's a clone of him, more Lerner does.

Greg - have you watched Norwich? They play nothing at all like a MON team. For starters they are not a counter attacking team by nature. They had a pretty decent home record because they attack the opposition. Lambert played for MON at Celtic - so what? Lambert has shown that he not only has a plan B, but a C as well if he needs it. We all know MON had a plan A, and if that didn't work, he'd go to plan A again.

He has also whisper it played under McLeish and Otto Hitzfeld and Craig Brown so I  dare  say he has been good enough to pick up the good bits and disregard the bad bits of each coach - not that Hitzfeld had many bad ones.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

I work with the wife of someone who has met Martinez (once) and rates him highly as one of the nicest people in football they have ever met.

Pretty much the same was said of AM.
Nice guy.
Pity he's such a shit manager.

[paulcomben]

I work with the wife of someone who has met Martinez (once) and rates him highly as one of the nicest people in football they have ever met.

I wish you well at your solstice hippy love-ins, but we'd settle for a complete cnut that won us a trophy.