The Paul Lambert thread - poll reset after our capitulation to Hull

[Ger Regan]

It's got to be Marcelo Bielsa for me. We have some huge disadvantages, we can't compete financially, we have a poor squad, low morale as a club, so our best bet is do something completely out of left field and employ a batshit crazy manager with totally different methods and see what happens. Somebody like him would completely galvanize the club immediately.

If not him then the Boca Juniors manager who is the spitting image of Larry David. That would be pretty, pretty, pretty good.

Bielsa would be really interesting, at the very least. Wonder if he has much English?

[pauliewalnuts]

I'd rather give Sid a go,

 I know its fraught with danger when you put a legend in charge
But he's done good things at a lower level at VP and he would have the support of all villa fans,
Knows the academy lads better than anyone, and has been around football and football people all his career
Anyway it's a risk but one I would take just now

That's if he would want it of course

I really don't want us to go there. I would hate to see him subject to the kind of abuse every other manager we have had in the past 15 years has eventually had to endure.

When was MON subjected to this abuse?

[ronshirt]

I'd rather give Sid a go,

 I know its fraught with danger when you put a legend in charge
But he's done good things at a lower level at VP and he would have the support of all villa fans,
Knows the academy lads better than anyone, and has been around football and football people all his career
Anyway it's a risk but one I would take just now

That's if he would want it of course

I really don't want us to go there. I would hate to see him subject to the kind of abuse every other manager we have had in the past 15 years has eventually had to endure.

When was MON subjected to this abuse?

Whenever The Gnasher's keyboard was working.

[pauliewalnuts]

I'd rather give Sid a go,

 I know its fraught with danger when you put a legend in charge
But he's done good things at a lower level at VP and he would have the support of all villa fans,
Knows the academy lads better than anyone, and has been around football and football people all his career
Anyway it's a risk but one I would take just now

That's if he would want it of course

I really don't want us to go there. I would hate to see him subject to the kind of abuse every other manager we have had in the past 15 years has eventually had to endure.

When was MON subjected to this abuse?

Whenever The Gnasher's keyboard was working.

In the sense of the word "abuse", I think moaning on the internet is hardly worth the description.

[Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?]

I'd rather give Sid a go,

 I know its fraught with danger when you put a legend in charge
But he's done good things at a lower level at VP and he would have the support of all villa fans,
Knows the academy lads better than anyone, and has been around football and football people all his career
Anyway it's a risk but one I would take just now

That's if he would want it of course

I really don't want us to go there. I would hate to see him subject to the kind of abuse every other manager we have had in the past 15 years has eventually had to endure.

When was MON subjected to this abuse?

Whenever The Gnasher's keyboard was working.

In the sense of the word "abuse", I think moaning on the internet is hardly worth the description.

Oh, they were the days. So much attention given to someone who seemed to know so little. Never quite got the obsession myself.

[PaulWinch again]

So Norwich have sacked Hughton, so it's pretty much only us clinging onto our manager now.

[saunders_heroes]

Wish it was Lambert that was sacked.

[pauliewalnuts]

So Norwich have sacked Hughton, so it's pretty much only us clinging onto our manager now.

That's a pretty risky move.

[PaulWinch again]

We need a manager who can get the team to retain possession and play it on the deck.

[Legion]

Captain Pugwash?

[PaulWinch again]

So Norwich have sacked Hughton, so it's pretty much only us clinging onto our manager now.

That's a pretty risky move.

Maybe, but it might be worth a shot looking at those games and given their away form they desperately need the new manager lift. It may not work, but they'd be unlikely win their games anyway.

[Chris Smith]

I'd rather give Sid a go,

 I know its fraught with danger when you put a legend in charge
But he's done good things at a lower level at VP and he would have the support of all villa fans,
Knows the academy lads better than anyone, and has been around football and football people all his career
Anyway it's a risk but one I would take just now

That's if he would want it of course

I really don't want us to go there. I would hate to see him subject to the kind of abuse every other manager we have had in the past 15 years has eventually had to endure.

When was MON subjected to this abuse?

For almost the whole of his last season by a number of people on this site.

[Steve67]

Norwich appoint their under 18 manager? No experience of managing in the premier at all?  It's either inspired or complete and utter panic. 

[Dante Lavelli]

It's got to be Marcelo Bielsa for me. We have some huge disadvantages, we can't compete financially, we have a poor squad, low morale as a club, so our best bet is do something completely out of left field and employ a batshit crazy manager with totally different methods and see what happens. Somebody like him would completely galvanize the club immediately.

If not him then the Boca Juniors manager who is the spitting image of Larry David. That would be pretty, pretty, pretty good.

Bielsa would be really interesting, at the very least. Wonder if he has much English?

Bielsa for me too, especially if he could find a young coach to groom into a future manager so he could become the director of football.  Martinez and Guardiola have both studied Bielsa and talk about him as being some sort of visionary so he must have something pretty special about him.  (Martinez went to every Chile game and training session during the 2010 world cup and Guardiold says he is the best coacghin the world)

The fact he is bat-shit mental probably explains why any progress cannot be maintained and equally why we might have a chance of getting him.  He's also unemployed.

[PaulWinch again]

Norwich appoint their under 18 manager? No experience of managing in the premier at all?  It's either inspired or complete and utter panic. 

I suspect they've just taken a complete gamble, given that they've lost a sequence of away games and their only home games are Liverpool and Arsenal. I'd say they essentially have nothing to lose, and if they get a boost before they play Fulham and they somehow win then they may be safe.