Lambert's replacement

[Nastylee]

Well, for starters we need to stop this ex-Villa shite. All the connected folk are either old, not managers or have no relevant experience. There is no one from the last 40 years of Villa that are qualified to take the job and if they are, they've already had a crack at it and moved on.

[Clampy]

I'm going to make myself unpopular with many of you, but it has to be said.

We, as fans, are not good judges of who should be appointed manager, so the club should ignore us completely and crack on with appointing the right man for the job. I say this because we previously turned our noses up at Steve McLaren so they looked elsewhere - he would have been a good appointment in hindsight. We shouted about Paul Lambert and then went into a delirious frenzy when he was appointed, only for it to be a massive disappointment.

Many of us, on this site, turned our noses up at Martinez, Rodgers and Benitez in the past. I remember reading the posts and being quite amazed at our arrogance. What would we give for those guys now?

Our job is to support the new manager and the team, because they need us now more than ever. And we need them to perform.

Let's close the whole thread down why don't we?

[Stu]

I'm going to make myself unpopular with many of you, but it has to be said.

We, as fans, are not good judges of who should be appointed manager, so the club should ignore us completely and crack on with appointing the right man for the job. I say this because we previously turned our noses up at Steve McLaren so they looked elsewhere...

Nope. That never happened.

[LeeB]

Someone mentioned his name on here earlier but I do quite the idea of Slaven Billc. Can't see it happening though.

I recently watched him extoll the virtues of Margaret Thatcher for sorting out our hooligan problem.

And a thing like that is enough to put me off someone for life.

[Monty]

I'm going to make myself unpopular with many of you, but it has to be said.

We, as fans, are not good judges of who should be appointed manager, so the club should ignore us completely and crack on with appointing the right man for the job. I say this because we previously turned our noses up at Steve McLaren so they looked elsewhere - he would have been a good appointment in hindsight. We shouted about Paul Lambert and then went into a delirious frenzy when he was appointed, only for it to be a massive disappointment.

Many of us, on this site, turned our noses up at Martinez, Rodgers and Benitez in the past. I remember reading the posts and being quite amazed at our arrogance. What would we give for those guys now?

Our job is to support the new manager and the team, because they need us now more than ever. And we need them to perform.

Let's close the whole thread down why don't we?

Yep. And while we're at it, we're not as good at playing as the players, so close down all the match threads, transfer threads, player threads, all of them. And heaven forbid we should misjudge a managerial appointment - it's not like the board have ever done that.

As a matter of fact, I liked Martinez and Rodgers and didn't like the Lambert appointment. By the Bellster brand of logic, shouldn't that mean Tom Fox ought to consult me?

[Damo70]

Interesting what Laursen said about us having too many young defenders at this level. Makes sense to me so let's get Vlaar and Senderos back in now please (in the unlikely event they are ever both fit at the same time).

About as likely as us getting Mike Pejic and Ivo Stas fit to play together for the rest of the season.

[Stu]

I still think Martinez is shit.

[brontebilly]

Someone mentioned his name on here earlier but I do quite the idea of Slaven Billc. Can't see it happening though.

Besiktas are top of the Turkish league so unlikely for that alone.

[aev]

I'm going to make myself unpopular with many of you, but it has to be said.

We, as fans, are not good judges of who should be appointed manager, so the club should ignore us completely and crack on with appointing the right man for the job. I say this because we previously turned our noses up at Steve McLaren so they looked elsewhere - he would have been a good appointment in hindsight. We shouted about Paul Lambert and then went into a delirious frenzy when he was appointed, only for it to be a massive disappointment.

Many of us, on this site, turned our noses up at Martinez, Rodgers and Benitez in the past. I remember reading the posts and being quite amazed at our arrogance. What would we give for those guys now?

Our job is to support the new manager and the team, because they need us now more than ever. And we need them to perform.

Let's close the whole thread down why don't we?

In fairness there is something in this....it has happened too with Hughes and Allardyce.

[silhillvilla]

I still think Martinez is shit.

It's playing out that way at Everton. I've never rated him whatsoever . Nor did I want lambert .

[silhillvilla]

For me it needs to be a name , fairly high profile , someone who will lift and motivate what is quite frankly a half decent squad full of international players .
For me that generates a short list of -

Klinsmann
Rijkaard
Rafa Benitez
De Bouer
& possibly Claudio Ranieri

[Damo70]

Someone mentioned his name on here earlier but I do quite the idea of Slaven Billc. Can't see it happening though.

Following in the footsteps of other great Villa guitarists like Steve Stride and John Gregory.

[supertom]

We need someone really decent. Sherwood is too inexperienced. I do think he'd motivate and possibly re-invigorate 2-3 out of form players (Gabby? Zogbia?) and would certainly give us attacking intent. I'd fancy him to have us stay up, but in terms of next season I think he'd get sussed very quickly without a tactically astute number 2 helping him, but we could have said the same about Lambert possibly.

The quality is there in our squad. In actuality I think we're blessed with more attacking ability than defensive, so to have scored so few shows how poor Lambert was. If we get someone come in and hit the ground running like Pulis and Pardew have both done respectively, then we've got goals in us.

My first choice to start a genuine revolution here is Klinsmann but would he come at this stage and under Lerner's stewardship? I'm not sure. Sherwood could end up being the best pick of a not very impressive bunch to be honest. I think he'd do enough in the short term though.

[silhillvilla]

Sherwood's name should not even be being mentioned .

[Damo70]

For me it needs to be a name , fairly high profile , someone who will lift and motivate what is quite frankly a half decent squad full of international players .
For me that generates a short list of -

Klinsmann
Rijkaard
Rafa Benitez
De Bouer
& possibly Claudio Ranieri

I don't know if you did that in order of preference or not but if you did I agree with your top three.