Lambert's replacement

[silhillvilla]

Looking like Hobson's choice .

[Tony Erdington]

My favourite villa player ever, and the last one to have actually won us proper silverware, he was at the last villa home game, i saw him. just maybe till the end of the season.

BRIAN LITTLE

[walsall villain]

Who's to say we're only giving him a short term contract?

I said that would be the only vaguely logical reason for the appointment. I didn't suggest we were doing it. I don't, honestly, think there is any logic behind it.

Our Board have shown, time and again, their complete and utter ineptitude when it comes to dealing with the most important position at a football club.

Many were up in arms about Mclaren and he's gone on to prove he can still cut it Most wanted Lambert and look how that turned out. I'm keeping an open mind. Staying up is the priority and I think Sherwood might just shake things up enough to do that.

That's how I see it. Remember the clamour for OGS. Would have loved Pulis 2 months back then change it if ever new owners come in but too late for that and fans seemed very divided about him too.

[Chris Smith]

Amazes me that Sherwood gets put forward for the job, but so far no mention of Neil Lennon who would be more of a contender in my view

He ruled himself out yesterday

Didnt realise that

Sherwood just strikes me as someone we have all met during our working lives, they shout a lot, big themselves up to be better than they actually are when they have no track record to justify it. Bit of a bully usually as well. Ultimately, their own hang ups make them act like they do. Macho when they don't need to be.

I can imagine Tim thinking his a bit of a ladies man as well.

The media seem to love him as well just like with Harry and MON which is a bit of a worry as well

You assume a lot without really knowing anything about him. He might be a prat but I would not rely on people from his previous club to give a balanced viewpoint and the person who matters in all of this, Fox, appears to have been sufficiently impressed to be givong if serious consideration.

I have been saying all along that sacking a manager is the easy part and that finding a better replacement is where it becomes difficult but that was always waived away with the argument that anyone would be better than Lambert. Now that we are in that position for real suddenly the potential candidates do not seem so attractive.

[itbrvilla]

How do we know its Sherwood? If this is true then the board really are pathetic.

[N'ZMAV]

It could be Tony Pulis

[Chris Smith]

Who's to say we're only giving him a short term contract?

I said that would be the only vaguely logical reason for the appointment. I didn't suggest we were doing it. I don't, honestly, think there is any logic behind it.

Our Board have shown, time and again, their complete and utter ineptitude when it comes to dealing with the most important position at a football club.

Length of contract is a bit of a non issue, we have just got rid of a bloke 6 months into a 4 year deal.

[Walmley_Villa]

Who's to say we're only giving him a short term contract?

I said that would be the only vaguely logical reason for the appointment. I didn't suggest we were doing it. I don't, honestly, think there is any logic behind it.

Our Board have shown, time and again, their complete and utter ineptitude when it comes to dealing with the most important position at a football club.

Many were up in arms about Mclaren and he's gone on to prove he can still cut it Most wanted Lambert and look how that turned out. I'm keeping an open mind. Staying up is the priority and I think Sherwood might just shake things up enough to do that.

Yep, open mind. Whoever comes in is a gamble, there are no guarantees. Yes Pulis has never been relegated but there is a first time for everything.

[john e]

I think I would give up and die if it was Pulis

Take paulies and monty's feeling for Sherwood put them together and times by 10 and that's where I am with Pulis

He wouldn't come on a short term contract we would have to put up with him for a minimum of 3 years,
His football is dreadfull and that's his style, even the Stoke fans couldn't bear it anymore and got shot of him, not because he wasn't successful but because it hurt there eyes
Why would we want him at VP

i don't want Sherwood, but if we have missed the bullet that is Pulis then that's good, the words Villa and Pulis should never go together

[olaftab]

Everyone is ruling themselves out

Well it's not if they are after the Club approached them. The ruling out comes about from yesterday's normal press conference answers where lazy journalists ask every other manager "Are you interested in the Villa job"? The only answer they can give is no and it's turned around into a "Billy Bates turns down Villa job".

[olaftab]

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[Rudy65]

It could be Tony Pulis

Pulis is probably cursing his luck. If we had sacked Lambert 6 weeks ago Pulis would be our new manager

[cdbearsfan]

I'm keeping an open mind. That's why I don't think we should be limiting our ambitions to unemployed blokes living inside the M25.

[avfcpg]

Sherwood, to his credit seemed to go for it in his time at Spurs rather than do the play it safe, keep things ticking over style. I think he might well shake us up and keep us up but long term he would obviously be a gamble due to his lack of managerial experience and having no track record over a reasonable period of time. I suspect the style that worked for him in the short term at Spurs might work for us in the short term too but I can see friction and fall outs and it all going wrong in the medium to long term.

i think sherwood is probably the best short term 'keep us up' type manger we could get right now and I'd have him til the end of the season on that basis. Long term, maybe, but probably we could do a lot better in the summer and we should be honestly looking for better long term.

This

[Phil from the upper holte]

Can we have a Sherwood poll? Yay or nay, see where we are?