It's not Sherwood!

[lovejoy]

I'd like to see him bring Hoddle and Steve Clarke in to help. Then I'd have faith.

Hoddle and Sherwood don't get on with each other, so I doubt it. Sherwood even accused Hoddle of having a vendetta against him.

Frankly. I have a vendetta against that prat too.

[flybo]

welcome tim hope you have a good time at the villa and to those saying not geed enough give him some time 

[Louzie0]

I'm happy with this appointment because the last thing he did was stop a club in disarray from sliding further. He worked well with disaffected players and got the team scoring again and working together. Boxes ticked for immediate needs at Villa.

[Ron Manager]

Now the position has been filled we may hear something from Roy Keane shortly. Might be quite enlightening regarding discipline etc.

[supertom]

Disaster.

Let me be the first - Sherwood Out - it won't be too long mercifully

Get a grip

I think my grip is fine. This is a joke of an appointment but hardly surprising given track record. I think we just took another huge step towards the precipice instead using this opportunity to appoint anyone with a semblance of experience and success. Time will tell but i fear the very worst

who would you have appointed?

I'm not paid millions to answer that question. But given the PL is the most attractive in the world for any manager to be in, he who is ought explain quite how Tim Shereood is the right man

The thing is, many (from the outside and in the press) will look on this and think we did well to get him. He's been in demand since he left Spurs. And I'm not entirely sure how he's so in demand either if I'm honest, but we didn't get someone desperate for another job. He's turned his nose up at Premier League jobs and he's had plenty of knocks at the door (apparently).

It's hard to dislike Lambert or McLeish for example. Sherwood is very much a marmite personality, and that tends to go hand in hand with decent managers. So fingers crossed.

[avfcpg]

Very much an unknown quantity. He only managed for 28 games at Spurs, but won at least 50% of them.
But he's young, hungry and ambitious. He played attacking football at Spurs, is well known to work well with and develop youth players (might see Grealish back now).

He can be a bit of a gobshite and no real experience over a long term...I think he'll do ok. Not my first choice but not really disappointed either..and pleased that the club acted so quickly...

Welcome Tim....

[not3bad]

welcome to the Villa, keep us up and you're an instant hero, win the cup and you're a bona fide legend.  Over to you you mouthy cockney...

Yep.

[richard moore]

As disappointed as I am, I am going to approach this with an open mind and give him my support. We needed change and every option was better than Lambert. Bring in a good coaching staff and prove us wrong Tim. Be a success at Villa and the fans will quickly get behind you.

Spot on Toronto. Some of the over-reaction on here seems very harsh and I can't help but feel it is tinged with a hatred of all things Spurs. Which is perfectly excusable by the way! As ever, it's all about results and if we beat Leicester and Stoke, then we will see opinions change very quickly I suspect. Best of luck to him and I hope, in a very nice way, he rams some people's views of him right down their throats. Because it will mean we are winning games

[Dave]

Congratulations, you fucking idiots, you've added another embarrassing entry to your list of shit appointments.

We really have given up.

Bit over the top

Nope, absolutely accurate.

Out of the frying pan, into a fucking cremation oven.

[ez]

We'll get 'new manager bounce' which will get us out of the drop zone. What happens after that is key.

[richard moore]

Congratulations, you fucking idiots, you've added another embarrassing entry to your list of shit appointments.

We really have given up.

Bit over the top

Nope, absolutely accurate.

Out of the frying pan, into a fucking cremation oven.

Ridiculous comment, there is no way you can be certain of that.

[Toronto Villa]

It's likely I'd be underwhelmed by almost any appointment we could make, if I'm honest. However, I really think this is an extremely poor decision. We could well stay up still, the squad of players is good and often any change is refreshing enough to galvanise a team. In addition, Sherwood is certainly an ebullient character, and often down at the bottom what you need is a wave of emotion to carry you through.

However, unless Sherwood has changed drastically in the last few months, I think the long-term will be extremely disappointing. The guy is very arrogant, and seemingly incapable of acknowledging that he's made any mistakes, preferring to blame the players 'lack of character' if he's made a catastrophic tactical fuck-up - and he makes plenty of those, as he's also, in the words of one Spurs fan, 'proudly and aggressively ignorant of the basics of football tactics'.

Why do we keep appointing this kind of manager? Why always the thoughtless passion-mongers? Why do we see smaller clubs around us go for forward-thinking, tactically aware managers, often from abroad, and continue to appoint old-school British guys who don't even have a clue that they don't have a clue? It's really wearying.

Thing is you can't predict the long term because there isn't enough of a body of work to know how this will turn out. We know he will at the very least make us "interesting" again, which we all hope means we will at least threaten the opposition goal more than once a month. I was so bored of everything Villa, so this at least makes me curious. I, like everyone who has severe doubts hopes above all else that he learns about balance and develops a sense of maturity. To be successful in the game long term requires a modicum of humility especially when you haven't achieved anything. Acting like Mourinho or Ferguson only works when they need to build you a new wing to your house for all the trophies. He'll be well served to have people around him that provide that balance.

[supertom]

As disappointed as I am, I am going to approach this with an open mind and give him my support. We needed change and every option was better than Lambert. Bring in a good coaching staff and prove us wrong Tim. Be a success at Villa and the fans will quickly get behind you.

Spot on Toronto. Some of the over-reaction on here seems very harsh and I can't help but feel it is tinged with a hatred of all things Spurs. Which is perfectly excusable by the way! As ever, it's all about results and if we beat Leicester and Stoke, then we will see opinions change very quickly I suspect. Best of luck to him and I hope, in a very nice way, he rams some people's views of him right down their throats. Because it will mean we are winning games

I think even McLeish got a slightly better welcome. It wasn't particularly enthusiastic or positive, but less personally vitriolic than what Sherwood is getting in some corners here.

[itbrvilla]

Congratulations, you fucking idiots, you've added another embarrassing entry to your list of shit appointments.

We really have given up.

Bit over the top

Nope, absolutely accurate.

Out of the frying pan, into a fucking cremation oven.

I agree.  I wonder how much thought went into this appointment? IMO barely any.  Did they twats draw his name out of a hat?

[johnc]

I'm happy with this appointment because the last thing he did was stop a club in disarray from sliding further. He worked well with disaffected players and got the team scoring again and working together. Boxes ticked for immediate needs at Villa.

Were Spurs in disarray? They were in the top 6. They must set their disarray bar fairly low. They need to look at the Villa and up their game as far as disarray is concerned. Fairly underwhelmed by the appointment but things had got so bad with Lambert that anything will be an improvement. If he brings some semblance of organisation and attacking intent it should be enough to keep us up. Finding a amanager in March when you are in the relegation zone is akin to picking up a Valentine Card on the morning of the 14th. Everything left has been already considered and discarded by others. Beggars cant be choosers