Poll - Sherwood - got rid

[Ormy Droid]

If it means bringing Allardyce in I'd rather keep him a bit longer, I cannot stand watching Allardyce's brand of football. We've got a decent squad with a fair amount of young foreign players, surely there is a coach outside the British Isles who could do a better job than the usual uninspiring suspects?

I'm sorry but I'm finding it just a bit hard to swallow this line from a lot of people tbh about 'Allardyce's brand of football' - It's not as if we're renowned for our free flowing football over the years is it? So if it's a choice of watching crap football, and every so often taking three points I'll have that please, thank you.

It isn't though, is it?

It certainly doesn't have to be, anyway.

I just don't think the football we have to watch can be any worse than what's been on offer for the last five years. The Villa job is just too big (especially now) to risk another appointment with little or no experience of this league. I think even Klopp would struggle down the Villa.

Today, I thought we looked better once we had Gil, Grealish and Ayew on the pitch, and ideally I'd like a manager who could get the best out of these talented players, and I admit Allardyce is probably not that man. I just don't think it's possible for us to 'play' our way out of this mess at the moment. Allardyce would stabilise the club and be a stop gap (as at West Ham) until we get new owners and an actual purpose again.

I don't think Allardyce went into the West Ham job seeing himself as a stop gap.

I take your point about not being worse than it has for the last five years, but once again, how is that any basis on which to support a potential new manager?

If things have been so bad for five years - and they have, they really have been fucking awful - then surely it is still extremely easy to manage to be better than it has been yet still not good enough?

I don't want three years of slightly better than what we've had. I want years of it being MUCH better than it has.

And so say all of us! But realistically speaking, a bit of mediocrity would be big step up for this football club the way it's been run in recent times I'm afraid to say.

[passport1]

What we need is a manager with a depth of football knowledge, a vision for the club oh and an owner with both of those qualities aswell.

Fat chance.

[Villa in Denmark]

I'm ust not convinced we have the players to play Allardyce's style effectively.

Endless diagonal balls at Gestede to knock down for Sinclair.

I'd take that

Because it worked so well in the first half today.

At least it's a game plan whereas today ?? This season, I see no plan , no method.

Hutton and Amavi were getting to the byline often enough, but the final ball was usually lacking. So the plan, if it could be called such, failed.

I reckon Timah reasoned that Gil and Grealish would be bullied and so kept hem on the bench until Sterk were tired. 

Going from 3 central defenders to 2 cost us the goal, as the two had not adjusted properly and were too far apart.

So there was a plan, but not a very effective one.  I don't think TS is ever short of plans, to be fair.  He got some well wicked slick schemes up his sleeve innit.

Neither was Baldrick. Mind you his plans were shit as well.

[PaulWinch again]

We need a manger who has the vaguest idea of how to set a team up.

[ozzjim]

4 points adrift 8 games in is spectacular.

[Ger Regan]

Over an hour after the final whistle and nobody's voted no yet. Quite surprised by that, I have to say.

[olaftab]

Question.  What makes people think Allardyce would come here?

He is out work and Chelsea won't sack Mourinho and come for him.

[walsall villain]

The bottom three are getting left behind. You can be sure there will be managerial changes, we have to be sure we get the best of what's available before the others do. We have started our alarming run of results very early this time around and an experienced head is required to sort us out. I would go for Allardyce now, like Pulis his very name divides opinions but I have no doubt he would keep us up and improve us. It might not be pretty but neither is losing to poor teams week in week out.

[Risso]

Nobody is going to be sad to see the back of us, Newcastle or Sunderland.  If ever three clubs deserved to get relegated,, it's us and the two North East teams.

[pauliewalnuts]

Nobody is going to be sad to see the back of us, Newcastle or Sunderland.  If ever three clubs deserved to get relegated,, it's us and the two North East teams.

The only thing of note that we have achieved in recent years is being so shit, and winning so few games, yet still somehow managing to not get relegated.

Impressive stuff.

[Richard E]

Nobody is going to be sad to see the back of us, Newcastle or Sunderland.  If ever three clubs deserved to get relegated,, it's us and the two North East teams.

We stink this league out for sure.

[ozzjim]

Oh for sure. The 3 of us have been shit for years.

[garyshawsknee]

Nobody is going to be sad to see the back of us, Newcastle or Sunderland.  If ever three clubs deserved to get relegated,, it's us and the two North East teams.

I was just thinking this a minute ago. These 3 teams have stunk the league out for a while, and even their own supporters couldn't put up much of a case for them to stay up.

[The Left Side]

Who is available? Allardyce, Pearson or Klopp, I know who I want.

[Mister E]

We need a manger who has the vaguest idea of how to set a team up.

With a Messiah in it, preferably.