Poll - Sherwood - got rid

[curiousorange]

Watching all the hoo-ha over Klopp reminded me how I felt the day O'Neill arrived. I couldn't wait for the season to start; it felt like we were huge again.

Of course, if I'd have known we'd still be pining for him five years later like a miserable divorcee, I probably wouldn't have been so chuffed.

[Mossie Hennebry]

I wonder is the reason that Ray Wilkins never seems to open his mouth is because he is thinking that this eejit is going to play himself out of the job and I'll be here to takeover?

[aj2k77]

If Wilkins thinks he's getting the Villa job then he's back on the sauce.

[PaulWinch again]

Watching all the hoo-ha over Klopp reminded me how I felt the day O'Neill arrived. I couldn't wait for the season to start; it felt like we were huge again.

Of course, if I'd have known we'd still be pining for him five years later like a miserable divorcee, I probably wouldn't have been so chuffed.

That was the last time I was genuinely excited by a managerial appointment.

[mr underhill]

the divorce was acrimonious to say the least, but what wouldn't I give for a top six finish now.

[postal]

the divorce was acrimonious to say the least, but what wouldn't I give for a top six finish now.

At the moment I'd take a six from bottom. 

[Monty]

Not to do all this again, but I don't think you can just say that the top 6 finishes were all down to MON, and that since then the only thing missing has been a good enough manager. MON has qualities, but he's also the reason we didn't finish top 4 - if we'd appointed someone like Mancini, we would have.

[paul_e]

Not to do all this again, but I don't think you can just say that the top 6 finishes were all down to MON, and that since then the only thing missing has been a good enough manager. MON has qualities, but he's also the reason we didn't finish top 4 - if we'd appointed someone like Mancini, we would have.

I think MON was good for the first 2 seasons, if we'd been hard-nosed enough to get rid after his second season and get someone to build on what he did I think we may have seen a very different club in the last 7 years.  His attempts at improving on that first 6th place were appalling and despite adding to the squad he still managed to run his favourite 13-14 players into the ground by March.

[Des Little]

the divorce was acrimonious to say the least, but what wouldn't I give for a top six finish now.

At the moment I'd take a six from bottom. 

We'll do well to get 6 more points under laughing boy

[aj2k77]

MON did shit here, for all his countless millions spent we finished below Everton in 2007/08, 2 pts above Blackburn and 3 above Portsmouth. Finished below Everton in 08/09 and finished below Harry Redknapp in 09/10. Complete myth of a man, I hate him.

[Stu]

No more up and coming managers.

You cannot take suggestions seriously for managers whose experience amounts to running tiny, tin-pot outfits like Hasselbaink, Howe and Rowett with the extreme pressures and expectations of managing a club like us.

I totally agree. It's fine signing players with potential, but a club like Villa should not be appointing managers with potential that need time to learn. We need proven ability, now more than ever, because we're in the shit.

[N'ZMAV]

Watching all the hoo-ha over Klopp reminded me how I felt the day O'Neill arrived. I couldn't wait for the season to start; it felt like we were huge again.

Of course, if I'd have known we'd still be pining for him five years later like a miserable divorcee, I probably wouldn't have been so chuffed.

I'm not pining for him.

[curiousorange]

Watching all the hoo-ha over Klopp reminded me how I felt the day O'Neill arrived. I couldn't wait for the season to start; it felt like we were huge again.

Of course, if I'd have known we'd still be pining for him five years later like a miserable divorcee, I probably wouldn't have been so chuffed.

I'm not pining for him.

I didn't mean us personally, I meant the club. We've metaphorically tried so many new partners that are wrong for us it's as if we're a lonesome Saturday evening away from drunk dialling him.

[OCD]

It would be very easy to argue that the last shit 6 years are largely down to O'Neill's incompetence and arrogance.

That and Lerner. And for all the talk about the club needing an experienced manager, I would go one step further and say the club desperately needs experienced leaders at the top.

[Monty]

Well, that's Allardyce out of the picture for us then.