Who do you want the next Villa manager to be?

[mallo]

Article on Garde's tactics here.

http://frenchfootballweekly.com/2013/04/28/olympique-lyonnais-the-tactical-debrief/

Would be strange to watch a well coached team

Interesting article - several levels above anything we've had recently I'll wager. Seems he began to panic when individual errors started rearing their heads - worryingly close to us at the moment. However, I think the players are there to mimic that formation with gana, veretout, ayew, Gil - I think he'll tell everyone where they're supposed to be on the pitch at any one time and give us a system we could stick to. I'm convinced those players in total are considerably better than they are but 90% is belief and I wonder if we have just gone too far to bring that back. As an aside when a guy from Barcelona thinks the tactics are mad then I hope he's got something to look forward to.

[LukeJames]

What do we want from Aston Villa?

Do we want to play not to lose, or do we want to play to win every game.

I'd much rather watch us play to win. We're never going to win anything, so let's not win anything by being interesting to watch.

I'd honestly take going down if it meant watching good football. For too long has it been boring and dull. I'm tired of it.

I don't care about staying up if it means we play boring football.

Im aware I may be in a minority of one, but imagine being excited walking towards the ground, knowing you're going to se a great game and see
Your team go for it.

Me too, relegation didn't bother me in the slightest last season if it meant more of the same shit this season, I wanted that cup win more than anything!

[Smirker]

Voted Moyes, not too keen on him but probably the best of the options in the poll.

[Risso]

Went for Remi Garde.  Sounds a bit foreign, like.

[Ian.]

This Garde could be interesting and exciting. Mind you I thought Lambert was a great choice and had no idea Sherwood was such an egotistical back stabbing clown.

[Toronto Villa]

Remi Garde
This is impressive but a bit worried about over 50% win rate but over 117  rather than 17 matches!As of 19 September 2013.
Team   From   To   Record
                                                        G      W     D     L       Win    %
Lyon   21 June 2011   30 June 2014   117   60   26   31   51.28
Total   117   60   26   31   51.28

Those stats also suggest he didn't lose in 73.5% of his games. I'd take those kind of stats with us in a heartbeat.

[PeterWithesShin]

Winning more than we lose at home would be a nice start.

[Malandro]

Went for Remi Garde.  Sounds a bit foreign, like.

Oh Remi!

[ciggiesnbeer]

Kind of warming to Garde. Would be good to see us break the dour British / Irish cycle on the other hand I cant shake the feeling Lerner & Co are more interested in an option who will work within the "framework of the club" , i.e.: on the cheap.

[PeterWithesShin]

Considering we were the first to have an overseas manager, it shows how short sighted we've tended to be when despite the amount of managers we've had, 25 years later and the only other overseas manager so far is Houllier.

[Dave]

...25 years the only other overseas manager so far is Houllier.

Technically, O'Neill and O'Leary originally came from over a sea

But you're right. It has been depressingly narrow-sighted. Like Martin O'Neill trying to assemble a defence.

[cdbearsfan]

Considering we were the first to have an overseas manager, it shows how short sighted we've tended to be when despite the amount of managers we've had, 25 years later and the only other overseas manager so far is Houllier.

Who had spent much of his life living and working in England and was only offered the job because of his "Premier League experience".

[PeterWithesShin]

I was hoping to sneak that bit by!

[Monty]

Villa are a very English club, I sometimes think, and this means all sorts of good things - the classic four-stand shape of the ground, the (remaining) red-brick in the stands, the multicultural make-up of the crowds in more recent years - but I wonder if that general feeling has been perpetuated by our choice of managers and players (or possibly the other way around).

[conman]

Roy Keane. Obvious. He knows where bodymore heath is.

and he can spell it