Who do you want the next Villa manager to be?

[PeterWithesShin]

His sacking was announced just before the Sunderland game kicked off.

His sacking was announced just before the Sunderland game kicked off.

And quoting.

I was always crap at Cluedo.

Ahem!

[Dave]

His sacking was announced just before the Sunderland game kicked off.

His sacking was announced just before the Sunderland game kicked off.

And quoting.

I was always crap at Cluedo.

Hopefully deliberate?

[Toronto Villa]

Here's what I am really happy about. That we are talking about the next Villa manager and not about when we can talk about the next Villa manager because Sherwood is still in charge.

[dave.woodhall]

His sacking was announced just before the Sunderland game kicked off.

His sacking was announced just before the Sunderland game kicked off.

I was always crap at Cluedo.

Don't worry - another couple of months and it will be accepted as fact (see also Lambeert, P, sacked if we're in the bottom three).

[cdbearsfan]

His sacking was announced just before the Sunderland game kicked off.

His sacking was announced just before the Sunderland game kicked off.

And quoting.

I was always crap at Cluedo.

Hopefully deliberate?

Sadly not... see previous post...

Oh for fuck's sake, would anyone believe me if I claimed I did that on purpose?

[Dave]

Here's what I am really happy about. That we are talking about the next Villa manager and not about when we can talk about the next Villa manager because Sherwood is still in charge.

That's definitely a very good thing.

But finding the cloud surrounding the silver lining - it's a bit sad that the times to be happiest are the brief moments in between finding that they have sacked one hopeless manager and hired another hopeless manager!

[Toronto Villa]

Here's what I am really happy about. That we are talking about the next Villa manager and not about when we can talk about the next Villa manager because Sherwood is still in charge.

That's definitely a very good thing.

But finding the cloud surrounding the silver lining - it's a bit sad that the times to be happiest are the brief moments in between finding that they have sacked one hopeless manager and hired another hopeless manager!

Unfortunately as an Aston Villa fan in recent years we have found great comfort, and the majority of our joy in silver linings and glimpses of the sun.

[silhillvilla]

The day Lerner fucks off is the day to get happy .

[Monty]

Fortunately, I have a feeling that this time around the people in charge believe the same sort of bullshit that we do.

[Dave]

The day Lerner fucks off is the day to get happy .

I'm sure you'll still be able to find something that's wrong with it.

[cdbearsfan]

The day Lerner fucks off is the day to get happy .

It would depend entirely on who replaced him.

[Drummond]

Not sure about Remi Garde. It's a bit leftfield, maybe Wenger and Houllier have had a word with our CEO and Owner respectively.

[Dave Pountney]

The day Lerner fucks off is the day to get happy .

I wouldn't have put it quite like that, but I agree with the sentiments. Sherwood turned out to be a very poor appointment, again, but he's another victim in the unfolding tragedy of Aston Villa F.C. under Lerner's now utterly disastrous ownership. Who else can be held accountable for the shambles if not the owner? If the Villa was a truly public limited company then the active shareholders would have sacked Lerner and his Board of Directors years ago for their serial incompetence. However, the club is structured in a way where this can't be done and we're stuck with Lerner until he sells.

I'm getting tired of being told about Lerner's greatest hits 2006-10 as if we should forget and forgive all the blunders and garbage records ever since. If the truth be known, O'Neill penned the few decent songs of that period before he then recorded some utter rubbish himself 2009-10. He turned out to be more Jonathan King than John Lennon and when the book is eventually written about the Villa's Lerner Years, we shall look back and reflect on one of the worst periods in the history of a great football club.

Expect another shocking appointment about midweek. Probably some up and coming tyro from the lower divisions (Dean Smith?) or, wait for it, Kevin MacDonald after our shock win at Southampton on Wednesday night. Yes, you heard it first here, folks. The dream ticket of MacDonald and Cowans is back in play!

[ozzjim]

Still some talk of Moyes on Twitter. Might just be journos covering themselves though. Got to say I am quite easy with Garde or Moyes.

[Steve67]

A two tier continental approach with Halmstadt as DOF and Garde as Head Coach? This is another complete gamble but one which might bring out the best in the players that we currently have. Personally, I'd rather go with Hughes or Moyes if they wanted it but this is potentially very interesting.