Who do you want the next Villa manager to be?

[postal]

Hate to say it , but Pearson might be the best shot of keeping us up, as long as doesn't go nuts too often. He knows what needs to be done.

Moyes isn't going to come, and there seem to be issues with Garde's staff.

[N'ZMAV]

Whoever comes in they need to be able to organise a back four, pick a settled side and sign a striker.

[Dave]

Hate to say it , but Pearson might be the best shot of keeping us up, as long as doesn't go nuts too often. He knows what needs to be done.

Whereas everybody else is just going to turn up with no idea?

[rob_bridge]

We are in no position to take chances at this time. Out of all the names above, Moyes is the only person that would guarantee us staying up this year.

Noone would guarantee us staying up this year.

Yes you are right, there is no guarantee, but if you had to put your house on it, would you take a punt on the rest?

To be honest at this stage, I'd rather we took some risk with the potential of a greater reward. I'm not just talking in terms of results, but also entertainment. I think I'd like us to look at a long term project, which Garde appears to be,  rather than thinking this manager can save us now and the future will take care of itself. Clearly that has the potential to go wrong, but our short termism 'strategy' has been an utter failure too. Taking everything else away, I'd like a manager who makes me enjoy watching Villa again.

I am in total agreement with this. The idea of appointing a Moyes, an Allardyce, a Pulis, a Pardew, a Bruce and have us plodding around between 8th and 14th ad infinitum doesn't inspire me at all. I was hoping the appointment would be someone with top flight but not Premier League experience and Remi Garde fits the bill for me and I'd be disappointed not to get him now.

I think Moyes in a few rungs above the Brits you site in all honesty. The others wouldn't come in any case.

[rob_bridge]

Whoever comes in, Garde, Moyes, Rodgers, Redknapp, Pearson, the biggest and single most important ability they must bring is clarity of vision, and the longer they see our situation clearly the better they will manage us.

A new manager has to see what we have been seeing for five years and act on what he (maybe she) sees. He has to see N'Zogbia running down blind alleys with his head down, Westwood failing to track runners, Kozak at least deserving a few minutes off the bench, Gestede not getting square on in aerial challenges so at best the ball skids off the side of his head at worst missing it altogether, Gabby's weight, Richardson's lack of stamina, Lescott's half arsed attitude, Guzan's refusal to vary his kicking and his inability to throw out quickly.

What has been missing in the periods of management of McLeish, Lambert and Sherwood is failure to address the blindingly obvious with the inevitable result that the team punches three stones below its weight. For five long years less than the sum of its parts.

Any half competent manager should be able to fix that.

Quite correct - there are some basics, not the occasional individual error which all teams have, which if addressed can glean us 5 or 6 more points per season alone. That could be critical this year.

[mal]

Whoever comes in, Garde, Moyes, Rodgers, Redknapp, Pearson, the biggest and single most important ability they must bring is clarity of vision, and the longer they see our situation clearly the better they will manage us.

A new manager has to see what we have been seeing for five years and act on what he (maybe she) sees. He has to see N'Zogbia running down blind alleys with his head down, Westwood failing to track runners, Kozak at least deserving a few minutes off the bench, Gestede not getting square on in aerial challenges so at best the ball skids off the side of his head at worst missing it altogether, Gabby's weight, Richardson's lack of stamina, Lescott's half arsed attitude, Guzan's refusal to vary his kicking and his inability to throw out quickly.

What has been missing in the periods of management of McLeish, Lambert and Sherwood is failure to address the blindingly obvious with the inevitable result that the team punches three stones below its weight. For five long years less than the sum of its parts.

Any half competent manager should be able to fix that.

I'd agree with all of that.  It's a decent analysis. I still don't want Moyes though I don't think he'd see half of that...it was equally obvious whre the problem areas at Man Ure were and he bought Fellaini.

[Iamkmkm]

Remi Garde would do a fantastic job at villa, you cant compare him to all the dross we'v had recently.

[Yossarian]

Remi Garde would do a fantastic job at villa, you cant compare him to all the dross we'v had recently.

Isn't that what we'v spent the last seventy two pages doing?

[brian green]

Agreed. I want a new broom to sweep us clean.  Of course I want us to stay up but I think the chances of that are better trying to regain some pride in ourselves.

[ChicagoLion]

Agreed. I want a new broom to sweep us clean.  Of course I want us to stay up but I think the chances of that are better trying to regain some pride in ourselves.

Ditto, I want someone to do what Houlier seemed to start but could not finish,this does not involve flying in a failed Moyes from Spain or an aggresive basket case like Pearson.

[pauliewalnuts]

Moyes is a decent manager, but I'd prefer a totally new approach, some modern thinking in our tactics.

[Brend'Watkins]

Remi Garde will be the Avant Garde.

I don't think we're that terrible that a tweak of the team wouldn't have us out of trouble by Christmas.  We're not shipping in shed loads of goals as we are.  If we cut out the errors and with a bit of luck we should have enough in us to survive.  Garde can then go from there.

[Villa in Denmark]

Moyes is a decent manager, but I'd prefer a totally new approach, some modern thinking in our tactics.

Exactly.

We've spent the best part of the 21st century pretending we're still in the 1980's with some of our tactics (and the 1880's in some of Lambert's more "creative" moments.)

We said when Lambert was booted out, that anyone remotely competent would probably keep that squad up.  As it turned out it was someone mostly incompetent that did it.  Enough of this shit.  Can we please have someone who's remotely up to date and capable of getting the maximum out of this squad.

Until then, any debate as to whether the squad is good enough is null and void.

[QuintonVilla]

Moyes. Never been a massive fan but I think he's what we need right now, he would get everyone pulling in the same direction, and would make us more solid and hard to beat. In our situation i think we definitely need someone with Premier League experience. The last thing you want in a scrap and a dogfight is a French bloke.

[Boz]

Moyes is a decent manager, but I'd prefer a totally new approach, some modern thinking in our tactics.

Ditto