Who do you want the next Villa manager to be?

[LTA]

'Onest 'arry has ruled himself out.

[Risso]

'Onest 'arry has ruled himself out.

And on that basis so have I.

[pauliewalnuts]

'Onest 'arry has ruled himself out.

And on that basis so have I.

I was only prepared to accept if i could bring Risso in as my number two, so on that basis, I too am out.

[joe_c]

'Onest 'arry has ruled himself out.

And on that basis so have I.

I was only prepared to accept if i could bring Risso in as my number two, so on that basis, I too am out.

I am leaning out of my Range Rover as I type to express how flattered I am to be linked but...

[pauliewalnuts]

'Onest 'arry has ruled himself out.

And on that basis so have I.

I was only prepared to accept if i could bring Risso in as my number two, so on that basis, I too am out.

I am leaning out of my Range Rover as I type to express how flattered I am to be linked but...

This forum has been such a joke for five years now, we'll never attract a decent poster.

Why would they come here and work under Woodhall's rules?

[Jimbo]

Garde too is a gamble, but more of a James-Bond-playing-Baccarat type of gamble than the chucking-your-life-savings-into-a-Roulette-Machine-in-Ladbrokes gambles of the last five years.

[mattjpa]

I think showing bravery more often than not reaps the biggest rewards. For that reason im "en Garde" (sorry) If we believe we have enough quality to stay up lets pick the man who looks like he might offer the best chance of long term progression but maybe the least chance of short term survival (by way of the unknown). I cant believe im going to say this but our goal has to be to emulate Southampton, Swansea and Stoke City, all well run, organised cubs with a settled first team, settled manager and good scouting network that will offer both players to win now and players with potential to make money on in the future.

I fear that if we pick Pearson or someone of his ilk, we will be sitting here in a year or twos time saying what if we had been braver and gone with Garde? I bloody hate Pearson anyway.

[Des Little]

Ads keeps ringing me to ask me to be his number 2.  Sounds like he's in a toilet?

[godzvilla]

I think PL may have a valid point re language / communication problems in the dressing room:............Godzvilla!

The Scotsman believes there are severe dressing room language issues at Villa and says that's in part why Tim Sherwood got the boot.
The club brought in a wave of 11 new players over the summer, with five French speakers among them.
According to Paul Lambert, making sure you pick up the language is crucial.
“The dressing room seems to be all mixed languages," he told talkSPORT..
"Looking at Villa at the moment, I’m not so sure a lot of the lads know what’s hit them."
Former Arsenal and Lyon man Garde is the favourite to replace Sherwood, and Lambert thinks it could help having a French speaker at the helm.

[Dante Lavelli]

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.

That was Sherwood's biggest single biggest failing this season.  No one had a clue what his vision was.
A clear vision moving forward will then allow the scouts and other staff can tune their "money-ball machines" and increase their chance of success.

[paul_e]

'Onest 'arry has ruled himself out.

And on that basis so have I.

I was only prepared to accept if i could bring Risso in as my number two, so on that basis, I too am out.

I am leaning out of my Range Rover as I type to express how flattered I am to be linked but...

This forum has been such a joke for five years now, we'll never attract a decent poster.

Why would they come here and work under Woodhall's rules?

The things is everything is going so well in off topic but it just isn't on heroes discussion where it matters.

[LeeB]

'Onest 'arry has ruled himself out.

And on that basis so have I.

I was only prepared to accept if i could bring Risso in as my number two, so on that basis, I too am out.

I am leaning out of my Range Rover as I type to express how flattered I am to be linked but...

This forum has been such a joke for five years now, we'll never attract a decent poster.

Why would they come here and work under Woodhall's rules?

The things is everything is going so well in off topic but it just isn't on heroes discussion where it matters.

We're still stuck posting in the 80's, we need to modernise, introduce avatars and relentless cyber bullying. That kind of thing.

[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.

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

What i meant is that he knows what is needed in a Premier league relegation battle

I'd rather Garde in the long term but...

[Rigadon]

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

My expectations are obviously less.  I just want a proven decent manager for a refreshing change.   No more gambles.

[olaftab]

I don't think it's beyond us to stay up this season, whoever the manager is. Take it step by step.

1. Stop making unforced errors that get us beaten. Strategic, tactical, losing the ball in dangerous positions.
2. Get a bit of confidence back. Draw a difficult game everyone expects us to lose.
3. Win a game.
4. Win another, get off the bottom of the table.
5. Set our sights on the team fourth from bottom and outperform them.

Set yourself simple goals and tick them off one by one. It's the only way. In the meantime you have to ignore the background noise from people like us, and Collymore, and that Stripey knob who writes about Villa in the Mail. It's not easy but it can be done.

Yes exactly. One step at a time. That's way to climb up a mountain. To be honest getting to 4/5 from bottom is not that difficult. We need to improve our performance only marginally to start collecting points.