Who do you want the next Villa manager to be?

[PaulWinch again]

Or maybe just the reality of being bottom after a quarter of the season means that staying up now has to be the aim of the season.

I'm not disputing it's the aim of the season, but I don't think it would feel like winning the title.

[PeterWithesShin]

I agree, but it's also not an indication of how low our expectations are. For me, to be that we'd have had to saying at the start of the season we'd be delighted to finish 17th.

[Phil from the upper holte]

Moyes rules himself out

[not3bad]

How has this got to 76 pages (or whatever number your device has you on) without a serious mention of Joe Kinnear?

I see no option for Alan Curbishley in the votes either. Tsk.

[Phil from the upper holte]

I agree, but it's also not an indication of how low our expectations are. For me, to be that we'd have had to saying at the start of the season we'd be delighted to finish 17th.

I'd be happy to win a game, that's how low my expectations are

[PeterWithesShin]

It's time for Carlton Palmer to fulfill his destiny.

[PaulWinch again]

I'm starting to feel like I did when Solskjaer was a candidate. I really want it to be Garde now, as I feel this is an opportunity for growth at the club. Obviously it didn't work out too well for Solskjaer at Cardiff, but I think Garde has done it in a league with a higher standard.

[Taylor]

According to Sky Garde deal in doubt

[Pat McMahon]

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.

Right, you've convinced me Brian. I'm applying.

[Pat McMahon]

It's time for Carlton Palmer to fulfill his destiny.

Luckily he is head of sport at a school in Shanghai and would see us as a sideways step

[sid1964]

If both Garde and Moyes dont want the job, then it  feels as though our options are very limited.

Unless the club have someone in mind who no one has yet mentioned?

[PeterWithesShin]

David Cameron has applied for the job.

[Reuben]

Groundbreaking insight from TSM2

[Duncan Shaw]

Moyes rules himself out

Not seen this, where?

[ciggiesnbeer]

Moyes rules himself out

Not seen this, where?

He is still trying to figure out how to email it to the press. Give him a bit of time.