Who do you want the next Villa manager to be?

[The Edge]

Has anyone mentioned Neil Warnock yet?

....and if not, why not?

Because he's a twat maybe?

[brian green]

I was speaking allegorically about K Mac. He was in charge when we won his first game (Everton? West Ham?) Then we went to Newcastle and shipped six goals. That is what I mean by a bad result and as I recall it he was never granted an interview for the top job. A short list was drawn up which did not include him.

[berneboy]

Gary Neville. He'd organise the back four and would certainly attract decent players.

I'd have Gary Neville.

[conman]

if garde dont want it and moyes dont want it i would offer it to 3rd choice pearson to see if he wants it and if he dont want it i dont know who to suggest

[conman]

Gary Neville. He'd organise the back four and would certainly attract decent players.

I'd have Gary Neville.

its alright saying you would have someone but before you think about having them you have to think would they want the job
yeah i would have gary neville too if there was a slight  remote chance he might want it but i cant have him if he dont want it

[RichardBatchelor]

This, absolutely, with the possible exception of Lescott being half-arsed (he's a fan, after all)rather than just totally past it and Finished at this level.

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.

[oldtimernow]

this guy might still be interested

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/six-year-old-charlie-pye-applies-aston-5541173

[Villafirst]

I think Garde will get the job - probably things going on in the background we don't know about. If nor,  Pearson or Rowett would be a good shout.

[Louzie0]

It's all gone rather quiet today, which I am taking as a good sign that things like buying out contracts are being sorted out in France.

[nodge]

Gary Neville. He'd organise the back four and would certainly attract decent players.

I very much doubt it would ever be with us but I have a feeling if he decides to leave Sky in the future and become a manager he could be very good at it.  He seems very knowledgeable about the game and is gaining coaching experience with England.  He's been managed by a very successful (spit) manager for his whole career so must have learnt along the way.  He's either waiting for a couple more managers to cock it up at Old Trafford or having a great time travelling the country watching football and getting extremely well paid to give it up for the hassle of being a manager.  Maybe Dwight can convince him to join us as his assistant 

[PeterWithesShin]

I was speaking allegorically about K Mac. He was in charge when we won his first game (Everton? West Ham?) Then we went to Newcastle and shipped six goals. That is what I mean by a bad result and as I recall it he was never granted an interview for the top job. A short list was drawn up which did not include him.

He still had more than one bad result and didn't want the job anyway. So he's hardly going to be on a list when they knew he didn't want it.

[olaftab]

Moyes rules himself out

Why did it take 76 pages for him to rule himself out?

[Tayls_7]

It's all gone rather quiet today, which I am taking as a good sign that things like buying out contracts are being sorted out in France.

I'm hoping that too, but that's all it is.

[walsall villain]

I was speaking allegorically about K Mac. He was in charge when we won his first game (Everton? West Ham?) Then we went to Newcastle and shipped six goals. That is what I mean by a bad result and as I recall it he was never granted an interview for the top job. A short list was drawn up which did not include him.

He still had more than one bad result and didn't want the job anyway. So he's hardly going to be on a list when they knew he didn't want it.

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And his stint as a manager at Swindon didn't go well.

[brian green]

Alright then PWS if it gets you off my case, KMac had one really bad result at Newcastle. The way I read the interview process he said he was not interested in the job anyway after he knew he was not on the shortlist. I may be wrong but it is the product of a pre WW2 memory so I will not apologise for obliging you to correct me.