Who do you want the next Villa manager to be?

[Phil from the upper holte]

I actually think Kev will do ok, it was quite obvious to me that he went to Southampton to lose. Next week would be a much stronger team

[LeeB]

I want Garde that is not the point, weeks ago we all new Sherwood was gone that was when all the problems around a new manager and staff should have been negotiated and sorted, not wait until you have sacked the incumbent and then find there are problems.

It feels like the Houllier saga all over again.

I'm sure other clubs have difficulty with their appointments, and there's only one club I pay attention to, but it sure feels like we encounter problems that don't crop up elsewhere.

[Phil from the upper holte]

I don't want him long term obviously

[PaulWinch again]

Amused to see that 116 people think Garde is the ideal choice. I wonder how many had even heard of him before the weekend.

I'm off to find some Eskimos to sell ice cream to.

Yes, because the most important thing to consider when appointing a manager is if he is well known to people.

Indeed. It's that sort of thinking that leads to the likes of Mcleish getting repeated opportunities.

[itbrvilla]

Amused to see that 116 people think Garde is the ideal choice. I wonder how many had even heard of him before the weekend.

I'm off to find some Eskimos to sell ice cream to.

Yes, because the most important thing to consider when appointing a manager is if he is well known to people.

Agreed. Arsenal should've gone with a safe pair of hands like Mike Walker rather than gambling on that unknown Wenger.

Rednapp is well know, most because he can't keep his faking marf shat.

[Taylor]

I want Garde that is not the point, weeks ago we all new Sherwood was gone that was when all the problems around a new manager and staff should have been negotiated and sorted, not wait until you have sacked the incumbent and then find there are problems.

Sherwood wasn't "gone" until last Sunday. I'd like to think our club wouldn't be as underhand as negotiating a contract while he was still our manager.

[PaulWinch again]

Amused to see that 116 people think Garde is the ideal choice. I wonder how many had even heard of him before the weekend.

I'm off to find some Eskimos to sell ice cream to.

Yes, because the most important thing to consider when appointing a manager is if he is well known to people.

Also it's not like he's a complete nobody. He played for Arsenal for three years and managed Lyon for three years. It's not as if he was managing in the third division in San Marino.

[Villa in Denmark]

I want Garde that is not the point, weeks ago we all new Sherwood was gone that was when all the problems around a new manager and staff should have been negotiated and sorted, not wait until you have sacked the incumbent and then find there are problems.

Sherwood wasn't "gone" until last Sunday. I'd like to think our club wouldn't be as underhand as negotiating a contract while he was still our manager.

If as reported, Garde is the no.1 choice, I'd hazard a guess that we'd sounded him out when it was obvious it was going to shit before Sherwood was sacked, but still giving him (Sherwood) a chance to turn it around.  At some point Garde would have said something about his back room staff.

At this point we could either have discretely approached Lyon and Metz to enquire about their potential availability (risky in terms of undermining Sherwood if it leaked and not in line with how we've tended to do things) or made an assumption that, as with most things in football, wave enough pound notes or Euros at a problem and the problem gets solved.

Unfortunately for us that doesn't appear to be the case for Lyon.

[Ads]

Ask the guy to resign and offer to pay the balance on his contract. How much can it really be worth?

We need a new man and quickly. We shouldn't be writing off any points and if it is to be Garde, then lets get it done. Of course we may well be doing exactly that.

[Jimbo]

I want Garde that is not the point, weeks ago we all new Sherwood was gone that was when all the problems around a new manager and staff should have been negotiated and sorted, not wait until you have sacked the incumbent and then find there are problems.

Sherwood wasn't "gone" until last Sunday. I'd like to think our club wouldn't be as underhand as negotiating a contract while he was still our manager.

He should have been sacked directly after the Stoke game, and we should have used the international break to sort out a new manager, as many said on here. We were just delaying the inevitable, and it may well cost us points while we're waiting for the new man to sort his shit out. That will make his job even more difficult, but Villa's entire modus operandi is geared to making life difficult for itself.

[Ron Manager]

It's all down to money.Randy doesn't want to spend it but it looks as if he has no choice in this matter.The question should be will he be spending it on the right man?

I am beginning to have doubts.

[Malandro]

I want Garde that is not the point, weeks ago we all new Sherwood was gone that was when all the problems around a new manager and staff should have been negotiated and sorted, not wait until you have sacked the incumbent and then find there are problems.

Sherwood wasn't "gone" until last Sunday. I'd like to think our club wouldn't be as underhand as negotiating a contract while he was still our manager.

He should have been sacked directly after the Stoke game, and we should have used the international break to sort out a new manager, as many said on here. We were just delaying the inevitable, and it may well cost us points while we're waiting for the new man to sort his shit out. That will make his job even more difficult, but Villa's entire modus operandi is geared to making life difficult for itself.

That's the frustrating thing, we knew we'd lose to Chelsea and Swansea was predictable too.
Even if we beaten both teams he'd have been gone in the near future.

[rob_bridge]

I want Garde that is not the point, weeks ago we all new Sherwood was gone that was when all the problems around a new manager and staff should have been negotiated and sorted, not wait until you have sacked the incumbent and then find there are problems.

Sherwood wasn't "gone" until last Sunday. I'd like to think our club wouldn't be as underhand as negotiating a contract while he was still our manager.

He should have been sacked directly after the Stoke game, and we should have used the international break to sort out a new manager, as many said on here. We were just delaying the inevitable, and it may well cost us points while we're waiting for the new man to sort his shit out. That will make his job even more difficult, but Villa's entire modus operandi is geared to making life difficult for itself.

After the team selection and performance he should have been sacked at 5.00 p.m. prior to any press interviews.

I don't believe in God, The Devil, Heaven or Hell but I went to Purgatory that day.

[Chris Jameson]

Some of the early RHCP stuff wasn't too bad, they were never as good as they, or indeed lots of other people, thought they were though.

28 years later they are still the worst band I've ever seen. And I've seen Christian Death and Hanoi Rocks.

[olaftab]

Amused to see that 116 people think Garde is the ideal choice. I wonder how many had even heard of him before the weekend.

I'm off to find some Eskimos to sell ice cream to.

Yes let's go and get Neil Warnock I say.