Who do you want the next Villa manager to be?

[aj2k77]

Turn the tables.

If we had employed a foreign manager, who had 6 months experience before joining us, he then went on a horrendous run of 9 defeats in 11 or whatever the silly stat is at the moment. The press would be absolutely hounding us about the appointment and saying it was a stupid gamble.

Just because he is English and played for Spurs doesn't make him any more likely to be tactically competent. Seems like there's a groundswell of little Englander emotions at the moment everywhere.

[mr underhill]

couldn't agree more, just loads of half-arsed jingoistic bollocks from people who make a mid December day look really dim

[PaulWinch again]

Just browsing a couple of online articles at work. Jamie Redknapp calls Garde an uninspiring choice (meaning he's probably never heard of him), then says "you can't tell me there aren't English managers available with better credentials". Yes I can Jamie. It's also typical apparently that we're looking abroad for a manager (yes Jamie, all of our recent managers were foreign weren't they).

THEN, elsewhere we have Wenger telling us that we didn't give Lambert enough time!!

Alan Brazil (yeah I know) can't understand why we'd look abroad when Nigel Pearson is available.

I need to stop reading this drivel before I start head butting walls.

Who did Young Redknapp site as having better credentials. Not equal or similar. Who is specifically English, available and has better credentials?

Incidentally how many of your former clubs have English managers Jamie? That's right none of them.

Bournemouth?

Sorry.

Oops forget he played for them, but I think the base point still remains.

[joe_c]

Turn the tables.

If we had employed a foreign manager, who had 6 months experience before joining us, he then went on a horrendous run of 9 defeats in 11 or whatever the silly stat is at the moment. The press would be absolutely hounding us about the appointment and saying it was a stupid gamble.

Just because he is English and played for Spurs doesn't make him any more likely to be tactically competent. Seems like there's a groundswell of little Englander emotions at the moment everywhere.

Bang on. Don't remember an outpouring of sympathy or pleas for more time for di Canio or Poyet when Sunderland binned them off on the back of a long run of poor results.

[Billy Walker]

Anyone else sick of other teams' managers, who despite our recent setbacks still ply their trade in the same league as us, dishing out opinions and 'advice' on our situation?  Why on earth should we be taking advice off people who have a vested interest in our failure?

I don't think they are giving us advice, it's just the tedious way the papers spin it.

[Billy Walker]

Just browsing a couple of online articles at work. Jamie Redknapp calls Garde an uninspiring choice (meaning he's probably never heard of him), then says "you can't tell me there aren't English managers available with better credentials". Yes I can Jamie. It's also typical apparently that we're looking abroad for a manager (yes Jamie, all of our recent managers were foreign weren't they).

THEN, elsewhere we have Wenger telling us that we didn't give Lambert enough time!!

Alan Brazil (yeah I know) can't understand why we'd look abroad when Nigel Pearson is available.

I need to stop reading this drivel before I start head butting walls.

You've answered your own question Marlon - don't listen to, or read it. I know that shouldn't have to be the answer but I haven't listened to any punditry on football for god knows how long. It's full of not very bright people like Brazil, Redknapp (x2), Quinn, Cascarino et al. The list is endless. I have no doubt some of them are quite nice chaps out of 'work' in a kind of 'one of the lads, old school' way but they are severely lacking in the brain cells department and compound that by thinking of Aston Villa as an irrelevance somewhere in the middle of the country. To them, QPR or Crystal Palace are more important which says it all. It isn't entirely true of the media as a whole. To give him his due, Adrian Durham was talking up just what a big club we are and one of the most successful clubs ever on Talkshite last night!

Adrian Durham is the worst, because he hides the fact that he actually has some knowledgeable things to say about football behind the moronic veneer of his radio programme in the evening.

The Durham that you might here on TalkShite on a Saturday sounds like a completely different person.

Totally agree on that

Caught some of his weekday show the other day and it was awful. Darren Gough is surely the stupidest person ever to be on radio. He's just mindblowingly thick. Listening to him massacre the English language is horrible. He can't even get the basics right, he struggles with the simplest thing. He's a broadcaster, FFS.

"The Daily Arsenal".  Why? And who on earth gives a f#ck?

[LTA]

Sadly there does seem to be this "Little Englander" attitude surround Remi Garde.  "I don't know much about him, so he's obvious rubbish".

[ozzjim]

I do hope he gets it and ends up saving us tge getting us into mid table. 36 points from 26 ish games will be bloody hard though. Basically going to need about 10 wins which is an upturn in form i just can't see.

It might just b shut some of the but he is French brigade up a bit.

[aj2k77]

Me either, I think the writings on the wall this season. To compound all the mistakes we've made the last 5 years the final one that puts the nail in the coffin is replacing Benteke with Gestede.

[Villa in Denmark]

I do hope he gets it and ends up saving us tge getting us into mid table. 36 points from 26 ish games will be bloody hard though. Basically going to need about 10 wins which is an upturn in form i just can't see.

It might just b shut some of the but he is French brigade up a bit.

Unfortunately you'll never shut that sort up.

[LeeB]

Just browsing a couple of online articles at work. Jamie Redknapp calls Garde an uninspiring choice (meaning he's probably never heard of him), then says "you can't tell me there aren't English managers available with better credentials". Yes I can Jamie. It's also typical apparently that we're looking abroad for a manager (yes Jamie, all of our recent managers were foreign weren't they).

THEN, elsewhere we have Wenger telling us that we didn't give Lambert enough time!!

Alan Brazil (yeah I know) can't understand why we'd look abroad when Nigel Pearson is available.

I need to stop reading this drivel before I start head butting walls.

You've answered your own question Marlon - don't listen to, or read it. I know that shouldn't have to be the answer but I haven't listened to any punditry on football for god knows how long. It's full of not very bright people like Brazil, Redknapp (x2), Quinn, Cascarino et al. The list is endless. I have no doubt some of them are quite nice chaps out of 'work' in a kind of 'one of the lads, old school' way but they are severely lacking in the brain cells department and compound that by thinking of Aston Villa as an irrelevance somewhere in the middle of the country. To them, QPR or Crystal Palace are more important which says it all. It isn't entirely true of the media as a whole. To give him his due, Adrian Durham was talking up just what a big club we are and one of the most successful clubs ever on Talkshite last night!

Adrian Durham is the worst, because he hides the fact that he actually has some knowledgeable things to say about football behind the moronic veneer of his radio programme in the evening.

The Durham that you might here on TalkShite on a Saturday sounds like a completely different person.

Totally agree on that

Caught some of his weekday show the other day and it was awful. Darren Gough is surely the stupidest person ever to be on radio. He's just mindblowingly thick. Listening to him massacre the English language is horrible. He can't even get the basics right, he struggles with the simplest thing. He's a broadcaster, FFS.

"The Daily Arsenal".  Why? And who on earth gives a f#ck?

In his favour, he's the only non-Villa fan I've ever heard suggest our European Cup win was the greatest of any English side. Which of course it was.

[Ads]

A win and a draw and we are out he bottom three. I am not sure I buy into this needing a miracle business, specially when we have Bournemouth, Newcastle, Sunderland and Norwich et al to play.

[VillaAlways]

@patmurphybbc: Kevin MacD reckons Garde will get to @AVFCOfficial eventually,along with his preferred backroom staff....because money talks in football

Good news!

[damon loves JT]

Anyone who can lead us to the promised land of 17th place will get my unqualified backing.

[olaftab]

It actually needs someone to turn around and say actually he did deserve to be sacked for these reasons. We're being made out to be the bad guys in this

Pftuh you and many of us just don't get it.  What's harm in a provincial club  getting relegated and disappearing into the ether if it means a Press luvvie and good mate of ex-footballer pundits picks up a bit of experience and a few millions  pounds to boot?