Who do you want the next Villa manager to be?

[Villa in Denmark]

Soccer Saturday team were really scathing about Garde potentially coming in.   Said it's a joke appointment and questioned why he hasn't even come yet.

I don't know who was on today but Nicholas, Merson, Dowie, Thompson?  A collective IQ of 10 between the lot of them.

I think you've missed a decimal point out there.

[Monty]

Soccer Saturday team were really scathing about Garde potentially coming in.   Said it's a joke appointment and questioned why he hasn't even come yet.

They go to such lengths to make sure nothing is the fault of their fellow thick-as-whale-mince British ex-pros. Sherwood presides over an embarrassingly bad start? Must be the foreign players, and the signings committee, one of whom is also foreign. Villa hiring a non-Brit manager? Must be a disaster, he's foreign, why not hire one of our mates like Dwight Yorke or Glenn Hoddle?

Oh the irony

Ah, oops. In any case, Dwight may not be British-born but he's definitely 'one of the boys'.

[Villa in Denmark]

Soccer Saturday team were really scathing about Garde potentially coming in.   Said it's a joke appointment and questioned why he hasn't even come yet.

They go to such lengths to make sure nothing is the fault of their fellow thick-as-whale-mince British ex-pros. Sherwood presides over an embarrassingly bad start? Must be the foreign players, and the signings committee, one of whom is also foreign. Villa hiring a non-Brit manager? Must be a disaster, he's foreign, why not hire one of our mates like Dwight Yorke or Glenn Hoddle?

Oh the irony

Ah, oops. In any case, Dwight may not be British-born but he's definitely 'one of the boys'.

I was definitely taking the piss out of them, not you.
They'd never get it as they first heard about him at an English club.
But could you imagine how many would be queuing up to buy their pointy bamboo hats from Docherty if were to give him his debut as a 16 teenager today?

[john e]

Soccer Saturday team were really scathing about Garde potentially coming in.   Said it's a joke appointment and questioned why he hasn't even come yet.

Sigh. Just why do you watch such utter shite? And it's not even become shite recently. They have been spouting bollocks for, what, 10 years? Maybe longer? Soccer Saturday was one of the main reasons I cancelled Sky Sports and then Sky altogether.

I honestly don't know how you survive without it
I moved house last weekend and we had a whole night without Sky, I thought we might have to start reading some books at one point

I know most people on here say they don't like it but I would die without sky, and not just for the sports either

[Steve67]

Results haven't been too bad today with Norwich and Newcastle failing to win.  Hopefully Everton do Sunderland for us tomorrow and Bournemouth don't pick anything up either.  We need a new man in quickly though because we need that bounce.  I'm still not convinced Garde is the answer but wtf do I know.

[ozzjim]

Soccer Saturday team were really scathing about Garde potentially coming in.   Said it's a joke appointment and questioned why he hasn't even come yet.

If there is any collection of people whose opinion I would trust on nothing, it is that bunch of moronic halfwits.

Considering Merson played with him, Thompson's best mate Houllier had him as assistant and Wenger has endorsed him as a top coach and good thinker. Houllier has already said that Garde will bring tactical nous that Sherwood didn't. The opinion of a group of blokes who are essentially Sky doing their best for care in the community for ex pros it is not something I am too fussed about.

[mr underhill]

it's like watching a group of Neanderthals in a cave arguing over who has the highest hairline.

[Steve67]

Anything you need to know about Paul Merson's mentality you can rad in his book.  Absolute cock rocket.  He can barely string a sentence together on that programme and I wouldn't cross the road to listen to him.

[The Edge]

Wilkins put a word in on talksport  Hoddle getting the villa job yesterday.Inside info or jobs for the boys? Either way I have no faith in the current owners. They have not made 1 successful choice of management in 8 fuckin years!!! O'Neill was chosen by Deadly. We are like an Ocean liner being run by chimps.

[in exile]

Looks like it's only me that likes it then

[olaftab]

Results haven't been too bad today with Norwich and Newcastle failing to win.  Hopefully Everton do Sunderland for us tomorrow and Bournemouth don't pick anything up either.  We need a new man in quickly though because we need that bounce.  I'm still not convinced Garde is the answer but wtf do I know.

No point in worrying about any other results. Our target is 38 points and that will usurp other results for that coveted 4th from bottom!

[aev]

Looks like it's only me that likes it then

I quite enjoy it too and missed the stuff about the Villa today.

There seems to be an awful lot of stuff that one pundit just regurgitates from another, and especially with the Sherwood dismissal. I don't think any of us as fans are expecting us to be top 10 at the moment but to suggest that the run that we are on, and 4 points is acceptable frankly ridiculous.

[OCD]

Soccer Saturday team were really scathing about Garde potentially coming in.   Said it's a joke appointment and questioned why he hasn't even come yet.

If there is any collection of people whose opinion I would trust on nothing, it is that bunch of moronic halfwits.

Considering Merson played with him, Thompson's best mate Houllier had him as assistant and Wenger has endorsed him as a top coach and good thinker. Houllier has already said that Garde will bring tactical nous that Sherwood didn't. The opinion of a group of blokes who are essentially Sky doing their best for care in the community for ex pros it is not something I am too fussed about.

I think Merson had left by then. Thompson probably thinks he (Thompson) is the only assistant Houllier ever recruited or would be filled with jealousy. Charlie Nicholas and Alan McInally are probably still upset that we had the temerity to get rid of Lambert.

You can bet that aside from when they're covering our game, all they see is a 5-minute highlights package that is meant to give balanced coverage of both sides. Gary Neville and to a lesser degree, Jamie Carragher, were a breath of fresh air as pundits. Some actual erstwhile analysis on a Monday night. Them aside, it's incredible how low the bar is for punditry is in this country. As far as Soccer Saturday is concerned, the fact that the panel are so against it makes me more confident of Garde being the right man. 

[Legion]

I think I listened to some analysis made by Thompson today on TalkSport in the car inbetween TD CDs. Totally clueless.

[PaulWinch again]

Wilkins put a word in on talksport  Hoddle getting the villa job yesterday.Inside info or jobs for the boys? Either way I have no faith in the current owners. They have not made 1 successful choice of management in 8 fuckin years!!! O'Neill was chosen by Deadly. We are like an Ocean liner being run by chimps.

Garde would be a very logical choice.