Who do you want the next Villa manager to be?

[McGraths Dry Cleaning]

Been trading next Villa manager market on Betfair for a couple of days - odds just shortened on Garde even more - I last lumped on at 1.4 a couple of hours ago and its down to 1.1ish which is the biggest shift i've seen last couple of hours

[pauliewalnuts]

Been trading next Villa manager market on Betfair for a couple of days - odds just shortened on Garde even more - I last lumped on at 1.4 a couple of hours ago and its down to 1.1ish which is the biggest shift i've seen last couple of hours

I had 20 quid at 20/1 (on Garde) last Sunday afternoon. Literally ten mins later, I thought I'd have another tenner or so, so went back and in that time he had come in to 4/6.

It was all over twitter when I looked, but I wonder where these nuggets of information appear from that shift prices like that.

[alan_clarke]

Canal Plus reporting he will join with Reginald Ray as assistant - odds are less than 1/10 now

[Legion]

Reginald Ray?

[McGraths Dry Cleaning]

Been trading next Villa manager market on Betfair for a couple of days - odds just shortened on Garde even more - I last lumped on at 1.4 a couple of hours ago and its down to 1.1ish which is the biggest shift i've seen last couple of hours

I had 20 quid at 20/1 (on Garde) last Sunday afternoon. Literally ten mins later, I thought I'd have another tenner or so, so went back and in that time he had come in to 4/6.

It was all over twitter when I looked, but I wonder where these nuggets of information appear from that shift prices like that.

This is a tiny market on Betfair so a lot of it will move quickly due to small betting amounts. Even some of the small bets I've been placing have caused the odds to move. Just now the odds on Garde are down to the 1.02-1.05 range. Cant see a specific reason for it and looked on the Betfair chat forum but no intel there. Can't imagine anything would be announced tonite but someone in the genuine know might be hoovering up any value that the market is offering. Just checked on odds checker (shows odds for a number of bookies so worth using if you want to quickly find the best odds) and the market looks like its all but closed.

[pauliewalnuts]

Been trading next Villa manager market on Betfair for a couple of days - odds just shortened on Garde even more - I last lumped on at 1.4 a couple of hours ago and its down to 1.1ish which is the biggest shift i've seen last couple of hours

I had 20 quid at 20/1 (on Garde) last Sunday afternoon. Literally ten mins later, I thought I'd have another tenner or so, so went back and in that time he had come in to 4/6.

It was all over twitter when I looked, but I wonder where these nuggets of information appear from that shift prices like that.

This is a tiny market on Betfair so a lot of it will move quickly due to small betting amounts. Even some of the small bets I've been placing have caused the odds to move. Just now the odds on Garde are down to the 1.02-1.05 range. Cant see a specific reason for it and looked on the Betfair chat forum but no intel there. Can't imagine anything would be announced tonite but someone in the genuine know might be hoovering up any value that the market is offering. Just checked on odds checker (shows odds for a number of bookies so worth using if you want to quickly find the best odds) and the market looks like its all but closed.

Don't next manager markets generally get closed overnight?

[dave.woodhall]

Manager markets usually close overnight.

[MoetVillan]

Reginald Ray?

He is the bad scarecrow in Julia Donaldsons "The Scarecrows Wedding"

[Dante Lavelli]

Hindsight or not, any business is going to be in trouble where there's not a solid and experienced management team and a clear plan and blueprint for the next 10 years. We appointed a call office manager as CEO who knew little about football and blindly trusted O'Neill to get it right.

That's only partially true, we appointed a couple of guys with a decent pedigree but both left pretty swiftly.  Apologies I cannot remember their names.  It would have been interesting if the club had undertaken proper exit interviews as the rumours were that MON basically wanted to run everything and made their jobs untenable. If this was known to randy - twice - then it is pretty damning that they did nothing about it or chose to solely trust MON.

[pauliewalnuts]

Hindsight or not, any business is going to be in trouble where there's not a solid and experienced management team and a clear plan and blueprint for the next 10 years. We appointed a call office manager as CEO who knew little about football and blindly trusted O'Neill to get it right.

That's only partially true, we appointed a couple of guys with a decent pedigree but both left pretty swiftly.  Apologies I cannot remember their names.  It would have been interesting if the club had undertaken proper exit interviews as the rumours were that MON basically wanted to run everything and made their jobs untenable. If this was known to randy - twice - then it is pretty damning that they did nothing about it or chose to solely trust MON.

Richard FitzGerald - who didn't have a background in football, and left after losing a power battle with MON and Michael Cunnah, who was here such a short period of time, I doubt they even had his business cards printed

The FitzGerald thing (the rucks with O'Neill) I got from a contact high up at 32 Red (negotiated the sponsorship deal with Doug) who was also a close friend of his. MON was having none of it.

[alan_clarke]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/6720878/Remi-Garde-to-be-confirmed-as-Aston-Villa-boss.html

[dave.woodhall]

Cunnah was an odd one. He arrived with a (reported) brief to rebuild the North Stand, him coming led to FitzGerald going, then he left not long after.

[Villa in Denmark]

Hindsight or not, any business is going to be in trouble where there's not a solid and experienced management team and a clear plan and blueprint for the next 10 years. We appointed a call office manager as CEO who knew little about football and blindly trusted O'Neill to get it right.

That's only partially true, we appointed a couple of guys with a decent pedigree but both left pretty swiftly.  Apologies I cannot remember their names.  It would have been interesting if the club had undertaken proper exit interviews as the rumours were that MON basically wanted to run everything and made their jobs untenable. If this was known to randy - twice - then it is pretty damning that they did nothing about it or chose to solely trust MON.

Well remembered. One of them was called Fitzgerald I think?

[curiousorange]

Sunsport just tweeted Garde being announced tomorrow morning.

[LTA]

Problem was that Lerner had all and sundry telling him how wonderful O'Neill was, so I guess he was happy to trust him to run the place.