Manager for next season

[Hoppo]

Someone asked whether Bruce still lives in Solihull? Yes, his family home.

[VicMackey]

First of all, I think Garde will go.  He'll either jump or we'll fire him - either way, I think it will be for the best.  We're a basket case and we need radical surgery not a pleasant Frenchman...

Secondly, I have very little faith in the people who will make the appointment.  This is one decision they can't get wrong.  The place needs a clear out from top to bottom.  Nobody should be safe - players, coaching staff, senior management need to be culled in huge numbers.

As Chairman, it seems that the decision should then fall to Hollis because the other idiots should all be shown the door.  So he needs a manager to who he can say 'I entrust the football side of things to you entirely.  You pick the coaching team.  You decide if you want a director of football etc but you're the expert - you sort it all out, I'll back you with X amount of money, you tell me the players you want and we'll go and get them together'.  Whether he has the nous to do that though is a different story...

Given the above, and the amount of blood that should be spilled in the dressing room and the boardroom, I think we might need a year of consolidation in the Championship to settle down.  Promotion straight back up would be nice but we need to build a strong foundation - make sure we're ready for life back in the Premier League.  We've struggled for too long - what's the point of going up if they're just going to subject us to the same shit all over again?

So for me, if he's still available, I think Moyes could do that.  I don't think he'd be too proud to drop down a division.  His reputation has taken a battering the last few years - so we both have that in common.

Appoint the wrong person though, fail to clear out the deadwood, and the freefall will continue...

[Ian.]

I would have more faith in a Tombola than our men in charge.
GH to McLeish to Lambert to the inky candidate Tim. Then Remi who I had very high hopes for.
It's anyone's guess.

Unless the manager can come in and rid the squad off the last five years, maybe keep the new French lads and coach Jack it will not matter who we get.

[godzvilla]

Someone asked whether Bruce still lives in Solihull? Yes, his family home.

I heard ( from a legit source ) that he owns more than 12 properties in Solihull.................Godzvilla!

[Marlon From Bearwood]

I've seen Steve Bruce shopping in Knowle twice in the last year or so. Last summer I saw him coming out of Tesco in Knowle in his Hull City training gear.

[chrisw1]

Actually I think Bruce would be a good shout.  But he may well be in the PL next year with Hull and he's been burnt by jumping ship before, so unless there were a lot of guarantees, he may well have no interest.

I would tend to prefer Moyes, but of the two Bruce certainly has more experience of getting promotions.  I've always found him to be pretty eloquent and gracious about us when being interviewed, even as a Blues manager.  I would have him every day of the week over Pulis or Sam.

[saunders_heroes]

Bruce plays dire defensive football as well, or has everyone forgotten how awful his Small Heath teams were to watch?
Christ, Steve Bruce at the Villa. It's the stuff of nightmares.

[Ads]

I'd prefer Pearson to Fist Face.

When they beat us last January, Leicester should have won 6-0, instead of just 1-0. I'd rather a nutter who can actually play some sort of attacking footballer, than a Zeppelin who cannot.

[Duncan Shaw]

Bruce, Moyes, any one decent - I said earlier in the thread, it's cloud cuckoo land boys, no-one with any reputation to uphold will come and work for this train wreck.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

I'd prefer Pearson to Fist Face.

When they beat us last January, Leicester should have won 6-0, instead of just 1-0. I'd rather a nutter who can actually play some sort of attacking footballer, than a Zeppelin who cannot.

It was a 1-1 draw Ads.

I'm still cling on to it as a moral and spiritual victory!

[Dave]

I'd prefer Pearson to Fist Face.

When they beat us last January, Leicester should have won 6-0, instead of just 1-0. I'd rather a nutter who can actually play some sort of attacking footballer, than a Zeppelin who cannot.

It was a 1-1 draw Ads.

I'm still cling on to it as a moral and spiritual victory!

We lost 1-0. Konchesky with a scuffed, deflected winner.

[eddiemunster]

What's John Sitton, the former Orient manager doing nowadays?......Would love to see him in the dressing room with our lot.

[Des Little]

What's John Sitton, the former Orient manager doing nowadays?......Would love to see him in the dressing room with our lot.

He's a London cabbie.  Or a f@ckin' cabbie as he'd say.

[castlefields_villan]

Surely after going for all these (young) managers with no or next to no Premier League experience we need to be looking at someone who has actually worn the t-shirt ?

[AVH87]

Alan Pardew could be available if he continues his poor run at Palace, I'd seriously consider him in the Championship.

Garry Monk played good football at Swansea, although the foundations were already there, would be more of a gamble.

Or there could be the chance to poach one of Bruce or Dyche as there's a good chance one of these two will miss out on automatic promotion with Boro likely to take 1 spot.