Manager for next season

[LeeB]

I honestly think Rowett is too bright to want to work under the current owner. Whoever we get, it'll likely be another knucklehead in the Lambert / Sherwood mould.

To be honest I'd be vary wary of the 'young up and coming' route.

We are a big club in a big mess. The task engulfed the last one that tried it.

We are a Championship club. He has a proven track record in the Championship on working with sweet FA. I don't see him as "young up and coming".

Paul Lambert got promoted from it with a squad from League One.

Do you see my point?

[Stirchley Villain]

I honestly think Rowett is too bright to want to work under the current owner. Whoever we get, it'll likely be another knucklehead in the Lambert / Sherwood mould.

To be honest I'd be vary wary of the 'young up and coming' route.

We are a big club in a big mess. The task engulfed the last one that tried it.

We are a Championship club. He has a proven track record in the Championship on working with sweet FA. I don't see him as "young up and coming".

He has had 18 months in the Championship , it's a bit of a stretch to call it a proven track record.

18 months is a long time in football. If we want him we should go and get him now. I don't think we will though, and if we did I doubt he'd come.

[ChicagoLion]

Other than Rowett I would look at;
Mick McCarthy
Nigel Pearson
Chris Hughton
Steve Bruce

God help us

[Yossarian]

I honestly think Rowett is too bright to want to work under the current owner. Whoever we get, it'll likely be another knucklehead in the Lambert / Sherwood mould.

To be honest I'd be vary wary of the 'young up and coming' route.

We are a big club in a big mess. The task engulfed the last one that tried it.

We are a Championship club. He has a proven track record in the Championship on working with sweet FA. I don't see him as "young up and coming".

Paul Lambert got promoted from it with a squad from League One.

Do you see my point?

Lambert joined a Premier League club.

Do you see mine?

[Yossarian]

We could always go for Sean O'Driscoll. As of five minutes ago he is available.

[saunders_heroes]

Other than Rowett I would look at;
Mick McCarthy
Nigel Pearson
Chris Hughton
Steve Bruce

God help us

Indeed. What a mess we've been turned into.

[tomd2103]

Given a choice between Pearson or Allardyce, I think I'd opt to jump off a bridge

I really don't want Pearson.  The thought of the manager of Aston Villa rolling around on the touchline throttling opposition players is not a good one and then there are his pseudo intellectual interviews and dealings with the press.

As for Allardyce, I think we've got to accept where we are as a club.  The likes of him and Bruce are the top candidates in the circles we are now moving in. 

[LeeB]

I honestly think Rowett is too bright to want to work under the current owner. Whoever we get, it'll likely be another knucklehead in the Lambert / Sherwood mould.

To be honest I'd be vary wary of the 'young up and coming' route.

We are a big club in a big mess. The task engulfed the last one that tried it.

We are a Championship club. He has a proven track record in the Championship on working with sweet FA. I don't see him as "young up and coming".

Paul Lambert got promoted from it with a squad from League One.

Do you see my point?

Lambert joined a Premier League club.

Do you see mine?

I do actually, but I still think it's something of a stretch to say he has a proven track record.

[old man villa fan]

What do I want from a Villa manager?

1. To be with us at least 5 years
2.  Get us out of the Championship
3.  Clear out the wasters in the squad
4.  Build a balanced squad in the summer
5.  Not be a manager that only sees throwing money at the squad as being the only way
6.  Continue to develop the squad year on year
7. Not reach his glass ceiling having got us back in the PL

My final point eliminates most of the usual suspects

[Brend'Watkins]

Given a choice between Pearson or Allardyce, I think I'd opt to jump off a bridge

I really don't want Pearson.  The thought of the manager of Aston Villa rolling around on the touchline throttling opposition players is not a good one and then there are his pseudo intellectual interviews and dealings with the press.

As for Allardyce, I think we've got to accept where we are as a club.  The likes of him and Bruce are the top candidates in the circles we are now moving in. 

if we appointed Pearson till the end of the season there would be more chance of him throttling and rolling around the pitch with some of our own. So for that reason il like to invest. These pampered, over paid, lazy etc players masquerading as professional footballers have made our lives a misery this season. A manager like Pearson might just address the balance of misery for a few months.

[Toronto Villa]

Other than Rowett I would look at;
Mick McCarthy
Nigel Pearson
Chris Hughton
Steve Bruce

God help us

Indeed. What a mess we've been turned into.

We are a mess, but why does that translate into is appointing any of those retread mangers?

[Villa in Denmark]

In no given order and thinking realistically...

Simon Grayson
Glenn Hoddle
Dean Smith
Martin Laursen

Jesus laursen why ?

Isnt he doing his coaching badges?  I'm not one for going for Villa legends for legends sake and I wouldn't be saying him as a premier league club.  Might just work.

Laursen has got the sum total of 4 months experience as coach in the Danish 3rd division, which is the equivalent of a couple of levels below the conference in terms of playing level.

As far as I'm aware he's put doing his badges on hold, and is quite content enjoying life actually at home with is family and pitching up as a pundit every other week for 5 hours on a Saturday on Kanal 3+.  The last twice he's been on for a Villa game, he's been quite openly angry and as good as called out half the squad for not trying without naming names, but a line along the lines of "if I've I got to tell you who, you don't know anything about football"

The only one of those I'd remotely consider would be Grayson.

[Toronto Villa]

And can we not ruin the memory of yet another Villa favourite by appointing him as a manager? I'd happily have him at the club in some ambassadorial context, but certainly not manager just because we love him. And he has to be fully qualified to take on this disaster, and I wouldn't expose him to it.

[Toronto Villa]

And I see that plonked Merson is saying we should appoint McCarthy. FUCK ME...

[Yossarian]

Given a choice between Pearson or Allardyce, I think I'd opt to jump off a bridge

I really don't want Pearson.  The thought of the manager of Aston Villa rolling around on the touchline throttling opposition players is not a good one and then there are his pseudo intellectual interviews and dealings with the press.

As for Allardyce, I think we've got to accept where we are as a club.  The likes of him and Bruce are the top candidates in the circles we are now moving in. 

if we appointed Pearson till the end of the season there would be more chance of him throttling and rolling around the pitch with some of our own. So for that reason il like to invest. These pampered, over paid, lazy etc players masquerading as professional footballers have made our lives a misery this season. A manager like Pearson might just address the balance of misery for a few months.

I am sympathetic to your idea of some sort of psycho who could go ape on the players but why not go the whole hog and employ Vladamir Putin. Let's see how well the Richards clique survives against his KGB training.