Manager for next season

[Dave]

I know it's been said before many times as well as being strongly disagreed with... but I still fancy Nigel Pearson as the next manager. Can you imagine this very alpha male giving space to a Gabby and his ilk? I would love to watch the cups fly.

I'd prefer to watch a capable football manager make us play better.

[LeeB]

I know it's been said before many times as well as being strongly disagreed with... but I still fancy Nigel Pearson as the next manager. Can you imagine this very alpha male giving space to a Gabby and his ilk? I would love to watch the cups fly.

He's a bullying twat.

Would you want a manager who thought it was ok to shout at his own fans to "fuck off and die"?

"Hi Nigel, the job is yours if you can cut out the dying bit, and redirect it at the playing staff"

[Richard E]

'Actually, if you're addressing the players don't worry too much about cutting out the dying bit, on second thoughts.'

[curiousorange]

I don't get this idea that Pearson would be a firm hand which would "sort it". That's entirely the reason Lambert hired Roy Keane and he jacked it in virtually straight away. And if the biggest pro in the weighing up of Nigel Pearson is "bully", I'll pass, thanks.

[old man villa fan]

If you do not tackle the cause of the problem, you will never control the effects of the problem.

[Locko]

I know it's been said before many times as well as being strongly disagreed with... but I still fancy Nigel Pearson as the next manager. Can you imagine this very alpha male giving space to a Gabby and his ilk? I would love to watch the cups fly.

He's a bullying twat.

Would you want a manager who thought it was ok to shout at his own fans to "fuck off and die"?

"Hi Nigel, the job is yours if you can cut out the dying bit, and redirect it at the playing staff"

He's a grade A mentalist. I'll be honest he scares the living shit out of me and that's just from watching him on tv. And for that very simple reason I wouldn't be opposed to him rocking up at VP and scaring the shit out of the likes of Flabby and Richards. If he could unsettle the wasters in our squad to the extent they want out of the club, it's a very cost effective way of rebuilding. Lets employ bogeyman Pearson... Plus it will be terrific entertainment, better than the football...

[HertsVilla]

I know it's been said before many times as well as being strongly disagreed with... but I still fancy Nigel Pearson as the next manager. Can you imagine this very alpha male giving space to a Gabby and his ilk? I would love to watch the cups fly.

I'd prefer to watch a capable football manager make us play better.

Well said that man!

[DaveD]

I don't want a former Blues manager, not because I don't rate them, but because it gives the media an easy pop at us fans if it goes tits a la McLeish.

[Toronto Villa]

It doesn't matter in the manager is a former Birmingham (or Albion). All that matters is what their track record is and ultimately is he any good? McLeish was garbage and should never have been hired. Any media that reports he failed with us because of his former allegiance isn't worth reading.

[conman]

I know it's been said before many times as well as being strongly disagreed with... but I still fancy Nigel Pearson as the next manager. Can you imagine this very alpha male giving space to a Gabby and his ilk? I would love to watch the cups fly.

He's a bullying twat.

Would you want a manager who thought it was ok to shout at his own fans to "fuck off and die"?

"Hi Nigel, the job is yours if you can cut out the dying bit, and redirect it at the playing staff"

He's a grade A mentalist. I'll be honest he scares the living shit out of me and that's just from watching him on tv. And for that very simple reason I wouldn't be opposed to him rocking up at VP and scaring the shit out of the likes of Flabby and Richards. If he could unsettle the wasters in our squad to the extent they want out of the club, it's a very cost effective way of rebuilding. Lets employ bogeyman Pearson... Plus it will be terrific entertainment, better than the football...

The press conferences would be the highlight of the week

[pbavfckuwait]

Things that shine brightly with the normal names that go around, the likes of Pardew, Pearson, Bruce Monk, and all these blood and guts, so the press would have you believe, British managers, when things are going well it is all honky dory, what they do not have is the ability to correct a wavering ship, i.e. Palace now, Pearson may have kept Leicester up but he was never the long term solution to improving them, let alone his personality issues.

We have been on a losing run for the best part of 5 years, the players we currently employ are on the whole a disgrace and that attitude is spreading if what you saw of Ghana after 80 minutes last week is anything to go on, plus the big fact alot of them are just not very good, we had the argument after Chancer, that anyone could get more out of this squad, well anyone must not have included Garde, because he has not been able to.

Who next god only knows. but advise should be sort by the club and time taken to properly vet the next incumbent and make sure you have a list of more than one and get rid of the present incompetent arseholes in place, Fox etc and balance out having the off field structure manned by the correct people who's major role will be to do everything to improve what Aston Villa should be about, the clue is in the name, Aston Villa FOOTBALL Club.

[cdbearsfan]

It doesn't matter in the manager is a former Birmingham (or Albion). All that matters is what their track record is and ultimately is he any good? McLeish was garbage and should never have been hired. Any media that reports he failed with us because of his former allegiance isn't worth reading.

Bearing in mind that the Bodymoor Heath graffiti mentioned Small Heath and just about everyone interviewed outside the ground who were protesting against him said they didn't want him because he managed them, I can see why the media formed that opinion.

[dave.woodhall]

It doesn't matter in the manager is a former Birmingham (or Albion). All that matters is what their track record is and ultimately is he any good? McLeish was garbage and should never have been hired. Any media that reports he failed with us because of his former allegiance isn't worth reading.

Bearing in mind that the Bodymoor Heath graffiti mentioned Small Heath and just about everyone interviewed outside the ground who were protesting against him said they didn't want him because he managed them, I can see why the media formed that opinion.

That, plus it always strikes me that the people who were most vehemently against him doth protested a bit too much that it wasn't down to where he came from.

[Jimbo]

It's because McLeish was shit. The fact that he was knuckledragger shit just compounded matters. If Pep Guardiola was a knuckledragger, does any bright spark out there think we'd turn our noses up at him?

[dave.woodhall]

I must have imagined all the "At least Ellis never appointed no Bluenose" comments I heard then.