Manager for next season

[conman]

I have to say I'd be quite happy with Potato Head, he's always respectful of our club when he brings a team to Villa Park and he knows how to organise a team in the championship.

We have to face reality if (when) Remi walks in the Summer who better than Bruce is going to put their hat in the ring for what has become the poison chalice job of football? If Hull get promotion he might not even look twice at us. Chris Hughton would then be my next target.

he wasnt respectful when blues scored against us , him and nigel spink in their blues tracksuits running on the pitch , jumping up and down doing wild celebrations

[Bottom Right 89]

I have to say I'd be quite happy with Potato Head, he's always respectful of our club when he brings a team to Villa Park and he knows how to organise a team in the championship.

We have to face reality if (when) Remi walks in the Summer who better than Bruce is going to put their hat in the ring for what has become the poison chalice job of football? If Hull get promotion he might not even look twice at us. Chris Hughton would then be my next target.

he wasnt respectful when blues scored against us , him and nigel spink in their blues tracksuits running on the pitch , jumping up and down doing wild celebrations

Nothing wrong with that just shows his passion and how much it meant to score against the mighty neighbours - hopefully if Bruce takes over this could mean Spinksy could give up his courier job and come back as Goalkeeping coach because lets face it the current incumbent is useless and we have never been weaker in the goalkeeping department.

[gpbarr]

We need Remi Garde.

He is intelligent and knows football, he has class, he's honest and decent. I have great respect for him.

We need Remi, set free to do what has to be done. That's all, folks.

Yep, he's all of the above. Unfortunately he seems like a bit of a shit manager as well.

If one looks myopically at his body of work with Villa, true. If one steps back however and looks at his body of work as a manager overall, I'd have to disagree.

Similarly, one could look at Alex McLeish's record at Rangers and conclude that he was a genius as well. Maybe we should have kept him. 

So I think while we disagree on what to do with RG, we agree that previous track record is no indicator of future track record.

One of the most important aspects of corporate success is not hiring great talent, its hiring great talent and putting them into a great environment. Research after research suggests its the marriage of those two factors that produces the right corporate results. I know much more about corporate (having sent 30 years in it) than I do about football admittedly, but seems to me that Villa has become analogous to that question - Clark Griswold suggests that none of McLeish, Lambert, Sherwood or Garde were 'qualified' - begs the question (given they to varying degrees all met with some success and some failure) who then does?  On this logical argument, Bruce, Pearson, Pulis - they all fail the test. Those who have PL experience and have an unblemished track record would not risk their career on the Villa job.

Help me out here - who is that guy?       

[fredm]

I have to say I'd be quite happy with Potato Head, he's always respectful of our club when he brings a team to Villa Park and he knows how to organise a team in the championship.

We have to face reality if (when) Remi walks in the Summer who better than Bruce is going to put their hat in the ring for what has become the poison chalice job of football? If Hull get promotion he might not even look twice at us. Chris Hughton would then be my next target.

he wasnt respectful when blues scored against us , him and nigel spink in their blues tracksuits running on the pitch , jumping up and down doing wild celebrations

Nothing wrong with that just shows his passion and how much it meant to score against the mighty neighbours - hopefully if Bruce takes over this could mean Spinksy could give up his courier job and come back as Goalkeeping coach because lets face it the current incumbent is useless and we have never been weaker in the goalkeeping department.

Whilst Steve Bruce might not be the most inspirational manager that people would like to see at VP it is time to wake up and smell the coffee. If Remi leaves, the next manager has to come in and sort out the absolute catastrophe that is the present day Aston Villa.  It needs someone who is a bit long in the tooth, who has seen the ups and downs of managing in English football, who has experience of dealing with the various types of ungrateful players etc.  Ok he has never managed a team at the top of the PL but there again he has never been in charge of one with such natural resources as there is at B6.  Personally I would be quite happy to see him in the dugout next season.

[gpbarr]

I have to say I'd be quite happy with Potato Head, he's always respectful of our club when he brings a team to Villa Park and he knows how to organise a team in the championship.

We have to face reality if (when) Remi walks in the Summer who better than Bruce is going to put their hat in the ring for what has become the poison chalice job of football? If Hull get promotion he might not even look twice at us. Chris Hughton would then be my next target.

he wasnt respectful when blues scored against us , him and nigel spink in their blues tracksuits running on the pitch , jumping up and down doing wild celebrations

Nothing wrong with that just shows his passion and how much it meant to score against the mighty neighbours - hopefully if Bruce takes over this could mean Spinksy could give up his courier job and come back as Goalkeeping coach because lets face it the current incumbent is useless and we have never been weaker in the goalkeeping department.

Nigel in goal would be an upgrade right now!

[Ron Manager]

I have to say I'd be quite happy with Potato Head, he's always respectful of our club when he brings a team to Villa Park and he knows how to organise a team in the championship.

We have to face reality if (when) Remi walks in the Summer who better than Bruce is going to put their hat in the ring for what has become the poison chalice job of football? If Hull get promotion he might not even look twice at us. Chris Hughton would then be my next target.

he wasnt respectful when blues scored against us , him and nigel spink in their blues tracksuits running on the pitch , jumping up and down doing wild celebrations

Nothing wrong with that just shows his passion and how much it meant to score against the mighty neighbours - hopefully if Bruce takes over this could mean Spinksy could give up his courier job and come back as Goalkeeping coach because lets face it the current incumbent is useless and we have never been weaker in the goalkeeping department.

Nigel in goal would be an upgrade right now!

Even Budgie!

[ADVILLAFAN]

Mick McCarthy. He's not a great manager but seems to do well in the Championship and if it goes tits up, at least he seems like a nice bloke and a funny bloke.

[mrfuse]

McClaren is available now...

[conman]

McClaren is available now...

malcom

[Ron Manager]

McClaren is available now...

malcom

in Highgate cemetary!

[villabear]

McClaren is available now...

Be afraid, be very afraid!

There's some scary names banded about. Pearson, Davies, Neville.  Until Hollis or someone at the club actually tells us what's going on with the future plans of the club its all hypothetical.

[VillaAlways]

Don't think Remi will be walking He's just stated he has a 3 year contract and has never said he wanted to leave.

He will want his pay out if sacked

[PaulWinch again]

Good don't leave Remi, turn us round next year.

[mr underhill]

I suppose Foxy picks up the same dough for being shite so maybe he's playing the same game

[Tokyo Sexwhale]

I'd like to consider a ban on the term "how low have we sunk"

I'd like us not to be sinking to new lows, thereby making the term obsolete.