Manager for next season

[The_ads]

I guarantee, this time next year, there won't be any Pearson detractors

[PeterWithesShin]

Or some may say what they, including me, are saying now. He may well be a decent coach but he's a twat.

[phantom limb]

If he gets us back up without actually murdering someone then I'd be ok with that.

[kiddylion]

I don't actually agree with the need to get someone in ASAP.

The right man is the right man, and he will still be the right man in June. 

Mick McCarthy taking the job on April 20, or David Moyes coming in at the end of the season?   Tough one.

The sooner they start, the quicker they'll get a handle on exactly what needs to be done, obv. But Moyes, Pearson or the other names mentioned haven't been on a desert island. Chances are they'll be watching us already. Most people with even a passing interest in football can see we are a right mess at the moment.

Yes I agree think i worded it wrong,I can't see anyone with any credibility touching it until the season has finished.
Like you said if it's DM or NP if they had any interest they would be looking on from afar already

[john e]

Vinnie Jones is going to play Nigel Pearson on the Vardy film.  apparently

[Dante Lavelli]

I guarantee, this time next year, there won't be any Pearson detractors

I hope you're right. 

For me the play offs is a par score for next season (not aiming too high), however Pearson will also need to improve as a human being for me to actually like him.

[cheltenhamlion]

Pearson is a twat and I don't want him.

[john e]

Pearson is a twat and I don't want him.

Sitting on the fence there Chelts

[PeterWithesShin]

Pearson is a twat and I don't want him.

Sitting on the fence there Chelts

I had to budge over a bit so as he could sit next to me!

[The_ads]

You don't have to like him

[mr underhill]

no, but I can't respect him either.

[Dante Lavelli]

You don't have to like him

No, but if he acts like he did at Leicester whilst managing us he will tarnish our reputation.  I do care about that.
We'll almost certainly never be the best team in my lifetime so the integrity of the club is vitally important  to me.

[brian green]

All I hope is that the board acts decisively on the overwhelming problem of the anger of the supporters.  Foolishly to the point of negligence an attitude has become established that the fans are fickle and easily manipulated.  I think a strategy of product marketing has been used in the mistaken belief that free flags, scarves, balloons, text messages, e mails, junk mail, deafening match day music and bellowed instructions to get behind the boys in claret and blue are an alternative to the simple fan pleasure of watching entertaining football.
Because I am bored by the predictable rubbish served up by the club and the players at Villa Park I want to see a new manager who is not boring.  For all his well documented faults I could accept Pearson if only because Villa Park would be a livelier, more vibrant, less boring place.
I dread the combined boardroom doing a nanny knows best job on the suffering fans and coming up with a Southgate type safe pair of hands.
I long to go back to the days when we walked to the ground thrilled by the prospect of watching a Villa game, even a losing one if we had something to cheer about.

[Ads]

Our reputation is shite at the moment. I care about results and would back nearly anybody who can deliver them.

I have been swayed by some of the things I've read from Leicester fans and I think if he ended up at Newcastle then I'd be concerned they'd finish above us. Automatic promotion has to be the only expectation and beyond Moyes, I think he'd deliver it.

[tomd2103]

You don't have to like him

No, but if he acts like he did at Leicester whilst managing us he will tarnish our reputation.  I do care about that.
We'll almost certainly never be the best team in my lifetime so the integrity of the club is vitally important  to me.

There is a chance that after a break from the game, he just might have had time to reflect learnt a few lessons.  Of course there is the chance that he might not have.  I am not a fan of him, but can't say I would be massively disappointed if he got the job.