Manager for next season

[Jimbo]

Absolutely right olaftab.  The REAL damage started when Lambert abandoned all his style and successful methods of management to appease Lerner.  He went straight from promising young manager to stooge overnight.

A million quid will do that to a man

More generally any manager coming in who can get anything positive out of us in the next few years should be lauded as bleeding genius

Very true. Any manager who can tidy this mess up and get us back up will rightly take his place alongside Sir Graham.

[ozzjim]

If they keep us up comfortably and bring stability I agree.

[mr underhill]

let's not be too greedy; right now I'd settle for getting us back up.

[andyh]

I have been quite relaxed about the whole new manager thing, in the hope, rather than expectation that the club are taking their time to identify and get the right man (whoever that is).

However, I am now seriously starting to think this is drifting on too long for it to be healthy for the club.

[cdward]

If they keep us up comfortably and bring stability I agree.

Agreed, keeping us up in the championship should be our priority

[Dave]

Iain Dowie is pottering around our office today in his capacity as Sales Manager for a surveying company.

Could ask him if he's interested.

[conman]

Iain Dowie is pottering around our office today in his capacity as Sales Manager for a surveying company.

Could ask him if he's interested.

I dont think he wants the ride any more

[Chris Jameson]

Iain Dowie is pottering around our office today in his capacity as Sales Manager for a surveying company.

Could ask him if he's interested.

Is he prepared to take a pay cut?

[passitsideways]

Absolutely right olaftab.  The REAL damage started when Lambert abandoned all his style and successful methods of management to appease Lerner.  He went straight from promising young manager to stooge overnight.

I'm not disagreeing with you, but I''m just curious: what are we talking about in this instance? The decision to join us in the first place? Signing the new contract? Starting up the bomb squad? I just feel like Lambert mostly has himself to blame for what happened during his tenure: he made positive progress in the second half of his first season, and then seemed to completely backtrack on it in terms of playing style - I don't see how doing so would be down to anything but his choice. Okay, he wasn't exactly given a lot of money during that summer to help build upon the first season, but it wasn't a negligible amount either: wasn't it something like 6 million pounds for Kozak, 4 million for Okore, and a million or so each for the likes of Bacuna, Luna and Helenius?

[peter w]

Well at the end of the first season it looked the exciting debonair Norwich Lambert had surfaced finally and the team were refreshing to watch and could attack with purpose. We just couldn't keep a clean sheet so that needed to be addressed in the summer. Start of the second season and we beat Arsenal deservedly, were very unlucky against Chelsea and it had the media purring over us. It looked like we were going to be a dangerous attacking team. Then we played Liverpool and it was the Villa all too often seen over the past 3 years or so. Drab, bland, and not attacking intent. If anything, for me, sums up Lambert it was then. he nailed his ability to his cross.

[godzvilla]

I have been quite relaxed about the whole new manager thing, in the hope, rather than expectation that the club are taking their time to identify and get the right man (whoever that is).

However, I am now seriously starting to think this is drifting on too long for it to be healthy for the club.

It could be that Pearson ( or whoever ) and the Club are  waiting until the final whistle of this season blows, before confirming the appointment ..... quoting Gregg Evans in the Mail " I can understand that managers won't want to be associated with a relegated team ".................Godzvilla!

[auntiesledd]

I have been quite relaxed about the whole new manager thing, in the hope, rather than expectation that the club are taking their time to identify and get the right man (whoever that is).

However, I am now seriously starting to think this is drifting on too long for it to be healthy for the club.

It could be that Pearson ( or whoever ) and the Club are  waiting until the final whistle of this season blows, before confirming the appointment ..... quoting Gregg Evans in the Mail " I can understand that managers won't want to be associated with a relegated team ".................Godzvilla!

Eh? We're already relegated, so it doesn't make any difference!

[CJ]

In the latest missive from the club Steve Hollis says "The appointment of the manager is at this time inextricably linked to the current negotiations", so looks like we won't get a new manager before any sale goes through.

[Richard E]

In the latest missive from the club Steve Hollis says "The appointment of the manager is at this time inextricably linked to the current negotiations", so looks like we won't get a new manager before any sale goes through.

Or until it becomes clear that it is not going to happen within a satisfactory time frame.

[mr underhill]

Surely it shouldn't surprise anyone that the new owners would want to recruit and employ the new manager?