Dr T has pulled the trigger

[sickbeggar]

5th boss within a year? we are now officially a laughing stock. I hope the new guy gets more than  RDM or we'll be looking again in January

[mr underhill]

better now than leaving it until Xmas surely?

[AvFc4eVeR]

Thanks Dr T. This decision proves you give a shit and we are not just a play thing.

Now please find a manager who gives a shit, we want to see passion, desire and enthusiasm in that dug out each week, and someone who will inspire the players not bore them!

Make it happen Tone.

[Chico Hamilton III]

5th boss within a year? we are now officially a laughing stock. I hope the new guy gets more than  RDM or we'll be looking again in January

Which of our last 5 managers didn't get enough time? I can't think of one. It's not the sacking of them that was wrong but to decision to appoint them in the first place

[auntiesledd]

I think it's important that we don't lump him in with all the recent managers, who may not have been great,but who were trying to keep us in the PL with both hands tied behind their backs.

RDM had an enormous advantage over every other manager in this league, bar maybe Benitez, so on an expectation adjusted basis he was a far bigger failure than the rest during his brief tenure.

Indeed. RDM has been an absolute disaster & thankfully he's now bitten the dust. Please God, make sure the Villa hierarchy choose wisely & get somebody in who knows what they're doing. UTV.

[Nunkin1965]

I'll go on record now and say that we will make the Play Off Final due to the fact that last week I thought " sod it I'm going on holiday that week as we'll never make it.."

[sickbeggar]

5th boss within a year? we are now officially a laughing stock. I hope the new guy gets more than  RDM or we'll be looking again in January

Which of our last 5 managers didn't get enough time? I can't think of one. It's not the sacking of them that was wrong but to decision to appoint them in the first place

well it amounts to the same thing. bad decision making at the top. If you're changing your manager in a manner that makes Ambramovich look patient something is seriously wrong

[brian green]

And if they don't get it right this time. Do it again until we get a good, winning manager and KEEP him.

[sickbeggar]

And if they don't get it right this time. Do it again until we get a good, winning manager and KEEP him.

yeah, i'm sure all the top managers are dying to take a job with a shelf-life of 4 months. We'll be fighting them off with a shovel

[Risso]

Isn't it great how we have so many failed managers to choose from we can have a proper debate of who was most shit? I feel lucky to be a Villain today.

Yes, what a time to be alive.

RDM was hopeless. I just hope it's not another case of giving the wrong man too much money and it stuffs the club for years to come.

[amfy]

5th boss within a year? we are now officially a laughing stock. I hope the new guy gets more than  RDM or we'll be looking again in January

Which of our last 5 managers didn't get enough time? I can't think of one. It's not the sacking of them that was wrong but to decision to appoint them in the first place

well it amounts to the same thing. bad decision making at the top. If you're changing your manager in a manner that makes Ambramovich look patient something is seriously wrong

To be fair I think the maths is out. (Although as no-one else has questioned this I am starting to think I might have slept through something?) If we are counting caretakers we are now on our 6th. If we aren't, we have just sacked the 3rd.

[aev]

And if they don't get it right this time. Do it again until we get a good, winning manager and KEEP him.

yeah, i'm sure all the top managers are dying to take a job with a shelf-life of 4 months. We'll be fighting them off with a shovel

We have spend £50m and are getting worse not better.

[paul_e]

I still think RDM was the right choice in the summer, Pearson, who was the favourite for many, has been worse for Derby and Moyes has Sunderland nailed to the bottom of the table and looking absolutely shit.

As TV said yesterday we looked good for a while, the firrst game came too soon but then we had a run after that (in the league) where we creating chances and playing good football but just couldn't score.  Whilst that was the case I was willing to argue that it was just a matter of time and we'd be fine.  When he decided to go with 5 at the back and completely destroyed all the good stuff without making us any stronger at the back he lost me because it was clear that, like Sherwood, he'd lost faith in his plan and was just scrambling for something.  Once you do that you're halfway out the door for me.

The replacement is important now because we need someone who can see what RDM was trying to do at the start and run with that, 4231 in some format has to be the plan because that's what we have a squad for. 

[Risso]

And if they don't get it right this time. Do it again until we get a good, winning manager and KEEP him.

yeah, i'm sure all the top managers are dying to take a job with a shelf-life of 4 months. We'll be fighting them off with a shovel

He was sacked for winning 1 game. Most decent managers will look at our squad and think they can do much better.

[Steve67]

And if they don't get it right this time. Do it again until we get a good, winning manager and KEEP him.

yeah, i'm sure all the top managers are dying to take a job with a shelf-life of 4 months. We'll be fighting them off with a shovel

Or, they might be thinking that this is a decent squad and I will be backed with money in January.  We may not get promoted this season but any new bloke coming in can't really fail now as his job will be to stave off any doubts about dropping to an even lower division and trying to get us as close to the play-off's as possible. He knows that he will be back in the summer too.  This is not the same club as it was under Lerner.