Next Villa manager

[oswald funkletrumpet]

None of them on the bench ever look arsed. I don't want the staged theatrics of a Sherwood, but it's not too much to ask that the management look remotely interested in what's going on in front of them.

rdm hasnt looked interested from day one

[asgpaul]

I think Steve Bruce would be the best option. Never thought I'd ever say that,  it wouldn't be 'pretty' but he'd definately sort out the defence and the ability to kill a game / hold onto a lead.  Surely this international break is the time for change.

[Billy Walker]

Steve Bruce is the outstanding candidate for the short-term, get us up asap, fix.  If a longer term vision is in place, Rowett would be my man.

[oswald funkletrumpet]

Steve Bruce is the outstanding candidate for the short-term, get us up asap, fix.  If a longer term vision is in place, Rowett would be my man.

were are reliant on tony getting rid of rdm which he needs to do imminently

ive have a feeling he wont and we are stuck with the clueless c*** and in for a relegation fight

[Leicester_Villian]

Lambert - Director of Football with Sherwood & Garde as joint managers bringing in Eric Black as first team coach .......... which nitemare is worse that or RDM carrying on?

[oldtimernow]

Mr Tumbles couldn't be a lot worse than what we've currently got along with Mr Maker as assistant  with all his international experience

[mr underhill]

Bruce for me on a short term deal if possible - hewould whip the squad into being competitive at the very least, something seemingly beyond the hapless Robbie

[Monty]

Each to their own, but the talk of bringing in one of the jobsworth old boys to do something defensive in the short term...this isn't Southampton or Bournemouth, this is what QPR do.

[dicedlam]

There is always the chance that Bruce would bring back Eric Black if he became the manager.

*shudders*

[dicedlam]

Saying that...we could do with all those years of experience right now

[Rico]

We need someone who actually cares for Aston Villa, who actually gets Aston Villa. That man is Brian Little.

[olaftab]

We need someone who actually cares for Aston Villa, who actually gets Aston Villa. That man is Brian Little.

No we don't nee someone who actually cares about the Villa. That's the fans job and we do emotion. We need someone who cares about himself, has self pride to perform and succeed as a coach, has talent to go with it and absolutely laser like focus to not give a fuck about anything/anyone else  and most of all not any of the "washed out" names mentioned in this poll.

[brian green]

The single big difference I want in the next manager that we have not seen since before MON is the ability and willingness to assess players.  Looking at the smoking landscape of our season, who actually watched, live, up close and personally, Mile Jedinak and Tommy Elphick and James Chester and Ross McCormack and Aaron Tshibola and Pierluigi Gollini?  Who takes responsibility for dozens of millions of pounds pissed up the wall?  Where is Paddy Reilly when you need a convenient scapegoat?

Who looks at Cieran Clark and says he is not needed? or Callum Robinson or Jordan Veretout? Or Adama Traore?

Who looks at Hepburn-Murphy and Lyden and Toner and Green and Davies and Steer and says they are inferior to Westwood and Gardner and Grealish?

Who actually makes these decisions? Kevin Bond?

We have some okay players who would play no worse than the selected team did at Preston.  Why do they never figure in the grand scheme of things that has got us teetering on the brink of back to back relegations?

[Chris Smith]

If the current situation wan't bad enough then that list of potential replacements really depresses me. There isn't one name that I would feel confident with and some of them would make me actively consider whether the whole thing was worth bothering with.

Rowett is front runner in he poll but he strikes me as another potential Lambert appointment, does well at a smallish club but unprepared for the size of the task at Villa. At the other end you have Bruce, who strikes me as being too old school in a changing game. Allardyce is just out of the question for a few months until the dust settles on the scandal but even then I wouldn't want him.

If it was me I might be tempted to ditch RDM and put Clarke in for the rest of the season and then look at it again. I suspect though that what the owner will do is stick with what we have for a while longer.

[Walmley_Villa]

Percy tweeting that RDM will be gone within 48 hours....we go again