Next Villa manager

[olaftab]

Oh I agree that Allardyce can't be appointed now. Bruce is the more serious suggestion of that manager type.

Yes but still a terrible choice.

[CT]

Lots on twitter want Tim Sherwood.  Please no.

What kind of self harming fucktard would want us to relive that fucking nightmare?!

Can you imagine paying £2 million compo and then getting him back?!!!

[PaulWinch again]

Would be the worst decision ever.

[Whiney MacWhineface]

I'm not a Warnock fan. At all. Ever. Unless we end up in League One, when all bets are off. But he does become effective at a lower level, and I loved his approach to the highly-talented but completely hatstand Adel Taararabit at QPR. He basically told him he could do whatever he wanted with the ball, whenever he fancied, but he must never ever come back into QPR's half of the pitch.

[Jon Crofts]

Fucking hell, I go out for half the day come back and we are talking about Neil fucking Warnock, behave yourselves.

Gareth Southgate.  Fuck the FA, he'll never get the full gig except on a caretaker basis and I'd have him in a heartbeat over the list of candidates above maybe with a fight off between him and Dean Smith.

[brian green]

The first thing the new manager must do is be brutally honest about the players we bought in the summer.  RDM, Clarke and Bond were obliged to pick them to justify the millions they spent on them.  Is Gollini worth worth a place, or Jedinak, or Elphick, or Chester, or McCormack, or Adomah, or Kodjia?  Are the players who have won 1 game in 12 better than Steer, Lyden, Toner, Green, Hepburn-Murphy and Davies who have been virtually binned?  Whoever the new manager is he has to have an open mind and judge for himself not allow others to tell him Westwood does a lot of unnoticed good work and that Rushian Hepburn Murphy is too small.

[PaulWinch again]

I know your point is more general Brian, but I think Gollini is pretty good. He's made a couple of errors and been severely punished. I think he's shown a lot of promise.

[villadelph]

The first thing the new manager must do is be brutally honest about the players we bought in the summer.  RDM, Clarke and Bond were obliged to pick them to justify the millions they spent on them.  Is Gollini worth worth a place, or Jedinak, or Elphick, or Chester, or McCormack, or Adomah, or Kodjia?  Are the players who have won 1 game in 12 better than Steer, Lyden, Toner, Green, Hepburn-Murphy and Davies who have been virtually binned?  Whoever the new manager is he has to have an open mind and judge for himself not allow others to tell him Westwood does a lot of unnoticed good work and that Rushian Hepburn Murphy is too small.

I wonder who will stay beyond January. I doubt Ayew, Amavi, Westwood will be Villa players come February.

[aj2k77]

Amavi is worth cashing in on now, he doesn't seem that interested, can't defend well enough to play left back but still has suitors. If we could get our money back I'd do the deal.

[TB]

The first thing the new manager must do is be brutally honest about the players we bought in the summer.  RDM, Clarke and Bond were obliged to pick them to justify the millions they spent on them.  Is Gollini worth worth a place, or Jedinak, or Elphick, or Chester, or McCormack, or Adomah, or Kodjia?  Are the players who have won 1 game in 12 better than Steer, Lyden, Toner, Green, Hepburn-Murphy and Davies who have been virtually binned?  Whoever the new manager is he has to have an open mind and judge for himself not allow others to tell him Westwood does a lot of unnoticed good work and that Rushian Hepburn Murphy is too small.

Not to the point of giving Gabby another chance, surely? That's being so open-minded that your brain may fall out.

[KevinGage]

Ayew will be out.  I can't imagine there will be a whole host of clubs queuing to take Wormwood Westwood off our hands. 

[Dave]

Amavi is worth cashing in on now, he doesn't seem that interested, can't defend well enough to play left back but still has suitors. If we could get our money back I'd do the deal.

How should he go about looking interested while sitting on the bench? Pom-poms?

[aj2k77]

Bust a gut when he plays.

[brian green]

Yes PWA I was speaking rhetorically.  Gollini probably is a good prospect but needs to be treated as such.  Jedinak's distribution is woeful and he needs, as somebody has wisely pointed out, to concentrate on kicking people and looking homicidal.  Likewise Elphick and Chester are a pair of carthorses but that does not mean they should have the speed of thought of cart horses. Get to the second ball before they do and put it over the stand.  McCormack needs to take an antigabbyitis pill.  Sooner we start the better.

[CT Villan]

Yes PWA I was speaking rhetorically.  Gollini probably is a good prospect but needs to be treated as such.  Jedinak's distribution is woeful and he needs, as somebody has wisely pointed out, to concentrate on kicking people and looking homicidal.  Likewise Elphick and Chester are a pair of carthorses but that does not mean they should have the speed of thought of cart horses. Get to the second ball before they do and put it over the stand.  McCormack needs to take an antigabbyitis pill.  Sooner we start the better.

Admittedly I haven't seen too much of Villa live this season, but what I have seen suggests to me that Chester is decent enough - especially if he didn't have to spend half his time cleaning up after Elphick.